Explore various ways to control lights in After Effects.
can make a huge appearance difference … specifically if you're working in 3D. … You can use them, of course, to light object, … but you can also cast shadows … and direct the viewer's attention … to the subject of your movie. … Let me share with you a few cool tricks that you can use … when working with lights inside After Effects. … where we have this After Effects workflow icons, … and those workflow icons also have a text underneath … and this text actually tells us exactly what they are doing. … We are starting by input then compositing, … then we are dealing with properties, effects, preview, … and finally, we are exporting our work. … This is a line of text that I've extruded … and note that I'm using the Cinema 4D Engine … in order to create extrusion, … but it is quite difficult to see what's going on, … so in order to help us, … I'm going to go to the Layer menu and under New, … I'm going to create a new light. … I'm going to start with a point light, … the intensity is set to 100%, …
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