The Digital Matte Painting Handbook

Adding Moving Spotlights to a Building

At old Hollywood premiers, special high-intensity spotlights called klieg lights would rotate back and forth, shooting piercing beams of light into the night sky. You’ll add animated klieg lights to the RoundRiser building to heighten the drama of the scene. Place the RoundRiser building using the null position technique you just learned (Figure 14-45).

Figure 14-45: RoundRiser layer positioned

Move the LightBeam layer above the RoundRiser layer to keep the Timeline vorganized. Copy the Position, Scale, and Orientation attributes from the RoundRiser layer, and paste them onto the LightBeam layer. The light ...