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Adding contact shadows and light

Adding contact shadows and light - After Effects Tutorial

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Adding contact shadows and light

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- These titles are basically cards in 3D space. They look nice, but I think that we can breathe more life to them by animating each title to rise from the floor at the correct timing and sync it to the steps of the runner. So once again, this is what we have until now and it doesn't look so impressive because the titles looks like they are floating in space and I really want to create some kind of a connection between them as I told you. So in order to so, we already have a shadow catcher ready for us in order to act as a floor and it will of course, catch the shadows. But we need to place the light and I'm just going to enable it in the correct place in order to create those shadows. And you can see that the light is just in an arbitrary place where after effects decided that it should be and I want to control it. So, I think the best way to go here is to select the last title over here. In my case, letter number one, press "p" in order to see its position and I'm actually going to…

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