From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering Cameras and Lights

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,800 courses taught by industry experts.

Volumetric lighting

Volumetric lighting - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering Cameras and Lights

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Volumetric lighting

“

- In this movie, we're going to take a look at creating volumetric light inside of after-effects, with the help of some effects, positioning our layers precisely, and a very helpful expression. So I'm here in my chapter 3_7 composition, and we're going to create some volumetric light. I just want to break down this scene for you, we've got some 3D text here. In fact we've got two text layers. We've got one, if I solo that item, you can see there that it's pretty dark. And we've got another text layer just above it, it has a bevel effect on it to almost appear like it is 3D. Now the cool thing is, this text layer in particular, is set to cast shadows, and it's casting shadows on the gray solid that you see here, which is set to accept shadows. And if we take a look here at the point light there in the scene, that it's set to cast shadows as well. Extremely dark and a little bit of diffuseness and that is what is basically causing these long trails. Not to mention, the position of the…

Contents