Blender Tutorial | Animating Lights

[@CreativeShrimp]

The timeline, if you'd like to jump to a specific section: 00:00 - 2021? What is this?! 00:52 - 2 different ways for animating switching a light on and off. 03:40 - Having some fun with autokeyframing 04:55 - Animating light flicker 07:40 - Animating with drivers 09:45 - Creating custom properties 13:30 - Synchronizing the lamp objects with the emissive materials.

[@AtomBreak]

Second method is not working switching on and off that monitor icon, it works inside blender but when render it in the video light is not flikering why

[@jay_isley]

Same here

[@noelgtexas]

Shrimps! Thanks for posting this video! I was able to control this effect with a grid of different colored lights. Looks great! Thank you!

[@Starwarsfun1-Leo]

That was some very valuable lesson on drivers!

[@CreativeShrimp]

Great to hear it was valuable! :) Aidy.

[@snakeverg9390]

I didn't know you can animate lights intensity! Thank you, helped a lot

[@PietroChiovaro]

Great video, well done guys! 👍🏻

[@AidyBurrows3D]

Third?! Good grief, I need a faster trigger for sure - BOOM! 2021, let's do this thing! A fuzzy faced lockdown me, crying out looking for light at the end of the tunnel, wanting to share some light, hopefully making the load a little lighter for someone out there! :)

[@emjibe]

Spot on, dude!! Just what I needed.

[@davidregalado3037]

Thank you dude you helped a lot

[@ains2904]

He just blew my mind

[@navidumardaraz7163]

Beautifully presented and explained

[@bestever9044]

Ohooo waaoo.. what a video and what the background

[@matthomsa]

Great stuff!

[@lucyfaire1980]

Wow. That drivers trick really helped in a project of mine. Thanks so much for this!

[@Veluracat]

5:30 I don't get the Modifiers tab when I press the N key. For me the only thing that appears is the selection to show cursor or not. I wonder what's the issue ?

[@Huffy1101]

same

[@ih4269]

We have to be in the graph editor

[@StinkyZebra]

Home key???

[@badondebadonde267]

Awesome video and easy to follow. Thank you, my good man!!

[@ClaudioPozoVeloso]

I'm new to blender and I was looking exactly how to do this. I come from C4D. Thank you.

[@Soshiplayz]

Thank you this has aided me in my animation!

[@ADEPS.]

I'm gonna make a horror short after this vid :)

[@manday3058]

Man, thank you very much!

[@gordonbrinkmann]

Nice tutorial, learned some things about graph modifiers. The only thing which didn't really make sense (although it helped to show how to use custom properties and copy drivers) was that you animated the fluorescent lamps to flicker all the same. Normally this effect doesn't come from voltage fluctuations in the electric circuit (which might have an impact on all lamps at the same time) but instead indicates that the starter or other part of the lamp is slowly getting broke because of age or other reasons, and since all tubes have their own starter it would be highly unlikely they flicker exactly the same.

[@CreativeShrimp]

Great to hear there were some useful bits! And I almost added a section which was something of a disclaimer that this wasn't necessarily how they work in the real world, thanks for adding that info by the way! I actually set them all to have random unique light flicker at one point but it didn't really look as good, the few variations i tried anyway. The setup where some of them are synchronized seemed to be the nicer result, whatever 'nicer' means in this context anyway! I think in my minds eye I have a more supernatural ominous cause behind what's making the lights flicker and how they all fail at pretty much the same time. I don't know what that is, and maybe i don't want to know!! :D Aidy.

[@gordonbrinkmann]

@@CreativeShrimp Yeah, in a setting like this I would always suspect some supernatural cause 😄 So I guess all flickering at the same time is okay. But the graph modifiers part was really interesting for me, I usually only use them for simple noise or cyclic animations.

[@basejumperdx4573]

when will this course release cant wait. please add the whole animation and police strobe light animation. as its useful. cycles

[@SicParvisMagnaYT]

great vid man helped

[@cocboss3329]

Wow

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Hahah funny how your outcome actually has an offset to all lights. But that could be easily done by adjusting each drive i believe. That looks much nicer that the synced lights

[@capawesome3d988]

Thank you, exactly what i need! ;)

[@nayuta4108]

Great great tutorial!

[@GONGGGGGGGG]

Thaaaaaanks!! You are Super Amazing🤩

[@josephlondon8188]

Does anyone else not know that the “home key” is? 5:38

[@CreativeShrimp]

Ah, the Home and End keys on a windows keyboard would equate to Command-Left Arrow and Command-Right Arrow from what i hear, that may do the same thing for framing the view of whatever window your cursor is in to show any detail you might have in that window. Hope that helps! :) Aidy.

[@mindofgabe]

@@CreativeShrimp You can also use the scroll wheel to zoom in on where you placed the keyframe! :)

[@masonamccall]

Blender keeps crashing for me right after 13:20 as soon as I scrub...?

[@Captianmex1C0]

Anyone have any tips, I'm working on a short film And For one scene in particular it's 100% through blender, I can do all the assets and lighting but The scene involves a light source extremely far away from the camera and an entire city in-between, would I have to set a plane down and individually add in every building or could an HDR accomplish the effect while not making the Light source seem close up?

[@nikonikosensei6682]

It's strange how tutorials can be inspiring and make you feel like you know nothing at the same time lol. I hope I can use this in the next.....ohhh idk, maybe 5-10 years? lol. I've always wanted to include a reference to AKIRA in something. And the light flicker, a very specific light flicker is the one I'd use. Cheers. I subbed.

[@3pcgi959]

Good Tutorial! THX 👍

[@leonelsantos6517]

Naice man.

[@neXib]

JUST working on something that needs this. Not sure if it'll work with the weird mesh light array setup I have though :|

[@twobrothers1877]

Fantastic video but definitely not beginner friendly when learning lighting effects lol. It started out ok and I was like, sweet not too bad, then the rest went out the window lol.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

I wonder wen and if Cycles or Eevee will get light cache. That is so nice to have. I got this in an old render engine i use now and then and so cool to play with light and relight the scene. Its super powerful, especially for Archviz. You can make multiple shots using different lighting from the same render.

[@KodiSwandaOfficial]

I am so mad. I spent over 3 hours perfecting a scene with lighting under the treads of a staircase. To make the modeling easier I duplicated the light to keep the right size and shape consistent. When I went to animate, I wanted the lights to turn on one by one going up the stairs like a sci fi scene, they all animated at the same time. Then I had to redo each light individually to get the animation to work

[@RomboutVersluijs]

PS isnt copy as new driver / paste as driver easier? Though your method does learn people how to use it, which is good of course!

[@jordanhenshaw]

I don't know for sure, but I kind of think that half those steps, especially towards the end, could have been skipped and one could get the exact same result, but I may be wrong. Just seems like an overly complicated way to make a flicker.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Quite weird when you animate display visibility, we dont see keyframes showing,, is that normal?

[@0utder]

When I try to link animation data, Blender crashes every single time. Anything I could do to stop that ?

[@Chidacards]

When I insert the multiply in the shader it’s showing value’s and not colors how would I change that ?

[@Chidacards]

@Timothy Affram thanks ! Finally found it 👏🏼

[@Nic-tg2ei]

Well that was a bizarre intro.

[@ExpertManOfficial]

first!

[@aleksandrdudkin6344]

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[@CreativeShrimp]

ну i добра, дзякуй! :)

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