Hi all, I'm currently making a "Fantastic" movie and I'm stuck with this problem: The action take place in a "Gothic like" dunjon, a classroom, during summer. Any idea how to make this kind of dark and sweaty athmosphere with strange shadows ? I'm using Vue. Thanks Laurent "Dragon Trilogy", "Draco Dormirens project"

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I don;t use Vue, but can you insert pictures into a light? I can in Carrara, and it allows for a great way to make moody/strange lighting. This is the way they do it in the theatre. It's called inserting a gobo. Or in film, a 'cookie' for cocaloris. (What a 'cocaloris is... I have NO idea!) Insert a gobo like a stained glass window into the light, and the light will cast a stained glass look. Put in a gobo that looks like a shadow from venetian blinds, and it can look like the sun coming in through venetian blinds. Always think in reverse. If your gobo has dark areas, then that part will look dark and let the light come through the rest. If parts are in soft focus, it can look even weirder. EXPERIMENT! Keep going with this thought and you can fake any kind of weird lighting effect you want. Hope this helps! :>

Here's a quick image I created with 2 lights. One is directly below the camera, the other to the right. Each has a different image in it's 'Gel' or gobo position.

Well I know piss all about vue. In LW, this is what I'd do. One large area light streaming through a window, very bright. A few smaller negative point lights in corners an nooks and crannies where i wanted to intensify shadows, and a bit of radiosity on top. Hope this is some help.