Excellent tutorial that just oozes quality, its been very professionally created, the set, script, the photography all really well done.
You've made good decision to aim for a punchy, quick and clear presentation of the essentials of the topic for the intermediate user which I certainly like.
Really interesting. It would have been freat to show the finished video again after showing all the node and masking voodoo. That would have been more educational than going into WB and lighting issues, which also was interesting, but also kind of off-topic - you could have put that into a note in the video description imo.
Wow this looks great! Seems like a great series good idea! Can you maybe show how you did the greenscreening. I've been trying that in Blender forever, but it never seems to come out right. Keep going it looks amazing! :D
hhhhm... the video was great but you should probably use a different format; the picture isn't great. try rendering as PNGs then bring them back into blender and render with the h.264. under encoding change it to quicktime and the codec to h.264
@HFdemofilms Actually all of the green screen and titles are rendered out as PNG to start with these sequences go into the VSE and yes I did render it to H.264, but I used the AVI version not quicktime H.264. It looks slick on my laptop.
Congratulations, I think you have created a series that will go very far and I am keen to see where you will go from here. I am definitely subscribing to your series. Must say it does remind me a bit of Film Riot. Was that what inspired you to do the series?
@Vendroma Yes I'm a fan of Revision3 Shows in general, I like their professional look, especiilay Film Riot and Ben Heck. I am a little worried about comparisons with Film Riot but it's hard to take the format of sitting in front of a green screen with an animated title sequence, lower thirds, section titles etc and make it original. Most of it started out as an experiment to see if it could be done in Blender.
Great tutorial. Can I ask what version of Blender you use? I downloaded Blender 2.49 a few years back, and have had problems with the audio being out of sync when I finish rendering a video. I'm not sure if the "sculpt" files I've created would be compatible with a newer version, so I've been to afraid of losing or changing them with an update, seeing as I've put alot of time and work into them. :)
@stevenwalton8177 I'm using Blender 2.59 but I always download both the zip and the exe files when there is a new release, this way if something isn't working in the new release I can always just launch the previous version from the zip file and use that. There's an archive on Blender.org
@Craigsnedeker Although youtube wouldn't let me see the video, I've found that if it's a problem with 3D lighting for Blender animation, you usually just need to add more lights. It's like the real world, where light reflects off of objects around us to make things brighter on all sides. With Blender, you often have to add a few less-powerfull lamps around the area at different heights, to make it look like the light is reflecting off of different surfaces. Hope this helped. :)
@stevenwalton8177 Thanks for the reply, but there's no 3D scene. I followed the tutorial by adding 2 videos via the compositor. Try this link youtube.com/watch?v=hOzBfnZxL3s (no spaces)
@Craigsnedeker I think BlendThatFilm's right about the auto balance. It looked like your camera was trying to adjust the color to your movements. I'd suggest experimenting with different light angles too, as it might change the way the camera reads the image.
Thanks for this. Been meaning to get into the rotobezier tool for a while - and this was a great introduction to it. Done some roto with 2.49 and this is so much easier!
Good pacing for the tutorial. Nice and quick but covers everything you need to know.
Finally!!! I've been waiting for something like this for so long! I had thoughts on making something like it, but I'm not that good yet. Thanks a lot!
@Craigsnedeker Looks like your camera is using some auto settings (maybe auto white balance like me) and the contrast is compensating once you walk passed the light.
very nice and informative, thanks for you efforts.
I would like to ask for one thing, is it possible to not use music during the tutorial itself because for me( I don't know about other) feel very distracting. People generally like to listen to music while they are working on something not while learning a new skill.
Great job. It moved quickly and held my interest, but was still very clear. I hope you do one on the video sequence editor. I still can't figure out how to cut footage in there.
First one? You've done a great job. I personally found everything very easy to follow but I can imagine that a significant amount of people would have difficulties keeping up due to the speed and possibly English not being their first language. I look forward with great anticipation to more of your shows. Thank you.
Nice work - this is interesting times for Blender development with cool things like camera tracking and whatnot coming up. Like the tute - no need to apologise for mistakes or hope for anything cooler ;)
I'd rather have fast and dense information than slow ... wait for it... um ..er kink of stuff. That's what pause and rewind are for!
This is a great idea for a tutorial series, and this sort of compositing is exactly what I've been wondering a lot about lately. THANK YOU for posting this, I'm excited about this series, and I'm subscribing. I'm sure we'll all learn a lot from you! Great job.
Thank you for not over-explaining things. There's nothing worse than having a tutorial like this go off the rails with explanations on how to do every little thing. You explained how to do the shot and only how to do the shot, and I love that.
Top notch! Look forward to more. RE: your "mistake"? Well, because of it, I learned how to use RGB curves to compensate for production errors, during post-production! Even your mistakes are valuable if you show us how you fixed them.
Outstanding work, Tom. I would have accepted that background as real until I saw the monitor jump early on. Then I saw Suzanne. As for the rest, it's quite good. Just stop apologizing for yourself ... you will never eliminate every mistake, so stop calling attention to them and deliver with confidence ... and a private promise to never make *those* mistakes again.
definitely subscribing to this! .... and subscribed! really pro looking. I use premiere pro and AE at my church where I work. But at home I use ubuntu, because I don't have any budget for software, so I can't wait to see some tutorials on the sequencer!
Well, instant sub ! If you keep on this way, this will be a popular channel for sure. The more it goes, the more Blender shows its awesome abilities, It has to be known. Cool tut', great tips, love it, Thanks !
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! as i have a background in motion graphics/vfx, and have followed Film Riot, Video Copilot, and often thought wouldnt it be cool if someone showcased the same or similar effects and motion graphics but instead showing how these can be done in Blender 3D. I would love to see "Super Hero" effects. making an actor "flame-on", Predator's cloak, Flight, Laser Beams from eyes, Nightcrawler's Teleport, even Digital Sets and Composting for "Batman" fans. THANKS!
Excellent! Very professional. Felt like I was watching a network show. Loved the pacing and the delivery. The tutorial result is nice and the color keying is pretty much flawless...I'd like to see a tutorial on that. Cheers! :)
Cannot get the videos to show in 3D window after setting orthographic camera. Im using 2.61
ModelMediaMarketing 1 month ago
I load them , the show in the view properties, but not in the camera window/
ModelMediaMarketing 1 month ago
It took me a bit to realize that the background wasn't actually an apartment but CG! good job.
DebunkCreationists 1 month ago
thanks for the tutorial
pd96music 1 month ago
Outstanding!
SnowWalkerPrime 2 months ago
Did anyone notice Suzanne in the Background?
robojason88 2 months ago
When i click on user preferences Blender crashes. What should i do?????
TheBaldeagle98 4 months ago
@TheBaldeagle98 That's a new one, what version? maybe try a reinstall.
BlendThatFilm 4 months ago
@BlendThatFilm I have the newest version and have tried reinstalling three times.
TheBaldeagle98 4 months ago
Great work, I can't wait to see what you do next. Now Lightworks has gone open source too there's nothing that can't be done using free software.
kiwifrogg 5 months ago
@kiwifrogg lightworks crashes within 30 seconds of starting it up and it hasn't been updated in like six months
xLDH1109x 4 months ago
@xLDH1109x I agree the lack of updates is poor, but it runs just fine on my pc. It needs a comunity behind it, too push for updates.
kiwifrogg 4 months ago
Excellent tutorial that just oozes quality, its been very professionally created, the set, script, the photography all really well done.
You've made good decision to aim for a punchy, quick and clear presentation of the essentials of the topic for the intermediate user which I certainly like.
Well done and I hope you go on to make many more.
FrankDodd 5 months ago
Really interesting. It would have been freat to show the finished video again after showing all the node and masking voodoo. That would have been more educational than going into WB and lighting issues, which also was interesting, but also kind of off-topic - you could have put that into a note in the video description imo.
neumayr2 5 months ago
Good stuff, Tom. I liked the pacing and level of detail. Looking forward to the next edition!
stivosaurus 5 months ago
Wow this looks great! Seems like a great series good idea! Can you maybe show how you did the greenscreening. I've been trying that in Blender forever, but it never seems to come out right. Keep going it looks amazing! :D
GnomeClubProductions 5 months ago
hhhhm... the video was great but you should probably use a different format; the picture isn't great. try rendering as PNGs then bring them back into blender and render with the h.264. under encoding change it to quicktime and the codec to h.264
trust me. it gives GREAT image quality.
HFdemofilms 5 months ago
@HFdemofilms Actually all of the green screen and titles are rendered out as PNG to start with these sequences go into the VSE and yes I did render it to H.264, but I used the AVI version not quicktime H.264. It looks slick on my laptop.
BlendThatFilm 5 months ago
Congratulations, I think you have created a series that will go very far and I am keen to see where you will go from here. I am definitely subscribing to your series. Must say it does remind me a bit of Film Riot. Was that what inspired you to do the series?
Vendroma 5 months ago
@Vendroma Yes I'm a fan of Revision3 Shows in general, I like their professional look, especiilay Film Riot and Ben Heck. I am a little worried about comparisons with Film Riot but it's hard to take the format of sitting in front of a green screen with an animated title sequence, lower thirds, section titles etc and make it original. Most of it started out as an experiment to see if it could be done in Blender.
BlendThatFilm 5 months ago
Main drawback is lack of other videos to watch, really great job.
davidmcsween 5 months ago
This show has a lot of future!
P4P4 5 months ago
Great tutorial. Can I ask what version of Blender you use? I downloaded Blender 2.49 a few years back, and have had problems with the audio being out of sync when I finish rendering a video. I'm not sure if the "sculpt" files I've created would be compatible with a newer version, so I've been to afraid of losing or changing them with an update, seeing as I've put alot of time and work into them. :)
stevenwalton8177 5 months ago
@stevenwalton8177 I'm using Blender 2.59 but I always download both the zip and the exe files when there is a new release, this way if something isn't working in the new release I can always just launch the previous version from the zip file and use that. There's an archive on Blender.org
BlendThatFilm 5 months ago
@BlendThatFilm Ok, I might try updating then, after I backup my old files to the external drive. Thanks. :)
stevenwalton8177 5 months ago
Hey I'm having a brightness problem. Look at the lamp in the upper corner, any idea what the problem is? youtube.com/watch?v=hOzBfnZxL3s
Craigsnedeker 5 months ago
@Craigsnedeker Although youtube wouldn't let me see the video, I've found that if it's a problem with 3D lighting for Blender animation, you usually just need to add more lights. It's like the real world, where light reflects off of objects around us to make things brighter on all sides. With Blender, you often have to add a few less-powerfull lamps around the area at different heights, to make it look like the light is reflecting off of different surfaces. Hope this helped. :)
stevenwalton8177 5 months ago
@stevenwalton8177 Thanks for the reply, but there's no 3D scene. I followed the tutorial by adding 2 videos via the compositor. Try this link youtube.com/watch?v=hOzBfnZxL3s (no spaces)
Craigsnedeker 5 months ago
@Craigsnedeker I think BlendThatFilm's right about the auto balance. It looked like your camera was trying to adjust the color to your movements. I'd suggest experimenting with different light angles too, as it might change the way the camera reads the image.
stevenwalton8177 5 months ago
Thanks for this. Been meaning to get into the rotobezier tool for a while - and this was a great introduction to it. Done some roto with 2.49 and this is so much easier!
Good pacing for the tutorial. Nice and quick but covers everything you need to know.
nathankw 5 months ago
Awesome tutorial! This should turn out to be a great series, and I hope to see many more tutorials from you.
cmomoneyMTS 5 months ago
excellent tutorial :) . really professional stuff here.. thanks a lot and keep them coming.
jayrajkharvadi 5 months ago
Thanks your film was really easy to follow and well paced.
mathghamain 5 months ago
This is really cool man, I have been using Blender for a while on Independent films and these tutorials will be a HUGE help!
Blender3D1234 5 months ago
Inspiring! i think I'll start my own short films with blender!
neilrulz 5 months ago
awesome! now I can do my own wheezy waiter videos :P
Jjannaway3D 5 months ago
Finally!!! I've been waiting for something like this for so long! I had thoughts on making something like it, but I'm not that good yet. Thanks a lot!
Craigsnedeker 5 months ago
@Craigsnedeker Looks like your camera is using some auto settings (maybe auto white balance like me) and the contrast is compensating once you walk passed the light.
BlendThatFilm 5 months ago
@BlendThatFilm Nope this is why. There is a edge (mask) where the light/dark is, but that edge disappears and it looks seemless after a few seconds.
Craigsnedeker 5 months ago
@Craigsnedeker well I guess it could be... I'll try another test outside and see how it works :)
Craigsnedeker 5 months ago
Very informative and clear tutorial. Enjoyed it. I can't wait for your next tutorial!!!
FriendlyState 5 months ago 2
Very informative and clear tutorial. Enjoyed it. I can't wait for your next tutorial!!!
FriendlyState 5 months ago
Thanks for the tutorial. Very helpful and informative. Blender is a great value, no doubt!
Marshmanification 5 months ago
Great tutorial-Thanks. As far as music during the tutorial-I didn't actually notice it myself. :)
jrmaximus 5 months ago
very nice and informative, thanks for you efforts.
I would like to ask for one thing, is it possible to not use music during the tutorial itself because for me( I don't know about other) feel very distracting. People generally like to listen to music while they are working on something not while learning a new skill.
Anyway, thank you!
kalidabod 5 months ago
Great job. It moved quickly and held my interest, but was still very clear. I hope you do one on the video sequence editor. I still can't figure out how to cut footage in there.
bareflix 5 months ago
Excellent Work! This kind of projects will increase the reception of Blender in the community! Keep it going!
jdrodas 5 months ago
He is sitting in front of a green screen in front of a green screen!
Snabeltasse 5 months ago
Great job!
Keep up the good work, in the introduction i actually thought you were standing in a studio room :D
I really look forward to your videos and see what i can learn from it :)
JimmyonGER 5 months ago
Awesome! 5 stars deluxe! :)
janmantube 5 months ago
Very nice. Good job!! :) I'm waiting for your next video.
contmike 5 months ago
awesome :P
richmeister4eva 5 months ago
Thanks, now i can use reference footage in the viewport for animating a walk cycle! Great vid matey!
GPEART1 5 months ago
First one? You've done a great job. I personally found everything very easy to follow but I can imagine that a significant amount of people would have difficulties keeping up due to the speed and possibly English not being their first language. I look forward with great anticipation to more of your shows. Thank you.
dodgydavec 5 months ago in playlist Videos from BlendThatFilm
Thank you for this show, very professional done but..
Please slow down a little for those who are not native english.
directscene 5 months ago
Nice work - this is interesting times for Blender development with cool things like camera tracking and whatnot coming up. Like the tute - no need to apologise for mistakes or hope for anything cooler ;)
I'd rather have fast and dense information than slow ... wait for it... um ..er kink of stuff. That's what pause and rewind are for!
HamacekS 5 months ago
This is a great idea for a tutorial series, and this sort of compositing is exactly what I've been wondering a lot about lately. THANK YOU for posting this, I'm excited about this series, and I'm subscribing. I'm sure we'll all learn a lot from you! Great job.
MartianStories 5 months ago
Slow down a little BUT nice tutorial.
beatallmighty58 5 months ago
I am most definitely subscribed
fatalerrornetwork 5 months ago
Thank you for not over-explaining things. There's nothing worse than having a tutorial like this go off the rails with explanations on how to do every little thing. You explained how to do the shot and only how to do the shot, and I love that.
I am super excited for more of these.
SquigglyP 5 months ago
I am so excited for all the next videos on this!
holyonfire 5 months ago
Top notch! Look forward to more. RE: your "mistake"? Well, because of it, I learned how to use RGB curves to compensate for production errors, during post-production! Even your mistakes are valuable if you show us how you fixed them.
More more more!
scooterdooter 5 months ago
Wonderful! Keep up the excellent work!
dwaschow 5 months ago
YES! Finally someone doing a professional tut on editing video in blender.
Brickfilm100 5 months ago
Brilliant! Thank you so much - as someone still learning the ropes of Blender this makes me even more excited.
NordicNinjaArc 5 months ago
Cool! And useful vid!! Looking forward to more ep. And you might look at the volume levels between the speaker and the title music... Cheers!
OsobliwyKlecha 5 months ago
now, thats something great !
mistakes are always there at first try !
varexnet32 5 months ago
Thank you for this great tutorial, hope you keep up the good work.
Cype3D 5 months ago
Awesome tutorial! This is exactly the kind of stuff I need. Looking forward to your next videos!
gordon1201 5 months ago
Outstanding work, Tom. I would have accepted that background as real until I saw the monitor jump early on. Then I saw Suzanne. As for the rest, it's quite good. Just stop apologizing for yourself ... you will never eliminate every mistake, so stop calling attention to them and deliver with confidence ... and a private promise to never make *those* mistakes again.
psion01 5 months ago
Camtasia and the camera's you used...
bboybram 5 months ago
@bboybram I shoot all my stuff on a Canon 500d and I'm using Camtasia Studio 3, which during their big free giveaway some years back.
BlendThatFilm 5 months ago
definitely subscribing to this! .... and subscribed! really pro looking. I use premiere pro and AE at my church where I work. But at home I use ubuntu, because I don't have any budget for software, so I can't wait to see some tutorials on the sequencer!
veggiet2009 5 months ago
thank you !
alexdobras 5 months ago
Great job! I love it.
andreucabre 5 months ago
I like what you are doing. It's educating and really professionally done. It shows you put effort into this.
holmen2000 5 months ago
Well, instant sub ! If you keep on this way, this will be a popular channel for sure. The more it goes, the more Blender shows its awesome abilities, It has to be known. Cool tut', great tips, love it, Thanks !
TomWalks 5 months ago
Great work, we need more tuts on VFX for blendheads for sure.
CriticalQuestion 5 months ago
more !
pecololek 5 months ago
Very nice tutorial, I look forward to seeing more from you in future.
thordwolf 5 months ago
Great video, I've been looking for a good explanation on how to rotoscope and this is the most helpful I've found. Well done and keep them coming
discoape 5 months ago
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! as i have a background in motion graphics/vfx, and have followed Film Riot, Video Copilot, and often thought wouldnt it be cool if someone showcased the same or similar effects and motion graphics but instead showing how these can be done in Blender 3D. I would love to see "Super Hero" effects. making an actor "flame-on", Predator's cloak, Flight, Laser Beams from eyes, Nightcrawler's Teleport, even Digital Sets and Composting for "Batman" fans. THANKS!
UrthMaan 5 months ago
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wo262 5 months ago
episode 2 -chroma keying?? i have issues with chroma
wo262 5 months ago
looks great, very well done.
subbed.
keep em coming!
wysiwyg125 5 months ago
Very well done and professional!
Hope to see you do LOTS more!!
ScottyChase 5 months ago
That was awesome
I subscribed
I'm really looking forward to more videos
xLDH1109x 5 months ago
Very cool, keep going :)
TheMaxMixer 5 months ago
Sweet! I'll keep an eye out.
cerenkovman 5 months ago
Excellent! Very professional. Felt like I was watching a network show. Loved the pacing and the delivery. The tutorial result is nice and the color keying is pretty much flawless...I'd like to see a tutorial on that. Cheers! :)
Unhurdof1 5 months ago
@Unhurdof1 Thanks so much, I really appreciate your comments and for thanks subscribing. Yes there will be a tutorial on Green Screens in the future.
BlendThatFilm 5 months ago