Glowing Eyes Effect?

[ethandale]

So I'm wanting to put some glowing eyes on one of my actors in a scene I'm working on for my studio class. He's wearing a ski mask on, but backwards (so it's just straight fabric covering up his entire face. I want to try and get a glow similar to the glow of the Glint's Gaze mask from Guild Wars 2. Here is a video detailing the effect.

GW2 Glint's Gaze Mask (500 gems) - YouTube

The "smoke" coming off of the eyes would DEFINITELY be a plus, but I can imagine how difficult that would be to make in 2D post processing, so if it's too difficult, I just won't worry about it. However, the glowing eyes would certainly add a bit to my scene, especially if I can get it to be a dark and menacing red. I found some tutorials that used a plugin called "Optical Flares," but it's quite expensive, and the final result didn't look that good anyway. Are there any options I can use that won't be super expensive? Thanks in advance!

[sweetan · Accepted solution]

Hi ethandale

you can create the lens flares using photoshop then you make that effect is possible or
You flow this tutorial  After Effects Tutorial: Custom LENS FLARES with No Plugins - YouTube to create lens flares.

After that, you can make all lens flares images to 3d layers then you composite with that.

then you make it what your thinking.

Note: Saber plugin is all so free you can use that too.

VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professional...

This is I was created in photoshop.

This is saber plugin output:

[ethandale]

Ah, this is incredible! I wish I had heard of that Saber plugin back before I made all of my "Star Wars" themed projects in the past. I spent way too long messing around with layers and rectangles just to have it be shown up by this plugin in seconds! 😜 thanks so much! I'll use this for the glowing eyes!