long shadow to follow walking figure

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long shadow to follow walking figure

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Been working on ways to get a long shadow to follow a walking figure, can only draw on methods in drawing programs like illustrator/photoshop of duplicating a layer and shearing it etc, but that still the leaves how to get the long shadow to follow, checked the past forum posts, unless I'm not placing the right question, couldn't find anything drew a blank, thanks.
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Re: long shadow to follow walking figure

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One way to do it:
After animating the character, duplicate the top layer (and everything inside) of your walking character. Put it in a group layer, create a vector layer with some black, elongate the character untl it looks like your shadow, use it as mask for the black layer. Move that whole arrangement so it meets the character's feet.
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thanks slowtiger, will give that a go.
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If you make a reference rather than a duplicate, the shadow animation will match any changes you make to the character's animation (motion)
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thanks to both of you, will combine whats been posted and get back to you , just need to get my head around the concept, just found a Moho tutorial by Bill Cass How to use reference layers 2016, which also includes an introduction to masking.
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