I recommend working out the shading for just one frame (or two, the first with the wall, and the last with all the steps revealed), to make sure you understand what's going on with the light before you commit the time to do all the frames.

Yes thank you that indeed seems like the wiser thing to do.

try drawing a schematic of the scene from above.

Do you mean something like this?
Where the yellow lines show where the torches' light go and green circles show the area of effect of the torches?


EDIT: I tried to focus on what you were saying about the lighting hitting mistly the first steps, and I added perspective as well. Does that look better to you?

Hello, I was quickly working on an animation for pixel dailies and I found myself wondering
how to proceed to animate light from a moving light source. Are there any tutorials, tips you might have?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Hoogo.

P.S. Here's the animation I made, the highlights look dull due to the lack of movement.

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! I will work on everything you mentioned and keep you updated asap.

Your time is greatly appreciated 

Thank you so much for your feedback. I think everything you pointed out is more than valid. I'll rework the bits that need change.

Will keep you updated, thanks

The profile of the gear is meant to be straight and rounded. By that I mean that each dent is supposed to have straight and parallel edges but rounded corners.

The surface of the gear is indeed supposed to be slighted curved outwards. This is sort of what I tried to do with the dithering on the outer sides of the gear.

Actually it's very interesting that you talk about a "face" since I drew the outline of said face randomly with a vertical symmetry tool and I didn't really put a name on what it looked like. Now you say that, it looks like a sort of gargoyle face.

Thank you very much for your comment and for your feedback. I'm glad you like the background dithering, I think it's what I had the most fun experimenting about