Animating Environments with Depth Maps - Lazy Tutorials

Lazy Tutorials #4
So this is less of a tutorial and more just showing what's possible with depth maps. They can help you do a bunch of in the composite, and are great if you're on a deadline.

[BlindIllusionist]

Your tutorials are exactly what the world was missing and I hope you continue doing them (even faster!)

[EVILBUNNY]

Me: Ah crap, my cake is falling apar--
Ian: PUT AN ELEVATOR DOOR IN THERE!
me: But Sir, it's a cak--
Ian: *MAKE IT BLURRY*

[ChristopherHemsworthCreative]

"it's easy to push things too far and make them ... AWESOME"

[AllThingsFilm]

Holy cow. This one tutorial has given me the best solution for creating highly detailed environments with 3D camera moves with the least amount of processing. I am SO glad the guys over at Corridor told me about you. Brilliant.

[maksuree]

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WAS STUDYING ANIMATION IN COLLEGE COULDA SAVED ME 60K

[FifaTikiTakaFan]

Your videos are great - I learn new things and tecniques, without heaering "e to extrude" the one thousands time.

[NathanJamesLarsen]

I normally put youtube videos on 1.5x speed. this is the ONLY channel I put it at .75 speed LOL love it

[IceWolve]

What i find great about your tutorials and style is that it brings back what most people have been losing with tech. Because we can do so much more easier, we tend to over do it at times thinking people will see every minute detail and we think we have to do every pain staking detail. But back in the day of older games, they all had to come up with similar tricks like this to pull off effects which at times could be way better.

[ooLevityoo]

I like to think those embers are moths

[alperozgunyesil]

i am atheist but i know that you gonna go to heaven <3

[christophermoonlightproduction]

I've been using displacement maps for years. Just did a really convincing cave interior with a pretty massive camera move, with no distortion. One thing you can do to push your camera moves past the limits shown here is to break your composition into layers with a matte for each one. I'm loving the way you think, by the way. Efficiency is really the name of the gave.

[leifn]

This is mizzing the lazy tutorials in the title. great series! love the no bullshit approach

[Vidyut_Gore]

I just started with blender, but I have an artistic brain. I see your lazy tutorials, they go by before I register what you're doing. Then I watch them several times and voila, I'm smarter.

[eralec]

Wohoo. Nice. Great assets you have built there too. Love the pipe set

[samjuice]

Is it just me or could that depth map be a piece of art of its own

[subscribeothers]

Seriously you covered the whole process in a minute!!!!
Ahhh! Briliant!! 😉😜

[mordaciousfilms]

These look like practical effects they're so good. I would've thought that was a real set or a miniature. It screams realism. :D

[Remowylliams]

These short tips are great. Thanks for the vids.

[ruggedtechie]

I like this style of tutorial. Straight to the point

[honhathong]

i don't even do 3D stuffs but still get the ideas behind this. That means how brilliant you are!