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All right.

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So in this lecture I'm going to show you guys the way that I paint cast shadows and some techniques

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to help you be able to paint them technically speaking as far as the actual techniques go.

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So you can do this in any program that you're working digitally go into.

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So here I have basically my flats.

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All my flat colors and light are all on one layer.

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There's not any lighting on it yet.

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OK.

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And when I do my cast shadows or any type of Shadows what I typically do is create a new layer.

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I set it to multiply whether in Photoshop or pro-create or whatever program you're using it doesn't

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really matter.

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They should all have this feature then I'm going to select my I have a layer that has the entire shape

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of everything except for the background I'm going to select that.

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Or if you're using Photoshop you can use a mask whatever you want to use.

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I typically just select it so I can make sure I don't pan out of the line and then depending on what

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color I want my cash better to be.

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So over this I'm going to have my cash to be a blue color because I'm going to have this be a sunlit

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scene.

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I can make sure I have a brush that it's going to work well for me and since it's not multiply it's

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just going to multiply the color I've selected with whatever color I'm painting on top of to give you

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a nice chateau type effect.

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So if I'm painting over here on the wing I'll give you a nice cast shadow where I want the wing to be.

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Can I can blend it out however smooth or sharp I want it.

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OK.

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And that's what I use for doing my cash matters.

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So I'll go over this whole image and not the whole image but we'll go over some more parts to see how

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you might do this.

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You really want to think about what direction your light is coming from and how the shadow would be

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getting cast so I'm imagining that the light source is coming from.

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It's going to be a yellowish light source and it's coming from basically this direction.

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OK.

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From behind the frog and above.

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Right.

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So leave that there for now.

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And so like this if that's the direction that the light is coming from then you think about what's going

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to be in shadow right.

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So this wing is going to be casting a shadow on itself over here somewhere.

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And where else we can know that all this is going to be in shadow.

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Right.

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This isn't particularly a cash right because it is nothing really catching its own form.

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Being in the shadow there will this will be in shadow

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paint that in

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underneath here will be in shadow there it's going to be a cache shadow from the frog onto his own leg.

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Create a shadow there

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then let's see let's paint this in really quick partem side of this arm is going to be in shadow and

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cash out from his hand onto the vine as well as up here.

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And see where else you throw it in.

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It's going to be captured on this wing down here from his body and his leg being cast onto it.

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So we can put that in

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there when the outside edge of the wing won't don't want to be up here or down here.

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So this will be in shadow cast shadow and any fat finger thick though with smaller underneath these

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fingers.

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Now we have this part under here will be in shadow

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leg inside the palm of his foot where Mead's where the meets the vine or the branch will be have some

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clues or are going on there.

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So shadow under here.

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You just want to think about where your light source is coming from and what volumes or shapes are going

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to be blocking the light image and

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the

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hurry up and finish this up on the tail here.

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I'm a little bit along the bottom side of the wing.

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And a little bit on this page give it a little bit more warm

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and then we'll do this leg there will be a cat shadow from his own leg being cast

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can clean that up.

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Whoops drop it there.

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So has the sheriff from his leg from his arm.

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Awesome.

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So that's pretty quick and rough and rude.

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You can go back and do multiple layers of this at another multiplayer and really push the places that

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need to be in more shadow and be darker.

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But using that multiplier is what I have found the easiest and quickest way to get the shadows sometimes.

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Later we'll talk about this more with a sub surface scattering where the light is actually shining through

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different parts of the frog such as his back legs that are that translucency orangey red color in which

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case the shadows will act differently because it's actually light shining through.

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But for this sort of basic demo without getting into that yet talking about that later in the course

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this is how I go about doing the most general versions of my chateaus right using this multiplayer.

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And remember your shadows when you're using a small time you want to think about what the reflected

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light is.

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So we might even want to make this be more green since he's in the jungle so let's see what it looks

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like if we take it to a green hue

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number the saturation for a second so we can see what we're doing and then we can bring it back down

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or maybe we even want to do green because that does look a little bit more natural to his setting.

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So anyways yeah that's how that's how we could go about doing this cat shadow and other types of shadows

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and talk to you guys in the next lecture.