Reply To: Halloween challenge 2021 – WIP – Basement scares

the floating eyes should glow, but not emit light

Eevee does that automatically, but in Cycles you can use the Light Path Node and add glow in the Compositor, for instance:

Just use Motion Blur for speed effect…

the color scheme should be dark/ not saturated with the aggressive reds popping out

You might wanna watch this tutorial for the ‘Sin city effect’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZnT28ZMUQ

Gottfried Hoffman explains it for a film clip (with Motion Tracking), but can of course also and easier be done with a still image…