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Create a mood with lights

Create a mood with lights - After Effects Tutorial

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Create a mood with lights

- [Instructor] After Effects works in a 3D compositing environment meaning that we can add 2D layers and mix them in with 3D layers inside the same composition. It also means that we can add cameras and lights into our scene. Lights in After Effects behave pretty similarly to how they would in the real world and can be used to light our 3D multiplane scenes for creative effect. In this movie we'll see how we can add and manipulate lights. To start, let's come over here to our view layout and change it to two views horizontal. And instead of a top view on the left-hand side I'll change this out to a custom view. Now with my unified camera tool selected, I'll come over here, left click and orbit around so we can frame up our scene and see all of our 3D multiplane layers. Now to add a light all we have to do is simply select our composition and come over here to layer, new light. Inside our light settings here we…

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