Add 3D Effects to Your Photos with Camera Projection Mapping in Blender 2.8

[@DylanNeill3D]

Hey everyone, thanks so much for all the kind words! I've been busy on a job lately but I've been working on more tutorials and planning to release another one in a couple of weeks. Thanks again

[@neoxu7881]

Thank you so much!

[@politron2817]

[@iamleek]

Many Many Thanks Dylan. :-)

[@undefinieddaylight1381]

Helloo, your tutorial so cool, i want learn it to, but i cant understanding all your languages (engglish), i hope your added subtitle indonesia

[@jeantricoti6196]

great works tks

[@tomwebbnz]

Just watching this 2 years on, and it's still as fresh and relevant now as it was then. Quality video Dylan.

[@neutralmst6855]

Wow, I just thought I found someone with 1m+ subcribers with clear insight O.O then I noticed you have 194 and only 2 videos. Please continue, the tutorial was really really good.

[@DylanNeill3D]

Thanks!

[@mariushagelskjr5452]

Wow you just made me notice that there isn't a K at the end

[@ikannunaplays]

5k subs in one month. Great work

[@jeffg4686]

There are so many insane blender artists that are flying under the radar (few subscribers) putting out excellent content regularly. Chris P, TopChannel1on1, String Fairy, Lance Phan are just a few that are under recognized (under subscribed). Highly suggest subscribing to them. Many many others of course.

[@WaseemYusuf]

@@ikannunaplays Damn, he's at 14.3 K subs just 3 months later now

[@yash1152]

I love it when descriptions are actually "Descriptive" Thanks.

[@heyk-lee]

This was one of the first tutorials I've watched when starting blender, and I thought I'd never be able to do this much skilled work. Now four months later, I realize how great and simple this tutorial is compared to any of the other methods, and I am loving to follow along with it for my own. Very glad to have a great category of tutorials such as yours to go back to no matter when!

[@omarspost]

wow. You see this effect used in so many tv shows. Never knew this effect takes so much time. Will appreciate it more next time I see it.

[@elblopex]

I don't think this is actually that. I suppose in tv shows they only separate layers and automate scaling on each one in after effects. This is way too complicated for tv workflow

[@arthurvalverdepiedra5291]

There's a lot of blender tutorials floating in the net. But my dude, this is one of most professional I ever saw. Congrats! Please produce more! :D Also Thank you!

[@rdoetjes]

Imo the Best way to mask in Photoshop is still the pen pool. Nice edges and really quick to use. I find the selection tool ideal for the first 80% but that last 20% takes just as long as doing the whole thing with the pen tool.

[@khaledmohamed8221]

Please never Stop posting tutorials this channel must Grow !!!... Valuable INFO Thank you So much for your time and effort

[@faktorial2]

Fantastic tutorial, great work! Also, I really like how you emphasized that adjustments can always be made later, if necessary. I've got a bad habit of always wanting to make everything perfect at every stage of a project, wasting an incredible amount of time. It's clearly better to first get the big picture type stuff finished first, because that's when you really see what is important, and thus what need to be fixed up or even eliminated/replaced entirely.

[@nicosoftnt]

This is amazing because using gimp instead of photoshop one is able to reproduce this nice effect without a huge budget (after effects and third party plugins for example) and *really* learn how this works.

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

That was a lot more work than I was expecting. I've seen various youtubers do effects like this as pert of there video and did not know the pain it takes to do so.

[@vekkdrums]

maybe because they make this in after effects which takes like 10 min

[@pedrorubini_]

Your subdivision issue, I believe, is because you're scaling the planes in object mode but you're not applying the scale operation (Default shortcut is cmd/ctrl+a). Same goes for rotation, etc. If you apply those ops, you won't need to add loops to them manually :)) Nice tuts though, very useful! Just what I needed!

[@JanBartnik]

Blender workflow in a nutshell: let's just save now before everything crashes :D That's the most consistent quirk along every major blender tutorialists I've followed.

[@pawanrohidas1163]

It's not just blender it's literally every 3d software be Max or Maya always scared to proceed without saving

[@pedrorubini_]

Ever used Photoshop? :D

[@Van-yo2xr]

Pedro Rubini has photoshop is a million times more stable than 3D software. I’ve only crashed twice in the last 500 hours, even with 16 projects.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Blender rarely crashes on me. But I do regular saves in every piece of software I use, but it’s not just crashes: you could also suffer a power failure after several hours of unsaved work. It happened to a colleague earlier in my career, and I never forgot the lesson.

[@laserchick4977]

Blender only crashes when I make stupid projects or try doing things with 8k (I don't have a great computer)

[@contradiction5498]

youre literally the fastest typer in the world.

[@nilricci4835]

I was blown away too

[@Tony-jn2rf]

WE! WANT! MORE! WE!!! WANT!!! MORE!!! lol ive been doing your tutorials for the past 3 days or so, you have to be one of the best blender tutors online man

[@NeilRoy]

Great tutorial. I like the idea of using this with older historical photo to sort of bring them alive.

[@JvZ_Music]

Your tutorials are awesome! I love how concise you are while still providing enough detail for complete Blender noobs (like myself) to follow along with. Keep up the good work, and I'll keep learning from you! :D If you ever need any music for your channel, let me know!

[@genkishan]

Your tutorials are to the point and very useful hope you make some more

[@lightonor9055]

This is the best and clear tut about fspy and camera projection Alot didn't notice vanishing points of perspective in fspy. You did. You took my attention. New subscribe 👍❤️

[@juanvalbuena8953]

wow what an awesome tutorial!. These are the kind of PRO tutorials the Blender community needs. Keep the good work.

[@ralfbaechle]

A lengthy video - but not a second wasted. Well done!

[@TykenMcLeod]

We have to delete the default cube first.

[@IGazeYouInTheHaze]

Please don't

[@TykenMcLeod]

@Gibbon The deinstallation of the default cube joke.

[@oh-noe]

@Gibbon almost every tutorial starts with "delete the cube" since it's always there when you create a new project.

[@tonypuglieso1386]

@@oh-noe and in some tutorials, second action its, create a new cube jajaj

[@Chillerll]

@@tonypuglieso1386 its a ritual as old as Blender itself

[@bsdas9388]

This is one of the most professional videos.

[@borjonx]

Thanks for doing Save-As so often!!!!!!! It is such a critical component of the overall workflow that is missed in most all how-to vids. A newb might never consider doing it if it's not shown - it allows you to go back to any point in time(for reference or restarts). Thanks!!

[@DylanNeill3D]

Ah yes! More than 20 years of having 3D software crash on me has formed this habit well!

[@ruan_pr_theron]

Thank you so much for spending the time on making this! It is such a clear and insightful tutorial. All of the tips and techniques are well worth having in your Blender arsenal. The techniques are probably a bit beyond the ABSOLUTE beginner blenderer, but I think the insight that you gain about 3D space and perspective is invaluable to understand from the get-go!

[@NaycK]

nice, this is the best result of all 3d photos i saw in internet

[@jeffg4686]

👍 👍 👍 - best tutorial on projection mapping I've seen thus far.

[@pb7199]

i'm a photographer and i only really understood the photoshop parts of this video but this is still a really good tutorial! really clearly explained and you covered a lot of troubleshooting as well, now i just need to learn my way around blender i guess!

[@berndeckenfels]

Cool project, in the beginning it was very technical for novice blender users

[@a3k747]

Amazing tutorial. This channel is soo under-rated

[@notflanders4967]

this is a gold mine of information, and you explain things very clearly. Thanks for sharing this!

[@gfxmanx460]

Very very nice tut. Welcome Dylan, you are a breath of fresh air

[@AlberTesla1024]

Finally an awesome youtube recommendation. It knew what I was searching for. Thank you so much for making this tutorial.

[@ImprovingAbility]

Watched the whole video. Interesting to see how this is done. However, this is two levels beyond my learning skills. I'll wait 10 years until I have a button in Pixelmator Pro to do this.

[@ikeepgettinbanned5525]

noooo! go watch ted talk and get psyched!

[@obedreina3889]

Hope you make more blender tutorials, thank you for the 3d camera trick!

[@c0nsumption]

You are the man. Thank you for putting this out here. Been researching for weeks

[@mohamedlabeeb7162]

Awesome Tutorial! Descriptive and to the point. Very professional. Looking forward to more. Thank you very much!!!

[@ciaranpmryan]

Excellent workflow there. I love me some camera tracking so projection work is up next to increase my toolkit.

[@itokyoshoes]

Pure high quality tut. thank you so much! You have my like and subscription! I’ll be putting this tutorial to use very soon. Keep em coming

[@xl000]

single point perspective just means that you aim at a point that is in the direction of the main straight line features of the scene. Also in the 2 point perspective at 1:07, you clearly have lines colinear to the up vector converging to a point for below the scene

[@DylanNeill3D]

Sure not a pure 2 point perspective in the architectural projection sense, but it is predominantly so. Unless you're working with tilt shift photography, most images from the real world are not going to fit exclusively into one category or another

[@krishencotta3489]

Wow! This tutorial was super easy to follow and you've explained the steps well!

[@ShaggyMummy]

Looking forward to future tutorials. Great job man!

[@jagsdesign]

super awesome presentation and wonderful methods to explore

[@Idlccnt]

I don’t even have a pc but I watched the full 30 minutes of it.

[@knochestolle]

Great tutorial! Thank you! I'm looking forward for your next uploads.

[@davidcripps3011]

It's like magic :-) Great tutorial. Looking forward to more.

[@DylanNeill3D]

Thanks!

[@schultzina1]

I will create a video tutorial soon and post the link .Hope you don't feel offended by my comments. (I've been using Photoshop for almost 28 years) It is great to see people mixing things up a bit.

[@heinschultz8970]

Very nice tutorial, thanks Dylan.

[@Instant_Nerf]

That is amazing. What a great effect it adds to the overall scene. Subbed

[@h0ppip]

the greater horizontal detail from the subsurface modifier compared to vertical is because you didn't apply the scaling to the plane. if you apply the scaling (control+a) you get an equal subsurf amount on all axes.

[@DylanNeill3D]

Applying the scale doesn't make a difference (although always a good idea to do it anyway). The reason is more because if you subdivide long skinny faces you get more long skinny faces. If you subdivide squares, you get more squares.

[@ShaunakDe]

You're amazing at explaining these things! Please make more tutorials

[@oojiflip]

Man all your videos are bangers!

[@syntaxerorr]

Great video. I've seen this many times in documentaries. I had always thought you could do this by just cutting out the foreground objects. enlarge them so you can never see what was cut out and move the camera. Its a little more involved.

[@jerometrutmann8733]

really looking forward to more of your really great concise and detailed but not overblown tutorials :)

[@Elliptic_Curve]

You are clever Man Dylan, many thanks...

[@mopolo]

This was a really good tutorial. I hope we see more from you!

[@brokenhq8684]

lol, q haces aquí 👀

[@Chief-wx1fj]

This is some high quality tutorial, I feel bad for watching it for free

[@andresangelperez5954]

hahahaha

[@Chevifier]

this is freakishly awesome XO

[@charlesnorman4676]

that is a lot of work just to zoom in on a photo. i think it would be quicker and easier to animate, thus zoom in on the photo with photoshop's animation. i am sure the technics used in this can be applied for other things, so a good tutorial in that light, so thank you for sharing knowledge with us :)

[@geminisduerme5266]

love this idea

[@ibotpl]

Great tutorial! Thank you very much.. Looking forward for more Blender tutorials!

[@FabioRaitz]

Very good, well explained, well paced and very clear tutorial, waiting for more.

[@georgescharoun2064]

Great tutorial and great results, thank you! However I'm a bit stuck though working with other images. Especially two-point perspective. A short follow-up on how to use this technique for two-point, would be very helpful.

[@DylanNeill3D]

A follow up is in the works!

[@petrholusa5855]

Wow what a handy tool at beginning! You get thumb up. :P

[@vstreet7583]

This is a great tutorial. You explain the techniques very clearly. Looking forward to your next release. For now. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Dg

[@Mal0wens]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@orlandoalmario]

i subscribed so hard, great content. thank you so much for producing this.

[@Bartskol]

This is perfect. Will try to do this tomorrow but looks really neat.

[@passaggi3991]

Thank you , this tutor help me so much

[@tajaloe5920]

I don't want to be that guy in the comments who thinks he's better than everyone but there IS a better and quicker way to do this, and it has to do with projecting your UV's from view. If you block out your scene really roughly (and I mean REALLY roughly) and then project the UV's from your view, and then turn on "Correct UV's", you can move the scene around a lot easier with live editing and you'll have no problems with that UV stretching. You just need to play with the UV's by selecting faces in the viewport and moving and adjusting them in the UV/Image editor until it looks good and lines up properly. It's something that you'll understand better once you give it a go. If you want some examples of this, a guy called Ian Hubert demonstrated it really well recently at a blender conference and on his own channel. Look him up, he does a lot with image textures and projection mapping. Peace ✌️

[@DylanNeill3D]

Please be that guy! I'm always interested in other opinions. So all of Ians stuff that I've seen is about using photos to texture objects. Thats not what this technique is about. Yes you don't get the distortion issues by using the project from view option but then every time you move or edit an object you lose alignment with the original projection. For camera projection mapping you always want to keep this alignment which is what the modifier does for you. Ian's technique is about using bits of the photo to make your own scene, this technique is about recreating a rough version of the original scene and then adding dimension and camera movement to it. Is this what you're talking about or am I totally off track here?

[@tajaloe5920]

Oh I wasn't saying you shouldn't do your camera alignment that's an absaloutely integral step. Hm, Ian does a lot with point perspective projection mapping, not just image textures, if you watch his blender conference he shows some examples, but it doesn't necessarily matter, I'll try to explain a little better. Here's a step by step that might help, I'm not at a computer right now so excuse any stupid errors: 1- Use Fspy to calculate image alignment 2- import the .Fspy into blender 3- block out your scene, the most important thing here is that edges line up, keep it all as one object but you don't have to keep it all as one mesh. Just use boxes, don't bother extruding anything yet unless you absaloutely have to 4- in the same object create 3 planes around the 3 women in the scene and create a silhouette, make this as accurate as possible, I would advise the knife tool as it doesn't need to be super geometrically efficient, just get the silhouette right. You want the polys to be slightly within the bounds of each silhouette so you don't get moving road edges when you project. 5- with the mesh selected, apply scale and transform, turn on Correct UV's 6- switch to cycles, with the mesh selected, go UV > Project from view. Create a new material for the object and set it as the image, if you don't plan on relighting the scene, plug the texture into an emission shader and then plug that into your main socket. 7- go into your scene in 3D view and start selecting faces and moving them around in the UV image editor to fix artefacts and such. Add loop cuts and such in areas that look like they might stick out more, etc. This is important for camera depth. 8- you've probably noticed that the ladies look fine, but the road in front of them looks a little crazy because it has a massive stretched version of themselves laid across it. All good, just add loop cuts around the effected area and move those selected UV's to another area on the road. It's behind them, so it's not that bad, but we're trying to resolve colour and contrast issues here so be as rough or as neat as you want. 9- Animate your camera movement. Do whatever you want here it doesn't matter. Use shape keys or keyframing or path following or object parenting or whatever. It doesn't matter this parts up to you. Done! Things to take away from this method: -image stretching can be resolved early on by using low poly boxes without much oddweight geometry. In reality, as long as you apply the scale and transform, it should be fine -why did we BLOCK our the scene instead of using planes? This prevents stretching when we start extruding and gives us a more true to life depth. It's also much easier to edit and extrude in future. -if you wanted to spend more time, you could have removed the women in Photoshop and saved them to a separate image, then import them as a plane and setup nodes to alpha them in scene. This would prevent step 8 and make for easier adjustments. -Personally, I wouldn't have chosen this image as an example, because the the foreground obstructs the background and that's a hassle in animation without Photoshop or tricky UV manipulation -Your scene will never be perfect here as this image has been captured with depth of field, which makes some objects impossible to accurately model and block out. That is all sorry if I missed something!

[@tajaloe5920]

Oh and I'll quickly add that with the method I've just talked about, you can move your camera around again once the UV's have been projected as the camera is only used for the INITIAL projection. Once the UV's are in place and they're hooked up in the node editor with your snazzy texture you can move that camera as much as you want, baby!

[@emilie1977]

Thank you! Very best tuto

[@dkarlovi]

This is amazing content Dylan, thank you so much for doing these!

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Excellent! I love finding new channels with quality. Are you going to keep uploading things with Blender? Of course, immediately subscribed. Thank you so much for the video.

[@DylanNeill3D]

Thanks! Yeah going to do mainly Blender and a bit of other vfx related stuff from time to time too.

[@DrRehanZafar]

Informative and composed video. Thanks

[@subramanyam2699]

Awesome.. Now I know how motion graphics is done!!

[@mattceccotti]

I enjoyed this quite a bit. Your style is great, keep going!

[@gabriel_14179]

Keep on with your channel, you explain things really clear and simple. Thanks for the video definitely trying this out someday

[@robotsandpolygons]

its really well done. thank you for doing this!

[@BenjiPhoto]

Really great tutorial, thanks

[@1337Frederick]

Wow! Awesome tutorial! Thank you very much.

[@poopiecon1489]

i have been looking for this video for like a month and half now , now suddenly youtube decided to recommend me -_- ,, but anyway i am glad that i found this

[@kirillbrodski]

Very interesting effect, mate. Thanks!

[@justingooligan7059]

thank you Dylan! your tutorials are really really good.

[@sercan_tuncer]

Wow its great ! Thank you 👏👏👏 🙋

[@nigelhill74]

Great video. Thanks!

[@skykids3637]

Good tutorial , Thank.

[@Xeonien]

awesome. istantly subscribed!

[@elblopex]

well, don't ask me why watching some Roger Federer highlights would lead to a blender tutorial. Not even mad, YT algorythm, that's amazing!

[@armandodiaz170]

Thank you for the tutorial Dylan!!

[@Bruets]

Awesome tutorial man I’ll be giving this a go later. I like to save my photos as individual .PSD files then import them into blender instead. Then I can go back, edit it how I want, hit save and reload images then it just updates.

[@vidaroni]

Thanks, this is excellent stuff!

[@WangleLine]

This looks lovely! Thanks for making these tutorials, Dylan

[@ofekpearl]

Awesome tutorial! Please keep them coming!

[@AndrewConway]

Outstanding...

[@Fobia1]

Tnx a lot .. So useful

[@jeffg4686]

checkout the BLAM (2.79) / Fspy (2.8) addon - does the camera caalibration right in blender - works either way tho

[@marshmallow_fellow]

The creator doesn't update the addon any more, the program he used in the video is the stand alone version made by the same guy.

[@NetTubeUser]

This is really informative, interesting and useful! You did a really good job, everything is clear but a bit difficult for me who never used Blender before, but thank you very much.

[@Chris-ZL]

Blender is a BIG learn

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

10:20 Or you could use a driver so, in case the number needs to be changed, you only need to change it in one place to have it take effect everywhere you’ve hooked in that driver.

[@mrpanicattack6688]

20:14 - 20:24 23:24 - 23:30 24:15 - 24:18 28:31 - 28:46 I love these parts hahaha! 😁