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Is it possible to colour fill a custom figure from Photoshop to make a shadow?

My figure is made up of a layered Photoshop file. I have already put the bones together in the full colour figure, but would like to give him a shadow.

If I understood well, you mean something like this, don't you?
http://www.lostmarble.com/moho/manual/t ... index.html

Image Layer->Properties>Shadows Tab>Layer Shading (animated)> Shading on checkbox

No, what I need to do is filling the Image layer (head or body) with black on a copy of my normal figure. If I turn shading on nothing happens. The "Lenny" version only seem to work on something drawn in AS.

You can use the alpha channel of an image for that. Set the image layer to "add to mask" and assign a vector layer of your choice as being masked, this should contain a big shape covering all of the image.

The drop shadow settings of an image layer also use the alpha channel information.

Depending on your rigging it might be a better idea to do all this with the topmost layer of your character, the bone layer, instead of turing this on/off in all individual layers.

Sounds like a plan. Will try on the bone layer.

I made a vector shape on frame 0, filled with black. dragged it onto the bone layer and set shadow layer to +Add to mask. Nothing happened more than the Shadow layer moved with the Bone layer to it's position on frame 1.

Do I need to set the Bone layer as something?

Please read up upon masking, this topic was covered several times here in the forum.

What I'd do is animate the character, then once I've done, make a duplicate of it, put the CHARACTER group layer in ANOTHER group layer called CHARACTER_SHADOW, put a vector layer called SHADOW on top of the CHARACTER group layer, double-click CHARACTER_SHADOW and set masking to HIDE ALL then set the CHARACTER group to MASK THIS LAYER and fiddle around a bit until I got the masking right because sometimes I need to move the SHADOW layer under or above the CHARACTER LAYER and sometimes I change the masking to MASK THIS LAYER from the CHARACTER group to the SHADOW group to get it right.

Note: sometimes the masked effect will only show up in a render. Do a frame render (CTRL + R or APPLE + R) to see what it looks like.