Sony Vegas - shadows
 

Hey hey
Having trouble making Life like Moving Shadows,

Ive been Trying to add a shadow that moves along with one of my character as it walks, animated shadow.

If anyone has any tips for me please comment.

I understand its to do with layers but i need pointing the right direction, if Anyone can help that'd be great.

Thanks Alot !!

Could you specfify your problem please? :)

Then ill do what i can,
Undeadish

I think that he is looking for a way to give wow modelviewer characters shadows with vegas. As far as I know this isn't possible with vegas. Adobe Premiere can do it tough with the effect, drop shadows.

Ok what im after is to capture a shadow from my character as its walking, just like an normal shadow but animated so the shadow moves as my character does. just like real life, if u get me :S i heard it was possible to be done on vegas.

Anyone else with some ideas :)?

duplicate the character layer, turn down the opacity, make it dark and then put it where you want it.

are you using in game footage or keyed footage ( greenscreen )

if you're using in game footage I recommend you start masking in vegas
duplicate the masked footage and start with 3D tracking.
or a plugin called "pluginpac" which you can download here

http://users.pandora.be/pap/pluginpac.zip

Play with your brightness to make it dark !
make sure your "shadow" footage is beneath your source footage
Now a cool little effect is blurring it

as for the keyed footage almost the same
only use chroma keyer

Hope this helps

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