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good example is the random pattern often seen at the bottom of a swimming pool when
bright sunlight shines through the water. The dapples of light that appear on floors or ceilings
when light glints off a crystal vase or a gold-plated statue are another example.
Applying Lights in LightWave
You will encounter many types of lighting situations when creating your animation masterpiece.
This next section steps you through a common lighting situation that you can
use for character animation tests, product shots, or logo scenes.
Simulating Studio Lighting
One of the cool things about LightWave is that you don??™t have to be a numbers person to
make things happen.You can see what??™s happening throughout the creation process from
object construction to surfacing to lighting. Exercise 4.2 introduces you to basic threepoint
lighting often used in everyday video production. You can apply this lighting style
to LightWave and create a photographer??™s backdrop (or cyc, short for cyclorama) to act as
a set for your objects. Creating a set in LightWave is a good idea so that even simple render
tests are not over a black background.
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