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Apple Shake 4 Tutorials User Manual

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Tutorial 2

Intermediate Skills

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Now that you’ve color corrected the base colors of the characters, you can add other
nodes to simulate lighting for their positions at various distances from the camera.

To adjust brightness for wawa3:

1

Select the wawa3 node and insert a Color–Brightness node.

2

In the Brightness1 parameters, set the value slider to 0.88.

The final character, wawa2, is moving into a shadowed area of the background. Use the
Mult color-correction node and animate its settings to darken the character as it moves
out of frame.

To animate the color correction for wawa2:

1

Select the wawa2 node and insert a Color–Mult node (not MMult).

2

Drag the playhead to frame 15.

3

In the Mult1 node parameters, click the AutoKey button next to the Mult color control.
This sets the first keyframe at frame 15.

4

Drag the playhead to frame 30.

5

While holding down the L key, drag over the Mult1 color control, until the RGB values
look similar to this: