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Working with Point lights

Working with Point lights - After Effects Tutorial

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Working with Point lights

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Now let's play around with moving a light inside of Composition. To clean up my Timeline I am going to press P to reveal the position of this light, then Shift+T to reveal the intensity of a light. You remember that T is the same shortcut as opacity for other layers. In the Comp panel you will see that the light has the same three axis arrows that you saw for 3D layers and for the camera. If you place the cursor over one of the axis arrows and a letter appears next to it that means any dragging is constrained to that axis. And you can confirm that by what parameter is changing down in the Timeline panel. That's Y I'll move to the side in X and then play around with the Z parameter, pushing the light further way to the point now where it's actually behind the layer that's why it's not illuminated, and now I am dragging the light outward. You see the light is starting to disappear off the top right corner of the Comp as I push it forward, again this is the same action as with 3D layers,…

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