Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Lighting 1

A course by John Bashyam , Digital Artist and Director

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About the video: Lighting 1

Overview

“Now that the animation is done, I can add light and shadows so that the whole looks more realistic. I will start by loading Redshift, the rendering plugin, and explain how to set up the render settings. For the lighting, I will be adding a simple directional light and a dome light.”

In this video lesson John Bashyam addresses the topic: Lighting 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects. Learn the VFX pipeline from start to finish, and create a realistic video with surreal elements by rendering and compositing objects into live action footage.

Partial transcription of the video

“So now that we've animated our 3D objects, in this lesson we'll talk about loading the Redshift rendering plugin placing lights in our scene. And matching the shadows to our footage. So let's get started. Okay, so now that we're done with the animation here, we are going to get into the fun part, which is lighting this and making this look realistic and adding shadows to the ground and setting up our render setting. So. The very first thing that we'll do is we will, load Redshift, which is our rendering. Engine. If you haven't loaded that already, you're going to want to go to Windows, Sett...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (41)
2521 students
5 units
30 lessons (7h 5m)
7 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe After Effects, Maya
Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Animation, Audiovisual Post-production, Character Animation, Film, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX, Video Editing

John Bashyam

A course by John Bashyam

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Digital Artist and Director

John Bashyam is a digital artist, director, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in film and animation, he went on to co-found Warm & Fuzzy, an animation, visual effects, and design studio with offices in LA and Colorado.

His studio is on the cutting edge of digital technology, servicing some of the top brands in the world, including Nike, adidas, New Balance, Honda, Budweiser, Reddit, Facebook, NBC, Apple, Disney, and Lululemon, among others. He’s also worked on films like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant Man, Ghostbusters, The Finest Hours, The Shallows, The Walk, and Unbroken, and as a visual effects artist at Coachella for artists like The Weeknd, Muse, ACDC, Guns N’ Roses, Skrillex, Kaskade, Zedd, Kid Cudi, and many more.