Learn Blender Compositor!

Name: Learn Blender Compositor!
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Take Your Renders to the Professional Level!

Created byGustavo Rosa

Last updated 4/2023

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What you'll learn

Learn how to use Blender's Compositor Interface.
Color Adjustments.
Create effects such as fog, depth of field and vignette.
Render separate passes.
Use Light Groups to adjust the intensity and colors of lights, even after the image is rendered.

Course content

3 sections • 29 lectures • 5h 5m total length

Areas, Editors and Workspaces7:37
Introduction to the Compositor13:00
Reroute Socket4:28
Explore how the reroute node helps organize complex Blender compositor graphs by routing a single image output to viewer and composite while maintaining two outputs.
RGB Curves Node - Part 116:11
RGB Curves Node - Part 212:23
Node Wrangler Addon15:45
Explore the Node Wrangler addon for Blender, enable it, and master quick node connections, shortcuts, frames, and viewer node workflows to streamline compositor work.
Color Balance Node11:12
Learn to use Blender's color balance node to adjust lift, gamma, and gain with color wheels, shaping shadows, midtones, and highlights for dramatic, filmic looks.
Hue Saturation Value Node9:04
Blur Node and User Manual5:32
Glare Node10:30

Factors and Masks10:50
Mix Node9:20
Blend Modes on the Blender Manual
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/3.1/render/shader_nodes/color/mix.html?highlight=mix%20node
Blend Modes on the Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes
Multi-Layer and Transform Node8:39
Build multi-layer compositions in the Blender compositor by using multiple mix nodes to stack images, then apply a transform node to move, rotate, and scale each layer.
Vignette Effect9:36
Learn to create a vignette in Blender compositor by darkening edges with a multiply blend on a masked region, using ellipse or box masks, invert, and blur to center focus.
Introduction to Cryptomatte15:03
Learn how cryptomatte automatically generates masks for objects, materials, and assets during render, and how to enable passes and apply per-object or per-material adjustments in the compositor.
Adjusting a Scene with Cryptomatte - Part 111:43
Enable cryptomatte passes to separate scene components, then recolor the background, car, and wheels using cryptomatte nodes and hue-saturation-value adjustments in the compositor.
Adjusting a Scene with Cryptomatte - Part 25:16
Masking Nodes Without Factor7:49

Introduction to Render Passes5:18
Ambient Occlusion, Shadow and Environment Passes13:38
Use ambient occlusion, shadow, and environment passes to add depth and contact shadows. Composite these passes with the main render using multiply mix nodes, transparent background, and alpha masks.
Creating Fog with the Myst Pass12:37
Create a fog effect in Blender using the mist pass and compositor, leveraging a depth mask and gradient curves to control fog density from near to far.
Creating Depth of Field with the Myst Pass7:55
Configure a depth of field effect in the Blender compositor using the mist pass as a depth mask with the Defocus node, refining focus on the tower.
Adding Vignette and Fog Effects to the Tower7:39
Apply a vignette and glow to the tower scene using Blender compositor nodes, including box mask, invert, blur, and crypto matte to craft targeted light and edge darkening.
Denoise Pass11:05
Learn how to reduce render noise in Blender using the denoise pass in the compositor, with cycles samples, render passes, and practical tips for optimizing noise and render times.
Mist Pass vs Z Pass8:22
Compare the mist pass and the z pass, explaining depth rendering, normalization to boost contrast, and linear vs quadratic decay, and guide when to use each for depth effects.
Light Passes - Part 114:34
Light Passes - Part 29:28
Lighte Passes - Part 315:12
Light Groups15:30

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Blender.
Basic knowledge of lighting and rendering in Blender.
Have a computer that meets the prerequisites to run Blender. These prerequisites can be found on the Blender page itself.
Have Blender installed on your computer.

Description

Do you want to learn how to take your Blender rendering to a professional level?

Then it's time for you to learn how to use Blender's Compositor.

The Compositor is Blender's node compositing system.

In this course, you will see how to use the compositor to perform color adjustments,

You'll see how to use filters to create effects,

You will learn to use Layers, Masks, and Cryptomattes to restrict the scope of adjustments and effects.

That way you can make changes to specific areas of your scene.

You can, for example, change the color of objects and materials even after the image is rendered.

In addition, you will see how to use Render Passes and other resources to adjust, in a controlled way, the intensity of shadows,

And ambient occlusion.

You'll also see how to create effects like fog,

depth of field,

And Vignette Effect.

You will also see how to render ligh passes separately,

So that it is possible to create isolated adjustments for diresuch asct lighting , indirect lighting, reflections, among others.

You'll also see how to use Light Groups, a feature that lets you control the intensity and colors of each group of lights in your scene independently, even after the scene is rendered.

Blender's Compositor is a key resource to turn a good render into an amazing render.

So sign up right now to take your images to the next level!

Who this course is for:

3D Artists
Designers
Architects

Learn Blender Compositor!

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction10 lectures • 1hr 46min

Layers, Masks and Cryptomatte8 lectures • 1hr 18min

Data and Light Passes11 lectures • 2hr 1min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: