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IL Real Shadows and 3D Layers
I’m compositing some rotos into a Cinema 4d created scene of a building. In placing the rotos into the scene I made them 3d layers. Then I plan to add IL Real Shadows to each roto. Can I do this to the roto even though it’s now a 3d layer?
I tried adding the shadows in there own comp (pre-3d) but I can’t line up the shadows between all the different rotos correctly without the reference point of the scene.
Check out my test render (badly compressed Flash file so it’s jerky) to see what I mean. The woman has no shadows added yet but the man does.
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Why would you need to make your people layers 3d? Just have them in 2d mode and adjust
your shadow angles in real shadows. Personally, I would have done the bg stuff in AE
totally work in 3d environment. This way, you can create a light that will cast shadow
on the people to the floor no matter where they go. Now that’s real real shadows. -
When I don’t have the people layers as 3d they don’t stay attached to the ‘floor’. The floor moves underneath them. When they are 3d they stay attached. Maybe there’s a better way for me to say that but I don’t have all the proper vernacular down yet.
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