Shadows Can Add depth to Your Project Photo Shop CS3 Step By Step Tutorial.
This is the most basic way to add a shadow to an animated character. Its simplicity does have its limitations, however. In this chapter you will learn more advanced shadow techniques with greater flexibility but some may not be supported in older versions of the Flash player. Depending on your target audience and your client’s technical requirements, you may need a technique that will allow you to publish to older player versions. This is one such technique.
1. For the best result, place your character animation inside a symbol - this is commonly referred to as “nesting”. The next step is to simply copy the symbol of your character using C ctrl C. Create a new layer and move it below the character layer. Paste the copy of the symbol using V ctrl V into this new layer.
2. Next, apply a tint to the symbol instance you just pasted. The tint needs to have a strength of 100% to completely hide the character’s details. The color of the tint should also be a darker color value than the background.
3.Position the shadow instance and with the Free Transform tool, scale it vertically to suggest some perspective of it being cast against the ground.
4. With the Free Transform tool qstill selected, click and drag horizontally outside the bounding box in between the handles to skew the shadow.
5. You may want to scale your shadow slightly smaller to suggest more depth. Play around with its position relative to the original character for the best results. Because the shadow symbol is a duplicate of the original animated character symbol, it will also animate in sync with the character. This will result in a convincing shadow effect. Since you have not used any special filters, this shadow effect is supported by all versions of the Flash Player.
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