From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
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Adding a parallel light
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
Adding a parallel light
- A parallel light is a lot like a bank of Kino Flos. It's a strip light that contains multiple bulbs and points in one direction. Instead of being a spotlight or something that's very narrow in focus, it tends to be broader, covering a large area. Let's start with the castle view here, and I'm going to switch to two views for a moment just so we can better see things. And we'll set this to active camera number one. And on the left here, I'm going to go with custom view one to see the set at an angle. Let's put that ambient light back in for a moment. There we go. Got a nice darkening. And let's add another one. In this case, we're going to drop this in but switch it to a parallel light and I'm going to switch the color to be a little bit more gold, like the sun itself, and click okay. Now, let me click okay to open it. And you see it starts to create our light. Now what I'm going to do is grab this light and move it…
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