From the course: After Effects: Compositing Animation from Animate CC
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Adding lights and shadows
From the course: After Effects: Compositing Animation from Animate CC
Adding lights and shadows
- [Narrator] Now it's time to add lights to the scene and this is really gonna add a great feeling of realism to the shot. So let's add a spotlight. I'm gonna put it on top of the Work Cycle so let's go up here, Layer, New, Light and we'll do a spotlight first. And we can select here Spot, Intensity 100, Cone Angle 90, Cone Feather 50, that's all fine. Cast Shadows, certainly yes. Let's make the Shadow Diffuse an 11, Shadow Darkness 100, click Okay and as you can see, that's pretty dramatic. So let's switch to a two view layer so we can have two horizontal views so I can see the actual view port on this side and what the result's gonna be. And then we can zoom out of the custom view on this side so on the left, we have Custom View One, and on the right we have the Active Camera. So let's select the spotlight and you'll see that it gives us our X,Y and Zed controls. So first things first, let's just position this thing using the, you can just grab and see where you see the letter Zed?…
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