Creature Composite Believability

Creature Composite Believability in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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why our creature composites keep losing believability

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Across several comps the creature's shadow and contact feel off and the VFX lead keeps sending them…
Across several comps the creature's shadow and contact feel off and the VFX lead keeps sending them back. Identify the recurring mistakes—incorrect light vector, shadow scale, or ambient occlusion absence—and recommend the single practice change (reference shot, shadow-pass pipeline, or verification step) that would make our creature placements pass without heavy iteration.

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Special Effects ArtistAdobe Photoshop

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