Synoptic Project: Eye Test

I decided to do a test on the eye effect for our project within after effects, as the characters eye changes from normal to a red colour.

I tracked the shape motion in Mocha AE, as after effects track motion wasnt very reliable for this.

Once I exported the shape motion from mocha, I pasted it onto a solid object in after effects.

But it had a few issues with lining up properly, so I needed to adjust some keyframes so that it was more accurate.

From here I then added some feather effects, a blur and overlayed another layer so that it created a yellow ring “glow” around the red of the eye.

 

I then created a “pulse” effect on the other test to see if this worked any better than just the original eye, but I feel as though the first test worked better.