- Hey everyone, John here.
In this super fast sneak peek
I'm gonna show you how I built one
of the presets that's gonna be shipping
in the latest version of Sapphire version 2023.5.
So hold onto your hats and let's jump in.
So one of the great things
about creating presets is you get to name your own presets
and I've named this one Caustics portal
because the base of this preset is the caustics effect.
Here inside sapphire effect builder,
you can see it's a pretty big effect.
Let's just roll into the top
and we'll just fly through this.
So the very first effect is sapphire color, just
to create a black background cause this works best on black.
That's followed by caustics.
Caustics is my favorite water generation effect
inside sapphire.
I use it for a lot of my animated backgrounds
and I followed that with sapphire warp polar.
And you can see this has warped that into a circle.
Now that's followed by Sapphire distort
and that's just giving a nice distortion effect here.
But notice how I've got some other effects piped
into the lens port of the distort effect.
And that's starting with cloud's perspective.
Now cloud's perspective can be used to create
perspective clouds of course, but I've actually followed it
with warp polar and animated it
so that it's moving from the middle outwards.
And because I'm using that as a lens for distort
I'm getting distortion that moves from the center outwards
that's followed by a sapphire shape
and sapphire shapes combiner set to multiply
and that's just feathering out those edges.
Beneath that I have sapphire layer
and notice how the checkerboard got filled.
That's because in the background I'm using just
another S color effect just to fill
in those transparent areas.
Now on the other side we have sapphire parallax strips
another great generator effect inside of Sapphire.
And I've set this to show strips over black.
And I've combined it
with a second parallax strips using sapphire layer
and the overlay blend mode
and each of them is animating in the opposite direction
which gives a really interesting effect.
Beneath that, we have sapphire warp polo, again
which features very heavily in this preset
and that gives us this nice sort of tech circle look
very geometric looking.
Beneath that we have S gradient radial
and I'm just using black and white.
So black is the outer, white is the inner.
And I've got combined set
to multiply and I've increased the noise.
You'll see I've add some noise in there.
Now above that we have sapphire texture reflux
another great noise effect
which also kind of looks like water.
And that's been placed
over the top using the overlay blend mode.
And I like the combination
of the sort of organic looking water effect
with those sharp geometric lines.
On top of that we have a little bit
of sapphire bouquet lights.
It's kind of a little sneaky little particle look in there.
And we follow that with S-Distort thought again
but notice how the distortion is isolated
to the center of the look.
And that's because we are using S-shaped.
So the same mask
in the matte port to isolate that to the center.
So that's the right hand side, and if we look
at how we combine those using S layer, and there we go.
So we've combining the caustics distortion look
with the parallax strips distortion look
and we're getting a really lovely, beautiful layered look.
Now beneath that we have S quad tone.
Really quick way to add some lovely color tones to that.
And beneath that we have S layer
and that's combining
the Sapphire 2020 3.5 logo.
And that's been set up as the mask inside After Effects
which is the host I'm using.
And I've just used a little bit
of warp transform just to slide that across so
that the logos in the center and to finish off a little bit
of ultra glow or maybe a lot of ultra glow and
you can see what a difference Ultra glow makes to that look.
Alright, so did you catch all that?
I know it was lightning fast
but I just wanted to give you a taste of just one
of the presets that's shipping with Sapphire 2023.5.
We have other presets coming to
and also we'll have tutorials and a deep dive
into all of the new features that are included
in the upcoming version.
For now, this is John from Boris Effects.
I'll see you in another tip.