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Directing flood lighting

Directing flood lighting

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Directing flood lighting

- [Instructor] In the last movie, we created an Arnold area light for our floodlighting setup. Now let's add another one and position those lights in order to art direct the look of the shot. If you've got the Arnold Renderer running in the camera view, you'll want to stop that. And once it's stopped, let's make a duplicate of the area light. Select it, go into the main menus and choose Edit, Duplicate. And once that duplication is finished, then you can go ahead and start the Arnold Rendering in the camera view port. Now we've got two lights superimposed over one another. The copy, or the duplicate that we've created, is currently selected so let's rename it in the Channel box. Call it "Flood 2 AI Area Light" and press Enter. Let's reposition it. We'll send it over in Translate X to a value of 75 centimeters. Now it's pushed over to the side. Likewise with floodlight one, let's select that and push it over in…

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