That's a really great idea! I'm definitely going to try this in the future.

Thank you, Curtis! It's really nice to have the support of friend/pro like you to help/encourage along the way!

Thank you very much! I'm glad to hear I'm on the right track :)

It's my pleasure, Rowan! Thank you for watching!

Thanks, Matt! I had my head down for so long making this one that I had lost a sense as to how it stood as a whole. So thanks for your feedback and encouragement!

I'm very happy to hear you liked this one! I would maybe release once a month but they usually take more than a month to make to make! 😂

I know! Given you have other projects running.

Glad to hear that, Kyle!

Wow, perfect timing! You are very welcome.

Awesome tip!

@@InLightVFX it's also use for long time with the photogrammetry process use by Paul debevec with his setup he use cross polarised filter on light and camera to extract the glossiness of a face by multiplied trick, adobe substance do something similar by scanning a Tea pot they kill the reflection to scan the color of the asset, it's really powerfull.

Usualy we use polarised filter for taking picture of the surface of a windows or a lac or a pond to see behind it without the fresnel effect reflection, it's also neutralised cloudy sky in a good way, it's use on photography since a very long time.

Hey Alfie! Thanks man, I really appreciate it!

Thanks! I will definitely keep making tutorials though sporadic as the releases may be.

@@InLightVFXI can imagine it takes a ton of work. Quality over quantity, so sporadic is perfectly fine. Have a nice day!

Charan! Thanks so much!

Hey Mario! Thanks for your kind words! I tried your clamping suggestion on my end and it seems like the effectiveness of this approach may depend on the lighting of the scene. With my violin shot, the reflections darken the surface. So the reflection part of the shadow catcher pass mostly has values below 1 to achieve that darkening effect when multiplied. Therefore, when I clamped that shadow pass I see almost no change. BUT, with the clay pots scene, since those reflections are brightening the surface, those pixel values in the shadow pass are well above 1. In this case, clamping the pass definitely does cut out most of the reflection but I'm still left with a bit of some odd remnants. I do think this is still a nice trick to know about, especially for someone who has already rendered out a full shadow pass and didn't realize reflections were coming along for the ride :) Great to have the chance to remove them in compositing. (Btw I'm overexplaining this not for your sake but for anyone else reading).

@@InLightVFX You are correct my bad! I use an old Blender Guru method (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdCHosqdsr-8cnk.html) which is NOT the same but can look quite similar to the Shadow Catcher pass. It gives shadows below 1 and indirect light above 1. I don't refuse to use Shadow Catcher by choice it's just the studio I work at hasn't gone above Blender 2.83 yet (for stability reasons). Unrelated but a little fun thing I realized is that the Blender Guru method can be done in real life with live action footage! Using clean plate or sometimes a constant and dividing with the footage will give you shadows and indirect light pass of filmed footage. I've used this on 6 or 7 live action plates already (locked shots with cam not moving too much)

Ayyy, thank you Trace :)

Ayyyy!

Good question and good eye! Yes, I did add some grain to the cg elements in Nuke. This was a little outside of the scope of the tutorial (especially when compositing in Blender) hence why I didn't mention it.

@@InLightVFX yeah no problem, was just curious. Grain in blender is...awkward. So I thought you had done something in nuke to add it back to better blend the elements in. Awesome, Thank you!

Thanks! I used Blender for the tracking

Hi there, hopefully this is helpful for you (you can access it by joining my patreon for free): www.patreon.com/posts/tut-bonus-water-67594049?Link&

Right click and hover over the image with your mouse and they will magically appear :)

That's true! You can create that in After Effects or whatever compositor you use that can do tracking. Since my camera was already solved in Blender I just made it there.

Good question! Nuke seems to handle color management much better than Fusion and has less issues getting hung up on more complicated composites. I have only used Fusion as part of Davinci Resolve so perhaps these issues are not present in the standalone version. Nuke is also the industry standard so it makes sense to use if working at a studio interests you someday. But I also wouldn't say I've "switched" from Fusion to Nuke. I still will probably use both just to keep track of the development of new tools to make sure I'm using the best ones.

Maybe setting the Device to GPU compute, if it was on cpu. You can look it up, how to set GPU for rendering.

PNG could work, EXR is best though.

@@InLightVFX I just exported Glossy Indirect pass and masked out the rest of stuff. There is no way to automatically mask a reflection like 3ds max or Cinema 4d do for export to png.

To make the reflection matte? This is an option. You could then blur the reflection matte in compositing.

@@InLightVFX I was referring to the shadow pass, I see that you make the roughness to 1.

@@edh615 I see. I just tested this out. You're right that setting the Specular value to 0 for the shadow material does get rid of the reflections for the Shadow Catcher Pass. But I also noticed it gets rid of some of the color in the shadows (which would come from the indirect light bouncing off the Specular surface). It seems that setting the Roughness to 1 might be better as I get that color information back in the shadows. I do think in general it's probably best not to modify the specular value. But those are just conclusions from this quick test. Thank you for bringing up that idea, Ed! And I'd be curious if anyone else has an opinion on the matter.

You're welcome! I am not from Ferrol but I was living there for a little last year. Do you know Ferrol? It's an awesome place!

​@@InLightVFX Nice! No, I don't. But I summered many years in Galicia, but in the province of Pontevedra. In Moaña, in front of Vigo ;) But you know, Ferrol is very well known. Galicia is great heheh Well, thanks for your knowledge again. Peace!

@@BRON3D Oh nice! Indeed, Galicia is a great region :)

That's really nice to know about, Ali. Thanks for the tip and the file!

@@InLightVFX You're most welcome