Film emulation in the viewport compositor | Blender tutorial

Learn how to fake a lens, real film, and color grading, all inside the viewport compositor. To get a sense of final polish from the first moment of working. Yes, you read it right; I consider this fake color grading.

CHAPTERS
03:09 - Soft knee
05:32 - Lens
10:14 - Sponsored segment
11:11 - Film
24:13 - 3 Secret sauces
27:22 - Saving startup file

ATTRIBUTION
Thanks for providing your 3D models for free ❣️

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[ZERO_DESIGN]

Blender 4.2 can use GPU for Compositing.
You can turn it on by pressing T in the Compositing window, going to Options, and changing the device from CPU to GPU.

[DerekElliott]

haven't ever done much compositing but this looks like a great place to start!

[mulanmiller]

Your channel really is a breath of fresh air within the Blender community. Such unique and helpful content presented in a professional manner. No distracting background music, memes or silly cuts. Keep it up!

[danialsoozani]

man you're killing it! the best compositing tutorial I've seen on blender till now!

[alexvith]

This is cool!
Another thing I like to do to simulate halation is splitting the image color into RGB, slightly blurring the red and the green channel, and then combining it again. You get that classic reddish bloom around strong lights by simulating how light interacts with the film.

[johannesisphording]

I really have to thank you for that low key, high value tutorial! No unnessecary babbling, no annoying music and very good tips straight to the point!

[flannel.and.film.]

I've watched this video so many times now. I've been looking for this kind of compositing workflow for so long and this was so easy to follow and understand. I can't wait to see what else you come up with! I'd love to see how you take an EXR multilayer image like you showed how to get to the beauty pass in Davinci and to see how you do your workflow there as well to get the film/lens look. Keep up the great work!

[cgnovice]

Robin uploads and i take a coffeebreak from work

[krysidian]

That is so cool! Ever since the viewport compositor was a thing this has been what I was doing so much! Developing a look in realtime while still modelling is just really fun to do. And I always wanted to create that film look in the viewport!

Man, I can't wait till render passes will become a real thing in the viewport compositor, hopefully in both eevee and cycles

[loonch]

Man... how can you have all that huge information in your brain? You are amazing! I would have loved to see the final render btw

[robbie_]

My name is also Robin and I'm learning Blender, so I'm giving you a follow. Us Robins need to stick together.

[bautistadelatorre]

I just met you yesterday, and now… I can’t believe how little I knew about Blender.

[DannySi]

Awesome video. Definitely buying the nodes. Also real voice leaked at 25:00

[BennXdesign]

For the halation, you should kill the effect with a reversed ramp in the fully white areas. halation affects only the darks zones of the film when there is a very bright light on the side. the light is "pouring" on the film from the light zone to the dark (especially for the red, as you said), and it shows only on the dark areas. as every other colors are captured normally in the brightest areas, you shouldn't increase the red values in those (the light itself doesn't turn red, is what I try to say). This will result in a physically accurate halation.
...but to be honest, if you are serious about your delivery, let's do this inside davinci anyway :D

[PatriceFERLET]

Well, I discover your channel after a too much of time. Thanks to share your skills.

[jhalanddesign]

Many great tips, not sure if I like the end result, but good to go through all the different steps. Noise shouldn't just be slapped on. There are more noise in the shadows then in the highlights.

[hybrid]

This was really inciteful as I use blender compositor. Looking forward to seeing your next Blender Compositor tutorial

[Exahertz]

Mind Blown!!! Seriously bits of brain everywhere, awesome!

[seankennedy]

Nice tips! Great explanations of low pass and high pass, good useful stuff!

[RomboutVersluijs]

Ive adjusted the Amaranth addon so i can save Color-Management with the curves as well as presets. Its saves so much time without to be finicky with those settings