Thank-you again Grant. I have nearly finished creating this after a very long break and looking forward to animating the scene with better camera movement this time, a moving rather static camera
Thank you so much for the quality of your content; it is a very good source of learning, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn; I hope you will gain visibility, your work deserves more views!
Hi Grant. Just want to start by saying, I'm loving your tutorials. I wanted to say that with the node setup you have, that instead of an image of a solid colour, you could just have an RGB node as the colour input. Also, if you use an Alpha over node rather than a mix node, you do not need to connect the alpha channel for it to work. This keeps everything more simple. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! This also allows you to put gradients behind it as well with some googling and a bit of node magic. Great tutorial series overall really helped me with blender.
Hi, can you make a tutorial for setting up camera position, I tried to set it up but mine camera view looks like the water and sand is stretching too much to the one side.
On the mac, you can render a ffmpeg to Quicktime, with the Animation codec it supports alpha. Then you can composite in AfterEffects, Motion, or similar. I haven't tried it yet, but this is how I do it in every other 3D app on the Mac.
I think you can add an RGB node too instead of the solid color image, still your way is handy for those that want to make a background externally aswell
Hi Grant thanks for the amazing content, I'm very inspired to learn Blender again when I stumbled on this series. I have a question, there's a way to put a Plane behind the scene, with a material color blue, and do the 360º animation without the camera crossing inside the plane?
Really love the overall style and this "aquarium-like" scenery gives me some ideas for dioramas that I'd love to try out. It's very inspiring. I think I would like to create the water surface with a perlin noise bump map to animate it in a loop.. that should be possible, right?
This is amazing. Can you show how you rotated the image and maybe animate the fish, water and applied sound effects for newbies like me. Please do a modern interior architecture step by step. Thank you.
I'm struggling quite a bit to get the nice reflections and dancing of the sun on the top of the water. I followed your material and light setup dot for dot but can't seem to get a similar result. It's like the top of the waves aren't catching the lighting unless at a very very specific angle.
Hi Grant. Amazing tutorial series. Love how you reply to every comment. I'm facing an issue with lighting. My scene appears too dull. I want it to be bright like yours but I just can't figure out how. I've tried increasing the power of the sun lamp but it doesn't work as good.
Hi Grant, my goal for now, is to just load up a backround scene (PNG image) with the camera locked on Front view and render short animations with 3D characters. So, I loaded an outdoor cartoon scene (PNG). lined it up with camera aimed at it "Front view" looks great in Blender. But doesn't show up in Render view. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Grant, great videos. Although I was hoping you'd show us how you made the final turntable that you show in the beginning of all these videos. Did you make it in blender? Because I can't quite seem to figure out how you added the vignette to the background image without the image changing based on the camera rotating in the turntable. In short, how did you do your vignette? Thanks
I came back to this tutorial after making my own scene, I can't figure out how to output the animation. I can view it by going to render and then view animation, but how do I download it?
Theres a simpler way in the world set a mix node and set its factor to light ray and set the other color to an image texture or generated material of your choosing then just record the object being rotated and save the animation
I see you do all your suff using eevee. I make the blue background and works in eevee but as soon as you switch too cycles you dont get the Blue background. For one I dont use eevee, so how would you apply the blue background using cycles?
I was undecided among these software. Whichever you suggest, I will begin to learn it. Can you help me ? ( My english is so bad , sorry ) I'm Turkish (:
Thanks Grant for your great Tutorials! I was trying to setup a camera following a path around the shack and making an animation with transparence and then a background like done here. It worked but now when I try to get still shots/renders from the scene, placing my camera elsewhere the rendered image always seem to be frame 88 from my old camera/follow path rendering results? How can I fix this? I unparented the camera and the circle.. I deleted both of them and created a new camera, but nothing seems to help. I am stuck at frame 88 of the old rendering I was doing.. This is quite annoying. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks and keep up the great work!
nice vid as always! keep up the great work! also can you please tell me how to render images when i press F12 to render the images pops up after a few seconds but it's all very blocky and pixelated.
@@grabbitt i'm in eevee, i just select eevee and render without doing any changes to the render settings. (i also don't know how to send a screenshot sry)
hum... I did it changing the World , used a Light Path node "Is Camera Ray" plugged to the factor of a Mix Shader, where I have the HDRI Background top and the Other color Background bottom. This way I can have everything reacting to the HDRI but the background seen from the camera the color I choose(this works with Eevee too) Are there any disavantages of using this approach?
Thanks for this wonderful tutorial. However, I have a problem in Compositing mode, because I can´t see the little scene in the Render Leyers node and I don´t know what I am doing wrong. Can you help me, please? Thanks in advance
Edit: You need to have a previous render or you won´t see anything inside your Render layers node. Then, after going to Compositing node, you only need to click in this Render Layers node with Shift + Control + Left bottom mouse and you´ll have the Render layers node with the small image inside of it plus the view node plus the image of your render in the background. All at once.
@@grabbitt Please! I think you are a great teacher and I (and a lot of more people) am learning a lot. I really enjoy your way to explain and "making" mistakes and solve then. It´s a very good way to teach. I expect you to teach us some day how to make an asset like a haunted house or something similar playing around with lights, shadows, emissions, that sort of things. Color and the good use of lights can turn out a normal work in a wonderful work.
It's been a while i see, so i don't know if it whas solved or not but seeing i had the same problem and no solution here, i tought it would be good to say how i fixed it. I googled it. After i found a post that helped i can say for me it worked when in the output properties under post proccesing, i dechecked sequencer. With a re-render it showed up.
@@grabbitt I'm using crack cinema 4D. I was undecided among these software. Whichever you suggest, I will begin to learn it. Can you help me ? ( My english is so bad , sorry ) I'm Turkish (:
I've found the series great up until here. When I try to render, I get absolute garbage. Either it's waaaay too bright in Eevee or it looks like a crayon drawing in Cycles. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks Grant.. You help a lot of begginers like me. Please do some tutorial exporting 3d files with materials and uploading to other website like sketchfab. 😊
@@grabbitt Thanks Grant.. You help a lot of begginers like me. Please do some tutorial exporting 3d files with materials and uploading to other website like sketchfab. 😊
Strange...i had to put between the image and the mix node a scale node otherwise my background image was only half of the render despite that i choose the right size for the background.
It seems like my water is more of a blurry mess, yours looks clearer on the sides while the top is more reflective. Up until last episode mine looked like yours, was there any changes between last video and this one? Here is a picture of what mine looks like at the start of this video. i.imgur.com/GNy3jFs.png
Great tips thank you. I just watched another video that explained how to do this yet another way to work around the limitations of just turning on the transparency in the film settings ( so you can have a solid color background of your choosing while still working on your scene not sure if it helps with rendering like your suggestions though ( it involves using a mix shader and but still get the lighting from the hdri while using eevee.) here is the link... th-cam.com/video/5pAuwNSlwrk/w-d-xo.html
Larry, thank you! This worked like a champ (once I figured out that when he said "press shiffey" he meant, "press Shift-A.") Now I'm able to make a fun movie with the pretty blue background built in. Yay.
Quality tutorial as always Grant! we can also use "alpha over" node in compositor instead of mix so that the node setup will be much more intuitive.
ahh yes good point :)
Thank-you again Grant. I have nearly finished creating this after a very long break and looking forward to animating the scene with better camera movement this time, a moving rather static camera
Thanks for the tutorial, Grant!
Yay I finished! Just uploaded my video with the turn around and swimming shark. :)
Your tutorials are fun which definitely helps. Thanks Grant!
nice :)
Thank you so much for the quality of your content; it is a very good source of learning, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn; I hope you will gain visibility, your work deserves more views!
Thanks :)
Hi Grant. Just want to start by saying, I'm loving your tutorials. I wanted to say that with the node setup you have, that instead of an image of a solid colour, you could just have an RGB node as the colour input. Also, if you use an Alpha over node rather than a mix node, you do not need to connect the alpha channel for it to work. This keeps everything more simple. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the info!
Just switched up my nodes after reading this! Thanks.
Just finished this scene, this one took me a bit longer than the well and the monster, but the result is incredible :3. Thank you so much !!!
Thanks :)
I was just wondering how to do this when your video popped up! Thanks for the tutorial!
omg same
I'm with you guys
Yay, the final tutorial. Now i can begin watching them :D
Although there will be some animation ones coming as extras
@@grabbitt The more the merrier ! :D
Very good tutorial. SO clear, calm and concise. Keep it up. Thanks.
Thanks :)
This is great, thank you
You are really helping sir, i cant tell you how much, thank you very much
thanks :)
Thanks! This also allows you to put gradients behind it as well with some googling and a bit of node magic. Great tutorial series overall really helped me with blender.
yes indeed
Hi Ive been trying to do this but nothing seems to work for a radial gradient. do you know how to do this by any chance?
Hi, can you make a tutorial for setting up camera position, I tried to set it up but mine camera view looks like the water and sand is stretching too much to the one side.
On the mac, you can render a ffmpeg to Quicktime, with the Animation codec it supports alpha. Then you can composite in AfterEffects, Motion, or similar. I haven't tried it yet, but this is how I do it in every other 3D app on the Mac.
yes indeed :)
Thank you!!!
I think you can add an RGB node too instead of the solid color image, still your way is handy for those that want to make a background externally aswell
yeah there's a few ways. Probably a way in the world tab also but not tried it :)
Thx you for all tutorials dude !
Thanks
thx mate
thanks
Hi Grant thanks for the amazing content, I'm very inspired to learn Blender again when I stumbled on this series.
I have a question, there's a way to put a Plane behind the scene, with a material color blue, and do the 360º animation without the camera crossing inside the plane?
Yes but it gets a little difficult to explain. I might have dinner stuff in my quick tips playlist that may help
thanks for this tutorial! i asked for this in the last video,really thanks!!
Thanks :)
Really love the overall style and this "aquarium-like" scenery gives me some ideas for dioramas that I'd love to try out. It's very inspiring. I think I would like to create the water surface with a perlin noise bump map to animate it in a loop.. that should be possible, right?
it is indeed
@@grabbitt Just found your new upload 🙂This series is super helpful. Thanks.
This is amazing. Can you show how you rotated the image and maybe animate the fish, water and applied sound effects for newbies like me. Please do a modern interior architecture step by step. Thank you.
yes i have a video on rotating search camera rotation. I will be doing some animation stuff very shortly
Grant Abbitt you are awesome
hi grant how can import photoshop image into blender u didint tell about it
drag and drop
Awesome! Thanks for making this man!
thanks :)
I'm struggling quite a bit to get the nice reflections and dancing of the sun on the top of the water. I followed your material and light setup dot for dot but can't seem to get a similar result. It's like the top of the waves aren't catching the lighting unless at a very very specific angle.
you can add a light and give it an angle to reflect of the surface
Hi Grant. Amazing tutorial series. Love how you reply to every comment. I'm facing an issue with lighting. My scene appears too dull. I want it to be bright like yours but I just can't figure out how. I've tried increasing the power of the sun lamp but it doesn't work as good.
go to the world settings and increase the background node
how do i get a white gradient in the center of the background please say
Answered
there is some issue , for some reason every time i zoom in the scene a shadow overlaps the whole scene making it very dark
Is there a way of making that vignette look without leaving Blender? Sometihng involving gradients or changing the camera's focal length perhaps?
compositor
I do really love this tutorial and do have one question how can you spin your sea shack?
See quick tips playlist
Hi Grant, my goal for now, is to just load up a backround scene (PNG image)
with the camera locked on Front view and render short animations with 3D characters.
So, I loaded an outdoor cartoon scene (PNG). lined it up with camera aimed at it "Front view"
looks great in Blender. But doesn't show up in Render view. What am I doing wrong?
Check object properties
So if you are using photoshop... do you have to do all that process with all the images created? In my case 250 for the camera rolling.
not sure in photoshop
Awesome
Thanks :)
@@grabbitt You're Welcome
Hi Grant, great videos. Although I was hoping you'd show us how you made the final turntable that you show in the beginning of all these videos. Did you make it in blender? Because I can't quite seem to figure out how you added the vignette to the background image without the image changing based on the camera rotating in the turntable. In short, how did you do your vignette? Thanks
search camera turnaround on my channel
how do you get that gradient effect for the backround image in the render?
I did that in a different programme
♥️♥️♥️
:)
I came back to this tutorial after making my own scene, I can't figure out how to output the animation. I can view it by going to render and then view animation, but how do I download it?
See my video on rendering animations
Theres a simpler way in the world set a mix node and set its factor to light ray and set the other color to an image texture or generated material of your choosing then just record the object being rotated and save the animation
I thought there might be but used the composer instead
@@grabbitt I'll send you a picture of the node group
I see you do all your suff using eevee.
I make the blue background and works in eevee but as soon as you switch too cycles you dont get the Blue background.
For one I dont use eevee, so how would you apply the blue background using cycles?
should be the same way
Thank You!!!!!
Thanks :)
I was undecided among these software. Whichever you suggest, I will begin to learn it. Can you help me ? ( My english is so bad , sorry ) I'm Turkish (:
I would strongly recommend learning Blender
Thanks Grant for your great Tutorials! I was trying to setup a camera following a path around the shack and making an animation with transparence and then a background like done here. It worked but now when I try to get still shots/renders from the scene, placing my camera elsewhere the rendered image always seem to be frame 88 from my old camera/follow path rendering results? How can I fix this? I unparented the camera and the circle.. I deleted both of them and created a new camera, but nothing seems to help. I am stuck at frame 88 of the old rendering I was doing.. This is quite annoying. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks and keep up the great work!
Actually I also have a problem in compositing mode, perhaps they are linked. The render layers node is empty, my shack wont show up..
Thanks Grant for your great Tutorials!But when I synthesize, the picture is always gray, that is, there is no color short. What is the reason?
not sure with that one
Great video!! thanks so much for making them :) Any idea why in the compositing I only get an empty black box instead of my scene?
Have you got a hidden object
I know it's very late and I experienced the same problem. Solution: Just place a camera in your scene and it fixes the problem.
why i cant get the water be transparent like yours my keeps being a mirror and i see the hdri on it
change the roughness slightly
@@grabbitt did do that but not the same result but i got something that looks the same and its not that bad
As u said we need to be using RGBA, however I am making an animation so what should I do sir : ) ?
Same. But put them all together in an editing programme
@@grabbitt Ok thanks!
nice vid as always! keep up the great work! also can you please tell me how to render images when i press F12 to render the images pops up after a few seconds but it's all very blocky and pixelated.
are you in cycles or eevee maybe show a screen shot so i know whats going on
@@grabbitt i'm in eevee, i just select eevee and render without doing any changes to the render settings. (i also don't know how to send a screenshot sry)
@@yuridegtyarev7229 you could email me
@@grabbittoh i find out how it works, incredibly sorry for wasting your time.
hum... I did it changing the World , used a Light Path node "Is Camera Ray" plugged to the factor of a Mix Shader, where I have the HDRI Background top and the Other color Background bottom.
This way I can have everything reacting to the HDRI but the background seen from the camera the color I choose(this works with Eevee too)
Are there any disavantages of using this approach?
no it's pretty much the same as what i did but in the shader rather than the compositor
I can't seem to get the viewer node working in compositor...
Nvm, figured it out. I needed to render the image first.
Thanks for this wonderful tutorial. However, I have a problem in Compositing mode, because I can´t see the little scene in the Render Leyers node and I don´t know what I am doing wrong. Can you help me, please? Thanks in advance
Edit: You need to have a previous render or you won´t see anything inside your Render layers node. Then, after going to Compositing node, you only need to click in this Render Layers node with Shift + Control + Left bottom mouse and you´ll have the Render layers node with the small image inside of it plus the view node plus the image of your render in the background. All at once.
glad you managed to sort it. sorry for my poor explanation
@@grabbitt Please! I think you are a great teacher and I (and a lot of more people) am learning a lot. I really enjoy your way to explain and "making" mistakes and solve then. It´s a very good way to teach. I expect you to teach us some day how to make an asset like a haunted house or something similar playing around with lights, shadows, emissions, that sort of things. Color and the good use of lights can turn out a normal work in a wonderful work.
@@Carlos-kr4nz nice idea maybe a Halloween theme
@@grabbitt Yeah! That was what I was thinking.
Can I animate the background color to change colors?
Yes check out my node school playlist it will explain some of that
@@grabbitt thank you do much, will do
You are the reason why I updated to 2.8 things are bit messed up there.
what things?
@@grabbitt new interface and keyboard commands.
@@serjeelranjan8345 I see :)
Why can't I see the image in the "Render Layers" node when I go into the compositor, I had the same problem in 2.79?
i'm not sure?
It's been a while i see, so i don't know if it whas solved or not but seeing i had the same problem and no solution here, i tought it would be good to say how i fixed it.
I googled it. After i found a post that helped i can say for me it worked when in the output properties under post proccesing, i dechecked sequencer. With a re-render it showed up.
Grant🙋
:)
Can you make cinema 4d tutorials ? Because nobody does good things like you right now.
Abdullah Yazbahar why not switch to blender? It s free and the community is big
Thanks but i dont own the software :)
@@grabbitt I'm using crack cinema 4D.
I was undecided among these software. Whichever you suggest, I will begin to learn it. Can you help me ? ( My english is so bad , sorry ) I'm Turkish (:
Yes just use blender then you dont have to worry about licenses as it's free
Grant Abbitt Thanks but I’m going to use Cinema 4D 😂
I have no shadows under the objects inside the glass/sea in Eevee or Cycles. :(
Yeah glad is tricky to get the setting correct
So, would you consider this Part 7?
YEs but it's kind of an extra. There will be more extras coming
@@grabbitt Looking forward to them, thank you!
Easier than the new image input is to just use an RGB input with the desired color
nice idea :)
alpha over would work too i guess?
indeed
You can add a background color without using composition or other software.
Check this: th-cam.com/video/S1gsqfbHMEU/w-d-xo.html
when I render it it has no background in it
Look up hdri.
I've found the series great up until here. When I try to render, I get absolute garbage. Either it's waaaay too bright in Eevee or it looks like a crayon drawing in Cycles. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Check hidden objects
How to fix this. when I export to .fbx file why the transparency is gone. ? other materials doesn't display right.
you cant export the materials you need to recreate them in the programme you export them to
Thanks Grant.. You help a lot of begginers like me. Please do some tutorial exporting 3d files with materials and uploading to other website like sketchfab. 😊
@@grabbitt Thanks Grant.. You help a lot of begginers like me. Please do some tutorial exporting 3d files with materials and uploading to other website like sketchfab. 😊
@@bnz_mtvx i'll try and include that eventually
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how can i do it in cycles
exactly the same
@@grabbitt well I did the same but it didn't work
Thanks anyway
I will look it up
i followed everything in the compositor and its still blank doesn't show the color background
Not sure with this
I think you missed the 4:19 step
Well... the background thing in Blender crashed it :D I guess I will edit it in^^
Strange...i had to put between the image and the mix node a scale node otherwise my background image was only half of the render despite that i choose the right size for the background.
strange??
@@grabbitt yapp :-) or weird
It seems like my water is more of a blurry mess, yours looks clearer on the sides while the top is more reflective. Up until last episode mine looked like yours, was there any changes between last video and this one? Here is a picture of what mine looks like at the start of this video. i.imgur.com/GNy3jFs.png
adjust the strength of the hdri background in the world tab
comment
comment back
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@@melkerholmgren4875 replying back :)
@@grabbitt a reply to a reply should be called a comment but it's still called a reply
Great tips thank you. I just watched another video that explained how to do this yet another way to work around the limitations of just turning on the transparency in the film settings ( so you can have a solid color background of your choosing while still working on your scene not sure if it helps with rendering like your suggestions though ( it involves using a mix shader and but still get the lighting from the hdri while using eevee.) here is the link... th-cam.com/video/5pAuwNSlwrk/w-d-xo.html
Yes that is another sensible way :)
Larry, thank you! This worked like a champ (once I figured out that when he said "press shiffey" he meant, "press Shift-A.") Now I'm able to make a fun movie with the pretty blue background built in. Yay.
i have a bad quality when im start to render :/
Or just worse than you:/