#After effect text shadow how to

The вЂњPeriodвЂќ key, and press one more time. You can barely see it probably but thatвЂ™s the light right there on top of the text. ThatвЂ™s whatвЂ™s important.Д¬lick on вЂњPosition,вЂќ вЂњControl + C,вЂќ to copy it.ДЄnd it puts the light, now you can see the little reticule there. And 4,000, I mean, I could see so far away from where we expect it to be.ДЄnd then 38,000 meaning itвЂ™s so far back in the scene that if we went to the top view we wouldnвЂ™t even find it. ItвЂ™s 23,000 that means itвЂ™s way, way, off to the right relative to the scene. I go to вЂњText,вЂќ and I go to вЂњPвЂќ for position and I click on вЂњPosition.вЂќ But thatвЂ™s more of little things about working with a 3D camera tracker.Д«y moving the light right on top of the text and then start moving it away so you can see it better. ItвЂ™s kind of-in some places, the text is not being illuminated by the light, weird. The reason it came up black is because the lightвЂ™s not shining on the text properly. Now the weird thing about working with shadow catchers and the lights is that itвЂ™s hard sometimes to find the darn light and then adjust it to make it work the way you want it to. So this text there, and light, and shadow catcher. Right-click on it again, and say вЂњCreate Text.вЂќ ItвЂ™s just a solid layer with the option for shadows to be shadow only. So itвЂ™s the same process weвЂ™ve used before. WeвЂ™ve used this before when we wanted to simulate putting a shadow in a 2D scene. So itвЂ™s just a solid layer where itвЂ™s been changed, it says receive shadows only. So itвЂ™s transparent but it shows shadows, thatвЂ™s how shadow catchers work. And the material option regarding shadows is that it receives shadows only. The shadow catcher is a solid layer that has material options because itвЂ™s in 3D. And I wanted first to create a shadow catcher camera and light. I want to get something that kind of skews down the aisle here.Д¬lick on that. ItвЂ™s somewhere down there.ДЄll right, so make the track point size and the target size large by just dragging that and pressing the вЂњShift.вЂќДЄs I drag it, it makes it drag faster, make the targets bigger, there we go.

If I take it back down 100 percent and that 100-you can barely see the target too. The reason the targetвЂ™s large is IвЂ™ve already made it large.

So IвЂ™ll make them more visible by increasing the size of the track point. The targets are ok but the little spots are barely visible. So weвЂ™ll see if they stay sharp this time or not.Д¬lick on the video to make it active. This gets a little tricky and the last time I did, the shadows didnвЂ™t behave properly, they remained sharp. I want to simulate that thereвЂ™re some shadows here so it would be weird for the text to be floating up against the vines without having some shadows fall on them. Because I know the sun is coming from the left so the shadows here are falling on the ground. We will go to the last one here, this is a little bit different because weвЂ™re going to use a shadow catcher on this one. Note: Remember to watch the video tutorial, you will understand easier what Jeff does. So letвЂ™s start talking about 3D Tracking with Shadow Catcher.

#After effect text shadow how to

We have already figured out how to create simple motion tracking in After Effects. Welcome to the second blog post of our tracking motion series. 3D Tracking? Shadow Catcher? Seems interesting, right?