From the course: Learning 2D Animation Principles
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Demonstrating lighting - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Learning 2D Animation Principles
Demonstrating lighting
A few years ago I began to really take an interest in doing a better job of lighting my shots. And one of the tricks I began to use was to create this dark area, which you can see here, and here, and here, around the perimeters of the screen, to create this internal area of light that focuses your eye. Obviously you can't do this for every shot, or it'll look a little bit stilted. But many times for something like this, it really is ideal. And I'll show you another example. Also very justified by the time period, where we have the medieval philosopher who's studying his strange books lit by candlelights. And clearly here also, you do want the light to drop off. Well I, I began to wonder, maybe I'm taking this a little too far, maybe I'm overdoing it. And I, I found out afterwards that this is a technique that the old Disney background painters called the Bowl Of Light effect. You find the spot in your shot and you just light it as if it's just been hit by an imaginary spotlight. So…
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