Idea effects - Glowing eyes and balls of light.

As part of my Idea the girls eyes glow when the balls of light shoot into her. This would be achieved purely through Visual effects e.g. entirely computer generated.
This effect could easily be done on after effects and a program called 'Mocha' which comes free with after effects.

I have found a tutorial online that shows exactly how it can be done:

Balls of light.

As the Girls eyes are glowing Balls of light or energy are flying into her from the ground and sky.
To create these balls of light Adobe after effects would be used again rather than creating them on set.

I have found a tutorial on how to do it:

Finally when the girl is filled with this light, the light explodes in a circle around her. This is probably one of the hardest of all the effects.
After much research i have concluded that it would again be in After effects.
Here is a tutorial i have found:

To get the explosion/ expanding effect i would manipulate the size of if using key frames, so that it gets bigger very rapidly.


References:

Glowing eye replacement Effect Tutorial (YouTube Video) [Online] last accessed 17th December 2012 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvHXmT0NeZQ

Adobe After Effects CS4: Energy Ball Tutorial (YouTube Video) [online] last accessed 17th December 2012 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8M_p6qAz0

"Force Field" After Effects Tutorial (YouTube Video) [online] last accessed 17th December 2012 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aba4mZ0DMQM