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Excluding lights and shadows

Excluding lights and shadows

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Excluding lights and shadows

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- [Narrator] Our triangle lighting setup is looking pretty good, except for the fact that the rim lights are actually behind the cyclorama. If I unhide that cyclorama layer, we can see that they're behind that cyc, and that's what we want, they're in the position that we want, but the problem here is that, of course, the cyclorama's going to cast shadows and light will not actually reach our subject. So let's take a look at this without the cyc, I'll hide that once again, and let's do an Arnold rendering in the 'Camera' view. Choose 'Renderer', 'Arnold', and start the interactive production rendering, and here is the triangle lighting setup that we created in the previous movie, I think I want a little bit brighter rim lighting, so I'm going to select both of those rim lights, and over in the 'Channel' box, just set their exposure to a value of seven, and now they're just a little bit brighter there, giving us a little bit…

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