Problem: when I add reflections or drop shadows underneath each person in the scene (they area all close together) there tends to be an additive effect on overlapping shadows (especially with "darker" mode.) the makes the overlapping areas darker.
Question: If I want to have rows of people and have each row its own reflection WITHOUT adding darkers spots to the shadows of the previous line, how do I go about it?
Since you haven't explained what techniques you are actually using to create reflections and shadows it's hard to say what might be the problem, but it simply sounds like the typical beginner error of doing everything in a single comp. That's of course not going to work. In your case you'd presumably have to pre-compose whatever cutout people you use and then apply the shadows and reflection on duplicates of the whole assembly, not individual characters.
I created an AI generated background and the people have been rotoscoped and pasted in. They are all in the same comp.
Originally, I was working in premiere and was using the darker blend mode for each person since the subjects are dark and the background is light; that and to avoid rotoscoping but I now see that has its limitations. I'll stick to AE.
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