The CreativeDojo's VinhSon Nguyen shares a look at how to get the long shadow effect in After Effects by stacking a few simple effects. The long shadow effect is something that is quite popular over the last little while, popping up in the flat 2d animation style a lot.
Preset: (give credit or get in jail!!!).UPDATED 13TH JAN, THE OLD WAS BROKEN. Long Shadow Long Shadow finally makes cool long shadow effect in a snap. Control every shadow aspect and make outstanding images. Aescripts + aeplugins. The shadow is nowhere to be seen. It shows up inside AE, though. Steven parisi January 2017. Any chance we can look forward to some tutorials for pulling off these.
how to quickly create a long shadow effect, popular amongst flat motion graphics animations.
VinhSon shows his take on creating the long shadow effect which he claims to be a more efficient method than some of the ones out there, by using less effects.
VinhSon's take on the long shadow effect uses the CC Radial Fast Blur and Matte Choker effect as well as the fill and CC Composite effect to add the effects overtop of the original layer.
Preset: (give credit or get in jail!!!).UPDATED 13TH JAN, THE OLD WAS BROKEN. Long Shadow Long Shadow finally makes cool long shadow effect in a snap. Control every shadow aspect and make outstanding images. Aescripts + aeplugins. The shadow is nowhere to be seen. It shows up inside AE, though. Steven parisi January 2017. Any chance we can look forward to some tutorials for pulling off these.
how to quickly create a long shadow effect, popular amongst flat motion graphics animations.
VinhSon shows his take on creating the long shadow effect which he claims to be a more efficient method than some of the ones out there, by using less effects.
VinhSon's take on the long shadow effect uses the CC Radial Fast Blur and Matte Choker effect as well as the fill and CC Composite effect to add the effects overtop of the original layer.
Over the years, tons of tutorials, presets, scripts, and plugins will allow you to create a long shadow effect Kinamax wireless n usb adapter driver downloads windows 10. in After Effects. It's one of those things that is such a widely used aesthetic, without a simple and excellent solution to create one in Afte Effects. A new tutorial from the folks at Plugin Everything breaks down some of the more popular ways to make this shadow effect to clearly see which ones work best.
Repeater, Effects, and More.
Likely the easiest way is not the most effective one. Using the repeater or Echo effect can get you partway there, but it has many drawbacks. A better way is to use an effect that can grow the layer's bounds in After Effects. In this tutorial, James uses the Minimax effect for that, plus a few others to conform the results into a shadow direction.
Shadow Studio 2.
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Of course, PLugin Everything has a plugin that's an all in one solution for creating these types of shadow effects. Shadow Studio 2 could be the definitive plugin for creating realistic shadows in After Effects. 3D shadows are notoriously slow to render, so lots of tutorials and tools fake it. The plugin works based on the alpha channel like the regular drop shadow, but with results so gorgeous, they'll be mistaken for 3D.
