How I Created a MASSIVE Lord of the Rings Orc Army... in Blender

[@aimanghazi7043]

If it actually was done in 24 hours then by God this is amazing. If you spent a week or even a month you could actually make this look just as good as Return of the King.

[@nebilmulugeta8032]

not a chance

[@Im_that_guy_man]

I say, let him do it. Heck I’d even subscribe to his channel

[@Aristographic3D]

Yes, It's possibile, he just download some stuff and put it togheter. (5 hrs of work) MAYBE he did the motion-capture by himself, the rest is just assembling a scene.

[@moeburhanimeez7354]

We need more of these large scale renders!

[@EduardKaresli]

For a project that took you only 24 hours this looks incredibly good. I can only imagine the amount of refinements that you could do if you spent a complete week on this. 🤔👏👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥

[@deadseamonster]

Dude, amazing for 24 hours. Nice to find all those assets.

[@ibrahimaljfout5057]

Depth of field effects and making the edges out of focus + adding dirt and scratches on the lens + adding a vignette + more erratic camera + motion blur + lens flares + a little bit of halation and grain would have took this to another level. but thank you for the in depth tutorial. This was really helpful to me.

[@viipeditz]

Color grading left the chat☠️ ,all the work was fantastic 🔥

[@Artist.Verse1]

It actually looks really decent. For the volumetrics alternative setup, try using the camera's position information to drive a gradient that slowly makes the fog transparent as the camera approaches the fog planes instead of disappearing abruptly. This will add some depth to it

[@WaterShowsProd]

Not to take away from what you managed to accomplish, because it is impressive, but the crowd software Weta designed actually had some basic A.I. that caused individuals to move toward enemies, and engage with them, etc. This crowd animation is more similar to what Disney did in Mulan, and originally for the background characters in the "Topsy-Turvy" number for The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, and it certainly surpasses that. Of course, if you'd added moths it would have brought everything to another level.

[@markonar140]

Wow!!! What a Creative Process!!! Thanks for Sharing!!! 👍😎

[@DoctorMadness]

Great breakdown!

[@harshparihar9679]

this video literally amazed me its so impressive keep it up . like if u give week or months to this output will be really high budget periodic movie

[@Unveriefable]

Ngl at the start of the video I thought you were capping but bloody good work doin that in 24 hours you are one with the flow of productivity, locked in, respect

[@MIIQ130]

This is so awesome dude

[@WW_Studios]

Final shot looks epic!

[@MVWDave]

Great job!!

[@3DEnthusiast-z5d]

Very cool project und result.

[@mtgsculptor]

It's absolutely epic and in 24 hours is nuts ofc. I just wonder if you could've given all the orcs slightly ofset animations from eachother through geometry nodes. That's the one thing that I think would've been the biggest improvement.

[@magmabuddy]

ayo that was amazing. i would not be able to make this in a month or so. damn bro. amazing work

[@atrixma]

WELL DONE

[@Milo_qc]

Man what a fantastic job you've done... how bad I want to learn this kind of stuff 🥺🤩

[@eavin3025]

For 24 hours by one person this is insanity

[@isinduwickramasekara9786]

Make a longer in depth video on this please!

[@Vertexbird]

Wow, Amazing

[@jesusfreak2017]

It was cool and all, but closer to previz than finished. You could easily see all the duplicated assets everywhere and there were several issues with the fire. Very fun though! I haven’t seen too many do crowd sims using Blender

[@DrHansBrewery]

Awesome!

[@mohamadbt4055]

great video

[@АнтонСавичев-й3р]

Great work!

[@FreeFire-qz5gv]

Thats amazing 😮

[@ukmonk]

for 24 hours this was awesome dude!!

[@gaminsteve1115]

sooo much work.. super fun

[@chamsmech5180]

relly impressive

[@ianabraham8639]

I think it's awesome.

[@NeilBensonYamit]

ggreat workkkk, just wow. A one man team

[@RicheUK]

Amazing

[@anzaklaynimation]

Thumbnail is epic. ❤

[@TomHogenberg]

spotted the uruk hai next to the troll at 11:14

[@einiyan2000]

Oh man, this looks really good! If you put a bit more time into the character movement, it’ll be 🔥 for me those character movement is little off

[@cr0uchingtiger]

Would well as an advanced pre-viz!

[@MarcoCapelli74]

Amazing as usual!

[@Mr_sibo828]

This is amazing

[@monke1709]

I see new CG Geek Video, I click CG Geek Video

[@amritkauria]

I spot you move at 12:00 😂

[@wellimagamer8848]

It looks good, phew extra things, change movement speed to vary as they are all moving as the same speed. The fire on the torches are in sync with the other fire animations on the other torches. Other than that, it looks good, maybe darken the scene just a tad I guess

[@MrLittleSmall3]

this looks awesome. However, the giants stood out too much, they doesn't seems to blend into the scene very well from the front view. Another nitpick I have is the armies should march around the giants instead of underneath them. Nevertheless, this is a great tutorial! Thanks for making it.

[@karimoh3154]

Good Job. The animations could have been longer so you could do more variation on the timing. The torches in particular threw me of. Also I hope the person who created those orks was informed about you offering them on your Patrion. All in all, well done

[@avgroupnl]

very nice imagine what you can do in 2 weeks

[@THER3ALDUDE]

Amazing Bro!!!!

[@ondrej_hrdina]

I'm not that experienced but it seems to me it should be easy to offset the torch flame animations. They play at the same time in the render and it's quite distracting. Overall, sick job. So cool what an individual can do nowadays.

[@rayanmagneto]

excellent 🔥🔥🔥

[@Jossy.mp4]

LOL i found the worm 11:13 Amazing work sir :)

[@YourLocalWarGorilla]

where?

[@eMikecs]

It does look weird how all of the flames on the torches and the flares on the swords are on the same cycle, but I guess due to the time and manpower limitations that would be difficult to change

[@Tyrunz]

Actually there is a tricky but efficient way to do that, you can convert that video to a small sprite sheet, use the scene time to drive UV animation to play the video back, use geo node to scatter and use an isntance random attribute to offset the time factor of each plane, I've used it in a few projets and it works pretty well

[@theminecraft4202]

yeah it bothered me too... and it's not even that difficult to fix :(

[@s.patterson5698]

​@theminecraft4202 Dude, he did it in 24 hours. It's freaking awesome for 24 hours worth of work. I am sure there are many other refinements he would do if he took more time.

[@varadparmar5178]

Amusing bro

[@lacamendry1731]

Thinking to make my movie real with Blender.

[@SonnySaguil]

cool

[@ShowToaster]

Your work looks like a mobile AD :D

[@moeburhanimeez7354]

Awesome!

[@JustMarq]

Of course he did 😂 Amazing 👏 It's pretty bad, but for one dude... this man is a legend🎉

[@MinecraftGamerLR]

"You can do this for free!" *grabs a $5000 motion capture set*

[@jascrandom9855]

Now lets see how it would look with a week of work, and then a month of work in it.

[@InterPixelYoutube]

1:19 POISSON DISK SAMPLING

[@stan1154]

middle-earth: 3 looks good

[@intruderstudio4703]

Hey Man, nice tutorial, I think that at the end you could benefit with more elaborate comp work but still you made it! May I ask you what are your two monitors in the back, I'm looking for that combination but no luck so far. Maybe you could add it affiliate links in the description and benefit a little bit from the info ;)

[@AlphaLuna]

The Army looks quite good but the torches lighting up and down at the same time ruins the scene while the Troll animation is a bit too distracting. Nice try tho.

[@rodrigodiniz13]

Imagine some one download this video yours, which is free to watch and re-edit and post on their youtube channel but only for the pay subscripted member of the channel(they paid to have access to this, so you not giving for free). I bet you would not like it someone making money over your hard work. But the worst part is, you are too smart to not have seeing this already!

[@BlenderB-123]

Yes!!!

[@DrHansBrewery]

Do you have two songs running at the same time?

[@StudioAges]

I played with this for days but couldn't solve one problem, which you also have. Some of the orcs run inside each other or are too close and overlap. You don't see this when you don't look for it, but on a smaller scale, it's very visible. Do you have any idea how to fix the distribution of individual orcs?

[@xGeoSAN]

"on patreon for free"

[@rezaalghifari3477]

free stuff on patreon can exist my friend

[@CGGeek]

1000% free mate, and don't need an account or anything -just shared the link with some details there. Free Orc Models for Blender: www.patreon.com/posts/free-orc-models-115082547 (original model by Ulrik Langvandsbråten)

[@xGeoSAN]

@@CGGeek in this case, sorry, I looked and couldn't find the file. happens

[@GideonHaddock-on4dn]

Plz make a tutorial for this cuz I’ve been wanting to make something like this for a while but I can’t find a good tutorial.

[@smallhat1]

I wan’t the motion capture suit

[@moontoadz]

Heh needs a lot 😂

[@SebastianSchachner]

I would say the trolls are to big compared to the orcs

[@Milesmax12]

9th comment 👀

[@h-unte-r_]

Do you play the guitar, can you play something at the end of your video for the next time? a little bit. 😀

[@kenanball8233]

And i just need rtx4090

[@jtome5467]

What's your pc set to handle this kinda stuffs? 😮

[@yasunakaikumi]

with giant you could have just slow down the animation of it instead of you doing the slow movement because it makes it cheap, bigger the object the slow mo it goes.

[@chiru8486]

One question: which gpu do you have?

[@MrNocilla123]

man, love the video but I cringed really hard at 9:37 when you started walking with your left leg AND arm at the same time, you have to alternate those to walk "normally"! even trolls do that! xP

[@MrNocilla123]

Also, looking at the final render, it's too obvious the torch flames are all the same asset and that they are not offset! :P

[@deekshithgowda1577]

great work .......can you do it in maya same like this......... and i found u at 11:10 that u will trip and fall to ground

[@timmayvns]

Your link for the suit doesnt work

[@p0146]

did u for real share an other guy work for your patreon advertising and even republish his work ? dude

[@Weggsi]

for some reason orcs animation are too fast like if movie is 60fps all motion looks fake/ document realism not movie, even it is closer to reality but it doesnt fit somehow.

[@eddiebooth9795]

you absolutely should not be putting those models on your patreon

I would suggest you take even more time to get a better end result. While it is impressive to do that much work in such a short amount of time the result is pretty janky and honestly not that good. In any case thank you for sharing.

[@amitdhawan579]

Amazing job!!

[@incrediblesarath]

Good work!