Back to the 70's ...

[Kiwi]

That's when these were popular
All made in Xara but as I've also got PhotoImpact on my PC, I'll put it here
Try copying this one in PI. GMan lol

[Grafixman]

OK...
UGA and PI.

[Kiwi]

I was only joking GM, Geesh!
That's fantastic

Did you do this with Pixel painting in PI?
Are all frames drawn individually as I notice they are all slightly different?
And how did you get the graduated colours? (Effects or what?)
This must be an old one of yours as it would take me days to make and you are finished in hours ... Sheesh!

Back to the drawing board for me lol!

[Grafixman]

PI's animated lighting effects applied over 8 frames gave me the basis for the color effect. Then I draw 8 frames of the fiber optic strands with the line and arrow tool. Simple white lines over a black background. The idea was to create a fiber optic mask for the lighting effect frames, but I discovered that using a multiply blend mode for the black and white frames gave the same result ... so there wasn't any need for complicated masking. Ended up with a .ufo file composed of 8 lighting effect and 8 black and white line art layers. Opened that in UGA and animated it there.
Interesting observation, though. Although UGA does not have 2d path objects and line tools, it can open .ufo files with these vector objects and they remain vector objects. Of course, you can't node edit them inside UGA, but you can live edit them in PI, click save, go back to UGA and you'll get a popup box asking if you want to update your objects. They really should add path editing capabilities in UGA, since it already supports them...
And no, it would not take YOU days to make them.

[Kiwi]

Okay GM!
Now I see how you do it
I've never been able to work out how the merge/blend controls in UGA work Always get frustrated when trying to apply them and end up doing somethin else.
(Perhaps a mini tut with pics would help?)
Is the background lighting effect merged with the background or a seperate object/s
One part of uga that is missing from my vocabulary ... this is lol

[sallybode]

Very nice indeed both of you, looks like fiber optics, combining effects, you could do a volcano erupting, a bit of a pyroclastic flow.

[Grafixman]

Kiwi, the shape and the colors are separate objects. The shapes (white on black) masks out the colors via the multiply blend mode.
Gonna put that suggestion on the to do list,Sally, unless Kiwi beats me to it. Slow going for me right now. Happens to all of us, I'm sure. But I'm sure things are bound to pick up sooner or later.
Speaking of old style lights, remember when you last saw this?

[jamesmc]

Why does the song "White Rabbit" keep popping into my head when I view these?

[Grafixman]

Check the label on your pills, James....
Should be something there about avoiding driving or staring at flashing lights...

[sallybode]

I rather like the lights, just not in my rear window at nighttime. Do I speed?