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100% The plus/minus method cannot re-create grain, it can only extract it for later re-addition. Great for if you are working with something where your not changing your luminance values too much, but as you stated, completely falls apart with great luminance/contrast alterations. I need to make an update video for this topic as I have been using Dasgrain for about a year or more now and hardly ever go without it.

Personally, I think it would be best to create the entire geonode setup twice for something like that, you can click the little “2” up top to duplicate the node tree (like how you create a copied shader). And just make sure any node groups/sims you have get replaced by the ones for your second army, that way it will be a bit more random and not look like the armies are just mirrors of each other!

Thanks! I have tutorials in the works for shots labeled “Channel Content” so stay tuned! These are going to be some really fun ones!

Greenscreens are tricky because a lot of it depends on context. A lot of time, I follow “the larger element rule” which says you want to match your smaller elements to the larger one. If your background is darker than your plate and you want to bring the plate luminance down thats where you might start separately despilling your edge key and core key, and you can use methods such as edge extend or fine tuning your edge separately. I would recommend checking out @VFXforfilm he has a video in his nuke 102 series (free on TH-cam) where he goes over this topic! Though I may make a video about it in the future as well!

I hear you, the texturing here is the real star!

Yes! you can check it out on my channel!

Glad it helped!

Glad you liked it! Next one is another big one, we'll be covering just about every possible method of tracking out there!

This was done using the move ONE single camera solution!

Agreed, while gaussian splatting looks great in a proper renderer like PostShot, there are still tons of limitations to rendering them with unreal. Given this is a super new technology though, I have high hopes for constant improvements to be made to the point where gaussian splats can look just as good in unreal as they do elsewhere! (In all honesty I should have also used my Supra Gaussian splat as the example here, as that one turned out much cleaner, but I wanted to try out a new one for this video, in general as long as you have enough capture points, I still feel Gaussian splatting is second to none at the moment in terms of creating a photoreal result)

I have a set extension workshop on its way that is a blender-nuke tutorial, but that one will come after a few more Nuke Demystified videos!

Honestly, this particular project didn't turn out as well as I was hoping, I think I may revisit it eventually, but I totally agree! My favorite thing about nuke is that everything is just laid out right in front of you, no digging through settings/layers, its all just right there!

@@levelupvfx finding it exceptionally tiresome with AE atm, apart from the lack of control, using anamorphic footage has been wildly difficult and so has colour management with braw files 💀 Definitely sold on Nuke now

hmmm, with mixamo its easy because the vertex weight remains when you merge them. Are your joined objects still under/inside your rig? Alternatively, you can always export it out as an alembic with the multiple parts, then when you get to the geonodes step, join the geometry back together in geonodes. (Bring each piece in, and connect it to a join geometry node, and then use that node as your character input) Hope this helps!

@@levelupvfx Thank you so much! will give this a shot.

@@levelupvfx Hey this idea worked great, I was able to join the individual head and body object info nodes together with the join geometry node, and the character successfully moves as a whole (but only after selecting "relative" on the object info nodes). If I don't have "relative" selected, then once again only the body moves. It seems when relative is not selected, I can move the group wherever the plane is. But when relative is selected, I have to move the character in order to move the group. This would be no problem, except for some reason my character's head is locked in place (I can move the body, but the head will not budge). Haha it's like a tradeoff. Any idea why my character's head would be stuck in place, unable to move, and yet the body would be freely movable? Thanks again! I am telling everyone about your videos.

hmmm, I couldnt tell you off the top of my head. If you want the easy solution, you could always just throw a transform geometry node on there and offset it to the location you want it purely through geonodes, but if you want to be able to physically move the plane simply and easily, sadly I dont really have a solution off the top of my head. Im glad you enjoyed and found the video useful though! hopefully I was at least of some help!

@@levelupvfx Hey I remade my character as one object, then rigged it and redid the animation, exported to fbx and then from fbx to alembic, figuring it would be easier to work with this way, and think I stumbled upon the real issue I was having before. Prior to unparenting the null object (after importing the alembic file), my character just a simple jump animation and his arms raise in the air, and then he lands. However, after unparenting the null object, the animation remains, but I seem to lose the elevation aspect (instead of rising up, he just raises his hands, without actually jumping). Is there a way to maintain the elevation portion of an animation with this method? Sorry for the questions haha, I am learning so much and watch this video a few times a day. It is very helpful. No worries if not though.

If you listen he says he exported in a .ply format

There is. I work at a metal working company that designs and make automatic wood processing lines. After assembly, before shipping, we take hundreds of photos and videos, that we use as reference for customer sevice, documentation and reference for future projects. I have tried regular 3d laser scaning and phogrametry, but these options doesn’t really work well with large/complex instalations. Laser is impractical because of computation that is required and generated mesh files from photogrametry are ugly and file sizes are ludacris. Just recently I tried gausian splatting and it was just what we needed. In future we are planing to upload gausian splats of our projects to website, because unlike complex meshes gausian splats can be viewed in web browser and smartphones.