Blender 3.5+ Realtime Compositor | 9 Tips of What You Can Do With It

Blender's new realtime GPU-accelerated compositor is amazing, and here's a quick tutorial featuring 9 ideas of what you can do with it.

🔗 The project files:

Timecodes:
00:00 - Start
01:21 - Flip horizontally
01:49 - Desaturate (black and white)
02:36 - Glare
04:53 - Chromatic aberration
05:17 - Color grading
07:07 - RGB curves
07:33 - Vignette
08:37 - Film grain
10:18 - Pixelization
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A cacodemon model made by Lev, my 6yr old son! :)

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Music: Bhairavi - Sitarkhani - Aditya Verma, Subir Dev
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Our socials:

[quackers]

1:49 Something to note about desaturation is that it doesn't account for relative luminance, where certain hues are usually seen as brighter than other ones (i.e. yellow vs blue for example). This usually means that desaturating will slightly flatten and wash out the value range of your image, which is nice for stylistic purposes but isn't what you'd necessarily want if you want to check your values.

There is a node under the Converter tab called 'RGB to BW', which gives a conversion that's more faithful to the original image.

[GerryGoodDude]

There's something about Gleb's videos that put me at ease. Is it the simple way he breaks down a complex concept? The logical workflow, his voice? I don't know but I swear I come out a calmer human being.

[SpencerMagnusson]

THANK YOU for recommending the Offset/Power/Slope option for color balance. I've learned that early, but it makes such a difference in color grading. For those who don't know - Lift/Gamma/Gain assumes a lot about your color space and can clamp your values. Great video!

[Dantti]

Real-time compositor is so much fun!
Can't wait for render passes to also work ❤️

[travisyee]

Gleb training his son to become mega-Landgren, nice video!

[bfhyjtl]

Thank you for putting this video together! I really appreciate how you broke down each section into a bite size chunk. This was very informative and let me take some of this immediately into my workflow. Much appreciated!

[Laxerot]

Shout out to the background music choice tough love it

[gabrielmorod]

This is so useful! Can’t wait for render passes to be available. 😛

[begalooloo]

yesyes thankyou so much for Realtime Compositor....

[objd]

Learnt so much here. Just wanted to mention that there is a vignette node setup in the template section, but you will just do a little adjustments 👍👍👍

[GaryParris]

Blender is awesome, getting better with every release :O) well done Gleb! Yes more people could be donating to Blender Funds to keep it growing moving forward

[MichaelHickmanD]

Very cool feature regardless of limitations. Awesome video!!!

[georgerobozrecursivedigita]

I can't believe your son is 6 already! Time flies...

[Dmitry]

The biggest mystery is why compositor has blur node, but shader editor doesn’t ☹️

[jarvisholytaylor]

I respect your tutorial especially the film grain portion 8:37 but I think increasing the post processing Dither will give the movie grain effect.

[EmvyBeats]

I always wondered why the K- cycles blender had this ability, but not actual Blender.

[spacejourneywaves]

Thanks for creating such a great tutorial👏
I have one question, how did you learn this information? Did you just connect the nodes one by one or is there some kind of guide documentation for this?

[schrimblo]

dang your kid has a huge future in modeling ahead of them lol

[TheBoss]

Wait
Ему уже 6 лет???
Капец время летит

[ArielTavori]

Amazing! I wonder if it would be possible to port this to as an OpenFX plugin for use inside DaVinci Resolve/Fusion... 🤔🥹