Klaus Lighting Tutorial & Moho Lighting
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 5:54 am
Hi all,
This may be interesting to many of you who enjoyed Klaus and animate in Moho. Since all the hubbub around Klaus' character lighting techniques I felt that very similar lighting effects could be 'easily' achieved in Moho. I carried out a few of my own experiments sometime last year and came to the conclusion that it is possible but somewhat time consuming.
Now I see this video and realise it would be no more time consuming than the Klaus process since they are simply creating animated vector shapes as we would do in Moho.
I would argue that, since Moho focuses on rigged characters, it is actually faster to do this in Moho than the method shown in the video below which seems to require new lighting layers for every shot.
In my experiments I created separate light layers to light a character's face from each direction. I had a left side light layer, a right side, a top and a below. You could also add edge or rim light layers- whatever you want. Of course the layers are shaped to match the contours/geometry of the character's face, just like is shown in the Klaus video.
Then those light layers are rigged to your smart bones with everything else and therefore animate together with the rest of the rig. When you need them, you can simply have those layers switched on and switch them off when not needed. Or you can do what I did and export them separately and use them in the compositing process as mattes.
I realise that is probably a bit vague without showing reference video of what I did. I think those that know Moho will get the drift, but if there is some interest I might put together a quick video showing my process and the results I got.
But here is the Klaus process video. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTcblxN8TGQ
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I'm curious- has anyone else used a similar lighting process in Moho?
EDIT:
Adding my demo video in here to make it easier to find- more details in the thread:
EDIT:
Lighting Demo Part 2. Details below.
EDIT
Lighting Tutorial/Overview
Detailed timestamps for the tutorial are listed in the Youtube description.
This may be interesting to many of you who enjoyed Klaus and animate in Moho. Since all the hubbub around Klaus' character lighting techniques I felt that very similar lighting effects could be 'easily' achieved in Moho. I carried out a few of my own experiments sometime last year and came to the conclusion that it is possible but somewhat time consuming.
Now I see this video and realise it would be no more time consuming than the Klaus process since they are simply creating animated vector shapes as we would do in Moho.
I would argue that, since Moho focuses on rigged characters, it is actually faster to do this in Moho than the method shown in the video below which seems to require new lighting layers for every shot.
In my experiments I created separate light layers to light a character's face from each direction. I had a left side light layer, a right side, a top and a below. You could also add edge or rim light layers- whatever you want. Of course the layers are shaped to match the contours/geometry of the character's face, just like is shown in the Klaus video.
Then those light layers are rigged to your smart bones with everything else and therefore animate together with the rest of the rig. When you need them, you can simply have those layers switched on and switch them off when not needed. Or you can do what I did and export them separately and use them in the compositing process as mattes.
I realise that is probably a bit vague without showing reference video of what I did. I think those that know Moho will get the drift, but if there is some interest I might put together a quick video showing my process and the results I got.
But here is the Klaus process video. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTcblxN8TGQ
Embed:
I'm curious- has anyone else used a similar lighting process in Moho?
EDIT:
Adding my demo video in here to make it easier to find- more details in the thread:
EDIT:
Lighting Demo Part 2. Details below.
EDIT
Lighting Tutorial/Overview
Detailed timestamps for the tutorial are listed in the Youtube description.