How to create long shadow effects in After Effects

After Effects tutorial video show how to create long shadow effects on text layer. In this video, we will show how to add text and how to add long shadow to the text layer. After duplicating the text layer, we can go to Effects and Presets panel and add CC Radial Face Blur to define the distance of long shadow. Next we can add Matte Choker to define the hardness and software. Then we can add Fill Effects to define the long shadow color. All steps are shown in above AE tutorial. I hope this helps. More After Effects Tutorial are available here.

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How to create long shadow effects in After Effects

After Effects tutorial video show how to create long shadow effects on text layer. In this video, we will show how to add text and how to add long shadow to the text layer. After duplicating the text layer, we can go to Effects and Presets panel and add CC Radial Face Blur to define the distance of long shadow. Next we can add Matte Choker to define the hardness and software. Then we can add Fill Effects to define the long shadow color. All steps are shown in above AE tutorial. I hope this helps.

Steps to create Long Shadow to a layer

1. Duplicate a layer, therefore we can  have one more for creating shadow
2. Select the new layer and move to bottom in composition
3. Apply CC Radial Fast Blur and adjust it settings for length of long shadow
4. Apply Matte Choker  and adjust long shadow softness
5. Apply Fill Effects to change color of long shadow

Furthermore, we can animate the long shadow of layer. All steps are visually shown in above AE tutorial video. Watch above.

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