[Evan Robinson]

Thanks!

[Evan Robinson]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Evan Robinson]

Thanks for the help, sorry I did not reply sooner. I did not get an email alert that some was written in the topic.

[Evan Robinson]

I found the problem, I did not update after effects, now it works

[Evan Robinson]

I will consider all these option, and thanks to all for helping me one step closer to the solution

[Evan Robinson]

You helped me with the previous problem, but the new problem, as describe is the shadow

[Evan Robinson]

How to professional companies do this? Do they use something like the red giant plugin? I don’t think it is possible to get the shadow correct if the layer is 3d. I think that the shadow layer must be 2d, and 2d motion tracked to the feet, would this work?

[Evan Robinson]

I dont think you second solution would work. I think this would require a render of the shadow 2d motion tracked to the ground

[Evan Robinson]

That’s exactly what i though, I decided that if i made it 3d,then parented it to the camera, I could easily shine a light off that layer and have the shadow cast on the ground. How do i get the shadow then? Here
https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/vfx_sampleclips.html on the second clip, they talk about this topic. When they do that, is the actor layer 2d, Or is it 3d, and actually touching the virtual set?

[Evan Robinson]

That layer needs to be filling the 3d camera, so i parented it to the camera. If i don’t, since the camera is animated, it moves around like the other 3d layers, but it does not need to since it already has real camera movement in real life.