Lightning Orb

It's always good practice and see what effects you can create with the bare bones. You won't always have access to the high end plugins. And even when you do, in my experience, they don't always work. Licenses get dropped, server connections are lost, and/or updates throw wrenches in the wheel. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do when that deadline is coming at you at high speed. This effect was created using a combination of shape layers and default AE plugins.