• Adobe After Effects

  casting shadows from keyout background

  Posted by Sachin on September 27, 2005 at 8:07 pm

  hello,
  I am sachin. fun loving after effects and max user.
  I have a problem regarding the keyout background casting shadow in it’s underlying layer. How can I create such effect?
  For example
  I have my character place in blue screen and I have a still picture layer
  of Newyourk stree. Now I want to Place my keyout character in the stree
  casting shadows.
  Please help me out with the problem thatnkyou

  hello knock knock

  Barend Onneweer replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Barend Onneweer

  September 27, 2005 at 8:41 pm

  A pretty simple solution is to duplicate the foreground layer.

  Take the bottom foreground layer, fill it with black, blur it a bit, set blend mode to ‘multiply’, lower transparency to 25% or so, and transform and skew it to match the direction of the light a bit.

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