In After Effects there is a lightning simulator called Advanced Lightning. I had watched many tutorials on how to use this and create a lightning bolt and animate it. I started to use this, however I couldn't get it to look right and on my actor it looked awful.
The lightning on his arm looks effective, however it doesn't feel powerful and not a shock to the audience which is what I'm looking for. Another thing about this this is that the lightning effect doesn't glow bright enough catching the audiences eyes to the effect and not losing attention to the film.
I then found a tutorial in Maya which surprised me, but after a quick test it looked like this.
I this a lot because the lightning looks more effective, but in after effects you could see the actual bolt, so I'm going to have to changer some of the effects in maya and change the colour from a very strong teal colour to a light blue/purple colour.
Here is the final version of my lightning test. I have change the colour to a darker teal because the purple looks bad. Next I changed the glow setting on the lightning beams/bolts to variate from very little so you can see the bolt but also have the bright glow, with this I can keep the audiences eyes on my actors hand showing showing there is something is happening in his hand and it effects his body.
When I used the Maya Lightning on this stone I didn't like it at all so I used the Advance Lightning in After Effects. When i was animating the lightning over the rock i used tracking to make the animating stay to the rock due to camera shake.
In this scene using the Maya lightning and manipulating it around his body, to do this I made a proxy model of the actor and put the lightning around it to making look like it was going around his body and charging up his lightning.
Lightning created in maya and had all the starting points at the base and made them shoot up with them moving across the top.
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