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animating shadows
how do I create shadows I am making a german expressionist type monster movie and want the last shot to be of one shadow growing and growing into a huge monster. I could try and do this with lighting but it may not look good, is it possible to achieve something like this in after effects? thanks
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While my first suggestion would be to do it with lighting, you could also achieve a semblance of the practical effects by either using a green screen technique, where, in the case of the monster, you shoot it and key it, then use either a shadow plugin such as Red Giant Warp (https://www.redgiant.com/products/all/rgwarp/), or take a copy of the footage, reduce the brightness and contrast until it’s black, then soften it with a blur and distort it until it looks the way you want it.
Here’s another method from VideoCopilot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlL1Mf2QBLs
You would obviously use this technique with a layer which has an alpha channel.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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https://www.redgiant.com/blog/2011/02/28/java-post/
Red Giand warp shadows maybe can be usefull.
Cheers
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