Loading...
> >

Strobe Lights

benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65
edited January 2020 in Art Studio

Anyone ever done a strobelight animation? Thats what I am in need of.

Also what about tearing clothing? I have a scene that a super hero is supossed to tear his top shirt to expose his costume but he doesnt wear button ups like supermen.

Post edited by Richard Haseltine on

Comments

  • benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65
    benjamincobb777 said:

    Anyone ever done a strobelight animation? Thats what I am in need of.

    Actually, I dont even know how to do a stobelight but I"m willing to learn.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,066

    A strobe light is just a light that turns on and off in regular intervals. All you’d need to do would be hide/unhide a light every X keyframes, depending on how fast you want it to strobe. 

  • benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65
    Gordig said:

    A strobe light is just a light that turns on and off in regular intervals. All you’d need to do would be hide/unhide a light every X keyframes, depending on how fast you want it to strobe. 

    Guess it would be multiple lights to get all the different colors of an actual strobe light. It would be to fast to just change the light colors right? I don't know. Guess I"ll have to play around with some lights. Maybe one day I can have it working right so I can share it with everyone.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,066

    “Actual” strobe lights are typically just white, although nowadays multi-colored lights tend to have strobing capabilities. 

  • benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65

    Yea thats true. the light is white and each hole in the ball has a shade/color lens that changes the light.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,066

    You’re clearly thinking of something more involved than a simple strobe light, something more along the lines of a Chauvet Rotosphere. 

  • benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65

    Yes I was thinking of something else just didn't have the word for it. Dance Ball or a disco ball. Disco ball is only mirrors though, right?

  • benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65

    Well, got the disco ball created but no reflection. Still working on it though.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,229

    you could literally animate a shutter to do it too

  • benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65
    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    you could literally animate a shutter to do it too

    I would probably need a tut on that

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,229
    benjamincobb777 said:
    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    you could literally animate a shutter to do it too

    I would probably need a tut on that

    well not from me, I have not tried it

    but 

    if you had a rigged model of the device you wished to emulate you can literally animate the opening and closing of a shutter with a mesh light inside/behind it is what I meant.

    just opening or closing a door outside a lit room should illustrate the point to you if you don't follow what I meant

  • benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65

    Oh Ok I follow. I can do some pretty kool stuff but I"m still fairly new at this. I"m learning a ton from these forums and peoples ideas and thoughts.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 101,010

    Moved to the Art Studio thread as it isn't a Product Suggestion thread (that would be asking for strobe lights/rippable shirts to be made if not currently available). You might want to edit the first post and move the thread to the sub-forum for the application you are using.

  • benjamincobb777benjamincobb777 Posts: 65
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Moved to the Art Studio thread as it isn't a Product Suggestion thread (that would be asking for strobe lights/rippable shirts to be made if not currently available). You might want to edit the first post and move the thread to the sub-forum for the application you are using.

    Didn't mean for it to go on, got carried away with the suggestions and ideas I was getting.

Sign In or Register to comment.