From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title
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3D lighting - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title
3D lighting
Although we've placed all the elements of the opening title in 3D space, we are yet to use 3D light in the scene. As result a lot of the lighting is all pretty flat because all of these layers keep their original illumination. There is no fall off, there is no shadows, etcetera. That's not a bad way to go, because it means you can see all of your sources and you don't need to spend potentially a long time setting up and correcting the lighting in your scene. However, I do like the drama the 3D lights can add, particularly for vignetting effect, which will bring the viewer's attention to the center of the frame and darken the corners, so they don't look at that quite as much. So let's walk through how would you add a 3D light to this particular composition. I'm going to twirl up some of my layers just to clean things up and add a Layer>New>Light. A spotlight is the most versatile one, because you have a Cone Angle and Cone Feather, which gives you a lot of control over vignetting of…
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