All language subtitles for 1A_08

So we have added a really prominent hard light
into the mix which was meant as an accent

light, now we need to use some kind of a light
blocker or light gobo to really turn it into a

light pool or light puddle, we just need to drag
the viewer's eye into a certain portion of the

image to create a bunch of pools of light, that is
what we need. so let's create something that would

block the light, a plane for example, I'm scaling
it in such way so it can block a portion of the

light coming in from the sun and just in case,
you know, to avoid the unnecessary light spill

or rather light bounce, I'm creating a new
material and assigning a black color to it.

also zeroing out this specular
component just in case

S to make it bigger, G to move... what I'm trying
to do here is constrain the area of effect

or the area of influence of the sun lamp
so it turns into a little stream of light...

trying to find the right placement of the
blocker, Shift D to duplicate it and move it

over to the right side to leave a really small
opening in between these two blockers, now we

can move the this entire construction around to
effectively shift the position of the light beam.

I'm trying to avoid this beam touching the main
mineral, I want it to be super soft, illuminated

just with our key light and in order to further
tweak the shape of the opening I'm using Shift D

shortcut to duplicate the blocker once again, you can see
how moving around affects the shape of the beam,

now the stroke looks alright, we can add some
light texture to it. now I'm going to simulate

what is called a light gobo or light cutout.
this plane will serve as a base, I'm

tabbing into the edit mode, creating a bunch of
subdivisions with the help of the Ctrl R shortcut,

then selecting everything will help the
A shortcut, right click and subdivide

everything a few times until the wireframe
becomes fairly dense, something like that.

Ctrl Space to escape from the full screen
mode and then head over to the modifiers tab

and select the decimate modifier. I'm going to use
a fairly obscure way of rotating the geometry, so

I'm selecting the unsubdivide mode and upping the
iterations to 1. now we can see that the geometry

got rotated by 45 degrees I believe, um... yeah 45
degrees, right :) now it's just a matter of throwing

in the wireframe modifier and adjusting its
thickness. we have effectively created the light

gobo and we can play with the light texture by
adjusting the size of it. it's not super intuitive

but we can also control the harshness of the
shadows by moving this object closer or further

away from the light or I should have said... closer
or further wave in relationship to our subject.

aside from purely aesthetic function of breaking
up the light beam... uh... these light gobo serves

the purpose of hinting at the environment, is
it some decorative part of the blinds that is

throwing such shadow... it tells something about the
environment itself. I'm placing these objects

into the sun blockers collection just to keep
things organized and so this is our accent light,

a stroke of compositional interest and
a puddle of light at a higher intensity.

there was nice and soft window somewhere, now there
is a sunbeam striking through. awesome! generally

speaking one of the functions of lighting is to
tell more about the setting, about the environment,

the lighting choices you make help to hint
at the environment properties and to ground

your set into some kind of an ambient narrative.
such details as the light beams cut it through

the leaves and hitting the table, the window shades,
the color temperature even, all of those hints help

to motivate our lighting setup and to ground it
even though we don't see the environment directly.