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  • Spot Lights in Motion

    Posted by Wade Ford on August 25, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    I’m working on a commercial for an unfinished furniture – we are doing a strip tease theme. I have the image in motion, but I am having trouble adding spot lights. I want the lights to move around like spot lights on a stage. I’m using Motion 3. Any ideas?

    Wade Ford replied 15 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Peter Wiggins

    August 25, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Yes, add lights but make them a ‘spot’ in the light type parameter.

    Push the lights in 3D to the top of the frame, narrow the beam and then apply the Wriggle behavior to the X and Y controls to get the effect you want.

    Peter

  • Andy Neil

    August 25, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    I would second everything Peter said, except for the wiggle. I think you’ll likely want the lights to more in a more organized fashion than wiggle allows for. I would apply the oscillate behavior to the X and Y rotations of the lights. By adjusting those oscillations one negative to the other, you can animate the lights in an oval trajectory. That looks more like lights on a dance stage. Change the phase for each light and you’ll have all the lights rotating around the stage in a different way.

    Andy

    https://www.timesavertutorials.com

  • Wade Ford

    August 25, 2010 at 8:49 pm

    Thanks for the help. Oscillating seems to be a little smoother, but the wiggle got me started.

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