How To Create Eternals' Eye Energy Beam VFX | After Effects Tutorial

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.

Subsurface Energy Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v01g0aDSaTo&t

Icon: Anamorphic Lens Flares - https://www.actionvfx.com/collections/Icon-anamorphic-lens-flares-stock-footage
Fire Lens Flares - https://www.actionvfx.com/collections/fire-lens-flares-stock-footage

Expression used in the tutorial:
x = time*-1000;
y = effect("Turbulent Displace")("Offset (Turbulence)")[1];
[x, y]

00:00 intro
00:40 Tracking the eyes using MochaPro
02:50 Manual tracking using Adjust Track
04:10 Apply the tracking data to Nulls
05:30 Creating the energy beam element
07:06 Animating the turbulence using Expression
08:50 Adding more layers of strokes
09:50 Creating energy branches
12:27 Compositing the beam to the backplate
14:09 Animating the energy beam (Linear Wipe)
15:50 Adding Motion Blur
16:15 Creating white eyeball
17:55 Adding the glow FX
19:20 Compositing extra glow using Icon Lens Flare
21:20 Adding face glow
22:31 Brief overview of the Subsurface vein FX
23:07 Outro

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