From the course: Element 3D Essential Training (2013)

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Adding illumination

Adding illumination

Illumination is another one of those material attributes that I just love. We can see that the centers of these spheres here are illuminated with this really cool blue that pops through lights, and just looks really awesome. Having illuminate texture works great for motion graphics and other elements where you just want to be glowy, but things like neon or other things where to need lights to pop or other materials to just kind a pop regardless of the lighting, illumination is great for that. So, let's take a look at this. I'm going to go over to the Illumination START composition. We have plain old black spheres, and we need to make them cooler with Illumination. So, go ahead and select the Element layer, click the Scenes Setup button and let's go and click on the material and we will scroll down here, pass Reflection, pass Refraction down to Illumination. This is really easy to setup. All you have to do is click on the Color swatch. Pick the color that you want. In my case I want a…

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