Adding Illumination Noise in Cinema 4D

Video Transcript

"JOHN CARSTARPHEN: Hi, this is John Carstarphen for Expert Village. And we are almost finished with the scene. Now, this is the shot before the car hits the box itself, and you can still see the effect of the volumetric light, but it's still a bit intense coming from here. So let's add one other feature to the light, which is a very interesting feature in Cinema 4D, and that is noise. We're going to add some noise to the illumination. And we click on the Noise tab, and you'll get a sense of what the noise effect will be. Now the turbulence, as it's called, is moving and that's an effect of the velocity. So we're going to reduce the velocity to zero, which will make it static, and we're going to create some wavy turbulence. And click OK, and that will break up this volumetric light so that it's not so bright in one area and intense throughout. By adding the noise, we're keeping with the mood of the scene, and that's one thing that you should keep in mind when creating a scene where you want a specific mood. Everything in the scene has to be connected to that mood: the lighting, the camera angle, the objects themselves. Everything should be related to whatever particular mood you're trying to create. So since we're creating a kind of smoky, foggy night, adding some noise to that light channel will be completely and keeping with the nature of the scene."