In this tutorial we’ll be creating a stylish and glossy extruded 3D title with advanced lighting effects that can be controlled on the fly or even animated. Of course you could be tinkering the 3D lights to position them correctly and get the lighting effect you’re looking for, but it’s a painful job to get the result you want by placing the lights in correct places and angles. Instead in this tutorial we will be achieving the lighting effects without a single 3D light. So instead of tinkering the light we will straight be working with the lighting effects the light could have on 3D surface. That’s more convenient way to do it and you can get the desired results much faster. We will use Expressions and Expression controls to link it all together and make it easy to adjust the parameters later for extrusion, light amount and light direction.