From the course: Advanced Motion Graphics
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Adding ground shadow
From the course: Advanced Motion Graphics
Adding ground shadow
- [Instructor] There are a couple of limitations when you're using the Cinema 4D Renderer inside after effects. If I go to the composition settings and then go to the third tab where it says 3D Renderer under the Cinema 4D Renderer, we have two columns and here on the right side, we can see the disabled features. So if we are using the Cinema 4D Renderer, the blending modes are going to be disabled, the option to accept shadows only is also not available, and sadly also motion blur as well as camera depth of field are not going to be supported. Alright, so I'll click okay, and we need to find a way to walk around these limitations and come up with ways to cheat and fake. Well, this is after effects, so gladly, we have few hacks that we can use to overcome all of these things, starting with the creation of ground shadows, which we are going to do manually using a shape layer, a basic blur and few key frames. And this…
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