
Learn to create a two-minute blender short inspired by backrooms, including trailer creation, sound effects, and efficient render setup using environment textures.
Create an asteroid scene in blender by importing a video as a plane, isolating the comet with alpha, and matching a night HDRI with shader assets.
Create a cinematic asteroid scene in Blender by duplicating and placing objects, adjusting camera depth of field, and rendering with emission and glossy passes for After Effects.
Create an asteroid scene in after effects by building a 1400 resolution, 24 fps composition, importing glassy direction and emission passes, and applying lumetri color, glow, VHS, and chromatic aberration.
Create a cinematic asteroid scene using post-processing in After Effects: import grain and VHS overlays, add dust, blur, color dodge, and camera shake, then render with Media Encoder.
Hello everyone and welcome to my new course. In this course we are doing a scene with an asteroid from my short film which you can watch on Course Preview. The film is inspired by Backrooms
In this 2-hour-long, step-by-step tutorial we will make an asteroid scene that you can see in the video.
In the first part of the tutorial, we work with Blender. I will introduce you to the basics of Blender and how to set the scene.
I will show you the simplest way to make an asteroid in Blender without animation and simulations and how to make a realistic scene in Blender quickly and efficiently. Therefore, the course can be easily followed by beginners.
The second part of the tutorial deals with After Effects. We will try to achieve an Old camera, VHS looks in After Effects in post-processing. I will show you the basics of After Effects, how to do color-correction and colo-grading in After Effects in order to achieve the cinematic look of an old camera. I’ll show you how to use Overlays in After Effects and suggest places online where you can download them for free.
Tutorial length: 2 hours
Language: English + subtitles
Software: Blender + After Effects
Project files: included