Use Normal Pass to do lighting effects in After Effects & does not rely on processor intensive 3D data anymore.
The Reality set of plug-ins allows for effects such as
- Apply diffuse light directly within After Effects
- Support for ambient, point, parallel and spot light-sources
- Adjust light color, intensity, position and more directly via AE's built in controls
- Internal floating point precision
- Bump/normal-mapping
- Specular highlights
- Reflections
- Refractions
- Image based illumination (IBI)
- Support for Ambient Occlusion Passes
Of course, u need to render normal pass from your 3D program first
For the product details, pls follow the link:
http://www.plausibleimpossible.de/products/reality