for shadows like that i usally just import either a 3d model for the shadow thrower or i i try to keep it low poly a png image of a tree. but your way seems to work great. just seems like unnecessary work but what do i know :P
@@Jacob_ZirkleI have followed every step in this tutorial, the problem is that the mesh (the one you named image) I created to reflect the environment on the car is casting a shadow on my ground plane's shadow catcher, but I noticed yours isn't. Please how do I fix this?
i would love a bit more depth in the color management area. I recently had to put CGI on a shot recorded in LOG and then send it composed to the colorist. I honestly didn't know how to handle myself well in Blender, without entering into a complex workflow with ACES.
Do you do private projects? And if I captured 360 HDRI data for the reflection would you be able to make the car even more realistic? Your video is cool the car still looks a bit plasticky / fake.
I work as a freelance artist if that what you’re asking. Also yes capturing an HDRI of the scene would greatly help make it as accurate as possible. I didn’t spend a lot of time on this project but having an HDRI and then a better car model would greatly help make this shot as accurate as possible
I’m guessing you mean the distortion on the sides of the camera. If you delete the 4 nodes like I did after setting up the tracking scene, it should disable that from being rendered. If you want to disable it on the 3D camera, select the camera, go to camera settings, and then background image, and finally just select it to show the undistorted video. Hope that helps
Yeah blender compositing is slow and the nodes aren’t as good. Nuke is much faster and can get you much better results. Davinci resolve fusion is a good free alternative.
@@Jacob_Zirkle i spent like 2 hours trying to track my scene and then you jump to a new software that i have absolutely no idea how to use, didnt put it in the title at all. now i either have to go download nuke, watch hours of tutorials to learn how to use that software. OR i have to go find tutorials in blender how to composite the rest of this scene. OR ive just wasted my morning....
@@looksee8192 really as long as you follow the principles of the compositing like color correcting and adding the shadow as a mask to color the footage, it should be the same in any compositing program and you’ll just have to look up the coloring workflow for your specific program but like I said nuke non commercial is free so you can still follow along.
VFX artists like using image sequences because it solves a lot of problems due to how different software treats video files so most vfx software prefers image sequences
Couldn't be easier, just drag and drop that car in there and you're done, IF any of these programs were designed to be user friendly. Instead, it will take about a week to go through this video step by step.
Unfortunately that's easier said than done. VFX is dependent on a huge variety of factors that we have to take into account based on the shot. Actually having the flexibility is something we artist love it just takes a lot more time to learn all of the controls which to a beginner might be overwhelming but necessary for good vfx. Maybe in the future with AI we can achieve something drag and drop but for now, specialized artists are needed to get good results and that skill can take years to achieve.
@@Jacob_Zirkle I know, I'm just finding it frustrating trying to use Blender and nothing turns out right because it's just too complicated to even use for things I would expect to be simple. Somebody could make good money if they could design something that uses the nodes of Blender but put together in an interface that makes it simpler and more intuitive. It should be possible. It could still have the ability to go into fine tuning mode but most people would only need the simple mode most of the time.
Hey kids, please don't follow any of the compositing advice at the end of this video. This is an incredibly amateur approach and it's frankly irresponsible to be teaching with such a clear lack of understanding. The most basic and obvious thing that stands out is the black levels of the car/shadows are MUCH deeper than the plate. Home boy should have gained up his viewer to see the differences and then lifted his black to match, 70% of comp is in the black levels. Next he should have zoomed in close and inspected the defocus level, and then stepped through the R, G, B channels and matched the film/digital grain on each. and another free tip: don't use the color correct node, it doesn't concatenate, uses more CPU and can leave artifacts, I haven't used one in over 10 years -- the grade node will do what you need 99% of the time. source: me. senior compositor.
Hey man, thanks for the feedback! I’m still learning nuke myself so all of this helps me as well become a better artist. You’re totally right about the grain and I can’t believe I forgot to do it for this shot. Also I didn’t know that about the color correct node so I’ll take a look into doing more things just in the grade node. I was in a rush trying to put together this video so I missed some steps like I normally do. I never said I’m an expert with nuke and never claim as such. I simply just want to showcase my workflow and help beginners learn VFX. I do appreciate the feedback coming from someone who wants to be a senior compositor some day and I’ll take your advice to better my next composites.
@@Jacob_Zirkle cool .... yeah my comment was pretty salty about ppl teaching subjects they ought not to... TH-cam is full of "lessons" and its only when im an actual expert do i realize many are full of shit. best free resource on TH-cam is Tony Lyons youtube channel... his 3 parrt Keying is gold.
Could be that your mouse isn’t in the tracking window maybe. There is a button at the bottom of the tracking window where it does the same thing so maybe try that instead
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Bro how do you make the 3 points on the floor
did you figure it out ? im struggling with it
for shadows like that i usally just import either a 3d model for the shadow thrower or i i try to keep it low poly a png image of a tree. but your way seems to work great. just seems like unnecessary work but what do i know :P
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Will the steps in this tutorial work if I animated the car to move around the scene in blender?
Yeah as long as the car doesn’t leave the ground plane of your 3d tracked scene it should all be the same
@@Jacob_ZirkleI have followed every step in this tutorial, the problem is that the mesh (the one you named image) I created to reflect the environment on the car is casting a shadow on my ground plane's shadow catcher, but I noticed yours isn't. Please how do I fix this?
i would love a bit more depth in the color management area.
I recently had to put CGI on a shot recorded in LOG and then send it composed to the colorist. I honestly didn't know how to handle myself well in Blender, without entering into a complex workflow with ACES.
can we achieve this kind of result by only using Blender for compositing, or Fusion in DR?
Did u use 360 camera to make this hdri?
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Do you do private projects? And if I captured 360 HDRI data for the reflection would you be able to make the car even more realistic? Your video is cool the car still looks a bit plasticky / fake.
I work as a freelance artist if that what you’re asking. Also yes capturing an HDRI of the scene would greatly help make it as accurate as possible. I didn’t spend a lot of time on this project but having an HDRI and then a better car model would greatly help make this shot as accurate as possible
Muito bom cara isso me ajuda muito
How do I get rid of that barrel and blurry sides of the video frame once I've solved the camera? Anyone knows?
I’m guessing you mean the distortion on the sides of the camera. If you delete the 4 nodes like I did after setting up the tracking scene, it should disable that from being rendered. If you want to disable it on the 3D camera, select the camera, go to camera settings, and then background image, and finally just select it to show the undistorted video. Hope that helps
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do you just not like to use blender to composite? im confused and dont have nuke
Yeah blender compositing is slow and the nodes aren’t as good. Nuke is much faster and can get you much better results. Davinci resolve fusion is a good free alternative.
@@Jacob_Zirkle i spent like 2 hours trying to track my scene and then you jump to a new software that i have absolutely no idea how to use, didnt put it in the title at all. now i either have to go download nuke, watch hours of tutorials to learn how to use that software. OR i have to go find tutorials in blender how to composite the rest of this scene. OR ive just wasted my morning....
@@looksee8192 get nuke non commercial. It’s free
@@Jacob_Zirkle nah im giving up. at least put (BLENDER + NUKE) in the title. kinda pissed off
@@looksee8192 really as long as you follow the principles of the compositing like color correcting and adding the shadow as a mask to color the footage, it should be the same in any compositing program and you’ll just have to look up the coloring workflow for your specific program but like I said nuke non commercial is free so you can still follow along.
Why you not choose video to make vfx you using images 😮
VFX artists like using image sequences because it solves a lot of problems due to how different software treats video files so most vfx software prefers image sequences
Couldn't be easier, just drag and drop that car in there and you're done, IF any of these programs were designed to be user friendly. Instead, it will take about a week to go through this video step by step.
Unfortunately that's easier said than done. VFX is dependent on a huge variety of factors that we have to take into account based on the shot. Actually having the flexibility is something we artist love it just takes a lot more time to learn all of the controls which to a beginner might be overwhelming but necessary for good vfx. Maybe in the future with AI we can achieve something drag and drop but for now, specialized artists are needed to get good results and that skill can take years to achieve.
@@Jacob_Zirkle I know, I'm just finding it frustrating trying to use Blender and nothing turns out right because it's just too complicated to even use for things I would expect to be simple. Somebody could make good money if they could design something that uses the nodes of Blender but put together in an interface that makes it simpler and more intuitive. It should be possible. It could still have the ability to go into fine tuning mode but most people would only need the simple mode most of the time.
Hey kids, please don't follow any of the compositing advice at the end of this video. This is an incredibly amateur approach and it's frankly irresponsible to be teaching with such a clear lack of understanding.
The most basic and obvious thing that stands out is the black levels of the car/shadows are MUCH deeper than the plate. Home boy should have gained up his viewer to see the differences and then lifted his black to match, 70% of comp is in the black levels.
Next he should have zoomed in close and inspected the defocus level, and then stepped through the R, G, B channels and matched the film/digital grain on each.
and another free tip: don't use the color correct node, it doesn't concatenate, uses more CPU and can leave artifacts, I haven't used one in over 10 years -- the grade node will do what you need 99% of the time.
source: me. senior compositor.
Hey man, thanks for the feedback! I’m still learning nuke myself so all of this helps me as well become a better artist. You’re totally right about the grain and I can’t believe I forgot to do it for this shot. Also I didn’t know that about the color correct node so I’ll take a look into doing more things just in the grade node. I was in a rush trying to put together this video so I missed some steps like I normally do. I never said I’m an expert with nuke and never claim as such. I simply just want to showcase my workflow and help beginners learn VFX. I do appreciate the feedback coming from someone who wants to be a senior compositor some day and I’ll take your advice to better my next composites.
@@Jacob_Zirkle cool .... yeah my comment was pretty salty about ppl teaching subjects they ought not to... TH-cam is full of "lessons" and its only when im an actual expert do i realize many are full of shit.
best free resource on TH-cam is Tony Lyons youtube channel... his 3 parrt Keying is gold.
What if when I press Ctrl + T it didn`t start to track? Just happens nothing?
Could be that your mouse isn’t in the tracking window maybe. There is a button at the bottom of the tracking window where it does the same thing so maybe try that instead
@@Jacob_Zirkle yeah already found it, thx, nice video!