Lighting and shading a 3D object

In this movie I'll show you how to light a 3D object. …To achieve an effect more like this one here. …I'll go ahead and switch to the document in progress here. …And marque the object to select it. It is selected now, it's just that I …pressed Ctrl+H or Cmd+H on Mac to hide the selection edges. …But I'll do it again just so you can see, sure enough there they are. …Anyway, I am going to hide them again, by pressing Crtl or Cmd+H. …Then I'll click on 3D Extrude and Bevel, here inside the Appearance panel, in …order to bring up the dialog box. You want to be able to see what you're …doing, you'll have to turn on the preview check box.…

And now, in order to access the lighting options, I'll click on the More Options …button in order to open up an otherwise missing half of the dialog box. …Now notice this little sphere, it represents the object, and then this dot …here represents a light source. So I'm going to move this guy down a …little bit, and then I'm going to create a new light, by clicking on the page, and …