The Photorealism Mindset: What About The Physical Camera?

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When talking about photorealism, it’s easy to get fixated on textures and surface imperfections of the objects in our scene.
This talk aims to look beyond this mindset, by shifting the focus to the many limitations of the physical camera. What questions can we ask ourselves as 3D artists, to understand the fourth-wall-breaking consequences of committing to a truly photorealistic scene?
"The Photorealism Mindset: What About The Physical Camera?" by Asbjørn Lote --
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@roni.rsnstn 8 ай бұрын

These recordings from the blender conference are literal pieces of gold, and this one from Polyfjord is one of my favourites so far.

@daniellee6912 8 ай бұрын

That's not what 'literally' means.

@octagonal8905 8 ай бұрын

@@daniellee6912 It's a known as a semantic shift, people nowadays started using "literally" as an emphasis. Language evolves ...

@arch.blender1178 8 ай бұрын

or is that 'devolves' 😏

@velocityfpv5231 8 ай бұрын

@@octagonal8905 or people just make errors

@drunkenmuse 8 ай бұрын

Was the sky too clear for any clouds to shake your fist at today?

@AlexAugustinex 8 ай бұрын

Real videographers : Trying to achieve perfection. 3D artists : Trying to add imperfections.

@michaelrcolton 8 ай бұрын

Something that always breaks immersion for me in big budget movies is when there's some impossible camera movement. If there's just no way the camera could physically do what it's doing, then my brain knows it's not real. I feel like his advice here helps to fix that.

@JordaanM 8 ай бұрын

That's one of the rules Pixar established in their early days to improve audience suspension of disbelief; always treat the virtual camera as though it were a physical camera in the scene being filmed.

@ErebosGR 8 ай бұрын

This is why the live-action Ghost in The Shell scenes (like the roof jump from the intro) felt so much more fake than the anime film. The anime purposefully used a tripod shot when we see Major step off the ledge, in order to make the sudden fall feel more dramatic, while the live-action version used a virtual, weightless, floating camera that tracked Major perfectly as she fell, completely robbing any sense of drama from the shot.

@ishaan863 8 ай бұрын

Mandatory Pacific Rim mention

@stevemuzak8526 8 ай бұрын

This is why 1993 Jurassic Park is still way more realistic than Jurassic World. Everything feels so much more realistic in Jurassic Park. And that movie is 30 years old! It's insane!

@sirshinra 8 ай бұрын

Watching Anime fights you see people moving at like light speed, yet the way they animate following the fight as if it's a camera is incredible, it can make the unbelievable believable.

@xrayessay 8 ай бұрын

My man Polyfjord really just taught photorealism with a meme and I loved every second of it ♥

@Asta_Dena 8 ай бұрын

About 15 years ago i worked for a major VFX company and we were making a video for car maker, full animated an rendered but photorealistic. We weren’t satisfied with the camera motion so we build a model of the car in the office (we used chairs boxes, table and some other stuff just to have the position of the wheels the seats an all the other important parts) and took a cheap camera. Whit the camera we filmed the model, tested all the camera moves we needed than we camera-tracked the footage. That made it perfect,because all the little imperfections in the movement made it look real.

@denisnetto_2024 7 ай бұрын

As a film industry professional for 20+ years, I can say that he naild it in the video. This is what really makes the difference. If you want photorealism, you need to understand the process behind generating a real image, so then you can apply it to a virtual scene. Great video!

@inknpaintCW 8 ай бұрын

This is great! I teach actual film and video at a university and I will be sharing this with students to give them solid points to consider before shooting. Also good for my VR classes and production design classes! Thanks!

@anomalyraven 8 ай бұрын

I will share this every time I see "Why doesn't this look real"-questions on the Blender sub-reddit 😂 But in all honesty, I love this take. Very informative and interesting presentation!

@kungfookeney6628 8 ай бұрын

the video from the drone was insanely realistic

@GatewaySpace 8 ай бұрын

Was about to say that! Holy sh*t!

@Tychoof 8 ай бұрын

Reminded me of the game Unrecord, cheatcode to realism is simulating a shitty camera

@haifutter4166 8 ай бұрын

It was missing some vibration and shaking. And everyone who has seen dronefootage before knows, that it was fake. The scene itself was missing photorealism too. But this was just a simple demonstration of a really important concept that's often overlooked. A real project would be a little more refinend. Awesome presentation though.

@URAZKIVANER 8 ай бұрын

@@haifutter4166 Thanks for pointing that out I was gonna write the same as a drone pilot who has flown dji Phantom 4 for years now an Avata in Manual mode 😉😉 . This did not blow my mind like the Unreal Engine's latest photorealism....

@haifutter4166 7 ай бұрын

@@URAZKIVANER It was a good demonstration piece. But what bothered me most: You just know, that either drone footage is bad AND analogue with characteristic artifacts and distortion, or locally stored and thereby looking like "high quality" actioncam footage.

@kiwee4577 8 ай бұрын

that first example for the experienced cinematographer mindset really hit hard. it's amazing how a change in the mindset really affects the final product

@kenkioqqo 8 ай бұрын

I found myself clapping and I'm watching this at home. Great job, Polyfjord! Am a devoted fan of your work.

@sebbosebbo9794 8 ай бұрын

BCon's has never disapoint never. ....Wow...thx ....

@gabrielmoro3d 8 ай бұрын

This was pretty awesome! Using the same scene in different situations was a clever idea.

@DerekElliott 8 ай бұрын

Great talk!!!

@HaddenKurtz 8 ай бұрын

Loved this one! Great presentation Asbjørn!

@markzaikov456 8 ай бұрын

One of the best wisdom I heard about achieving "Photoreal" is "Real Life Imperfection is Digital Perfection".

@ButterDragon 8 ай бұрын

This is very informative; I REALLY appreciate this. I never thought about these questions about camera movement and all. Thanks, Polyjford.

@jacqueskloster4085 8 ай бұрын

If you look at how the lion king remake was made, they went over the top with the camera thing. They used VR and combined it with real equipment and recorded the movements of their physical equipment into the virtual world to make it convincing. So every shake, tilt, etc. was real.

@futurestoryteller 7 ай бұрын

If I remember Peter Jackson had already done a similar thing on Lord of the Rings.

@johannes-vollmer 8 ай бұрын

Unrealistic camera movement always annoys me, they even do it in marvel movies, thanks for showing us a better way :D

@FloodSociety 8 ай бұрын

Great showcase here! Love the logical work flow.

@e11world 8 ай бұрын

Very amazing presentations. I love this

@fumikato 8 ай бұрын

i like it when he mentioned that surface imperfections isn't the key to photorealism

@CGDive 8 ай бұрын

Awesome talk, definitely got a bunch of tips I can use in a future project!

@Windkind0 8 ай бұрын

As a film maker and VFX-person thanks for expressing my absolute pet peeve when it comes to visual effects in Hollywood and elsewhere. They never think about the physicality of the actual camera and the impact it has on the shot. E.g. imagine a film with an absolute flood of zombies - which image feels more jarring: Flying around in rollercoaster-fashion through the zombie horde? Or staying there with the protagonists (whom we're supposed to care about) and watch the horde approaching while the camera slowly dollys in? Now most film directors and DOPs that are currently working on such films grew up with never being able to do expensive crane or helicopter shots, because they were too expensive. But in CG you can do that for free, so they are really tempted to use that just to show off or "add production value". The truth is, that CG works best in nearly all situations if you try to ground everything in the scene (including the camera) in physical reality, as this typically makes it easier for viewers to put themselves into that place. If you want your camera to fly, let it fly, but give me a reason to understand why it is doing that.

@crypt_exe8709 8 ай бұрын

7:46 Lens distortion does not mean the lens is cheap, and anamorphic swirly bokeh is in fact more cinematic than round bokeh

@noc2_art 8 ай бұрын

That was a great presentation… 👍👍👍

@RaffoVFX 8 ай бұрын

Awesome speech, nice to see Polyfjord at the Blender conference!

@CSTBFO_jad 7 ай бұрын

Great video. I've been trying to put this into words for decades. I noticed this is what polyphony digital have been attempting to do for 25yrs with their game Gran Turismo. Nobody ever understood what I was talking about but I believe this is why their graphics have always stood out from the rest.

@kairu_b 7 ай бұрын

Great presentation

@justinlloyd3 8 ай бұрын

Just wonderful. Great talk.

@thebravebrandtv 8 ай бұрын

Damn! This is so great! In so many levels! Yeah! Start with WHY!

@reezlaw 8 ай бұрын

I love it! The drone crashing was genius!

@arch.blender1178 8 ай бұрын

Such a thought provoking presentation, well done!

@MagicSwordFilms 8 ай бұрын

This was fascinating!

@user-dh2fd9qu1j 8 ай бұрын

Inspiring as always

@DenimPirate 8 ай бұрын

The legend himself! Absolutely killed it! :D

8 ай бұрын

So cool, thanks !

@micah6861 8 ай бұрын

That was so amazing! 🥰❣

@DmitryLapenkov 8 ай бұрын

Oh, it's so cool with a person in the reflection. really gives + to realism.

@manpreetbhattee9732 8 ай бұрын

Wow! I learnt so much

@SubsurfaceTalks 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely smashing presentation (even the tech hiccups just added a bit of photorealism to the whole thing :) )

@NanaoMeitei 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful presentation 👏👏👏

@AlexisRivera3D 8 ай бұрын

Great information :)

@JaydenLawson 7 ай бұрын

Insane. Won't be long until this will be indistinguishable with real life

@wycliffe_ndiba 8 ай бұрын

This is very nice.

@fabien1943 7 ай бұрын

Another one 🙏🏼🚀

@geffeniz 7 ай бұрын

awesome information thank you

@FraztheWizard 8 ай бұрын

Great idea!

@unktheunk1428 8 ай бұрын

And we take another step toward a world where your eyes cannot be trusted really truly impressive stuff

@debnilde5490 2 ай бұрын

Everytime, we as 3D artists, get closer to photorealism, but still I feel something is missing. Even in this video that something was still missing. I really dont know what that something is.. But definately we are overlooking some fundamental concepts of photorealism. Hope one day somebody will find that and really nail photorealism😊

@WCCOMPUTERGRAPHICS 8 ай бұрын

Great talk. Pehaps there should be concerns about both things, story telling (Or why the shot?) and also other things, because in this example camera is fine, all realistic movement, but the 3D Itself doesn't look real in my opinion, and this is lacking of photo reference to achieve what a real photo would look like.

@EladBarness 8 ай бұрын

True, I think it has to do with all the process, 3d model details, shading details and lighting as well as post and color grading

@MuffFlux 8 ай бұрын

Agreed. The talk had nothing to do with photorealism. Was more about gimmicks to improve "believability"/"immersion" rather than photorealism.

@southpaw9041 7 ай бұрын

I wouldn't say it's gimmicks. He demonstrated a fundamental underlying concept that allows you to build your world, logically, from the ground up. Behind all of the high res textures, sharpening, lighting and nice models, the thing that contributes the most to photorealism is a sense of meaning, because in real life people tend to do things for a reason. All of the super nice graphics and colour grading falls apart if your scene lacks authenticity and is not grounded in reality @@MuffFlux

@MuffFlux 7 ай бұрын

@@southpaw9041 "The thing that contributes most to a sense of photorealism is a sense of meaning". That is objectively false. Pixar movies and video games have incredible amounts of "meaning" ascribed to them. It doesn't mean they are photo real. Tell that to the whole industry of commercial/product cgi studios. The iPhone ads with photoreal iPhone renders floating in space, breaking all the laws of physics and lacking camera shake and the other gimmicks. But the iPhone still is photo real photoreal. Same for all kinds of product campaigns. Also gimmicks are quite literally "alter or augment with an extra device or feature". I didn't mean the definition that attributes negative connotations.

@SebKrafts 3 ай бұрын

The drone video blew my mind.

@Unveiiled 8 ай бұрын

This is a great talk, Blender is just amazing

@Zaqariyah 8 ай бұрын

Really mindblowing! 😮

@avocadopictures9706 4 ай бұрын

I really like this approach, the lack of such principles is why the most recent Godzilla/Kong movies started looking more like 3D cartoons, i think.

@PabloAndresCespedes 6 ай бұрын

Que locuraaaaa, gran explicación

@schoolfaqs 7 ай бұрын

This is really cool. I have learned a lot from this presentation.

@lazycreator7794 8 ай бұрын

Love it❤

@GetbackupUltra 7 ай бұрын

This is an essential for all cg artists. I can now spot this everywhere

@th.e.nglish 8 ай бұрын

#1 as always

@mohammadalaaelghamry8010 8 ай бұрын

Amazing software with an amazing community.

@RyanLynch1 8 ай бұрын

well-made video!

@user-se2sf8dr1m 8 ай бұрын

너무 좋은 강연이네요! 감사합니다!

@killianlucas 7 ай бұрын

incredible

@cristinocanga 8 ай бұрын

This is just amazing

@immedinafrank 8 ай бұрын

This is a great idea for a Blender Plugin

@nov3316 7 ай бұрын

wow! holy shooooooooooot.

@ShawnChristopher10101 7 ай бұрын

We're at a point where the technology is so good we have to work on the psychology of the content.

@mickelodiansurname9578 4 ай бұрын

I learned more on this about making a realistic render from this Norwegian guy than I did sitting through a damn day of tutorials.

@le0na1das09 7 ай бұрын

1:59 Hey been struggling about this. How did you make the path with the curves blending with the environment? Thank you!

@thevoid6756 8 ай бұрын

that was great!

@yuvaraj8492 8 ай бұрын

He's an expert in unscripted surprising. 🤩🤩

@colly6022 8 ай бұрын

i've always said since i was little that photorealism always looks off because it doesn't feel like someone is actually recording something! i'm glad after like 10 years of thinking this, someone actually validates my assumption.

@jagadishcdoralmedicineradi8932 8 ай бұрын

14.52 : the side view mirror , convex mirror distortion needed.

@xanzuls 8 ай бұрын

Gem of a video.

@shambu4377 8 ай бұрын

❤

@IPremNishad 8 ай бұрын

Wooow! Here's Polyfjord 💛💛

@codersama 8 ай бұрын

Polyfjord talk lets gooooooooooooo

@Bwaptz 8 ай бұрын

yet again Asbørn brings a new perspective to the 3d world that suddenly brings everything into focus.🧡🤍💙

@zurasaur 8 ай бұрын

King

@metarender 8 ай бұрын

why we cant add Lut in blender? why we cant add realistic bloom & glare in blender?

@ahmedshakib3883 8 ай бұрын

Imperfection is perfection

@_blender_man_ 8 ай бұрын

Oh yes , he is good 👍🏻

@stevemuzak8526 8 ай бұрын

5:08 That guy on a bike is crazy. Almost got killed.

@quadronaut 8 ай бұрын

Polyfjord!! So happy he's at Bcon!!!!

@ey891 8 ай бұрын

That is why most Blender Animation videos have VHS filters or other rough-looking compositing.

@meadsource 8 ай бұрын

Someone nearly got cleaned up on that crossing in Tokyo 😂😂

@othmanelhafi4367 Ай бұрын

Does anyone know how the road was created by curve and force field 1:58

@Ali.alabeedi 8 ай бұрын

wow

@ArminMirshamsi 8 ай бұрын

👍

@ektorthebigbro 8 ай бұрын

How the f is this so realistic

@akr3nd3r 8 ай бұрын

Money can buy happiness habibi

@xaxo8224 8 ай бұрын

There's literally a 20 minute video explaining why

@sooryadevk9797 8 ай бұрын

Wow 😮

@ade_gwu6501 8 ай бұрын

I just learnt something big. This could be a full long course.

@ziomalZparafii 7 ай бұрын

5:11 whoops, by accident we've almost seen an accident there ;-)

@abdullahsanjaya5682 8 ай бұрын

I've been questioning this for pretty long time.. How do you add noise only applied to the shadow?

@nobodyishere 8 ай бұрын

Davinci Resolve has great tools for that but I'm sure you could do it in any program

@finnjensen9002 8 ай бұрын

You could use the Noise Texture Node, use a B/W converted output of your render in the composer, invert the color (dark is bright, bright is dark now) and plug it in to the roughness input. This way you mask out the brighter areas.

@finnjensen9002 8 ай бұрын

And instead of inverting your B/W image, you could use the color ramp node to fine tune the areas that should get noise added

@rQuilln 8 ай бұрын

14:40 Replicating a low-quality camera feels more realistic than replicating a high-quality camera. It's just like the Uncanny Valley, but for photorealism. Removing or distorting the 3D details for a more realistic view is quite counter-intuitive. But our brain is great for filling up the missing details, so we interpreted the 3D as photorealistic. I think we have our own intuition about photorealism. One person thinks that the detailed 3D scene is photorealistic, but it feels unrealistic for another person. So, finding the common denominator in a 3D scene, such as replicating the low-quality camera (since most people have low-quality cameras on their smartphones), and letting most people fill in the missing details, makes the 3D scene more photorealistic.

@LeiffNathanAMendoza 8 ай бұрын

KUDOSES AS ALWAYS

@maxwildcard2403 8 ай бұрын

The ad company may have transported the car to the scene covered but two individuals have driven it there, maybe thru dirt road and the windows would have dust in them. Windshield and frontgrille would have smashed bugs. It may have rained the previous day and the driver side windscreen viper may have spread a squished beetle in to a nasty yellow arc?