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Adding lights and shadows

Adding lights and shadows - After Effects Tutorial

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Adding lights and shadows

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- [Narrator] In this movie, we'll add more definition to our 3D titles by adding a light and then also fake some compact shadows to make those titles appear as if they are on top of this temple. So we're going to start by adding a light. I'm going to go to the layer menu and under new, choose light. I'm going to choose a parallel light, keeping most of the default settings in place. So color should be white, intensity set to 100% and I'm also going to cast shadows and use 100% for the shadow darkness. Then I'm going to click okay. Now I do want to change a couple of settings over here, in fact just one setting. So I'm going to trail down the triangle under transform and I'm going to change the point of interest which is the most important thing when it comes to working with parallel lights. Now I happen to know the coordinates so I'm just going to give them to you, it's going to be 200 for the x and then you can tap to the y and set it to 400 and this means that our light is going to…

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