Discovery Channel 13) Making Changes Part 2

Next for my adjustments, was to apply the same lighting effects to my desert setting and think about the transition.

It took me a few times to remember how I got the lighting the way I did in the safari at night setting, a disadvantage of working in separate compositions, however I am still glad I chose to do it this way. After I had made alterations, I decided to on this setting, to add MORE depth to the ground layers because I felt like they could look even more 3D than they had previously. I was able to cast shadows on these particular layers and therefore I feel like they look a lot better than the simple Photoshop drop shadow effect.

Without lighting adjustments

With lighting Adjustments

I also love how there is a 'point of light' in the centre of the adjusted animation, which focuses on the two birds, as opposed to previously. This is a benefit of the point lighting option as opposed to being so harsh and direct.

At this point then since I had edited both the first and second setting, it was time to thing about their transition. This was a total spontaneous decision for me because I had quite liked the way the animation looked beforehand, bit to make it that little but more interesting, I thought I was see what transitions I could achieve. I started with a simple drop down transition from the first setting to the second, which I quite liked but thought it was a bit boring, so I had an idea to take each individual layer from the safari setting and make it drop until eventually revealing the second setting, and once that animation is over, do the same to reveal the last setting. Before I did this though, I had to go and edit the beach location and then go into editing transitions!