Dynamic lighting

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Hi I just got back into animating, have not done any since 1997 using a program called Animator Pro (autodesk i think?).
is there a way to create dynamic lighting and shadowing? for instance I would like to have a character move through a light source and have the character highlights and shadows change as he moves, I was able to achieve this result on the entire character but not on only specified parts. I attempted to create a light source with an onto blend method and thought I could use masking to make it dynamic, but I couldn’t get it to work. can someone help me with this?

Thanks,

Patrick

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You might want to check out “Prologue”. There’s a lot of characters moving in and out of shadows in that. You can download the source files to see how it was done.
synfig.org/cms/en/gallery/shorts/prologue/

Chris

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thanks for the link Chris. You’ve just given me the perfect solution.

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Actually that was the clip that gave me the idea, now why I didn’t think to download the source, idk

Thanks Chris