From the course: 3ds Max and After Effects: Product Visualization
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Adding glow effects
From the course: 3ds Max and After Effects: Product Visualization
Adding glow effects
- [Instructor] One of the great advantages of rendering out separate lighting and shading components as passes is that we can easily apply effects to those passes individually. In this case, I want to apply a glow effect to just the very brightest parts of the model. Only the specular highlights that are extremely hot should glow. Well, if this were a single beauty pass, all collapsed down to one layer, it would be very difficult for me to isolate just those specular highlights. I could apply a glow effect and I would unfortunately find that I would get glow all over the place in this image, in places that I don't want it, but because these are individual shading components and lighting components, we can easily apply the effect to just the layers that we want. So in this case, I want to apply a glow effect to the specular and the coat components because those, of course, are the shiny parts. So we'll start with…
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