Blender: Create visual effects with advanced compositing

Name: Blender: Create visual effects with advanced compositing
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Integrate realistic cgi into footage using advanced compositing techniques

Created bydean walcott

Last updated 1/2020

English

What you'll learn

create visual effects using procedural shaders and integrate them into footage
advanced camera tracking / matchmoving techniques
recreate footage geometry to mask out objects in scene
advanced composition techniques to better integrate cgi in camera footage
procedurally generate fire using volumetric shader to create fire and integrate it into our footage
at the end of the course students will be able to how to integrate cgi into footage with advanced node based compositing techniques
This course also covers how to better integrate cgi into footage by creating film grain, lens dust elements etc in blenders compositor.
students will learn how to use blenders camera tracker

Course content

7 sections • 28 lectures • 5h 17m total length

Introduction to blender3:10
In this video I give an overview of blender 2.8 and how to navigate the user interface
Important things to know before filming5:20
This lecture gives important information and tips about how to make your footage easier to track in blender

converting footage to image sequence6:13
This lecture goes through the process of how to convert the provided footage to an image sequence
- It also explains why videos should always be converted to image sequences before tracking
overview of blenders camera tracker7:36
This video gives an overview of the movie clip editor and how to setup our tracking
tracking our footage and learning about the various tracking marker settings6:32
This video covers tracking our footage in blender and also explains the various tracker marker settings
-I go over various marker settings such as perspective, affine, location etc. and explain what each mode is best used for
tweaking our tracking markers14:28
This video covers how to increase our marker accuracy in blender's camera tracker
-I also go over how we can clean up innacurate tracks and get the best solving accuracy possible
using a more automated approach to camera tracking using detect features setting11:55
This lecture shows a way to track our footage in a more automated way using detect features
-I also show how we can use this method to more quickly track our footage and still keep our solving error low

cleaning up innacurate markers in camera tracker12:32
This video shows how we can optimize our camera track through the process of cleaning up innacurate tracker markers
refining our camera solve16:45
This lecture shows how we can further refine our camera solve using blender to calculate our focal length and k1 distortion values
refining our camera solve part 210:59
refining our camera solve part 314:27

orienting our 3d scene15:56
This video covers how to setup our 3d scene
using procedural fire shader and placing it in our scene13:07
This video covers setting up the procedural fire shader and placing it in our 3d scene
tweaking procedural fire shader settings to increase realism15:52
This lecture covers how to tweak the provide procedural fire material settings and increase the realism
-The video also covers how to use setup drivers in blender to drive parameters such in the material nodes
adding different colored flames14:26
This lecture goes over how to add different colored flames using our procedural fire shader
tweaking fire scaling10:06
In this video we will be tweaking the scaling of the fire and finding optimal placement match it with the footage
creating holdout geometry for masking12:33
This lecture covers how to place cgi behind real objects in our footage
-I cover using the holdout shader to use as a 3d mask to hide cgi behind objects visible in footage

working with blenders color management node10:33
This videos explains how to work with blenders color management settings and important things to know before we begin compositing
explanation of why scene referred workflow is important in compositing12:10
This lecture explains why a scene referred workflow is preferred when doing compositing
creating glare and colorizing footage based on flame color in compositor12:55
In this lecture we will be creating glare using blenders compositor
-We will also be colorizing our footage based on the flames to better integrate our cgi into the footage
color grading our composite and redistorting our cg elements12:37
This lecture covers color grading our footage and redistorting our cg elements to match our footage.
-I explain why redistorting our cg is necessary
adding lens dirt elements18:12
In this lecture we will be using blenders compositor to add lens dirt elements to achieve more realism and make our cgi look like it was filmed with a real camera
-We use a procedural voronoi texture tweaked with a color ramp to create our lens dirt elements
controlling our lens dust effect10:27
In this lecture we will be adjusting the lens dirt effect strength and adjusting the settings
adding glare to increase realism20:08
In this lecture we add more glare to our cgi to further increase cgi integration and realism
creating film grain6:34
In this video we will be creating a film grain effect using noise textures in blenders compositor
tweaking film grain settings in compositor9:04
This video covers how to tweak our film grain effect

Requirements

blender 2.8

Description

Learn how to create awesome visual effects in blender, this course will teach you everything you need to know about camera tracking/matchmoving, adding realistic fire effects into footage using procedural node based volumetric materials.

Integrate cgi into footage using advanced node base compositing techniques

This course will teach you how to integrate cgi into your footage using advanced compositing techniques in blenders compositor this course also doesn't require you to use any other software everything is done in blender 2.8. Node based compositing will cover everything including how to create realistic lens dust/ dirt elements and add them on top of our footage. This course will also cover color grading and better matching our footage to our cgi.

Learn about color management and how to use it to your advantage

This course will teach you how to keep everything in scene linear and will also teach you about color management, and how to use blender to it's full potential.

Use node based procedural materials to generate fire quickly

In the course a procedural fire material is provided and students will learn how to use this material to create procedural advanced fire effects and add them to our footage, this material is fully procedural and requires no baking time. Students can use all materials provided in the course in their own projects.

Everything in the course is organized in sections using a step by step approach All project files and materials are provided in the course

This course is packed with information with nearly 6 hours of content and will give students very good understanding of how to integrate cgi into footage.

Who this course is for:

blender users who are interested in creating vfx
students who want to learn how to add cgi into real life footage

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Important things to know before filming footage for visual effects2 lectures • 9min

working with blenders color management1 lecture • 5min

camera tracking our footage in blender5 lectures • 47min

optimizing our camera solve4 lectures • 55min

creating our 3d scene6 lectures • 1hr 22min

compositing9 lectures • 1hr 53min

rendering1 lecture • 8min

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