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Creating drop shadows

Creating drop shadows - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating drop shadows

You can add a digital set dressing to the right side of the scene in the form of this drawing, and also to stick around the window. You can use a similar technique to add set dressing to the left side. Well this time we'll add a few new tricks to integrate it even better. Let's get started. I'm going to go to the very last frame and apply a new tracker to track this portion of the wall. So I'll select Plate then go to Animation > Track Motion. Now we have Tracker4. Now you can place this track point over a corner, like we have in the past. Well, this time I'm going to track a new feature. For example, I could track these two dark spots. Those are very visible and have nice high-contrast edges. So I'll move this track point down to that position. I'll go ahead and expand the boxes. Because I'm at the end of the timeline I can actually analyze backwards this time. So I'll choose the backwards button and analyze until it goes out of frame, or just before it goes out of frame. So around…

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