The German word for Will-o'-the-wisp is "Irrlicht" – a light which moves without goal or reason. A typical approach in computer animation would be to make the light source dynamic, so that for example a turbulence field shoves it about. However, in Maya only "real" geometry can be made dynamic, and lights are not exactly geometry. In this tutorial I teach you the trick to actually make a light behave like a dynamic object.

Music: "Computer Animation" and "dubius 170", composed by Maximilian Schönherr, licensed via GEMA.

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