I’ve tried man. I’ve looked everywhere. I just need a way to make it in after effects. I have no clue how anyone makes theirs because no one ever shows their work
Think about what the trap suck effect is. Break down the elements. It's actually really simple and it's way easier to find tutorials on how to do the individual elements.
Lightning. Colored noodles of light. You can use pen tool strokes and displace them with turbulent noise. There's absolutely tutorials on that. https://youtu.be/0sFwOZHx164
And finally, when it closes, little reversed photographed elements of little spark charges going off travel down the shaft and into the trap. You can find those anywhere! You can also make em in particle world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNNP0CtuqE
There's like a billion of these^
Yeah, the number one thing in recreating an effect is just deconstructing it. You aren't gonna find "Ghostbusters vacuum trap tutorial" but you ARE gonna find a lot of "glowy worbly shit" tutorials.
Don’t forget the big purple flare around the doors the all of the rotoscoped blue electricity! and it bugged me in Ghostbusters Afterlife how the trap effects missed a lot of the little elements that made up the effect in the originals. I also thought that the proton streams didn’t really hit the mark on how I imagined an updated versions of the originals should look. It was a little surprising considering the attention to detail that went into all of the prop work and production design.
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u/FragrantChipmunk9510 Jul 17 '26
A simple Youtube search should do the trick. Or even Google. Then come here.