Lighting

To make my animation look a little better I decided to add a floor of which Captain America would dance on. In the end I decided to change the floor to an image of his iconic shield. That wasn't too hard. I just assigned a circular plane to feature this image as it's texture. 

This was the the result. I used a large front light, a smaller back light and and spotlight over the top of him. Whilst it did incorporate all the colors associated with him, I didn't like the look of it. The three lights were moved around so each variation of the three colors was tried. This didn't make it better so i tried just eliminating some of the colors.





Eventually I settled on this. The spot light above him was removed and the only color of the lights is white. I really like the look of this. He looks pure and bright. The lights really help with the base as well. The model/base stand out from the dark black background. It is almost as if he is performing on a stage which is neat as the animation is based off of people performing on a stage.