• Now we need some floor shadows in our scene. Create a floor plane that is large enough to capture shadows in the scene.

Shadow Matte

• Create and assign a shadow_matte shader to the floor plane.

Image Plane

• Select the render camera and under 'Environment', create a new image plane. Open the photographic backplate within the image plane as below. In this example, we will be using '103.jpg'.

_{Open image plane in Maya}

• Render the scene. You should see the spheres rendered against the image plane with a shadow created by the shadow_matte shader.

• If the reflections appear incorrect, rotate the skydome_light until it matches the backplate.