Finally! A VFX Workflow With Less Guesswork

In this tutorial, I share my VFX workflow to accurately recreate the lighting of a real world scene in a 3D program like Blender. As VFX artists, we want to do as little compositing work as necessary to get VFX elements integrated seamlessly with live action footage. This workflow will help you do exactly that! I explain the best way film your footage, capture and create an HDRI, and use a color reference chart for precise results and easy compositing. I hope this video helps you take some of the guesswork out of your own workflow!

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[ian.jo_]

you’re a king and i want you to know that

[randoguy]

11:20 Instead of guessing the shadows, you can use the Sun Position plugin (Built-in) which allows you to match the Sun based on the Longitude and latitude, date and time, as well as pair it with the HDRI texture

[Qbanpensil]

This tutorial is very accurate .THis is the way we work in vfx at Framestore studio. Always lighting our scene with hdri's and matching color from the plate. Good job for the video.Really good

[OnMarsD]

This was such a fantastic easy to watch tutorial. I was just researching this topic about color matching and compositing for VFX so I'm glad I came across your channel. Keep it up!

[broctonnunns]

Not only is this one of the most in-depth tutorials, but it's also so well done and edited. I am an idiot when it comes to color and I was able to follow along! Keep up the solid content!

[stimon]

This, together with your ACES tutorial, is hands down the best explanation of how color and light works I have ever seen! Both in the context of CG work and for understanding how light and color works in general! Thank you so much for these great videos!

[mr_sheen]

ive seen a lot of tutorials and people talk about hdris and this is THE most in depth in terms of colour correction

[mauriciolee]

Thank InLightVFX for such a DETAILED & EFFECTIVE visual effects video.

[lgab]

This is really a vast simplification on how to use a Macbeth chart, you're only using white balance. It's also doing it in an unnecessary complicated way. There are tools available for Nuke that will analyze a chart and give you a proper 3D LUT which is what you want ideally. Also, it's a much better workflow to render out a new HDR with adjusted colors and use that in your 3D scene, no need to keep track of those gray scale values. Lastly, fine-tuning the final % is best done in comp using cryptomattes and such, not in the shaders, it's just not WYSIWYG enough.

[rajendrameena]

Now this is my good to go channel for blender VFX learning.

[TheKorabkoff]

Gray and mirror balls are extremely useful for light reference, especially if you do not have a reference object filmed.

[zaks]

As a beginner, this is insane, i can't believe the amount of skill and precision it takes to be good at VFX, i have really underestimated this field. I'm excited to learn more!

[mikepindara]

I love this step by step pipeline, and I hope it starts to become a big standardization across the board.
"begins with a careful filming process" = Instantly explodes when all my clients send me a smattering of random stock video, stuff shot from their iphones, or even more likely, things shot by other companies who didn't care about the post teams while filming at all.

[peterlames]

you can match the grey patch quite a bit faster by picking the values in the grade node. I can go more into detail if you want.

[PoiTorres]

The explanation is so detailed my brain cannot comprehend
I'm saving this video, I need to watch this multiple times.

[cooperclelan]

insane how much information is available on youtube, thank you so much for this video its so easy to follow

[TheRichardoboh]

Definitely deserves a like and subscribe! Excellent tutorial from Lagos, Nigeria

[the_devil_]

Great video. this channel deserve more subs

[hik.horticultures]

Your videos are always on point! You never miss a beat or gloss over anything. This is awesome man, thank you for this!

[tyler.t.seaman]

Great video, man! Just out of curiosity, why did you use Nuke to transform the color space over Davinci Resolve?