FYI, filmic is now part of Blender 2.79! No need to download anything extra :)

Andrew's real dining room actually looks like a render, too. I think he is literally living inside of Blender at this point and he doesn't even realize it.

His actual dining room looks fake

I downloaded the link and started the process to download until i realized that blender 2.82a is already using filmic color management. Realized that this video is uploaded in 2017. Your campaign was a success congrats :)

The fact that it improved a default cube concerns me.

things i took most from this video: Dude's dining room is so sleek it looks like it's CG

This 30 minute video of light dynamics in a software I have never used is apparently more important to my brain then studying for exams.

As a photographer the sentence "something so seeming unimportant as dynamic range" made me laugh way harder than it should have

6:05 This guy's rendered Curtains look more realistic than the real one lol 😂.

I feel so betrayed by the Blender Devs for making me use sRGB this whole time even though I've literally never used Blender in my life

"How bright is the Sun?" "Twenty."

I sat here watching the whole 31 minutes and 27 seconds munching on my popcorn knowing damn well, I never have and will touch blender good shit man

As a game developer, I have written a game engine that renders scenes in HDR, which potentially produces very intense lighting values. I use tone mapping to convert the 0-x light values down to 0-1 RGB values that can actually be displayed without clipping. The tone mapping operator even includes a bit of math to produce the realistic desaturation effect you mentioned. I also experienced the same issue with intense lights changing hue: this happens because clipping can alter the ratio between the R, G and B channels. I appreciated this video because it was like a mirror image of everything I learned in the course of making my game's lighting display correctly, only seen from another perspective. And the final result speaks for itself- educating people on this topic is a good thing.

My heart stopped at "free"...how could something so significant be free? I'm blown away by the blender community

Even though Filmic is now part of Blender, this video still taught me a lot about color and adjusting color in Blender in Nodes. I found all of it to be very interesting and useful knowledge. Thank you, as always!

I don’t do any 3D modelling but I really like this guy’s voice

I have no idea how to use Blender, but I still watched the entire video.

I never had Blender installed in my computer, and honestly I won't be doing any 3d stuff any time soon... yet here I am, watching all your videos.

I did film production and photography in college and NEVER once heard the term “Middle Grey”, thank you for that! I feel like that’s going to offer me an opportunity to improve my photography and filming!

One of my favorite things about watching your videos is that almost every time you complain about something in an old tutorial, I don’t end up having the same problem in the most recent version of blender. The fact that these things get updated and polished constantly gives me a lot of trust for blender’s future and as a 3d noob it’s very comforting.

Reference photo is clearly a render. Blunder Guru is an advanced generative AI of some sort.

Also, the actual photo of the dining room looks fake to me for some reason... :D

We never should've jumped to 4k, we should've jumped to HDR at 1440p

6:00 lmao I thought you were trying to fool my ass and then just say like "oh no that's actually a render with fixed lighting". Really looked like a render

You just tricked me into watching a blender tutorial, that I enjoyed watching, because I wanted to know the secret ingredient, and I've never used blender. You're an amazing youtuber, gotta hand it to you.

why am i watching this, i dont even use blender, good content tho lol

As soon as you called your explanation "Dynamic Range", HDR just made a whole lot more sense.

I’ve been a graphic designer for many many years now. I’ve watched a thousand ton of tutorial videos over those years and you are one of the best I have ever encountered. Can’t compliment you enough. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for being my gateway to Blender!!

Your room has nice graphics

This should be helpful when I finished dealing with the cube.

This video showed me 3D was a thing. Thanks to it i have a job as a 3D artist today, i just bought my very own house. Everytime i tell people about what i do i mention this video. Thank you Andrew

you're such an optomistic person with so much knowledge that you share with others. i can't even begin to think how much you have helped in this community

Stuff like this honestly makes me want to learn Blender. The dedication and generosity in this community is absolutely astounding. Update: Oh gosh, I've been getting a lot of replies to this since posting. To answer: Yes! I've since learned Blender. It's now a core part of my work flow and I'm enjoying it a lot. :)

When I watch blender guru video I feel like I Level Up ! (DING)

Aaaah, your videos on photorealism are so awesome! Coming from a photography background myself, I did think about most if not all of these aspects, but making that connection so systematically and showing HOW to implement proper amounts of dynamic range etc. is just very fulfilling to watch, and gets me really excited on diving into my current project's VFX side. :)

I'm gonna be honest, I normally don't stick through tutorials this long. But the information and the way you explained it was EXTREMELY helpful and gave me such a better understanding of the way blender is managing my colors. I do a ton of product renders and this has helped me more than you could know! Thank you!

5:55 wow, that photo looks like rendered. i was like wtf its real life photo?!

Your conversational style, attention to detail and commitment to explaining the concepts make you stand out. This is exceptional material. It's not easy keeping the internet's attention for 30 minutes

Watch this vid, went to download and found the note about it already being included from 2.79... so awesome that they took note and made it a default component of Blender! Thanks for helping to get this out there!

I don't even know how to make a sphere in blender but I'm convinced I need Filmic Blender in my life

Dynamic range isn't measured in "f-stops", it's just measured in "stops". A f-stop is a measurement of the aperture of a lens.

Nice overview here!! At Pixar (I was a shading TD) they render in 32 bit and tone mapping is done later. Their tools can create accurate bounced light, but everything is lit 'artistically' so each shot may have 20-30 lights in it. Characters have their own lights too. The thing that I thought was kind of crazy was that every shot gets broken out into it's own file, so the lighting has to be done for each shot separately. You cannot go in and edit the lighting for an entire sequence or set, after a certain stage of production.

I think it's awesome that Blender took it upon themselves to integrate this into their update. I seriously don't see the benefit of any other 3D Studio. It's like my Converse; once worn, rarely go back to Nike. As you can tell, I'm a bit late in the game!

6 years later and this video is still helpful. thanks for putting all this info together!

Does this ever happen to you? I don't do any rendering, I'm not a photographer, I have no idea why this was in my recommended. I still watched the whole thing.

Blender Guru: *Advanced camera and lighting language* Me, a dumbass, who has no idea what he's saying: "Ah yes of course"

Thank you for making tutorials! I watched a few to get familiar with Blender. It was easy to follow and the way you lay out hotkeys and sometimes even explain what the program is thinking was really helpful.

Fantastic video - thanks for updating the video description - now it's included it's still great to know the background - great in depth job

How the F*** are your videos so informative...

you forgot to model the cat

These video has been uploaded on my birthday!! Thank You Blender Guru!!

this is legendary tutorial in render lighting history. this is the second mind blowing life changing highly useful tutorial i found in youtube (the other one was about making realistic glass material with mix shaders and different weathering textures)

I'm like 'ooh interesting' even though I don't even use Blender! What am I doing with my life???

18:34 I know this video is two years old, but the phrase is “paradigm shift,” not “paradox shift.”

This was very intuitive. Well explained, easy to understand and implement. Great job, and kudos to Filmic Blender Developer of course!

FOR MAC USERS: -go to the blender icon -(right) click on it -click on "display bundle content" or "show package contents" -open the "content" folder -"resources", "2.78" and "data files"

People like troy is what makes Blender such a great tool

This was a very helpful tutorial. Short and to the point but still had the content it needed.

I've just been rendering for little over a year but the fact that I'm just learning this now is crazy! This video was so in depth and I think it will really help my future projects. Also I'm shocked it's still not default in Blender.

Your background music is dope.

Oh my, browsing old Blender Guru videos and suddenly a new one pops out. :D

Thank the gods for this genius who gave us filmic blender and was able to get it added to the program as a default. This is a part of history that should never be forgotten. o7

Another amazing and super helpful video. Thank you so much for your great contributions - I am so happy how you manage to explain it so it's really easy to understand. That's some mad skill right there!

Also maybe im missing the point but your dining room looks like a render irl

For those wondering where the effect of colors fading out to white from overexposure/lightintensity comes from: The sensors in your eyes that detect different colors don't actually 'just' detect red, green or blue light. As a matter of fact, the color 'red' is not just a single wavelength of radiation but more a spectrum that we've classified as being 'red'. They're not completely immune to other colors. So when we are talking super-exposure you get to a point where if there is an enormous amount of light in the red wavelength spectrum hitting your retina and all of your red sensors are blaring at your brain, you reach the threshold of your blue and green sensors starting to fire making your brain think it is also seeing those light-types and thus your brain 'washes' the red color out increasingly to pure white as the exposure becomes more and more (because red + blue + green = white according to your brain). Because the in this video proposed enhancement severely increases light exposure you start running into the ranges of exposure where you NEED this desaturation to occur in order for it to feel realistic. The most important thing to take away from all of this is that 'realism' in the field of photo/video editing/rendering has nothing to do with physical reality but with how WE, the 'viewer' see said reality. Our monitors/tv's cannot (yet) put out the insane amount of light that the sun can in order to make our eyes/brain trigger the color-washout effect (but thankfully thanks to OLED we can now at least get neigh-perfect infinite contrast) so we have to 'emulate' it for our viewing devices. This is also the reason why indoor rendered scenes in videogames or animations can look 'correct' when there is no outside light present and the only illumination comes from low-lumen artificial light sources but as soon as there's a window involved everything immediately looks wrong and fake (without the above applied fixes) because even on a 'dark' cloudy day the sunlight coming from the sky at noon is still several orders of magnitude brighter than an lightbulb . This is a problem that I, as a gamer, have often witnessed in videogames in the past and even up to this day. Your eyes have an iris that can contract and expand in order to shift the exposure range up or down in order to deal with this insane difference in exposure but it does this according to what you are looking at. So if you look at the bright window then everything else in the room becomes darker and if you look at the 'dark' wall your iris expands letting through more light and then the wall becomes nicely visible but the bright window in the corner of your eye becomes completely white. This is another issue with 'static' rendered images because basically you have to 'decide' for the viewer what his eyes should focus on and that takes away the realism as well. Because on a static image you can look at the dark bookshelf in the corner of the room or the over-exposed table and the exposure doesn't change but in reality your eyes would adjust to their brightness accordingly. So, even though with the tricks used in this video you can simulate 'photo'realism, you still won't be able to simulate ACTUAL realism in the way you are capable of in an interactive experience such as a videogame where you can simply adjust the exposure based on what the crosshair is pointing at.

Its really nice to know and kinda understand what Color Management and Dynamic Range are, and how they actually work.

Amazed how things get good. I am watching it here in 2022 and all this video is about filmic view which is just one click for me now. And it is with the help of Andrew and all those people in the industry. Thanks, guys

I haven’t even installed Blender. This is literally the second tutorial I’ve watched and I feel like I’ve been given a several month head start on my skills. Thanks!

This tutorial is so well-done. It explains everything in the perfect amount of detail and gives very easy-to-follow instructions. Amazing!

I've never even touched render or thought about making digital art yet I watched the whole thing. Great video

!!!!!! I'm so glad youtube recommended this! I still don't understand a lot of the numbers and the specifics of how color works, but I will definitely use this. also I had no idea about the "false colors" thing! that is super useful also nice that it is a part of blender so I don't have to mess with any files or download anything

After trying to insert filmic into my blender, my blender broke. I had to buy a new one. You owe me €120.

23:35 Yellow, Cyan and Magenta oh cmon, that's basic.

This video was a starting point but as I come to understand aces after all these years I can appreciate how easily you explained that hard subject to not so experienced uses kudos to you

i have 0 experience with photo and visual technical stuff but i do have lots of experience with the technical side of audio, and this was very easy to understand (probably also because you explain it really well) lots of parallels between this and how an audio signal works, with terms like dynamic range and clipping. super interesting. when mastering a render of a song, you need something called "headroom" so that you can get the signal loud enough (using tools like compression as necessary to make the quietest parts louder) without making the loudest parts of the audio clip at all. super cool vid

I've been shooting LOG footage on cinema cameras forever, and it's really cool being able to get essentially LOG footage and colorgrade it how I'm used to with real cameras in blender. Your tutorials are AMAZING!

Perhaps one of the best CG docu tutorials communicated of all time. Great job. I know the subject well but you have expressed it brilliantly.

This is the kind of thing i would hate being taught at school but look at me watching this video and being so thankful to now know all of this. I guess it has to do with the concrete examples and the awesome teacher ! Thank you so so much !

i'm so glad i watched this before ever downloading blender I know a thing or two about color myself and seriously thank you this has definitely saved me a lot of time and frustratrion

Amazed. Once again. When will you ever drop in quality? There must be a ceiling?! But no, yet again: Another gamechanger from Sir Andrew...

Thank you so much for explaining this concept so well!! This has to be the most valuable tutorial I've seen in 2 years on KZfaq.

I like how I basically always switched to filmic log because I liked it and that this is basically what he tells you to do. I call this an absolute win!

thanks for all the knowledge that you share. Respect for all the hard work you put in.

This video looks interesting... but 1.) I don't do blender. 2.) It was on my recommended. and 3.) It's 3 AM where I'm at and I'm supposed to be studying.

His IRL dining room looks like a starter set you'd get in UE4 lmao

I'm not a blender user or even a render-er in any way but watching this changed my life, thank you Guru, and thank you Troy

Wonderfully done explanation of a complex subject. I'm not doing this work, I do "other things" (Super resolution microscopy and Composing and Arranging Music). However, with my various "Engineering Degrees" I followed this avidly. It is impressive work. Thanks to Troy for his contribution!!!

Filmic Blender is on the official target list for Blender 2.79 for quite a while now. No need to start a big campaign for inclusion in master as suggested in 10:40 , the developers are on it :) Until then, enjoy Filmic Blender as an addon.

Apropos people who misunderstand colour spaces... for one sRGB being ancient is neither here nor there, because all web images and webbrowsers are sRGB, and all displays are approximately sRGB when displaying 8-bit inputs, as is the output of the iPhone camera in JPG mode (or high-depth linear in RAW mode). Most commercial LCD PC monitors and TVs don't even cover the complete sRGB space, neither on gamut (unless they use RGB backlighting) nor on dynamic range, so all they have to work with is a rather pitiful approximation. For all the faults of CRTs (geometry, resolution, sharpness, convergence), colour reproduction was not generally one of them, and they are still occasionally used as colour reference. For other, that sRGB represents only 8 f-stops is a blatant lie and misunderstanding. It would be if it was 8-bit linear space, but it's an 8-bit exponential space, with an approximate exponent of 1/2.2. So how much dynamic range does it have? Let's say we take the point of the lightest non-zero value, it has a linear value of (1/255)^2.2=0.000015, or close to dark resolution of 16-bit linear. Now that is of course not quite correct, because sRGB has a linear section at the start, while i have used substitution approximate gamma, so it's realistically closer to resolution of 12-bit linear, or 12 photographic f-stops, if resolution loss at brightest tones is partially neglected, which it can be according to perceptive metrics. When rendering, generally infinite dynamic range is assumed, because any exponent of 0 is 0, in Blender and elsewhere. However this is not how cameras work. Specifically because their dynamic range is finite, they end up mapping the values to maximize useful information and reject noise, and this is what is missing and has been correctly added by Filmic Blender, and the explanation written by its author Troy Sobotka is absolutely correct. You merely failed at reading it.

Watching this later when I get photoshop or blender up and running. Thanks for this!

2:00 it's interesting because I have to focus on the 2nd square from the left or the black shade blends in with the most black to the far left. I'm glad technology allows us to experience dynamics like this.

This is all well and good (filmic blender), but there are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation in this video. All renderers (including Cycles) render under the hood in a linear colourspace. This is so that the math behind everything is correct and not skewed. Its necessary for a correct representation of physics and energy transfer/propgation/light simulation, which is what path tracer renderers like cycles do. Thus, by default, Blender actually outputs a linear image, because it renders a linear image. The sRGB conversion (display device) is done so that it looks correct on your monitor... It isn't some old, terrible workflow, its literally so that the linear image that is rendered to work like real life, looks like linear and natural to you when you look at it on your screen. It takes a while to understand, but Blenders own color management wiki page does a good job of explaining it. The point is, this filmic blender plugin doesn't actually "fix" anything. Nothing was broken. Blender and any other renderer that can render in 16 or 32 bit floating point has near infinite dynamic range, not 8 or 25 as you say. This is merely a plugin which emulates the nice logarithmic effect that film has. This is a method of tone mapping, or shifting all that colour information, the bright whites and dark blacks, into a space that looks natural to your eye, and can fit in an 8bit image or video that can be viewed on the vast majority of consumer devices that can only display that much information.

still doesn't look as good as minecraft with ray tracing

You're the only guy that make me watch a 30min video without checking the time.

This is literally the most useful and most crucial video about blender

Man... I'm currently rewatching this video from about 2 years ago because I wanted to re-learn it because I was too lazy the first time and damn, there were so many things that were updated like the UI (which I was very happy about because I was overwhelmed by it the first time and it led to me not wanting to learn in anymore), 2d animation, and this. man, I'm so lucky to learn this 2 weeks ago.

Have you tried to re-render your sci-fi drone with Filmic?

I like your videos, very clear presentation. Good luck with your channel man.

Thank you so much!! I havent used blender that much but simply everytime i was disapointed of the result. I think this information will help me out (i hope so!) In fact: it looks amazing at your video!

I love to watch your channel even when I don't use Blender!