Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Lighting 2

A course by John Bashyam , Digital Artist and Director

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2,521 students

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About the video: Lighting 2

Overview

“Next, I will bring an HDRI that will fill in the shadows and create realistic reflections and shadows.”

In this video lesson John Bashyam addresses the topic: Lighting 2, 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 the next thing we'll do is bring in our HDRI, which will fill in all the shadows here and create nice, realistic reflections. So we'll select our dome light. And up at the top where it says texture, this is where we want to plug in HDRI. First of all, let's bring the intensity back up. then let's plug in our HDRIs. So we'll go to Source Images. HDRI and we can grab this pink sunrise 4k, which is what I've provided as part of the downloads for this. So we'll click on that. And, Real quick, just to kind of give a background on these HDRIs. I actually found this one from this website called...”

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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.