From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Creating dramatic lighting

Creating dramatic lighting

From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Creating dramatic lighting

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- One of the main advantages of the Adobe plugin is that it respects the beat in After Effects slides, which makes it easy for us to add more drama to the show. By adding few lights and then animating them around the scene. So, I'm going to go to the Layer menu, and under New create a new Light. I'll Pick the Point Light, keeping the intensity at 100%, and I'm not going to use any of the falloff, or cast shadows options. I'll click OK, and I happen to know the values that works best here, but you can already see how this is going to contribute to the show. Now I just want to remind you that lights are 3D, so they are going to move with the camera, which is moving, thanks to the animation that we've created in the previous move. All right, so to animate this slide, I'm going to press P. And this is going to show us the position. I'll highlight the X position and type in 1,600, then I'll tap twice because I don't need to…

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