Creating an underwater look using Global Illumination and atmosphere

For setting up our lights we are going to start with shot003, the hero shot.…We are doing this because since it's the iconic shot that will really be…defining the viewer's perception of the programming block,…we want this shot to drive the look and feel of all the other shots.…We are going to be using Global Illumination to render this.…Global Illumination combined with Environment Fog is a great way to give us the…underwater look we need to make the sharks look very realistic.…Let's move over to CINEMA 4D and I am going to go to the File menu and do an…open and navigate to my Chapter 9 Exercise Files.…

Let's start off with shot003.…Now this is the final animation file that we created in the previous chapter and…it has our shark moving through the scene and our Shark Zone type at the center…of the world to kind of flush with the ground plane.…This scene if I render it, Command+R, really doesn't look very interesting.…So what we want to try and do is create an underwater feel for it.…There is several techniques to do this.…