I wish I could make a quick demo to describe this but you might be able to make this effect with Particular using light emitters, a comp camera and some creative use of additive mixing and blurring.

    - Robert H

Ha - thanks for sharing that old one, Roland.  That's basically the fleshed out version of what I'm suggesting.  I looked at that tutorial back in 2004-ish (back before Youtube and when tutorials were mostly text!) to create some jumbotron graphics.

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:08 PM Roland Kahlenberg <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Here are two very old, very useful tutorials that are also very close to what you're looking for -

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/light_storm.php
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/bezier_warp.php


Cheers
- Roland Kahlenberg
Intensive mocha & AE Training in Singapore and Other Dangerous Locations
BorisFX/Imagineer Systems (mocha) Certified Instructor & Adobe After Effects ACE/ACI/ACP

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Subject: [AE] Recreating this abstract image

Hi all,

A client has asked me to recreate this shutterstock image as an animation
such that the streaks of light are flying out from the point where they
converge.

I'm using fractal noise to create horizontal lines, but I'm really
struggling to come up with a way of warping those lines into that shape.

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/acceleration-speed-motion-on-night-road-772713379

I've played around with all the warping effects but don't seem to be
getting close to what I'm after in any kind of neat way.

I feel like I'm missing something really obvious as I don't usually
struggle to recreate abstract imagery like this in AE, but it has been a
long day!

Any help much appreciated!

Cheers,
Phil
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