Sonny Jim, this slaps.

I'm a professional 3D Camera tracking and layout artist. I also worked on the face capture deAging from the Irishman. Tracking cameras is my thing. I did not know about fspy until this video!!!! This is going to save my butt when the client doesn't deliver proper lens grids! Thanks!

Does using Blender require us to slowly evolve into looking like Ian Hubert? I'm OK with it, just needed to know sooner than later.

Peter if VFX doesn’t work out you have a career in advertising with us - Micro Center CEO

That "build proxy" thing annihilated me. No more time spent running 20+ sequences through AME just for viewport playback. Thanks, Peter!

Awesome stuff! A simple compositing trick I learned is using the tint effect in after effects on your cg layer. Put a blur on your footage and crank it up so its just a blob of colors. Set the black and white points in the tint effect to the darkest and lightest areas in the blurred footage (preferably near where your cg is going to be) and then remove the blur from the footage, and dial down the tint effect to something like 20-30% and bam. Can really help if your cg elements don't have the correct color tones/lighting.

Someone else mentioned EXRs for speed and quality, but another benefit is that they're encoded linearly and contain HDR values. Linear workflow is a necessity in digital image compositing because when the code values of the footage don't match the real life light ratios, your gradients and blending will be difficult to work with and will introduce a lot of problems like edge fringing, incorrect motion blur, inaccurate lighting, and more. This is the difference between scene referred (linear) and display referred (gamma). So instead of working on the log footage, you convert your footage to linear using either an aces IDT or other gamma converter (I believe in AE it's called color profile converter). This way it will match the EXRs coming out of blender. As a last step you can convert the whole comp back to log if you wish. Color management in AE is pretty hard to work with, which is one of the reasons I switched to Fusion a long time ago! Nuke simplifies the process a bit in much the same way blender does by applying automatic conversions on import based on file type, but I actually like doing it manually.

I know you don’t really make videos about your music but it would be really cool to see some of your workflows for making music. I absolutely adore your style and recently started dipping my toes into synths and music production

4:02 is where i mashed the like button as hard as I could. Love the genuine emotion lol

A few crucial steps missed here that I think are worth adding to the flow chart. Before the tracking phase use a program like nuke (you could use the free version) to undistort your shot and render it out with extra resolution at the edges so you don't lose detail. Back in comp, redistort your CG on top of the footage. Seems small, but this will drastically improve solve error for wide angle lenses. Also in davinci resolve use a rec709 -> linear lut (or whatever appropriate colorspace conversion) to export all footage as linear EXR sequence with DWAA compression. This will give you more flexible files to work with. That is pretty much how I do things at work. Other than those two notes this is a great workflow. You may want to consider node based software like fusion or nuke since AE can be extremely inefficient long term.

Man thank you so much!! I’ve been dying to get into this but it’s felt overwhelming at times. So many different tutorials trying to learn these steps. You’re a legend!

Dude! 00:14 Is this the Casio VL-Tone from Sketchfab? :D If so, then I made this one! :D The original keyboard is right next to me on my shelf! :D If it is the one, that would be so cool! I got super excited when Wren almost picked my bowling pins for his bowling animation, but if this is actually the model I made - holy cow, this is huge for me :D (Sent this comment a second time, I think KZfaq bugged... sorry if it's here twice)

So cool to see you have your own channel. Love your work in corridor crew and thankful that you are working with blender. Looking forward to the content you produce.

Great overview, glad to see these tips becoming more known and commonplace.

Matching black/white points, very useful! I didn't know I should do that about it until now. Thanks.

Definitely needed this! It is very hard to find such proper pipelines from start to finish. So, Nanni-Arigato-Danke!

I am a 17 year old just getting into VFX, This answered alot of questions about how to start the compositing sequence. I didn't think of making the film transparent than adding it afterword's in composite. Thanks for the video

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you for the amazing content!

Good information as always. It mostly matched my workflow as is, but still came with useful tips. Still looking forward to that after effects background masking tutorial you promised a while back!

That's exactly what I was searching for, thx a lot Peter! Much love from Italy :D

Your voice is so match with satoru gojo's eng dub voice !!

Bro your the world's Best VFX artist I know in the whole world......love your videos and it's so simple....

this is amazing!! love your videos on this channel!!! really helpful

why havent you been on corridor crew videos ?

Dude you're super talented, thanks for sharing this!

This was explained very simply. That background music reminds me of Age of Empires.

Killer tutorial dude! So sick meeting you at the CD Office a few weeks ago as well, look forward to seeing more content from ya!

It's astounding how watchable you corridor guys are when not in a corridor digital video

I had no idea you had a channel until now, keep up the great work!

Wow he just gives us the poster as-is in high resolution, no "sign up to my spam mailing list" bullshit. Very nice, very kind of you.

Damn son, this is some inspirational work you're showing

That was really cool and you make it sound so easy! Great video!!

Awesome video! Exactly what ive been looking for.

Great video Peter!

Great vid, thanks Peter!

The OG is back!

Thank you, Peter!

Great video! I love the little guy you made!

This is perfection explanation in 9min. thank you sir.

Wow, amazing content, you and corridor crew make vfx more interesting . Please make more videos on vfx in blender

Please keep uploading. I love using you content to grow as a creator. Upload more if you can lol

This was a great video, thanks for sharing your workflow.

Some really neat tips! I had no clue the proxiy footage was a thing in Blender 😁

Amazing tutorial! Thank you

Great tutorial man.

This is huge. Thank you

this is great thanks man Btw I started using blender and 3d animation because of you seeing you in corridor crew videos! nice stuff there too ...

Simply Amazing

I’m so happy you exist

I want to upgrade after effects just for THAT famigerate rotobrush tool. But updating an adobe software is something that scares the shit out of me D:

Great video! Thank you

great job peter

Damn Pete that hair might make Kyle Hill jealous!!🤣🤣🤣

THIS IS SUCH A SICK VIDEO!! thnx alot!

@Peter France Remember when using the Fast Box Blur that it has Iterations set to 3 pr default, so when doing smaaaall amounts of blur, push that back to 1-2 and you'll much easier be able to find a decent number for the Blur Radius : )

128gb for free? What a time to be alive

Thanks Peter!

You're slowly morphing into Ian 🤣 Great compact tutorial as usual 👌

I love that you use blender, it helps that the poor people like me can follow along.

Welcome back.

You are a gift for humanity 😂

i appreciate you so much peter

All hail the P-France! Great stuff!

Awesome man, thanks!

Hey Peter awesome video! One way to improve your workflow it is to use OpenEXR's instead of PNG's when exporting your footage. The compression and decompression of png's is painfully slow. This is why its also slow in blender. Ofc putting your files on an ssd will help as well. Hope this helps! Much love from the Netherlands!

So good!

insane video

Really going for the Ian Hubert look haha

Appreciate you pete🙏🏾⚡

I feel like such a fool that I didn't sub to you earlier, knowing all your work from Corridor.

As always gooood) thank you kind man!)

this video was great

i tried making vfx video. thanks for tutorial.

Very nice Peter :)

When the world needed him the most...

KING!

Would be great to see a video of the whole process on maybe a small shot just to see full context, even in just a timelapse or something. Great video though for budding VFX artists, thanks!

Great Video

Am I the only one patiently waiting for that advance clean plate tutorial that was promised in that video where your friends head....um....kabooms?

Love this

Peter we have the same computer chair!

You're fantastic.

Awesome!

Waouh ! :o This video is truly AMAZING, thank you ! :)

Yes! It's such a good video! Thanks for sharing your experience! Greetings from Ukraine ☺️

Awesome thanks.

Uhh...hello this was badass! Thanks so much. :)

Good video

the „thing“ is so cute xD

“Then using Math and shit!” Has be the most underrated line 🤣

Having worked with color correcting since the dark ages now, I'd suggest using curves in stead of color balance / levels. Gives a way more natural result and more control. But a very informative workflow video, I love checking out how other people work!

holy shit. I though I was watching an Ian Hubert video, same high quality content, same physical appearance. lol

You should do a video on overall animation/rigging at some point. This video kinda just skipped over that aspect, and I was really looking forward to that. Other than that, great video as always! 😁😁😁

I'm making the move to blender from Maya and it's been a bit frustrating. When following Ian's tutorial or even this one, I'm not sure how to render the footage without the background video rendering too

Can you please make a tutorial on how to position/scale the 3D scanned model from the environment so it matches the footage? Thanks!

This is perfect! *save*

Hell yeah!

The back to back unskipable ads after the sponsor were brutal

nice vid thx

even on a tripod though, it's HIGHLY UNLIKELY it's a nodal pan unless the person filming it is hip enough to know what that is. to shoot nodal on a tripod, you have to offset the camera BACKWARDS such that the image sensor plane is coincident with the pan axis (most cameras have the image sensor/film plane marked with a circle with a slash going through it - the slash representing where the nodal point is). and unless you have a very fancy tripod (so that you can offset the camera DOWN such that the camera's image plane is coincident with the tilt axis), you CANNOT TILT or you won't have nodal movement anymore. you can tell when you have nodal pan (and/or tilt) because you will have NO APPARENT PARALLAX as a result of your pan/tilt. having said that, most trackers do have a tracking mode for tripod and it takes into account the smaller amounts of parallax that you do indeed get from a normal tripod setup. great vid! your john wick vfx was off the hizzy lmfao! i was literally weeping at the end of it.