New After Effects Tutorial | How To Create Eternals' Laser Eyes VFX

In this After Effects tutorial, we are going to learn how to create Ikaris’ heat vision/laser eye effects from Marvel’s Eternals.

We will teach you how to motion track eyes using BorisFX’s Mocha Pro, build the eye energy beams from scratch using native After Effects tools, and composite ActionVFX’s Icon: Anamorphic Lens Flares and Fire Lens Flares collections to enhance the FX.

Assets used in the tutorial:
Icon: Anamorphic Lens Flares
Fire Lens Flares

Expression used in the tutorial:

x = time*-1000; 
y = effect("Turbulent Displace")("Offset (Turbulence)")[1];
[x, y]

Let us know if you have any questions! Thank you for watching!

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