Mastering Shadows in After Effects Tutorial

bit.ly/18pxRX8 - Read more about this video tutorial, where we look at how to create 5 different shadow effects in AE: Drop Shadow, 3D Shadow, Light Shadow, Shape Shadow, Blur Shadow. Learn how to apply each of them and you'll have several options when you need to give your text or design elements shadows in After Effects!
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[@BrienAhern]

The definition of a perfect tutorial

[@muricanborne]

Sir, you just solved one serious problem I've been having with a light layer: drop shadow. I didn't know that I need to turn that function on for BOTH the light layer and whichever layers to have the shadow casted.
Salute and respect to a great tutorial!!

[@NilsLindstrom]

Well done. Informative, easy to follow, pleasant to listen to and not silly. This opened my eyes to a whole new way of thinking about shadows in AE.

[@erikmorin]

Sweet tutorial - still totally relevant in 2020 - thank you!

[@stefan1221]

Great tutorial. 3D Shadow is my favorite.

[@jvdesuit1]

Hi Mickey, your tutorials as usual are great, precise and concise making them understandable for confirmed or beginners like me and also a foreigner. Most of the guys here think the world stops at the Pacific and Atlantic coasts! You're not.
There's just a little precision which many forget to give : the version of the software they use. Here you give it in the middle of the tutorial so this is no problem. But I suggest it should be part of the title and information given with the video. It's important as sometimes the UI and other menus change and that make the user waste time to find where the options etc, are located especially when you begin using a program.
Thanks again. Probably unless you already did it a tutorial on how to make shadows using Videocopilt Element 3D could be interesting.
Claude from Paris - France.

[@evnglion]

Really nice tutorial, thanks for sharing. I've been working with Photoshop for over 10 years now, but have recently started playing with Premiere and After Effects so I get a lot of mileage out of tutorials like this. It makes it exciting to just explore inside the program. Thanks!

[@sloogsketch]

THIS TUTORIAL IS A GODSEND THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@HussainAlMarkhi]

Awesome Micky as always amazing tutorial good luck

[@63wraptor]

Very nicely done, thanks very much.

[@archanatank]

Thanks so much!
Really Helpful!

[@cineskies114]

Thanks just what I needed to create for a personal picture!!

[@michaelbright3966]

This is a cool tut on shadows. Many thnx! :)

[@gurshalom8557]

Great tutorial!! Thank you :)

[@seesprinkle]

Great tutorial!

[@rainysun08]

Thanks tutorial~! very helpful~

[@AddlerMartin]

Now THAT is a tutorial. THANKS!

[@caelumstudios5474]

I wanted to learn a 3D shadow from behind, im struggling to do this. Great tips, thanks.

[@stexus]

Great Tutorial!

[@craftycurate]

Excellent thanks!

[@alinerdelav]

thaks, i was like, why im not casting shadows! and of course, the material of each layer, thanks a lot!

[@katjoy7614]

I see this has been several years since you posted this. Very cool! I'd like to make balls roll, like pool balls rolling, and the shadows look natural. I think in the middle of the video you shared a way to do so. If not, would you care to show how that is down?

[@iqbalngv9858]

Thanks DUDE

[@mianavidad9852]

Good, thanks.

[@KayaYasar]

Thank you

[@ashrafabdulkhader9555]

Thanks a lot.

[@Yungnicki]

wow great tutorial llike

[@techrush8643]

tnx for help bro

[@AvijitChowdhury3D]

Thanks for this cool video. But how can i preserve shadow at the time of keying from green screen?

[@NANO_]

Thanks :)

[@sszang8187]

awesome

[@KeenanDailey]

Hey how can I replicate the art deco vintage style used in Parallel studios unsatisfying video.

[@TheWavys]

Love the video man helped a lot! is it possible to create a shadow for a moving object and have that shadow be placed in an environment from a video? EX i have a spinning diamond i have placed over a video of a forest and if i could just get a realistic shadow to drop down on to the ground it would look amazing =(((

[@TheWavys]

***** okay thank you so much man for the quick reply =)) ill check it out!!

[@evanmann92]

Masking 3d text layers only works with classic 3d renderer. Does not work with Cinema 4d renderer

[@oliverforbes4292]

I got lost where you Nulled the two pieces of text together, how did you do that? I've put a null in my timeline and put as the parent to the two different coloured text, but I'm not sure what to do from there or if I'm even doing it right. Help please

[@zahidsumon4464]

nice...

[@BAMsterR]

I can't change the diffusion? help mee!!!

[@BerishaFatian]

How to set a shadow layer???

[@dasmeisterlein]

whats about a inner shaddow?

[@edgarramirez3922]

2:07 the cool one

[@relaxasmr9175]

For 3D shadow..How to create the shadow layer??

[@TheLeighkamira]

Somebody HELPPPP when I add a drop shadow to a layer in my Composition the layer disappears please please HELP

[@MegaMonkeyFilm]

Is there any way to change the color of shadow...???

[@Stadno]

Depends which shadow you've made. You can pick the shadow colour with Effect > Colour Correction > Tint through the "Fast Blur / Fast Box Blur" & "CC Composite" Method. Watch from 2:22.

[@zarrar7133]

can we use windows.

[@hiwaystrailingadventures]

say to like the rest. It makes a big difference between mac and windows. You say which OS your using so people aren't trying to do what they can't do in windows

[@laholloway1]

Mikey, how do you cast a shadow in front of a word so that it is a "reflection" of the word onto a surface?

[@michaelbright3966]

+Lisa Holloway U can do that easily in Photoshop where u double the layer, control opacity and convert to 3D, then u can play with the shadows of ur text the way u like.

[@zarrar7133]

please reply.

[@GreenProd007]

how do you get the dhadow layer??

[@GreenProd007]

in the 3d one

[@Pathorkuchimon]

dhadow layer

[@SupSupa10]

=D

[@codykofax2475]

In the 3D-Shadow, you say, you made a a text-layer and a "shadow-layer".... now, i know what a text -layer is, but what the hell is a shadow-layer? :D

[@ogigabytzu532]

God bless you mate.... on point of suiciding... rly, thanks alot!