illustrator: perspective shadow of a falling object

[onesummer]

so anyone know of a good tutorial that describes how to create a perspective shadow on the 'floor' for an object that is falling?

[simpletouch]

any type of object?

[onesummer]

pretty much. maybe something a little more complex than just simple squares or circles, like a feather, an avil, or some other object typically related to falling from the air. And I have already done a google search on the subject, but did not find much in relation to Adobe Illustrator tutorials. Thanks.

[zumojuice]

Would you know how to do this in photoshop?

The effective theory works the same. In photoshop, for shadows you can:

a>use a drop shadow like effect - most of these come from plug ins for real use

b> use a duplicate of the object, blacked out and blurred - works well but can create weird shapes at perspective which need work

c> draw and blue your own shape roughly. .

The same effectively works in illy. The filters and effects? well one can be added to vectors, the other makes rasters. But the basis of a shadow of a falling object is a imprint blur of the object, so much like photoshop, copy, grey, opacity and blur. then scale it based on the distance....