In today’s tutorial we’re going over how to make easy Glowing Eyes effect and how you can do it yourself in minutes. I also go over troubleshooting methods for when you use this technique. By the end of the video you’ll be able to easily make the Glowing eyes effect on your own videos.
I will also note that while the first method I showed can only be done within the Studio version of resolve, the second method can work on it’s own in the Free version. Still fairly easy, just a few more steps involved.
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Notes:
You can learn more about the face refinement tool in pages 2739-2744 of the DaVinci Resolve 16 December 2019 Reference Manual which can be easily found in the help tab of DaVinci Resolve
I will also note that this particular effect can be done in a number of different ways, I just intended to show the easiest, as a drawback however it does have a number of limitations which I go through towards the end of the video. If you are looking to use the effect in these situations, to a certain extent I believe using power windows in the color tab can be effective however I do believe for more complicated shots where the face is often obscured and there’s lots of movement that going into fusion would be a better option. From there you could then potentially track their eyes and apply that transformation to a glowing asset that you generate and then control the glow on the face through a larger mask with a corrector node just bumping up the offset. I hope that helps you, and if there’s demand for it I could do a tutorial on this method.
Also while I reference Blade runner throughout the video, they actually created that effect in camera, it was just my favorite example.
Gear I use:
Camera – Black Magic Pocket 4k
Microphone – Apex 176
Main Lens – Meike 12mm f2.8
Other lenses – Meike 35 mm f1.7, Rokinon 50mm T1.5, Rokinon 24mm T1.5
Tripod – Velbon Videomate 638
Computer Specs:
CPU – Ryzen 1700x
GPU – GTX 1070
