Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘3d’ Category
Vue Lighting Rig #14: Another Four Light Rig
Monday, January 21st, 2008This weeks follows on from last weeks four light rig. This week the lights are again at ninety degrees to each other. The lights have been rotated so we now have a light pointing straight in from the front, one from behind and one from each side. This rig gives us a lot of control […]
Vue Lighting Rig #13: A Four Light Rig
Monday, January 14th, 2008With improved power supplies, lighting desks that can control more lights in larger theatres it has become possible to use more lights to light an actor. This allows a lighting designer to go from the standard 3 light rig to four light rigs. This weeks rig has four lights set at 90 degrees to each […]
Vue Replicate Scale Equal Steps Script
Monday, January 7th, 2008This Python script for Vue Infinite can be run to equalise (or equalize for all my American readers) the scaling of replicated objects. First you replicate an object in the usual way in Vue (Using Edit -> Replicate) and then you run this script. If you applied a scale to any of the dimensions it […]
Lighting Tutorials will resume Shortly
Monday, December 24th, 2007My lighting tutorial series will resume on Mondays as usual in the new year.
Vue Lighting Rig #12: Modern Christmas Lights
Monday, December 17th, 2007This week’s Vue Lighting Rig is less of a rig and more of a way of achieving a Christmas light effect. Looking at the Christmas lights in Liverpool I noticed several invisible Christmas trees. I’m sure these are popping up all over the country. You see lights in the shape of a tree but no […]
Vue Lighting Rig #11: The Godspot
Monday, December 10th, 2007I’m taking another short break from my ongoing progression through the common basic rigs used for lighting an actor to look at a few effects rigs that can be used for seasonal pictures. Tonights rig, the Godspot, can be used to evoke the presence of God, that a deity is observing the scene, that, to […]
Vue Lighting Rig #10: Three Spot Lights
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Last weeks entry in my ongoing series of theatrically inspired Vue lighting rigs is one of the most commonly used rigs: Two Spotlights from the Front. Tonight’s rig is an improved version of that rig which adds a third light behind the actor to add a little back light. During the development of theatrical lighting […]
Vue Lighting Rig #9: Two Spotlights from the Front
Monday, November 26th, 2007Tonight’s Theatrical lighting rigs is one of the most commonly used solutions to the question of how to light an actor. It has been in use for at least seventy-five years and was first described by Stanley McCandless in his 1932 book A Method of Lighting the Stage. Even the best funded production has a […]
Vue Lighting Rig #8: Spotlights at 45 degrees from the Front and Back
Monday, November 19th, 2007Last weeks theatrical lighting rig for Vue placed two spot lights at 45 degrees on either side of the actor but this can create unsightly shadows especially down the middle of their face. This week the same rig is turned so that one light now points from the front and one from the back. We’ve […]
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