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Cast shadow on background image?
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seachnasaigh
Energetic
Well, sort of. In Firefly, you can use an unseen plane primitive as a shadowcatcher, and export the render over the background image.
In Superfly, I've used Firefly to make a shadow only raster object, then rendered the dolly in Superfly with the background construct set as invisible using the Cycles "holdout" node; this gives you a PNG object of just the dolly, on a transparent background. Then, overlay the dolly object onto the shadow object.
Someone else may have a more advanced answer.
In Superfly, I've used Firefly to make a shadow only raster object, then rendered the dolly in Superfly with the background construct set as invisible using the Cycles "holdout" node; this gives you a PNG object of just the dolly, on a transparent background. Then, overlay the dolly object onto the shadow object.
Someone else may have a more advanced answer.
seachnasaigh
Energetic
In Superfly, not directly (that I know of). But you might be able to do the shadow in Firefly, render the sleigh in Superfly (using holdout node for the background), then overlay. If there's some way to do that in Premiere, that may be easier.
Snarlygribbly
Member
It can, however, be done indirectly in Superfly, using my EZDome plugin. Here is Andy at the beach, with his shadow 
