Introduction

Lighting for Animation is designed with one goal in mind—to make you a better artist. Over the course of this book, we will strive to train your eye to analyze your work more critically by teaching you approaches and techniques that will enable you to improve your craft. We will focus on the main philosophies and core concepts utilized by industry professionals with the intention of building your foundation for a successful career as a lighting artist in visual effects and computer animation.

This book is not designed to teach specific software packages. There are websites, instructional manuals, online demos, and traditional courses available to teach you how to open a specific computer program and press all the right buttons. That ...

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