Advanced Lighting in After Effects

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  • čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
  • In this video, I explain and show every step to create realistic lighting, reflections and shading to composite a 2D animation to a real-world environment using Adobe After Effects. I cover hot to apply form shading, shadows, highlights, rim lighting, reactive reflections and looping shadows cast by environmental changes.
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Komentáře • 60

  • @poweroffriendship2.0
    @poweroffriendship2.0 Před 8 dny +103

    This looks like it came straight out of a scene from _Amazing World of Gumball,_ and the art style can tell otherwise.

    • @EdsonJuniordj
      @EdsonJuniordj Před 8 dny +8

      It's identical to The Amazing World of Gumball, I just came to comment this

    • @passion_proh-jects
      @passion_proh-jects Před 8 dny +2

      Aaah Gumball... The glory days... until Darwin moved to The Why Files and changed his name to Heckle... Hellywood's a fickle market...

    • @AmbarChakrabarti
      @AmbarChakrabarti Před 4 dny

      Yep, only thing that is missing is the stroke

    • @Targoon_Music
      @Targoon_Music Před dnem

      @@AmbarChakrabarti no character in that show had the same art style as the other one
      family members yes but other than that no
      so it fits, even without a stroke

  • @donekyking
    @donekyking Před 8 dny +29

    One thing - in my experience "Fill" is alot slower then "tint". In bigger comps i recommend using tint with the same color in both boxs
    Also shadow layer on "darken" will probably give a more realistic results because real shadows dont go darker when they are combined
    I love this channel! Thank you!

  • @KookyBone
    @KookyBone Před 4 dny +2

    Maybe another tip: instead of animating the shading -> i often use the background material, duplicate it, fast blur it quite heavily, so that it still has the color(changes) or things like moving shadows and than use the object as mask and put it above it... Than play with opacity and layer styles... This gives the object the colors if the surrounding areas and even colorchanges like shadows affect the color without much work.
    Another Pro Tip: another duplicate of the background layer, make it Black and white and use levels/contrast etc. to adjust the grayscale -> use this layer as displacement map for the reflection. So while not completely realistic you can use the Background to distort the reflection a bit (not to much because it will break the effect). This way you often (not always) get a bit more realistic reflection

  • @worstever5151
    @worstever5151 Před 8 dny +18

    Sensei is back, oh yeah~

  • @ashishjohn9132
    @ashishjohn9132 Před dnem

    Did you know it’s because of creaters like you that students like us are able to keep going and upskilling hehe thanks!

  • @kungfuremix
    @kungfuremix Před 8 dny +4

    Welcome back good sir! We missed you and your named layers :)

  • @annebeal
    @annebeal Před 8 dny +1

    Finding this WILDLY helpful, informative, and thorough. Thank you!

  • @Zeyude
    @Zeyude Před 5 dny

    its so amazing !!!

  • @EmanDeMoan
    @EmanDeMoan Před 7 dny

    Thank you for this tutorial! This is amazing 😍

  • @honestguy318
    @honestguy318 Před 8 dny +2

    I love you Ben 🥺.
    Thankyou.

  • @gatedreality
    @gatedreality Před 6 dny

    ben, you're insane these are awesome.

  • @maxlinkerog
    @maxlinkerog Před 8 dny +2

    i think you could have added some ambient occlusion imitation with a subtle inner shadow !! so happy to see you back goat

  • @brettgifford4239
    @brettgifford4239 Před 8 dny +3

    Thanks for all the great lessons Ben!

  • @laurentpastorelli1354

    You are BACK!

  • @PeeJ_ENT
    @PeeJ_ENT Před 8 dny

    I'll have to try this in Resolve

  • @KeehlaSelai
    @KeehlaSelai Před 8 dny

    Great comprehensive guide. Might get your course later. Keep up the good work! =)

  • @alideep9656
    @alideep9656 Před 5 dny

    Thank you

  • @7gpanda744
    @7gpanda744 Před 8 dny +2

    I know all the procedures... but love watching it from start to finish... :) My only suggestion is when you animated the chicken you can auto motion blur it on edit so you don't need to fake the motion blur and activate motion blur tick box, so the chicken have motion blur again attached on the null during camera shake. Love your scene... so cute.

  • @mattuxa
    @mattuxa Před 8 dny +1

    Something that I really needed

    • @BenMarriott
      @BenMarriott  Před 8 dny +1

      I'm very pleased fellow chicken fan. :)

  • @TikaLEET
    @TikaLEET Před 8 dny

    i love you'r videos

  • @camilademelo5550
    @camilademelo5550 Před 8 dny

    Você é foda! Parabéns!

  • @motioncrutz
    @motioncrutz Před 8 dny

    Okay Ben, I'll study more about compositing in After Effects.

  • @HiveEntity001
    @HiveEntity001 Před 8 dny +4

    _Babe, wake up. Ben Marriott uploaded a new video._

  • @ahmadrafeed
    @ahmadrafeed Před 8 dny +1

    thank you from syria

  • @xinyusunny
    @xinyusunny Před 7 dny

    will do one compositing practice every time ben says 'chicken'

  • @mr.y7351
    @mr.y7351 Před 8 dny

    The master

  • @AventurasDeRyan
    @AventurasDeRyan Před 8 dny +1

    AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL!

  • @maxschapiro4460
    @maxschapiro4460 Před 7 dny

    Love this! Question - why use the "Fill" effect for the shadow rather than the Color Overlay layer style? Just personal preference?

  • @90boiler
    @90boiler Před 7 dny

    This is from a course i took few months ago

  • @313R3N
    @313R3N Před 4 dny

    Great video but im never using adobe products ever again

  •  Před 8 dny +2

    Good to see you ben! Where you ben? long time no see ;)

    • @BenMarriott
      @BenMarriott  Před 8 dny +5

      It's good to be back! Been working on a big project I should be able to show soon :)

  • @dylanwilson7544
    @dylanwilson7544 Před 8 dny +3

    Here at 420 views.. We winning today hunnies

  • @biboooooooooooooooooo

    Why not use the lumetri to do all the color grading you did?

    • @BenMarriott
      @BenMarriott  Před 8 dny +1

      You could do all of this in lumetri, but I think it's overkill for what's needed here.

  • @hypnotizedhorse5340
    @hypnotizedhorse5340 Před 5 dny

    reminded me of gumball

  • @CaptainSnackbar
    @CaptainSnackbar Před 8 dny

    similar to the style from "The Amazing world of Gumball"

  • @anzzzo
    @anzzzo Před 8 dny +1

    I want to buy the course but it’s too expensive for me

  • @chillin5703
    @chillin5703 Před 6 dny

    Gumball?

  • @v.shukla30_
    @v.shukla30_ Před 7 dny

    Fu it... We ball again 🫡

  • @lucarosa7533
    @lucarosa7533 Před 8 dny

    need some work grading... that was rough

  • @Al.omarii
    @Al.omarii Před 8 dny +1

    It's sad when you disappear from CZcams for a long time and then come back with a ready-made video from your course inventory

    • @sumsizzurp
      @sumsizzurp Před 8 dny +6

      Why is that sad?

    • @hardlyworking_
      @hardlyworking_ Před 8 dny +1

      k

    • @worstever5151
      @worstever5151 Před 7 dny

      sad because he still posts a freaking long tutorial for free? and it's from his paid course? People are so hard to please nowadays

    • @Al.omarii
      @Al.omarii Před 7 dny

      @@worstever5151 YES!! I am sad about this. This indicates that instead of creating new content, he is burning his valuable papers. I am not sad about the video itself. I am sad about what is behind his downloading of a ready-made video. I think he no longer likes CZcams, and that is why I am sad.

  • @undeadwilldestroyall
    @undeadwilldestroyall Před 6 dny

    Please, as a fellow professional, don't call us "colour graders". We're colourists. Use the right terminology. 🙏

  • @Huguillon
    @Huguillon Před 8 dny +1

    An Adobe product tutorial??, NO, thank you

    • @hardlyworking_
      @hardlyworking_ Před 8 dny +3

      then why did you click lol

    • @Huguillon
      @Huguillon Před 8 dny

      @@hardlyworking_ You can't type a comment without clicking on the video... duh!