Shadow smoke effect

A wide shot with one figure and a very long drifting shadow. a wide shot of a person standing alone at one end of a long empty hall with light coming from a low window, the figure small and sharp, their shadow stretching the whole length of the floor toward camera and made entirely of grey smoke that drifts sideways in the draught while keeping the head and shoulder outline, dust visible in the window light

Two people cast smoke shadows that drift into each other. a wide shot of two people standing a few paces apart on a dark stage under two hard overhead lights, both bodies sharp and still, each casting a shadow made of grey smoke on the boards, the two smoke shapes drifting slowly toward each other until their edges mix into one bank of smoke between them, the people never moving

Each step leaves smoke where the shadow was. a vertical shot of a person walking slowly across a dark polished floor with a single hard light behind them, the body and footsteps sharp, and the shadow stretching ahead of them made of smoke that does not keep up: it drags a little behind each step and leaves thin trails of grey where the shape used to be, the trails sinking and fading as the walk continues

A seated shadow spreads as a slow pool of smoke on the ground. a vertical shot of a person sitting on a plain wooden chair under a single high light, the figure and the chair sharp, and the shadow beneath them spread across the floor as a slow pool of grey smoke that shifts and reforms without ever leaving the chair shape, faint tendrils rising from the pool toward the seat, everything else in the frame still

A sharp body over a shadow that drifts and curls like smoke. a vertical shot of a person standing still under one hard overhead light on a bare concrete floor, their body and clothes completely sharp, and the shadow they cast on the floor made of drifting grey smoke instead of a flat dark shape, the smoke holding the outline of the legs and torso while its edges curl and lift slowly, the contrast between solid body and moving shadow held throughout

A weak smoke shadow becomes dense as the lamp lowers. a vertical shot of a person standing beside a lamp that is being lowered toward the floor, the body sharp throughout, their cast shadow starting as thin pale smoke and thickening into dense dark grey volume as the lamp drops and the shadow stretches longer, the smoke pooling where the shape reaches the far wall, the change driven entirely by the light height

A wide outdoor shot where a shadow drifts across dry ground. a wide shot of a person standing still on flat dry sand in hard low sun, the figure and their clothes crisp, their long cast shadow across the sand made of grey smoke that the breeze pushes sideways and thins at the far end, the shadow head still recognisable while the feet of it lift away as drift, no other shadows in the frame

A shadow on a wall swells and thins while the person holds still. a vertical shot of a person standing side on to a white plaster wall in low raking light, their profile sharp, the shadow thrown on the wall built from slow grey smoke that swells and thins as if breathing, the outline of the head still readable while the shoulders dissolve into drift, the person not moving at all so every change belongs to the shadow

A climbing figure throws a smoke shadow up a stairwell wall. a wide shot of a person climbing a stone staircase with a wall light behind them, the body sharp, their shadow cast on the wall alongside made of dark smoke that climbs with them but blurs and pulls apart at each step, thin plumes rising off the shoulders of the shadow toward the ceiling, the wall texture visible through the thinner parts

A lifted arm reads as smoke in the shadow but solid in the body. a close vertical shot of a person lifting one arm slowly out to the side under a hard side light, the arm and hand sharp and detailed, and the same arm in the cast shadow on the wall behind made of rising grey smoke that lags the real movement and breaks into curls at the fingertips, the rest of the shadow body holding its outline, one light source only