"soft landing" render process - background shadows (Patreon)

I haven't had the opportunity to go sorting through my projects and grabbing progress screenshots just yet, but this one was laying around already! You may recognize the scene this is from (it was posted here earlier); what you see here is the process of rendering the background, while the "blank" Teena figure is invisible to the render and only casts a shadow.
Final result of this is an unobstructed view of the ground and background, but with a properly-positioned shadow for when I add Teena as an additional layer!

This post also a bit of a test and a preview of the sort of early peeks I might start to post here as Patreon-exclusives. Just one of the ideas floating around right now; we'll have to see what works out best, but if this sort of stuff seems interesting to everyone, then that's what we'll do! I'm posting this one publicly to serve as a teaser as well, but the majority of these posts will be patron-only.