All language subtitles for 09. Applying 2D lighting

in this lesson

we will add in additional tootie lighting effects

to augment our mushroom cloud explosion

so we just left off having color

corrected our mushroom cloud

to better match it to our actual background plate

now what I want to do is

I want to begin to modify our background plate

to better integrate it with our mushroom cloud

so what the idea and the goal in this lesson is

we're going to be adding some

some very subtle and very easy lighting effects

now if we jump back in time

to closer to the beginning of the shot

you're going to see that we have

where it's more the initial

big ol huge explosion

we want to at that point

adjust the overall lighting of the buildings

you see obviously

this just does not look quite right

so what we wanna do is

we want to brighten up the cityscape

add some lighting effect in there

so it just feels like it's a little better seated

to match with with that

that nuclear explosion

so what we're going to do is

we're going to just take a quick look

at where we wanna integrate this our plate

if we look at our

no graph view

our plates here

and this is where

our mushroom cloud is being dropped in

so what we're gonna be doing is

we're going to be modifying prior to that merge node

but after the shuffle node

so I think what we'll do

for this is

we're going to add a color correct

we're just gonna drop that in right there

and in this case

we're gonna need to work

a little closer to the beginning

but I want to

uh I'm not sure yet

if we're going to animate a crochet based upon the

using the tracking information

or if we'll just hand track it in

my gut says we'll probably still use that camera track

and what we'll do is

then we'll augment

and move the roto shape around a little bit

in addition to that

but let's just drop a roto in really quickly

and see where things go

first off just to

just to see what's gonna match up

so we connect that in

and go in here

and we want to basically draw

I'm thinking

I'm thinking probably just like a

some sort of ovular

in this case

it's called the lips

but some sort of uh

some round shape that we can

build off of

so let's just do that

and then select the points

I'm gonna move it down just a little bit

somewhere right about there

and then we take that bottom point

let's move it up

and just kind of round things out

just a little bit

there we go

all right think of it kind of like this is

that's like

where the mushroom cloud originated behind the

the buildings

right there

now our riddle shape is set

and actually

you know what

I just forgot

let's let's add that feather

so select all the points

you can either right click

and you can increase feather

or you can select them

and hit the e key on the keyboard

and then if you wanna manually adjust

you can as well

so this case

we're gonna do that like that

there we go

all right so

I think that's

that's in a good spot

so let's actually

wait one more thing

I just want to round that out just a little bit more

there we go

okay all right

I think that's in a good spot

let's go in and just

just mess around

let's just see what

what we can gain by doing some color corrects

okay so overall obviously

you can see it's starting to kill behind the buildings

so what we need is

we need to hold this inside the buildings

we don't wanna just

affect the sky as much

that's probably one of the first things we'll

we'll deal with in just a moment

let's go to the no graph view here

and I'm gonna actually add a blur node

and let's just soften up that

feathering fall off

so let's set that to 250

that might be a bit much

um but yeah

that's definitely too much

let's let's set it more like 100

and see what happens

there we go

that's a little

little better

okay so now

you can actually see

once we've done that

I'm actually

not bothered by that

now that I'm looking at that

it doesn't bother me

cause you know

you are gonna get

obviously some brightness happening uh

behind those buildings as well

so for the moment

let's just leave that

and we're not

we're not just gonna leave

leave this as is

just turn that on and off

and kind of

see what's going on there

um I think as I'm looking at this we might

we might need to uh

do a little bit more work uh

in relation to fireball

but I'm not gonna worry about that

at the moment

cause we do have more of the upcoming lessons

we're gonna discuss

edge integration

and light wrap

which might actually take care of that problem

so at the moment

we've gained up

I'm thinking

what we want to do is

we want to introduce a little more warmer tones

because this fireball is super bright

and you know

there's a lot of fire

so it's not gonna be

all this cool tone

that we have going on

so let's split out those color layers

and let's just see here

let's just mess around a little bit

if we back off on the blue

uh we don't wanna introduce too much green

but I'm gonna just

back off on

the warming

add a little more warm tones

now we might be going overboard on this

I'm sure but

just to kinda

get an idea of where

we can go with it

uh sometimes

it's just good to play around

and see where you end up

so you can see right here

what we've done is

we've introduced

we're introducing

all three colors

obviously red

green and blue

but we are also um

introducing more red

a little less green

and definitely

a less blue

overall and

if you jump between

you can kind of see

that's not too bad

it's warming it up

just a little bit

I'm not trying to overdo it

and just remove

the blue altogether

cause that just

that that's

not gonna work

but you can see

it's starting to

starting to

kinda work to our

advantage now

you can see

when I start to

introduce more red

that's just starting to look a little

weird so I think

I think what we uh

we had somewhere

in this realm

right around that

I think that's a

it's not a bad spot to be in

I think for

for what what it is

so let's uh

let's leave that value right there

what we're going to do is uh

we need to animate though

sorry apologies

not the blur

we wanna animate that roto shape

because we need to animate it

and based upon the movement of that fireball

so what we're going to do is take the

projections that we've been using

just like we were doing before

and I'm going to do the same thing over here

we're gonna drop in those

those nodes

connect that

and we're gonna do is

I'm gonna bring this down right here

so we can continue that cross

I just I just like again

like clean lines

things that are to getting in the way

and just bump that up here

just to line things

the things all line up nicely

and there we go

alright so take that row shape

connected up in the Project 3D node

and you should be good to go

now this camera

we could actually connect to all of those

you don't need to have

have them repeating multiple times

but I'm not too worried about that

now you can see it moved

so obviously what we have to do is we need to take that

rotate and move it back

cause we're basing it upon frame 87

so what what we're gonna do

we're gonna do just like frame four 28

instead of it being our hero frame

what we need to do is copy that camera again

bring it over

and let's just make ourselves some space here

what we're gonna do is

we are going to actually leave it at frame 87

and we're gonna delete all the animation out of it

just like we did for frame 4 28 and everything else

and that will allow us to make this frame 87

our hero frame

because that's where we put our roto initially

just get rid of that

go over to projection

no animation on all of these

keyframed inputs or linked inputs

and four more and then

we are good to go

there we go

okay so now we can connect that in

and we should

there you go

see how it popped back to what we originally

set it to in that section

and now we are able to assume

that will follow the movement of the camera

perfect that's excellent

I think we're in a good position now

and what we're gonna do is we're gonna really uh

uh blow this out just a little bit

because obviously this

this brightness needs to be

you know like

you have just this center

really bright spot

but I'm at the moment

I just wanna get the overall color correct

so they are working in a good spot

I think that's good

and then what we can do is we need to animate that

so I would suggest what we're going to do at this point

is we're gonna take that color correct

and we're gonna actually do a group of them

and then I'm going to blend

so what I mean by blend is what we're

we have a merge node set up right here

and what we're gonna do is

we're gonna set up all of our hero color corrects

for the brightest possible point

and then we can blend between the original

and that way

you can basically animate a single control

versus a multiple

uh number of color corrects

but at this moment

I think we should take a quick break

and then we'll come right back

so just to recap

we have just been working on our animated lighting

and setting up for that

so at the moment we uh

have one rotor shape

that is connected through our projection setup uh

that is going to be augmenting and brightening downtown

to kinda match some of the intensity

of that nuclear explosion

fireball that's happening behind the buildings

and will continue right after this break