From the course: Creating a Finished Character Animation in Blender

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Effectively light the animation

Effectively light the animation - Blender Tutorial

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Effectively light the animation

- Lights can completely change the mood and feel of our animation. Here, we will explore how lighting can help our scene with Arthur. Now the first thing I want you to do is to zoom out a little bit, and click out in random space and hit Shift A, go to Lamp, and go to Area. I'm going to move this up a little bit. Now, Area lights are some of the most optimized lights for Cycles Rendering. I'm going to point this right here, and I'm going to make the size a little bit bigger. Now I recommend you change the size in the actual Light settings. Don't scale it because sometimes that will mess with Blender. Now to see what this looks like, let's click this little white button and go to Rendered. As you can see right away, we have a nice, big white light in the scene, and some really nice soft shadows. The smaller the size an Area light is, the harder the shadows. I want to make this pretty soft, so I'm going to go with a three, and maybe kick up the Samples a little bit. Now here's the…

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