From the course: Maya and Arnold: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
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Adjusting light and shadow - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya and Arnold: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
Adjusting light and shadow
- [Presenter] Now that we have our composite built we can start to work with our image. Now I'm going to work initially with light and shadow. So I'm going to work with a lot with ambient occlusion and shadow and the main path. So I'm going to start with my hero pass. So this is basically the copy of my main pass. And one of the first things I want to do is I just want to add an adjustment layer to it. So I'm going to stick in a levels and that's really before anything else touches this layer. And this allows me to control things like brightness and contrast, and it gives me a little bit more control of that image before it hits any of these. And so that's a good place to affect it. And we can work with this image just a bit here to get it the way that we want. Now, another thing we can do is we can start working with ambient occlusion and shadow to create a little bit more contrast in the image and to make it pop a little…
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