 Hey, what's up everybody a different type of video this time. This is gonna be a breakdown of some blender work that I'm doing I'm trying to redo a Star Wars fan film that I worked on early last year with my kids we just kind of wanted to do something over the holiday break and We went to the Star Wars land and Florida and got some props some or some souvenirs that we use as props And we kind of filmed a little, you know, two two and a half minutes You know short story, I guess about a Jedi and so we just threw it together really fast It's not, you know, fantastic by any means, but you know, it was it was a fun project and involved a minute So now that I've been learning more blender, I see this and I'm just like man I could really make this a lot better. So my my project currently is to take these scenes from this previous thing that we had planned out and to replace them with new VFX shots from blender And maybe some metahuman pieces from Unreal Engine Just kind of piecing them all together and kind of redoing and expanding the story just a little bit So I'll put a link in the top corner so that you where you can see the playlist for this that includes the video as well as You know four or five other videos that I made that kind of talked about the process of how we wrote the stories in the Story circle and how we filmed the things and how we pieced them together and the very You know bare minimum comping that we needed to do to get this thing finished in about a week So first off here is the scene. I'm currently trying to replace in this. I'll just hit play so this is where the The the Jedi is entering the planet coming to the Sith temple So that shot that we just saw was the the the piece that I'm working on replacing currently And so let's see So I started out by building this out in blender and what I've got here is I've just got a Like a pyramid that I found online You know that that is similar to what I've previously had and I've set up some planes With trees and I needed to sort of generate this forest So these are from an add-on called real tree and they look great You know they have a low and a medium and a high poly poly Version and so what I'm doing here is I just created, you know four or five different individual trees and then I you know group them into a collection of trees like this and Then I you know on these planes I am doing a particle emitter a hair particle emitter of these trees So that you know, they will automatically populate and I don't have to put each one into place That would you know take forever the problem with that is, you know, it's very resource-intensive I've got a 2070 super RTX video card and it works, you know pretty good for most things But on this it was really really choking I could barely, you know, I get it to render In cycles and these trees they don't look fantastic and Eevee so let's see here is One of the screen grabs from that previous setup and I think it took like 15 minutes for this one frame to render in cycles And so that you know, I work at a faster pace than that I need to be able to see things and make changes to it and so that just took too long for me And so, you know that kind of made me decide that okay, I'm gonna try to make this work in Eevee And although this looks pretty cool, you know, I think that you know We can we can get by with a more stylized effect And it doesn't have to try to look so photorealistic although I do love this motion blur that we're getting here on the ship coming in so Basically, you know, this was too resource-intensive. So I've decided to just scrap this so let's just get rid of that Not sure what I changed, but hey, we'll save it anyway. So Then I rebuilt the scene and I guess we'll start out by I will show you What What it currently looks like and So this is where I currently am. I'll just play it. It's pretty fast here. I'm gonna have to slow this down But as you can see, this is much better than the previous shot of you know Just some story blocks footage that we took and alpha key or sorry chroma key on top of some other story blocks footage and just you know Through these things together in a hotel room You know, this is much more Like what you would expect to see in an animated You know short story or something so at any rate. Here's you know, the Jedi is a wing fighter coming in I'll certainly slow this down to kind of hang on this moment for a little bit Maybe have some dialogue or something of of the Jedi talking to his droid or something would be kind of neat And then you see him, you know going on down and approaching The the Sith temple here and the nice bloom on the Sun. So this is Evie. I think this looks pretty cool I think this is the way I'm gonna go forward and try to make the whole thing look like this So here is basically what this looks like Let's see. Let me Move some things around and so you see right off Well, you know, what's going on here? I've just got this big, you know block in a circle So what this block is my atmosphere, which is you know, how it adds this fog and stuff And that's a trick that you'll find in many many places online that you know, I didn't create that I just saw someone else use it and thought it was cool and You know, it works great to you know to have this principle of volume pumping into that the lights work great It's okay and Evie works really really good in cycles, but you know, we're gonna make it work the best we can and Evie And so this is where I currently am and so this is just one plane with all of these trees Generated on it and how I did this was I am using the let's see. What's this called the? sapling tree gin add-on You know tons of tutorials about that I won't go into that here But I just made a you know two very low-poly trees Put them in a collection did the same hair particle emitter trick and You know just basically had these two trees spit out, you know on this plane to generate my forest and I only needed it to be you know this long because that's that's where my camera movement is going and this black or sorry this back plane back plane is Just my emitter. Let's see if it'll show here just my blue sky and then I've just got you know a UV sphere here that you within emitter as my son And I believe there's an additional sunlight in there as well Just you know back behind it just to throw some additional light But this is basically what it is so this is not you know as you can see I can spin around this pretty pretty freely It's not very resource intensive at all especially considering that let's see how many trees do we have here? We've got Always do that the wrong time You know so we've got five thousand trees emitting on this one plane. That's that's pretty good For that and so Much much better with this the other one there's no way I could scrub through even an EV With all of those medium poly trees. It just it was just choking up and it crashed all the time So anyway, this is kind of what I'm working on I'm gonna continue refining this scene and then I'm gonna work on some others You know one of the next scenes I have is taking some of the green screen footage that we shot with the black magic camera for For the other the live-action version of this taking some of that green screen footage and seeing if I can Pull it into blender and do some motion tracking and keying of that green Out and then put you know some additional 3d, you know rendered assets or something in the scene around sort of that you know Ian Hubert style I Think that'll be fun to experiment with so maybe that'll be my next video this weekend I'll I'll put something up from that. So anyway, I hope this has been interesting to some people Make sure you subscribe if you like this type of thing. I've got more of these videos coming Really in a blender filmmaking type mode right now. So this will be the majority of what my videos are gonna be for the next couple of Months so hope you like this type of thing. Make sure you leave a comment if you have any kind of questions I'll try to answer them. I'm a complete You know new but this type of thing. I'm just learning it So but I may have some answers to some questions. I have you know try to feed different things So leave me a comment like it if you like if you like the video click the like if you like this video Subscribe if you're into that type of thing or or or whichever. So anyway, if you've been watching for this long Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. Sorry. I'm rambling now. I'm gonna cut it off here. Thanks