Help with shadow catching


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Hello,

I am working on an animated short. While testing the lighting of the scene I got stuck into a problem. I want to have a shadow catcher for the scene but the “Use Background” material of Maya does not work as well as I would like.

What other alternative would you recommend me to have the shadows extracted for compositing?

I am attaching two images, the first one is how the shadows are supposed to look, the second one is with the Use Background material.


Thank you!

Alan Monroig