How to make diamonds sparkle in an animations

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Looking for tutorials or discussions on how to make diamonds sparkle within KS.
I know I can add this in post processing but this is time consuming.

Is KS thinking of adding filters in future versions to bypass post processing?

Thanks
Roland

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Hi Roland, Iā€™m planning on getting some more Jewelry focused content up on our YouTube in the near future. What kind of ā€œsparkleā€ are you going for? Something more like bloom and shine, or something more like lens flare?

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Hi Roland,

Iā€™m by no means good at video but your question also triggers me since sometimes you want a bit of a sparkle in renders. I just downloaded a ring scene from keyshot to give it a quick go. With some help from Google I saw that ā€˜Aperture Diffractionā€™ was a good way to start using DaVinci Resolve (also as free version available).

Not sure what youā€™re exactly looking for but I had a quick go and was quite surprise how well it worked. The big advantage I think if you do it in post is that if a client wants more/less/different sparkles you donā€™t have to start your render all over.

This is only 720x720 and 150 frames but the render time from DaVinci was only a few seconds. Maybe worth a look at, especially because you stay flexible doing it in post.

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This is the approach Iā€™d take as well. There are a few effects in Resolve that make this pretty easy and as Oscar said, non-destructive.

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I was testing the new version of Filmora which gets more and more versatile. This is the same animation as starting poing but with some starbursts and a LUT (which makes it looks like gold this time).

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