Add CGI Characters to Live Footage | Blender VFX Tutorial
Learn how to add CGI to your live footage Easy and Free! Superimpose anything onto your footage
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Intro: (00:00)
Breakdown: (00:21)
TUTORIAL: (01:40)
HDRI: (01:52)
Camera Tracking: (03:03)
Scene setup: (10:38)
Scene breakdown and adjustments: (12:00)
Lighting: (14:25)
Compositing: (16:40)
Animating and Exporting CGI Character: (21:12)
After Effects (bonus): (23:11)
Outro + Challenge!: (25:36)
Nice editing. Only 6 min in but have to comment on how well this is done. There’s no dead space where you want to fast forward, you don’t dum anything down, but you also make everything simple and clear and repeat important parts, youre aware of extra information that would be useful, which is a hard balance to achieve. I could go on but I’m sure you’ve heard enough
Thanks for the positive feedback, i have a lot more stuff planned and I want to make it as informative and entertaining as possible. Glad you liked it!
@@SharpWind glad to hear it. This is probably the best done tutorial I’ve seen on KZhead, not just blender, and I’ve seen hundreds. You’ve cracked the code :)
Never knew 3D tracking was so complex. Damn. There seems to be a lot to it.
This is the best tutorial I’ve ever watched I’m not kidding. Been looking for this compositing information everywhere and you threw it in as a bonus. Goat 🐐 ty
1:20 i sneezed and the next shot was this XD
"Ping me" Sharp slowly regretting his mistakes xD
I really like watching your videos because I am used to learn animations and stuff from you channel, nice to see you doing blender tutorials cause I want to do some things I had in mind
Thank you for actually showing how to troubleshoot the motion tracking part. All other tutorials have 0.1 error from the get go and do not show how to solve them properly. Cheers man!
I have another tutorial about this, where i really explain how every single feature works Its my most recent video, in case you wanna watch it
@@SharpWind I'll take a look, thanks!
good luck!
This tutorial is easily one of the most greatest tutorial for any people who want to know how and make a CGI movie instead of a animated movie. Goodjob sharpwind! 😄
oh, you know i gotta pin this
Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy
nice video thank you! the blender camera tracker is actually very powerful!!
wonder why i didn't find this channel after all this time! great and loved your videos the in-depth camera tracking was a treasure tomb of stuff... thanks a lot
Incredible info! Nice style, man, thanks for sharing this.
Can you make a video on the process while working with log or raw footage? Because then the colours and contrast would be completely different for the footage and render and i can never quite get it to look right
This tutorial is honestly one of the better ones for this kind of stuff most videos I've seen on this focus on a single image render or doing a stationary object, So I applaud you for doing something I could actually find useful. Also at 25:55 I got flashbacks to the compilation series anxious cynic used to do.
25:01 This line shouldn't be funny to me... but it is. Thanks for a great tutorial.
Thats a professional term But im glad you liked the tutorial
my mouth gaped when i heard it lol
straight to the point no b3llshit or waiting.. simply loved the way you explain stuff.
Thanks for the positive feedback, definitely making more (but slowly, since i work full time)
Hey man Thanx for this. Really helpful!
Thanks For the Tutorials
Big big big thumbs up for your tracking vids. Thanks heaps for putting in the huge amount of time getting these vids out there, really appreciate it. I haven't tracked crap in 16yrs, and my Son is using Blender at school for a proj so I had to figure out wtf was going on, and you pretty much answered every single question I had to translate over any old knowledge I had going on, and a bunch of new info to boot was great :) Thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks ...x1000
Best of luck! We're just here, embracing the open source :)
You're amazing man
My idol
You shud do a blender full course 👍
That was the plan, but it's hard to come up with a solid course idea that would cover every aspect
this is so great that i didn't understand anything
your first viewer :) anyways ima go watch this video first lmao
Love you bro. Your way of teaching is great, I love your content. I have a request, make a tutorial video of missile destruction vfx effect , I mean A missile is coming and blow a house to burn. I am waiting for this bro.
@SharpWind 2:35 As you said, since you were already in 16b going back to 32 won't bring back all that HDR data that was lost when in 16bits....that is why your comp has the coloring nut not realistic light on your objects
"I have to blur the screen because of the car's license plate" bro solved the whole universe 💀 Jood Gob My friend :D always learning a lot from ur vids
Instead of bluring the plate before importing it into blender, i forgot and had to blur individual clips from the screen recording and adjust it every time i move my viewport around... im not the sharpest tool in the shed
Amazing tutorial! I was wondering, is it possible to render out a reflection pass the same way as the shadow pass?
Of course it's possible, just in a slightly different way You'd add a reflective plane on the ground, make it not be a shadow catcher, but put it in it's own collection and turn it off for all render layers. You'd then make a new render layer, which only includes that plane, and secondary bounces for your character and in the view layers tab, you'd turn on glossy indirect, i believe - and that's your reflection pass (if glossy indirect isnt the one, try other glossy passes)
@@SharpWindAwesome. Thank you!
Wow, actually something useful 12:50 Shadow catcher not only catches shadows, but casts indirect lighting on your objects as well as may be visible in reflections iirc so, sometimes it's better to give it a material and/or assist it somehow in material editor UPD: well, havent noticed collection was prevented from casting bounces UPD: 17:52 Its literally the same way, except saves some time for compositing. once 3.0 released they've reworked denoising, so, you never need to use compositor denoising *ever*. Just wastes time and spare RAM for additional layers
You're correct on both of these, cant really add much here
Awsime!
you want a fun idea? just try to make the model of chicken sharp or smth with raytracing... i think
why does a light suddenly appear in the background layer later on in the video? i do not have this light :(
Try Mine-Imator 2.0 its so good!
Planning one last video on mine imator - the 2.0 review. Im not going back though, i am now a Blender channel
💚 Great job man 💚 I want to ask you about the scene in 0:25 how did you compost the shadow of the robot with the real shadow???
After effects - i duplicated the base footage, used that as the luma matte for the shadow layer and played with brightness and contrast / curves, to get the blend right
Do a video all about simulations :)
"Ping me" greatest regret of his life
So far nothing
Rigging tutorial part 2
I want to make an animation where all the oblivion characters (6.0) Fight against the very powerful wither storm. Now I need your help with voice acting and animation Ideas. Could you help me?
This is very random but I'm curious if you could make a tutorial on simulating breaking of complex models (As in parts coming off etc.)....by putting a blender inside of a blender and then turning it on xD I totally just don't want to see you put a blender in a blender and blend the blender using said blender
"Blending a blender" is now on my list lol
@@SharpWind YIPEEEE!
setting x or y axis only work when i select 1 tracker when i select 2 and use set axis it gives this error "Single track with bundle should be selected to define axis "
well yes, you're supposed to select a single one. The X/Y axis is set from the origin point, towards the single selected tracker
got it thank you ! @@SharpWind
Hey have you heard about MineImator 2.0 pre 5, wanna do a vid about it?
I've got a drone shot that i tracked and set up the scale successfully but when i add my mesh it just drifts like it is moving in the footage i'm, not sure how to fix that
You either have a large solve error, which is making it slide, since it wasnt solved properly Or your ground plane isn't on the same level as your ground trackers (meaning your mesh isn't standing on the floor, but it's either floating above it or underneath it), making it look like it's sliding Make sure your solve error in below 0.5px, or at least below 1px, and position your ground plane on the same level as your floor trackers - you should see your trackers in the 3D viewport after you're done. If you move/rotate the camera, the trackers will move with it, so you can align ot easier
@@SharpWindthe solve error was 0.3 but i will make sure of the floor plan Thank you !
Спасибо друг! Самые годные уроки по трекингу в blender! 👍
1:55 If your phone takes hdr 360 photos do you still have to do this step?
Only if it's TRULY high dynamic range You can check by right-clicking the file and checking it's bit depth. It has to be at least 32
@@SharpWind Thanks so much!
Is there a way to make see through portals
Of course there is Model the hole and the wall/floor it's sitting on and make the wall/floor a separate object. Down where the shadow catcher i, theres also a holdout option - that turns everything behind the object invisible, so the hole is only visible if you're looking directly in it, but its covered up by the wall/floor when seeing it from the side
Im a bit confused about why u need to scale down the background in AE…what happened there
I exported my animation at 720p, so it rendered faster I imported that first, so the composition size was 720p My background plate was still 1080p, so it was big
@@SharpWindI watched it over and now i kind of understand it😂thx bro u really awesome
what 360 camera is that?
I believe it's Ricoh Theta SC2, but there are other 360 cameras out there. As long as it shoots a decent resolution 360 panorama and has multiple brackets available, it should do the job just fine
I don't have a good camera to make stuff like that :(
Like ive said, you can use your phone instead (and the shutter thing isnt necessary, it just makes it a bit easier)
Getting outside my house to get the footage was the hardest part.
I recorded my room
Like a TRUE cg artist
Broo it gave me 3 mental diarrheas, i speak spanish + im new in blender ☠️
I really like watching your videos because I am used to learn animations and stuff from you channel, nice to see you doing blender tutorials cause I want to do some things I had in mind
Go for superimposion. Put something CG into live footage and share it in my server I'd love to see what the community will create and it's going to be a great practice for you!