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Light the scene

Light the scene - After Effects Tutorial

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Light the scene

- [Instructor] The end title animation is looking a little flat right now, and I guarantee that 10 different artists would come up with at least 10 different solutions for that problem. My solution in this case will be to use a tool that was designed for 3D, the Point Light, on this scene, which is actually at this stage, entirely 2D. So under the Layer menu I can add a new Light. Now by default, that's probably a Spot light, but I can make it a Point light, and I can even name it Point Light, and I will actually leave its Intensity somewhere around here. It's above a hundred percent, which you're free to do with a light. If yours is at a hundred percent, that's fine as well. I'll just click Okay, and nothing happened. The issue is that the layer that I'm trying to illuminate, the background is 2D, so lets fix that. I'll enable 3D and just like that, the light is illuminating it, and instantly I get all this nice light and shadow in there. Now, I could raise the intensity to just…

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