So, I finally got to the point where I have characters (simple animated actors) in my scene, and I loaded up Showdown demo to see how it’s made. For once, there are no bipedal characters. So the only show that was there was from the big bad robot. It’s the engine’s sphere with blob textures on it and some really weird spaghetti material setup 
It certainly doesn’t look like Shadowgun’s blob shadow at all 