From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 19 Motion Tracking with Cinema 4D Lite

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Enhancing the light and shadows

Enhancing the light and shadows - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 19 Motion Tracking with Cinema 4D Lite

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Enhancing the light and shadows

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- [Voiceover] I want the self shadowing inside this crown to be a bit more prominent because these bands should be casting shadows on the velvet, and even these little details in the jewels and the way the bands are wrapped around this should be more prominent. So let's switch back to Cinema 4D. I'm gonna go back to viewing just my main perspective view, so I can see my render a bit larger, and let's start out by playing with the light. Intensity defaulted to 100%, I can go ahead and increase that. A little bit brighter there. Now I wonder if I'm over illuminating it or if the illumination is too broad. If I want to narrow the lighting, I click on "details" and cut down on the shadow angle to more narrowly illuminate the crown and get more fall-off around the edges. I'm starting to like that a bit better now because the sides are getting less illumination than the front, where the light's coming from and I'm thinking that by casting a very narrow cone of light. So let's go back to…

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