MDDN 243 - Voodude Drop Shadows

So above are all of the voodude sprites that Scott produced. My job for these however, was to add the cool little drop shadow on each frame. Because the light of the background is in the center, the drop shadow is spreading out in front of Voodude. I added perspective to the shadow by decreasing the size of the feet of the shadow and increasing the side of the head so it appears as if the shadow was getting bigger the closer it got to the outer edge of the screen. With the animated background Chris produced, the opacity of the shadows play off the light flickers on the lanes which look absolutely amazing! Each shadow is a duplicate of the voodude shape, which is then flipped to be the opposite. Also, when the character jumps, the shadow reduces in size until its just a simple dot on the ground, then grows bigger again as the character lands. Fancy stuff yo.