Join Craig Whitaker for an in-depth discussion in this video Matching the CG light to the plate, part of VFX Techniques: Creating a CG Flag with After Effects and Cinema 4D.
…Our texture is in place, we can go ahead and get started lighting our flag with the…intention of going back and modifying our texture…once our basic lighting set up is in place.…So we'll adjust our lights, we'll go back and…adjust our textures, adjust our lights, adjust our textures.…Are you starting to see a theme here?…Let's get started.…So, I'll give myself some room here on the interface and we'll add an infinite light.…We're also going to go, actually, let's, let's undo that.…Let's add a target light.…
The target light, by default, creates a spotlight.…And what we're going to do is, actually, we're…going to change that type to an infinite light.…An infinite light casts parallel light rays from it's source.…It's excellent at simulating light from a far distance.…In this case, the sun.…So what we'll do is, we'll take our light target.…A light target is created when you make a target light.…And what that does is it says no matter where you place this…light, it's always going to point at the target, which is what we want.…
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7/29/2014- Collecting reference materials
- Planning and blocking out the shot
- Analyzing and tracking the footage
- Solving the tracked shot and setting up the environment
- Creating and adjusting the cloth simulation
- Texturing the flag
- Rendering passes from 3D
- Color grading, adding grain, and working with lens distortion
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