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Each light source, whether it’s natural or artificial, has unique properties. You can emulate each light source type by carefully choosing a 3D light or lights and selecting appropriate translations, rotations, intensities, colors, shadow types, and shadow qualities. This is equally true when lighting locations or lighting characters.

 This chapter includes the following critical information:

Recreating natural light sources, including the sun at different times of the day
Recreating artificial light sources, such as various forms of light bulbs
Applying lighting techniques to characters ...

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