From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Customize a 2D drop shadow with a masked solid

Customize a 2D drop shadow with a masked solid - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Customize a 2D drop shadow with a masked solid

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In this lesson, we're going to do away with all the complicated stuff, and get away with something easy. Now, a contact shadow is a trick that belongs in the world of primitive full motion video in computer games, et cetera. But it's something you can get away with in a scene like this. Because we have a couple of still objects. We have very clear reference. And we have a 3D object that, while we could get a 3D shadow out of it, we may actually be able to do better just by creating it right in After Effects. Let's give it a try. So, because I don't like to do any form of roto or masking in a course that's not about roto or masking, I pre-created a shape. Let me just unhide that, and it's been tracked in or rather it's parented to a track layer. So that's all been done. Notice that it's offset to match, the light direction that I see in the reference. So, this could hardly be easier. I have, a perfect reference right here. All I have to do is match it. And I turn it on, and boom, it…

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