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Using soft lighting effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
Using soft lighting effects
I have Fractal Noise applied to my layer and initially it looks like I have a cross between cotton balls, clouds, and I don't know what. However, it is very customizable. It also does not animate to start with but we'll also add that later on. The first thing to look at is your Fractal Type. This selects different fractal patterns to give you basic starting points for your fractal explorations, including some different ways of treating the numbers that are generated underneath the hood. When I am creating a generic lighting effect, I have personally found Dynamic Twist to be a really good starting point. You can see it has more of an interesting sort of fire look to it than the clouds we started off with. Secondly, you have the Noise Type pop-up, and again this further defines how the fractal is being painted on your screen. Soft Linear is the default. It tends to have a nice contrast. Linear has a little bit less contrast. It doesn't look so good with other fractal types. It does…
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