Bobby Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I used Rotoscope and Front Projection, placed Transparency Map in front of Key Light for shadow on the model. Used Light List to get shadow on the model but not on the Ground. This is my Animated gif. I can't find the way to fix(mix) shadow of model to the Front Projection, please tell me how to, thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 16, 2012 Hash Fellow Share Posted April 16, 2012 I guess what you want is to not have a shadow in a shadow, right? My first idea would be to paint out the shadow on the front projection image (or get a shot of the road where there isn't a shadow) and use your A:M lighting to recreate it so the characters shadow and the shadow on the road are the same shadow. Another possibility, that requires some compositing program, is to use a "darken" composite mode to combine the shadow layer and the road. Instead of adding the darkness of the shadow to the road it only darkens the road where it was lighter than the shadow. The shadow parts of the road don't get any darker. These are both tricky to do, but does that make sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Tricky problem. But that's a nice start, Bobby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Thank you very much robcat2075. My screen captured. my target 1. I want to fake the shadow on the road hit the model. 2. I want 2 cuts for this scene with this rotoscope, first a long shot and second a medium shot. I placed 2 cameras at same position but difference focal length, 29 and 145. (x5) When use the focal length 145, I scale rotoscope = 500% Every thing that what I want is very easy in A:M except the shadow on Front Projection. A:M can add new Property. Can I add new Property "Darken Mode" to the Ground? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 17, 2012 Hash Fellow Share Posted April 17, 2012 You fooled me... I thought those shadows were real! I'm not sure I understand your setup exactly but how about this... Instead of putting the tree image on the light, put it on a card in front of the lights (a transparency map) and arrange it so its shadow falls on the road and on the character: Shadows.mov When the same light is shadowing the character and the "trees" you'll get one proper shadow on the ground for both of them. Here's the PRJ of my simple example case: Double_shadow_problem.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 I get some ideas, thank you very much robcat2075. I'll update next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detbear Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Really nice lighting match on your character to get him blended in with the background. Cool. William Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Did I do something wrong? Why my shadow look like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 18, 2012 Hash Fellow Share Posted April 18, 2012 Did I do something wrong? Why my shadow look like this? hmmm... Do you still have a light list in there? You shouldn't need one anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Yes I still have a light list for fill-in only the character. from your suggestion I do many things. This is original image used as rotoscope retouch it. shadow only from the image. I try many ways with many tools to fit the shadow back to image in Choreography, but I can't do that. "who needs a real shadow" Then I use new shadow image. It's very good, but I did something errors like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 I got it. Just change KeyLight from default to Width = 1cm, Fall-Off = 3000cm Thanks for robcat2075's project. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted April 20, 2012 Admin Share Posted April 20, 2012 Nicely done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 20, 2012 Hash Fellow Share Posted April 20, 2012 Yay! He's lost his shadow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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