Optical flares have been all the rage in the past couple years. J.J. Abrams has been a big offender in overusing them in movies like Star Trek and and Super 8. One of the original tools for creating simple flares was Knoll Light Factory from Red Giant Software. It was a plug in for After Effects that could create optical flares. Then last year, Andrew Kramer from Videocopilot.net came out with a tool called simply "Optical Flares" that was also a plug in for After Effects. It's a very robust tool that allows you to create your own custom optical flares and do some pretty dynamic things with them.
But for people like me who want to use Motion from time to time, you were out of luck...until now. Recently I stumbled upon www.motionvfx.com. It is a site dedicated to providing high quality Motion templates for purchase. They are simply fantastic, and to think they are all done in Motion is a pretty amazing feat. While I was discovering the site, I noticed that the site creator Szymon Masiak had just released mFlares for Motion. It is very similar to Optical Flares for After Effects in that you can use the presets or create your own custom flares. There are tons of options you can apply to the flares to create some amazing results. Plus it's only $89! Unfortunately I don't have a project I need it for immediately but I know I'm going to be using it soon.
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