first proton stream test shot

This is huge. .Everything about this project hinges on the fx work being good and now I've figured out thanks to the many tutorials on youtube how to create a convincing enough proton stream.

It's pretty fucking complicated. Ultimately what you have to do is create a little line using orange color, then create a bunch of masks, then feather them a shit load and then it looks like a stream from the movie. Then you just ad the lightning on top of it. And the last part is the best part, because there's a built in effect that creates a wiggly motion to anything on screen. So you just use that shit, and it looks pretty fucking good, but then next is to create a more dynamic motion to the whole thing using bezier wrap. And that truly sells it because when the ripples are all the same shape it looks fake but when they constantly wiggle and distort into different shapes it works out much better.

so here it is....