Originally posted by ragecgi The Maya Mountain is correct To get quick shadows out of Maya for this shot, you can import your background image as a background in Maya, place a plane under your model that is lined-up with the ground plane, add a "use background" shader to the plane, and when you render, you will get shadows on the "ground" Another idea is to run a shadow render layer pass. Good luck! Thanks ragecgi for tour help i will improve it