The vase casts a soft, gentle shadow on the ground.
17. Save the scene!
Many times, animators are looking for a magic variable to set up composite shots. In actuality,
nothing is better than your own eye and sense of judgment. Does the 3D object look
too big for its environment? If so, make it smaller. Does the object look out of perspective?
If it does, rotate and reposition it. The same goes for lighting.
The shadow cast from the vase has a pretty nice value, closely matching the shadows in the
image. This is as far as you??™re going to take this project, but you could do a lot more with
it to flesh it out, such as adding textures and surfacing to the vase. Use the techniques
you??™ve learned in the previous surfacing chapters. Then, you can add even more objects,
and have them case shadows onto front project planes as well. From there, you can use a
gobo, or cookie on a light to give the effect of light casting shadows through trees.
Creating Cast Shadows with Gobos
This technique is simply a black and white blurred image applied to a Spotlight. The light
cast onto the scene through the image. Cool stuff.
?—? Set other objects, such as more planters or characters, in place to receive shadows.
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