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Hey Malique! One easy way to solve this 100% is to restore your Windows system to a previous image, usually there is a bunch of restore points dates 1-2weeks in the past, try reverting your system to one of those and the issue should go away forever or almost.
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hey man! no panic, so from what i see, your setup is correct for AE’s limits.
The artifacts are engine limitations. Clean, believable animated shadows require an external 3D renderer.
What actually works in After Effects:
Use Environment Light only for ambient fill (low intensity).
Add one or more explicit Spot / Parallel Lights for shadows. These produce stable, directional shadows.
Use one single shadow catcher aligned to the table. Enable:
Accepts Shadows: ON
Accepts Lights: OFF
Increase:
Light Shadow Map Resolution
Light Shadow Softness slightly
Comp bit depth to 16/32 bpc
Disable Cast Shadows on any non-essential meshes to avoid doubles.
Avoid animated GLB shadows entirely when possible.
Best-practice pipeline (industry reality)
Render creatures + shadows in Blender / C4D with proper HDRI + key light.
Export beauty + shadow pass.
Composite in AE with Multiply/Add.
AE is not a reliable final-lighting solution for animated 3D contact shadows.
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hey bro! so what’s happening is that your <strong data-start=”133″ data-end=”148″ style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>RAM preview is effectively showing the layer at <strong data-start=”185″ data-end=”209″ style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>full comp resolution, with AE being permissive about sub-pixel alignment. we need to avoid that.
simply paste this expression the position of the animated layer/properties so that it forces them to only have round numbers:
[Math.round(value[0]), Math.round(value[1])]
lemme prepare a little bullet list of optional additional fixes in case you need to escalate:
<b data-start=”1321″ data-end=”1364″>Disable sub-pixel sampling globally
<ul data-start=”1365″ data-end=”1545″>
<strong data-start=”1367″ data-end=”1391″>Layer Quality: Draft
<strong data-start=”1394″ data-end=”1421″>Comp Viewer: Fast Draft
<strong data-start=”1424″ data-end=”1486″>Project Settings → Video Rendering → Mercury Software Only<br data-start=”1486″ data-end=”1489″> (GPU acceleration can introduce sub-pixel interpolation)
<b data-start=”1547″ data-end=”1576″> Disable linearization
<ul data-start=”1577″ data-end=”1697″>
<strong data-start=”1579″ data-end=”1637″>Project Settings → Color → Linearize Working Space OFF
Linear color math causes edge blending on hard pixel edges.<b data-start=”1699″ data-end=”1749″>Match comp resolution to native pixel grid
<ul data-start=”1750″ data-end=”1913″>
Comp size must be an <strong data-start=”1773″ data-end=”1799″>exact integer multiple of the pixel art’s base resolution.
No odd scaling ratios like 150%, 133.33%, etc.
Use 100%, 200%, 300% only.
<b data-start=”1915″ data-end=”1944″>Final render settings
<ul data-start=”1945″ data-end=”2091″>
<strong data-start=”1947″ data-end=”1965″>Render at Full
<strong data-start=”1968″ data-end=”1990″>No resizing in AME
<strong data-start=”1993″ data-end=”2024″>No scaling in output module
Avoid formats that internally resample (some H.264 profiles do)
hope that helps bro!
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yo Jeff! i’ve recorded a custom tutorial with the solution that will push you in the right direction. I hope you like it! 🔥
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Hey Anthony! Please, upload the video as an unlisted Youtube link, i’ll be very happy to provide a full solution after i watch your video, talk soon
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no panic! as i told in the video, my template works for 1 line at a time, meaning for each line, simply duplicate the entire comp “line1” and it will create a “line2”, so you can customize each line indipendently, then simply drag each “line” comp into a main timeline and arrange each line in the y order you prefer and delay them in time if needed!
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yo Aurora i fully coded and created a template in AEP format for you to use that is multiple-font-type-aware, have fun! Hope you like it 🔥
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Yo Luke, don’t panic, I created the full template for you, easy to use.
Watch the tutorial here, have a nice day bro, lemme know if you’re slightly happier 🔥
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hey bro! i have a juicy solution to show you but, before i proceed, please, show me a screen recording of the issue so i can adjust my instructions so they will 100% fix it on your side, talk soon!
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hey bro! let’s solve this; send me an equivalent stock footage i can use to record a tutorial for you using a method you won’t find on youtube which works incredibly good for these things!
talk soon!