A New way to Approach Photorealism in 3D!

In this video, i am gonna breakdown a new approach to photorealism and photorealist 3d rendering in blender.

All the links and attribution below:

Artworks used in the video:

Photos and Models used in the Render:

1) The Cup and Saucer Render-

2) The Serene Street Render:
Models:

Model:

4) The Keyboard Render -
Model: James from Mixamo

5) Cliff Render -
Models -

6) The Plane Render:

7) The HDRI Render:

8) Dragon Fly Render

9) Camera Used in Thumbnail

10) Three Tracking Tutorials:

11) Three Object Tracking Tutorials:

#blender #3d #b3d

Timestamps:
00:00 - 00:47 - Intro
00:47 - 02:54 - Summary of the Whole Video
02:54 - 03:44 - How to Plot Perspective of a Photo
03:44 - 06:18 - Making the Still Renders
06:18 - 07:50 - Important Tips for Still Renders
07:50 - 08:17 - Infinite Possibilities of this Workflow
08:17 - 09:11 - Color Grading Tips
09:11 - 10:05 - Mistakes to Avoid
10:05 - 12:10 - The HDRI Workflow
12:10 - 18:24 - Tracking the Plane Footage (Easy Tracking Tutorial)
18:24 - 19:03 - Repeat Everything we Learned Before
19:03 - 19:36 - Object Tracking Short Overview
19:36 - 20:08 - Tips for making the Video Renders
20:08 - 20:57 - Most Important Tip of this Video
20:57 - 21:42 - Conclusion

Music Credit:
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
License code: NSYIJFSYWPPTBKAW

[stache_obj]

Two Really Important Things i forgot to mention in the video:

1) Matching the shadows of the cg element and the video footage is really important. The color of the shadow, the opacity of the shadow, the sharpness of the shadow. everything. keep this in mind. i forgot to put it in the video coz i am dumb

2) Also, you can use the image/video you're using in the bg as the hdri as well to get accurate colors, and highlights and shadows. it doesn't always work, but it's still worth a try.

3) you can uv project from view from the camera to map the photo to the camera perspective very easily. Don't have to do it manually.

More Notes:

- when i said in the video/title that this is a fresh new workflow, i meant it was new for me . I thought i worded it well. But i think it's still a lil confusing and misleading. So apologies. I'd love a better suggestion for the title if you have one.

- a lot of ppl have also been saying - "isn't this what the vfx industry has been doing for ages". yes! of course it is. i definitely didn't mean to claim that i just discovered vfx in this video 😅.
the title 'a new way to approach photo realism' is to say that ppl do this everyday but not to achieve photo realism. this video is just to say, hey why don't you mix cg and photos where a lot of the heavy lifting is done by the photograph itself. and you just have to focus on blending the cg element into the photograph (instead of trying to make everything photo realistic like in a full on 3d render)

[pwnisher]

Solid video man! I love the simple and easy-to-understand approach.

[justeddie]

Not the first video of yours I've seen where you show your failures as well as the good outcomes. Really helps show people it's okay to screw up while learning to do something completely new!

[izrimouloud]

QUICK TIP: For a perfect UV alignment to project the texture of your picture. First, go to the camera view and select an object from the environment. Then, enter edit mode and press "U" on your keyboard. Click on "Project from view" option. This will provide a PERFECT projection of the scene onto your objects and get great reflections(add some subdivision if you get destorted projetion)

[MattBixler]

Haven't finished the video yet, just wanted to say thanks for including the overview at the beginning and marking it off as a chapter. Definitely sold me on coming back to do the whole thing.

[maxym]

I just rewatched this video for the 3rd time (across last 3 months) and this is one of the best Blender tutorials out there. Please continue :)

[Banzaith]

The best trick I learned for color matching is to do a single color channel at a time. View the red channel of the composite in grayscale and match the black, white, and midtones of the red channel of your render with a levels tool. Repeat for blue and green. You'll probably still need to tweak things a bit when switching back to full color, but it gets you 95% of the way there super fast.

[CGLife]

Wow man. This was a really superb tutorial. Explained in depth yet simply with fun applications and examples. Keep it up !

[someuser]

I loved the simplicity of this approach that really does get things done. Good job!

[apIthletIcc]

That Failure:Success weighting is true
You can do everything right but that never teaches you to push the science/art/vision and ngl that statement alone won you another sub just now. So true

[MrMichaelSquid]

I never comment on videos, but you are just so cool smart and helpful, and a really great teacher. Thank you for sharing some excellent knowledge!

[jeremiestern]

I'm happy you had a sponsorship, you deserved it!

[Pyratheon]

Hey, I never comment on a video, but this time I had to : first time seeing one of your videos, I interpreted the title wrong and didn't expect a tutorial, rather a kind of "thought" video on 3d and photorealisme in general. But I ended up watching it nevertheless. Honestly, as a professional VFX artist with for the past 10 years or so, I really enjoyed watching the video. I don't think I could have summed up what a VFX artist does as well as you did. You kept it simple, organised, you narrate really well and it is pleasant to follow. Sure, things where oversimplified, but that's what made it so clear. And you took this nearly naive approche, I mean that as a compliment, as if you discovered VFX by yourself, as a tool to your "full 3D" skills. That's strange to me and I never thought of the fact that some people took the opposite way to how I learned. You deserve way more recognition from youtube. Keep up what you do, I'm gonna watch another video of yours, you have a new subscriber :)

[xAvanish]

Nice approach. I'm definitely going to try this approach. Thanks a lot for your great tutorial.

[tle]

2.5 minutes in and you've got me so hyped. Great content man, thank you!

[macehilmatecilof]

that human you captured humaning was magnificent... the wonders of nature.

[shobhitgupta]

THAT was the best video I've seen in a REALLY long time, the way you speak, the way you explain and the part about photorealism and storytelling was where i really connected. This was an amazing experience 😌. Good job 😁

[kebi]

Omg, my city! Amazing to see Białystok here by complete chance!

[bentheultimatelegend]

A 21 minute video, and I spent a day and a half watching it. But man the results are incredible, I don't think that I was this invested into anything I have done in Blender before (mostly done Photorealistic Product Renders and Environment Renders before) Now I basically can do the same thing but instead of having to model the whole interior I can use an image and insert my product there, AND I can put my models into videos! Thank you so much

[WTBLNT]

This is actually incredible, I've been looking for tutorials like this and i have not succeeded, however I managed to get a great Fspy shot after a lot of failed shots, but this is just next level, I will definitely start and try VFX based on your video. Thanks a lot!