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Quick Tip: How to Render a Shadow Pass in Cycles

Community Reporter · July 11, 2013

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Tom writes:

Check out this Quick Tip from Blender Tutor to learn how to render out a shadow pass in cycles to add 3D Text to a 2D image!

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  1. Quandelora
    12 July 2013 at 02:20

    I am SO glad this was posted! I made a video not long ago with aliens landing on my laptop (see my channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Quandelora) but I never was able to add shadow to my laptop! until now… :)

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