How to Make a Shadow Catcher in Cycles and Eevee (Blender Tutorial)

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In this Blender Tutorial, I will show you how to make a shadow catcher, in the Cycles and Eevee rendering engines.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:36 Shadow Catcher (CYCLES)
2:03 Compositing (CYCLES)
3:37 Shadow Catcher (EEVEE)
8:31 Compositing (EEVEE)
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@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Eevee Shadow Catcher (Blend File Setup) *Free Download:* Gumroad: ryankingart.gumroad.com/l/PQwCYO Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/57173654

@finn_hughmehh10 2 года назад

I have this game on my PS4 called “Dreams” that’s like Blender, but I don’t use it a lot to make games or anything like that, but I could try someday…

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

@@finn_hughmehh10 Cool 👍‍

@timo-gaming Год назад

This is one of the best tutorials i ever found! Its short, clear and absolutly usefull! Thank you so much!

@RyanKingArt Год назад

glad you like it!

@denizcarta6805 10 месяцев назад

the ultimate eevee shadow catcher solution video

@RyanKingArt 10 месяцев назад

👍‍ 👍‍

@johnyossarian1486 Год назад

Simple and clear. Very useful. Thanks

@RyanKingArt Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@chilakiller0369 Год назад

I find this content very helpful. I was using 3ds max for a long time and is not as easy as Blender to setup the matte shadow. Thanks!

@RyanKingArt Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@eatallyourdarlings 9 месяцев назад

Your tutorials are so good thank you!

@RyanKingArt 9 месяцев назад

Glad you like them!

@AcercateaRD 2 года назад

Quick and easy, GREAT!

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thanks!

@RamasolaProductions 2 года назад

Thank you for another very helpful tutorial!

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@yukeevrana6819 11 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for this tutorial, it very HELPED.

@RyanKingArt 11 месяцев назад

Glad it helped!

@maddrummer900 19 дней назад

Thank you so much. This worked beautifully!

@RyanKingArt 18 дней назад

You're welcome!

@illu3d 2 года назад

Hello Ryan, ... your video is just ... saving my life ! :-) Thank you soooo much !!!!

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Glad it helped!

@mAmimR2006 11 месяцев назад

very simple and helpful! thanks

@RyanKingArt 11 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@yacinechergui9133 Год назад

This THE best tutorial out there thanks a loooot

@RyanKingArt Год назад

glad you like it!

@gaston. Год назад

thank you for this excellent info!

@RyanKingArt Год назад

you're welcome!

@antosportcar7647 2 года назад

thank you for the explanation

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

You are welcome!

@sethwilson9124 Год назад

Excellent Thank you!

@RyanKingArt Год назад

glad you like it!

@wot_noobclown5621 5 месяцев назад

Banger video, bro ❤ …could you show how to animate and render the cube with the transparent background as well, thanks 😊

@sevaseverny Год назад

hi there ) good idea ) i'm also improved a bit for the case if an objects are close to the plane result looks more realistic just multiplied Diffuse to RGB & Ambient Occlusion.. and use result as a factor

@blenderstuffs 2 года назад

Amazing😍😍😍😍

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thanks!

@ttt132 2 года назад

Thanks for the tutorial!

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Welcome!

@ttt132 2 года назад

@@RyanKingArt I used this to make shadows from objects overlaid on the video (camera tracking) and I'm using Eevee to render cause my PC is bad so thanks for node set!

@joseevangelista2966 2 года назад

Excelent THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

You are welcome!

@20becky35 2 года назад

Much love Ryan

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thanks!

@RamblePrism 2 года назад

Very useful!

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Glad its useful!

Год назад

Super helpful! I'll never understand why as soon as we set the values to transparent those ticks to use the transparency don't just automatically turn on...

@RyanKingArt Год назад

yeah I wish they were automatic.

@alamogordo280 2 года назад

Great video! This evee shadow scheme needs to be simplified!

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Yeah, I hope there is a better way in the future.

@user-zb9cj6mt5n 9 месяцев назад

wowowowow i thought we cannot apply shadow catcher in eevee , thanks a lot

@RyanKingArt 9 месяцев назад

hope it helped!

@Pejp666 2 года назад

super,thx..Especially for using in Evee..

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

You're welcome!

@lukayz1363 2 года назад

Thank you

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

You're welcome!

@Justinlalor1 8 месяцев назад

THAK YOU!

@RyanKingArt 8 месяцев назад

you're welcome!

@peadamo 6 месяцев назад

thnks

@RyanKingArt 6 месяцев назад

welcome!

@blender3.2 Год назад

tq so much

@RyanKingArt Год назад

you're welcome!

@AngelboyVR Год назад

problem with this is that the Box doesnt receive AO information, when AO is turned on, i have noticed that. im trying to find a way to have the box in this case also receive AO

@Blessy4543213 Год назад

thanks I was wondering if it could be done on eevee too but thanks to your tutorial it was super easy I thought it was harder😅 im a noob

@RyanKingArt Год назад

thanks for watching!

@HarrisDimoliatis Год назад

If i follow this tutorial from scratch, all works fine, but when i tried with a project i already have, shadows not rendered. Maybe i have changed something, but i can't find what

@EzyTutorial Год назад

Could you make a tutorial on how to use the new shadow catcher node? I'm trying to get a colored reflection from the shadow caster itself and also make the background transparent.

@RyanKingArt Год назад

thanks for the video idea.

@barminski 2 года назад

This all seems to work except for when I render the shot out. The Plane shows up in the render. Looks perfect when I'm setting it up though.

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Hmm, that is odd.

@KMerc-er5nw 4 месяца назад

@RyanKingArt wondering if you can recommend a process in Cycles to render a shadow catcher when only using an emission material as a light source (no other lights)? e.g. emission light source lights cube that projects shadow onto transparent plane. Ideas?

@radosawkubicki5076 Год назад

hej Ryan! Is it possible to convert a shadow to a texture? Shadow on the object, not on another object. For example: shadow as a wave texture.

@timkreutzkamp8519 Год назад

To make this work in evee i had to multiply the shader to rgb by 0.5 but now it works fine!

@RyanKingArt Год назад

ahh ok. thanks for watching!

@ebnevaght 2 года назад

Thank you for this great tutorial! what if you wanted to add a background picture behind it?

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thanks! You can do that with Blender's compositor, after you render the image.

@ebnevaght 2 года назад

@@RyanKingArt thanks! yeah I figured it out. I had to "mix" the shadow catcher with background then use "alpha over" for the main render.

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

@@ebnevaght Exactly. 👍‍

@edgevfx 2 года назад

Any way to make the shadows softer? Messed with a bunch of nodes but still can't get a lighter more smooth shadow

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Yes, if you turn the angle value up, on the sun light settings, the shadows will be softer.

@apollomarconi 2 года назад

Thanks for the great cycles demo. I'm not bothering with the eevee. However, the finish on my cube is not making it into the final render...just the colour of the lighting is showing up, but none of the hue and specularity etc is appearing in the saved PNG. Any thoughts?

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Hmm, not sure why that is happening.

@nickyreigns254 Год назад

I watched in a video where someone bakes Cycles shadow, cause its more realistic and using it in Evee, can you kindly make a tutorial on that too?

@alvaroplazafebres 2 года назад

superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thankssssssssssss!

@10MinuteEditing 11 месяцев назад

Bro Help me. I made some motion capture and add a animated character. But the character shadow is not showing in the rendered view. The background video and the character is showing only. 😢

@abiyyupanggalih854 2 года назад

gold :D

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thanks!

@FPVwineUK Год назад

HERO

@RyanKingArt Год назад

thank you : )

@thomandy 2 года назад

It works. I'm a bit curious though, there is no way to do this at night time? I have a night scene, and I can't really use the sun light. Guessing that's a no, either way, thanks for the tutorial.

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Hmm... yeah, not that I know of. I actually mostly use Cycles, because its way more realistic. So if it works for your scene, you could use Cycles.

@thomandy 2 года назад

@@RyanKingArt I'm re-learning blender to create some animations for my channel, and currently my pc isn't too fan of rendering if for minutes. But it sort of works if I use a color ramp, to reduce the black overall, but I also need less light. It can work! :)

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

ahh ok.

@Onion224 Год назад

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH YOU ARE INCREDIBLE CAN I HUG YOU?!

@RyanKingArt Год назад

Lol Glad you like it! thanks for watching.

@DouArts 2 года назад

I love the shadow catcher feature but it needs a lot of work. The shadows are way to dark as opposed to the way they look without the SC on. Denoising without workarounds doesn’t work on them either. Any idea on how to tackle these issues properly?🙏🏽

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

If you want a realistic shadow catcher, then I would really recommend just using Cycles render. This is just a work around for Eevee, but Eevee isn't very realistic, Because its real time. Cycles is a Ray Traced Render Engine, so it actually calculates the light bounces and such. So I would recommend cycles if you want a better shadow catcher.

@DouArts 2 года назад

@@RyanKingArt yess I already use Cycles with it. That’s the whole point. The shadows thicken and they’re very noisy even after a denoise. But it’s all good i guess, let’s hope Blender fixes it one day😄

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

@@DouArts Hmm, ok. You could turn up the sampling. Also, you could turn up the Angle on the sun light settings, if your using a sun light, to make the shadows softer.

@airsoftbeast11234 2 года назад

Followed exactly this in eevee, and when I render, the background shows up black no matter what I try. Looks transparent in the viewport (although I cant see the shadows anyways)

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Did you set the background to "Transparent" in the film tab on the render properties?

@airsoftbeast11234 2 года назад

@@RyanKingArt yup, I followed everything exactly as in this video

@no-one3795 2 года назад

Nice tutorial

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thanks! Wow, you commented fast. I just posted this. 🙂

@no-one3795 2 года назад

@@RyanKingArt Well, I'm fast at clicking a video.

@jarvisholytaylor Год назад

1:14 Cycles only and highly recommend it for best quality.

@RyanKingArt Год назад

yes cycles is better for this.

@shawnb3d 2 года назад

got the template. Cant access the part that lets you create a global background color.

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

I'm not sure what part your talking about.

@tommyholmberg Год назад

Important! You need to work with light, not emission planes, for this to work.

@RyanKingArt Год назад

Yep that's right.

@mertolojis Год назад

I want some objects to stay in the same area eevee some of them cycle, how can I do that

@RyanKingArt Год назад

Hmm, thats tricky. you could render out each object separately, and then join them together with blender's compositor.

@mertolojis Год назад

@@RyanKingArt thank you

@stenmajor963 Год назад

But how to avoid self shadow cast of the shadow catcher :(

@RyanKingArt Год назад

select the object that you don't want to cast a shadow. then in the object properties, under visibility, ray visibility, un-check, shadow.

@stenmajor963 Год назад

@@RyanKingArt thank you so much for the reply even on a video which is more then 1 year old! I highly appreciate that! I know about this option from cycles. Unfortunately in Eevee the "ray visibility" does not exist in the properties. I am using Blender 3.3. I wish you a great day!

@fevriereloi4053 7 месяцев назад

I didn't see shadow catcher ? why ? thanks a lot !

@RyanKingArt 7 месяцев назад

I think you need to be in Cycles render engine

@belkocik 2 года назад

I followed the tut and still got gray background plane rather than transprent xD

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Hmm ok. Make sure your sun light is bright enough.

@belkocik 2 года назад

@@RyanKingArt I must have done sth wrong....

@belkocik 2 года назад

translucent /= transparent xD my bad, now it works.....

@dzirtdourden2243 2 года назад

How many problems in eevee

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Well, Eevee is a real time render engine, so its not as realistic then cycles. So you have do some extra things to get it to work.

@domfel2123 2 года назад

got to reduce to .75 speed to follow. Still think too many steps to achieve a simple thing though!

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thanks for the feedback.

@shawnb3d 2 года назад

found the node tree, set the light to 8......I still see the plane.

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Sorry your having problems. I don't know why that is happening.

@ukmonk Год назад

this should just be a one click solution like in cycles!

@RyanKingArt Год назад

yeah I wish it was.

@mr.lunatic3157 2 года назад

😍

@RyanKingArt 2 года назад

Thank you!

@Adam-ui8iy Год назад

OF COURSE Blender moves shadow catcher in 3.4 - I swear to god every release they change where everything is

@RyanKingArt Год назад

No I think the shadow catcher button is still in the same place. Make sure your using the Cycles render engine. The shadow catcher button isn't in Blender Eevee.

@ukmonk Год назад

I don't get why its still so hard to get a shadow catcher in Eevee???

@RyanKingArt Год назад

Eevee isn't a very realistic rendering engine, so things like this sometimes don't work well in Eevee.

@ukmonk Год назад

@@RyanKingArt Thanks for the tutorial though!