dear shooters,
I have to make an animation, which is anyway not my strong side and so there are a few problems that I currently run into...
any help is highly appreciated !!
1) I need to start with the product lit from the back. only a small light rim of a black shape against a black background. the light intensity increases until the product is "swallowed" by the light ...
I had to realize, that I cannot animate the environment, which would have maybe been the easiest option... or am I missing something?
I tried spotlight, Pointlight and emissive with very mixed results. I had to increase the light intensity to "swallow" the product up to a point, where I have fireflies that even 1000 samples could not resolve.
the most promising results I recived with a spotlight with increasing beam angle and increasing radius. But I had to crank up the lumen that high, that I have way to hard contrasts .
An emissive with a high bloom radius is pretty much doing exactly what I would like to have, but any idea on how I could animate the bloom radius? it would be nice to have a small radius in the beginning, than the size increases, while the light is getting brighter...
any other ideas or approaches?
I guess I will split up this thread and adress one problem at a time ....
I am very thankful for your answers ....
cheers
designgestalt
Do you have access to compositing/effects software like Fusion or After Effects? If yes, would animating the image brightness do the trick? (attached GIF)
(https://www.camomiles.de/c/brightness.gif)
In this scene I've used black environment and area lights driven by color fade nodes to light up the car and burned out the rest with a dramatic increase of the brightness in post.
If it doesn't help and you need to do it in KS, try to place a full white emitter plane in front of your camera and drive the opacity with a number fade node. If you drive the power of the area lights with a number fade node at the same time, the emitter plane will add to the effect and "swallow" the object to full white. (BIP example attached).
(https://www.camomiles.de/c/burn.gif)
also here:
thanks for your fast response Eugen !!!
I saw your BMW animation on the forum the other day... very nice indeed !!!
it seems I tend to make my life harder than necessary ;D
we did still renderings for many years, the call for animated clips is just about to catch on without us pushing it ...
I guess, we have to dig way deeper into editing ....
cheers
designgestalt
You're welcome.
Call me if you need assistance or some training ;) We are just 150 km away from each other.
yes I remember from another post ...
wanted to catch up with you at keyshot world, but my customers had other plans ...
had to cancel the trip the morning I was about to leave ...
I might get back to your offer ::)
will see how I get along ...
cheers
designgestalt