Creating Blade Runner 2049 in Blender | Blender Breakdown

[@ButterDragon]

This is probably by far the best blade runner spinner's render I have ever seen. Also this video might have solved me the problem of rear lighting, I modelled a mclaren senna a year ago and I had the trouble of making the rear light photorealistic, now that I have learned the trick of using that light path node I can finally move on to other stuff of the scene. Thanks a lot!

[@ethdavis]

No probs! Thanks for watching!

[@iKaGe01]

I really appreciate the time it takes to do all these break downs. Looks brilliant. That car animation blew me away too. I didn't realise it was you that made it

[@ethdavis]

Thanks so much! And hehe, I never posted it anywhere really :)

[@rano12321]

This is really, really good, on par with the movie quality. FYI, for that 31:30 cloth part, you could've used the cloth brush to achieve that. Would've probably been easier and faster to do both the small cloths and also the giant dome thing.

[@ethdavis]

Thanks! Lots of ways to do a lot of things 😄

[@RedCoffeKat]

one of my favorite films! And how incredibly cool the scene was made! I’ve been doing 3D for less than a year and I only dream that at least someday I’ll get close to this level of skills

[@ethdavis]

Keep at it!

[@XavierAlbertStudio]

Incredible breakdown, so good, thanks for all your efforts, really useful man! Especially loved the color grading and composition phase.

[@ethdavis]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@trevorsoh2130]

This was an amazing and insightful tutorial - and an amazing quality image. Really appreciate how you dominsttated so many processes including embergen!

[@ethdavis]

Thanks so much!

[@wojciechselwa8565]

Ipressive! Very good breakdown mate!

[@FitoMojica]

Hey, I was waiting for this one, nice breakdown. It is looking good. Congrats!

[@ethdavis]

Oh hey! Hope you're doing well mate, thanks for kind comments!

[@mystiquefilms5]

HOUR LONG BREAKDOWN LES GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@vepp88]

Impressive work from beginning to end 👏

[@netwarrior-qv5hq]

You got A+

[@Erinle_creates]

I’m coming from Twitter and your content looks really dope! I’ll be back to digest all your videos

[@ethdavis]

Thanks so much!

[@rileyb3d]

I love it! Blender or not, really great work.

[@ethdavis]

Thanks Riley!

[@MustafaSE]

You made a very useful video, thank you very much.

[@unrealhabitat]

This is absolutely amazing!

[@EpicSpaceman]

Saw this on Reddit, great work!

[@ethdavis]

thanks so much!

[@aysa8615]

You Know How Long Ive Been Waiting for This Im Gonna Make A Name for Myself

[@ethdavis]

😂

[@xGeoSAN]

Really cool!

[@coinopanimator]

Wonderful shot and a tutorial!

[@ethdavis]

Thanks so much!

[@RomboutVersluijs]

I actually think that brake light looked more hot in the center because of how cameras capture light. Most times hot, very bright, get blown out. In real life it's not that exaggerated

[@Rublev_CG]

🔥🔥🔥

[@dansmith904]

This is awesome

[@andrewwoan]

incredible~!!!!!

[@BartMassee]

❤ “do you like our owl?’’

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Dang that inspiration from Steffen is on another lever. Hooy smokes. What he did in comp is insane. He showed a raw render frame. Pretty baffling

[@RomboutVersluijs]

I also find tours pretty sick. The look is totally different, less minimal and more popping and heavier contrast. Super nice

[@ethdavis]

Yeah he is super talented. There’s definitely a reason he works at ILM 😁

[@suntharan11]

yow, this is epic

[@tuiyiresq]

blender has a triangles to quad feature in the edit mode

[@andreybagrichuk5365]

Super nice video, mate. The only thing that take my attention, that footages that you use for comp rain on top of the CG shot, size of raindrops are too similar. Maybe rescale an footage on in the area of Light from the car beams can be a solution. For sure, I'm writing just what come to my ming, work is already fantastic. Keep going please, you produce amazing content

[@ethdavis]

The rain isn't comped on, it is in 3D but yeah I could've definitely made them different in sizes! Thanks for watching and leaving feedback 😀

[@san7orini]

u so good, very nice

[@Ichiro_saito7]

Mano... você já pode ser contratado☠☠

[@TheGaboriel]

muy bueno

[@Michael-rk8cl]

Omg

[@wisdomwhyte3301]

Pls 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 can you go into more details maybe another in depth tutorial of how you render in different passes cause I think out of vram is a issue most ble der artist face and don't know what to do about than reducing the quality of the render, it would be highly appreciated thank you so much 🔥🔥❤️‍🔥

[@ethdavis]

Soon come bro!

[@zmirux]

would've been better with more volumetric i think.. still looks amazing

[@ethdavis]

Rendertime 🙌🏻

[@noahmasseira2775]

Absolutely incredible work. One question, what HDRI is it that you're using? Ive been trying to find one similar to this for a while now.

[@ethdavis]

I’ll get back to you, not sure which one it was either 🙌🏻

[@noahmasseira2775]

@@ethdavis preciate it a lot mate! Amazing work. Youve earned a sub

[@nadaart386]

Thank you very much for this breakdown it is very helpful. I just want to ask about the color space sittings . Like exporting from blender to other software like nuke or davinci resolve it is so hard to get the color management right.what the render color space sittings you added in blender and how you convert it ?thank you

[@ethdavis]

For this project is it AGX - then I convert to aces into nuke - read as aces CG in resolve. Though I’ve recently started uses aces inside blender altogether :)

[@nzkiwiguy_3044]

what about the addon you seemed to have used for the vehicle rigging. it looks like VRF+

[@ethdavis]

I did indeed! Very handy for odd objects that aren’t cars / people

[@nzkiwiguy_3044]

@@ethdavis Yeah! I use it alot for my WW2 animations for things like tanks. extremely handy. Amazing video btw lots of fun and interesting to watch

[@gamingHD850]

Look ! This is outstanding! But after the latest update 4.2 ! I’m asking you to do a scene like that With eevee render ! What do you think?!

[@ethdavis]

It would definitely be possible, lots of people do amazing work using Eevee :) but I have no experience with it and don’t plan to use it unfortunately!

[@gamingHD850]

@@ethdavis thank you 🙏🏻

[@al7bndgsh706]

Wait, I didn't pay attention. Was it really 56 minutes per frame? with a 4090!?

[@ethdavis]

Yeah hah, unoptimised, super high samples, lots of volumetric :)

[@al7bndgsh706]

May I know how many samples or noise threshold? Because I’m terrified to do my short film with a 3060 now lol

[@ethdavis]

Erm I think it was 4000? I didn’t denoise anything apart from the volumetrics :) With all good things they take time though, some of the transformer movies took a 74 hours per frame!

[@al7bndgsh706]

@@ethdavis so i decided to reply 3 weeks later lol. I am sure you are aware of ‘adaptive sampling’. It’s just a better sampling method in every way possible to render more efficiently. [0.01] if u want really high sampling, and it will sample where necessary, thus more efficient, it’s literally a measure of how noisy or non-noisy u want ur image to be, and the beautiful thing about it is that the noise is uniform across the image. Also, when it comes to denoising, I suggest you denoise ur renders, I assume u want the “film grain look” but u won’t get it with render noise, it just feels artificial and ugly (like camera noise in night scenes irl). Therefore, if u want filmic noise, I recommend u denoise then add filmic grain in post. But I am no professional lol. There may have been a genuine reason u did it that way, and thx for responding, most creators don’t do that.

[@ethdavis]

@@al7bndgsh706Adaptive sampling is good in parts, and sometimes not. There was a whole lot going on in this scene, most of the render time was just the volumetrics at around 30 minutes. The rest of the scene a lot quicker but still 4K, detailed scene at high samples will take a while. As for the Denoiser, I’ve showcased a great way to do it already, but if you want the best work out there and do as Hollywood does, you shouldn’t really be denoising. It just smudges everything and removes so much detail And no probs! Love talking about this stuff

[@sdltm3]

CC button, please..

[@ethdavis]

Working on it 🫡

[@sdltm3]

@@ethdavis No. It's not. Subtitles are disabled in this video..

[@ethdavis]

@@sdltm3 They should work now :)

[@sdltm3]

@@ethdavis Thanks!!

[@youngvandrossxyoungfinesso3484]

Can you make a tutorial on how to unwrap vehicle models especially those from sketchfab? Their models always tend to be in triangles and not quads

[@IssackAngelo-q7y]

we are not understand you we want to know this car and this building where you get or how to made it

[@ethdavis]

I think the video explains it well enough to understand the idea. This isn’t a course or tutorial :)

[@1989johno]

your microphone is next to some interference , theres a tiny echo that is destroying my ears

[@ethdavis]

Yeah I heard that:/ still working on making my mic sound good so bear with me😅

[@Youtubesudeep]

I have UHD770

[@netwarrior-qv5hq]

You got A+