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Creating reflections in water

Creating reflections in water

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Creating reflections in water

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- What we're going to do today is we're going to take this wizard right here, and he's holding this really bright staff, right here. It's going to cast a reflection in this pool. Right now, the pool is totally black. We can't tell there's any kind of liquid in there. What we're going to do is add the reflections from this staff, which will give us the illusion of having the little pool down here. What we're going to do is, right off the bat, I'm going to start a new layer, which we're going to call reflections. There we go. I'm going to press the F to bring me to full-screen, that way I can play outside of the area of the art. which I'm going to do when I start to stretch this thing out. The center of that light is kind of like a white. I'm going to go to this white here and just turn it into a slight blue, ever so slight blue. Just like that. It's nice and light. I'm going to make sure the hardness is down to zero, so it's a very soft brush, which right now, we'll do that. Now, it's…

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