Create Cinematic Lighting in After Effects

Dive into a comprehensive course on creating cinematic lighting effects in After Effects. Learn essential concepts like depth, texture, and motivated lighting while mastering techniques to enhance existing footage or create stunning visual environments from scratch. Explore topics such as adding depth to images, creating texture with animation presets, relighting scenes, compositing with clean plates, and generating volumetric lighting effects. Suitable for beginners to intermediate users, this 1 hour 45 minute tutorial will equip you with the skills to produce visually captivating content in After Effects.

Syllabus

Introduction to cinematic lighting
Chapter overview
What do the gaffer and cinematographer do on set?
What makes an image cinematic?
Lesson 1a: Depth in our image
Lesson 1b: The dirty foreground
What does texture mean when talking about light?
Lesson 2: Creating texture using After Effects animation presets
Motivated vs. non-motivated light
Lesson 3a: Relighting a scene in After Effects
Lesson 3b: Creating shadows with solids and masks
Clean plates! How to light your scenes on a budget
Lesson 4: Compositing multiple shots using clean plates.
What is volumetric lighting?
Lesson 5: Creating volumetric lighting in After Effects
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