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“Rock Concert” style lighting in AE
Hey all,
I just saw a great rock concert with nice lighting and smoke machines, and remembered a project I worked on some time ago. We were compositing together stock footage of spotlights and smoke to emulate this in AE. It worked alright, but I found that the lights started blowing out when I composited too many at once. Real lights don’t look like this.
Creating realistic lighting in AE is freakin’ hard. Anyone had any real success with this? And please don’t say trapcode shine. It’s really artificial looking.
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Yeah, I know what you mean, but if you want realism, even a fully fledged 3D program won’t give you what you want. Computer-based graphics simply don’t work this way, no matter how you tweak them. You know, nobody cares about real physics as long as it just looks real enough. If you want to stay in AE, even if you don’t want to hear it, Trapcodes Shine and Lux are still the best point to start.
Mylenium
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I haven’t started using AE7’s HDR feature yet. Could it be useful here?
(There’s an HDR-relevant PDF on this page)
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Yeah, i was watching the tutorial, I think it would help keep things from getting “muddy,” especially when there is motion blur. Also, I’m starting to believe that the color and value have alot to do with how the shot is sold. Some blues just do not feel like “light.”
We lucked out on the last project, where we were given some great 2k clips of real spotlights. I keep thinking back to film school lighting classes, though. When setting up these lights, I feel that selling the shot might have as much to do with defining the space with light and shade as it does the quality of the effect.
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