Black Veins Effect From Stranger Things (After Effects Tutorial)

Yannick and Jordy at Cinecom.net have a super fun copycat tutorial explaining how to make the black veins on Billy in Stranger Things. There’s a lot of tracking and null objects involved in this process. He uses the Advanced Lightning Effect to make the veins and masks them on. These are attached to the actor’s arms with Puppet Pins. Clever.

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Recreating the Mind Flayer from Stranger Things

Seth Worley shows you how to recreate the scary Mind Flayer from Season 2 of Stranger Things. Below that, check out his previous tutorial for recreating the Upside Down. This is a super fun tutorial that uses Red Giant’s VFX Suite, Trapcode Tao, Magic Bullet Suite, and Universe Camera Shake. There are links to all of these products below the article if you want to learn more.

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After Effects: Stranger Things-Inspired “Upside Down” Look + Free Project files

In this tutorial from Rocketstock, you will learn how to create a Stranger Things-inspired “Upside Down” look in After Effects. Plus, you can easily follow along with the free project files.

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Hitfilm v13: Create the Upside Down from Stranger Things | 3D Camera Tracking

Learn how to create the Upside Down with the powerful new 3D camera tracker from Foundry, coming in HitFilm 13.0. With the upcoming Stranger Things season 3 release, we (FXHome) wanted to tackle this iconic effect and show how anyone can recreate it with HitFilm Pro.

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