animatorguy Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Hi, I'm in the middle of an animation project for a friend. This is an intro movie for his ministry. The camera flies past all the names of the countries he is ministrering in then into a room with some sort of logo. I have the walls as white as I'm going for avery clean modern look. This is my first go at this sort of thing and I was wanting to see if there was any ideas out there for lighting a white room like this one. So far I've got the names walls more or less where I want them. I started adding some lights but couldn't really get a good realistic feel to the image. I've attached the project file. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks. -Bruce world_revival_ministries.prj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattWBradbury Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I think that the Panama and Hungary names are too close together. There was no flyby animation, but when I made one I had to work really hard inorder to read them as I flew by, so much so I almost missed scotland. As far as lighting goes, set Global Ambiance to 50%, make sure that your camera has white for a background, and add lights in the middle of every area (any place where the main wall geometry could fit a block into). The lights should be bulbs. Set their Intensity to 80% with a falloff large enough to encompass the entire four wall section around it. Make sure that the lights don't cast shadows; I went through the scene and the shadows just made the animation look a little strange. By the way, you've got the Costa Rica model out of view. I made a little animation of your thing. Are you really considering doing an animation in that high of resolution? I think you can get away with a lot lower resolution. FlyBy.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animatorguy Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 Hi, Thanks for your quick reply. That is really helpful. I will probably do a low res for a website and a high quality one for video. I hadn't got around to animating the flight path and camera angles yet, but thanks. Would you mind sending me the project file so I can see where you placed the lights. Thanks man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattWBradbury Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I already deleted the project file, but you should fine as far as lighting position goes. Just make sure that all of the surfaces are pretty close to white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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