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Excellent job, @AffinityJules

Excellent job

I'm not going to make any further changes to the composite itself, other than add some VHS filters so that it looks like an old 80s movie that's it.

@AffinityJules @carl123 @Alfred @v_kyr @TrentL @Ldina Here is an updated version that has been cropped to 4x3 with a subtle color grade:

@AffinityJules @carl123 @Alfred @Ldina @v_kyr @TrentL Here is a new version of the final light beam added, and a bright spot where it is hitting:

That looks so much Rowan Atkinson. Excellent job.

I'm just showing a new progress of the light beam I created and blending it with the light layer I gave to the floor so that it looks like the light was coming from the beam.

@AffinityJules @Ldina @Alfred @carl123 Here is an updated preview with the beams further refined:

WOW! That looks amazing @AffinityJules

When I was saying that I used a downloaded version of your example was mainly to get the look of the beam right. Here is an example screenshot with one of the shapes selected showing that I've got the shape roughly in the same area of the arrow in your last example:

I reexamined my layers and discovered that some of the layers moved in ways I didn't intend when repositioning the beam. That is probably why the there appeared to be be 3 different directions. I have redone the light beam effect using a downloaded version of your example to help guide mine. The first thing I did differently was I used a version of the background brightened up to not get the jpeg artifacts. I used a couple of triangles to create the first beam with different opacities, then a couple of tear shapes to create the next parts of the beam with the rounded edge cutoff to show the light beam is extended beyond the frame like in your example. How am I doing so far? @AffinityJules

Here is a revised version with the blurs edited down and the excess removed. Hope you like it @AffinityJules:

Yeah it does, here is a new version with the shapes altered more resemble the light beam you created:

Thank you for pointing that out, it was an extra layer I added in case I needed it for the flashlight. Here is a corrected version with the extra layer removed and updated the opacity on some of the beam layers to help make it look more natural like yours:

Looks pretty cool