AutoDepth AI, but for free! // Blender Tutorial

[@DefaultCube]

hey gang - for real, if you have any suggestions for things to free-ify drop them below. of course not ridiculous things like remaking all of hardops - moreso one-offs! you can learn more and we talk about face fulling for this depth thing here: www.cgmatter.com/member/autodepth (also on patreon but i am trying to pivot from that)

[@Amejonah]

"free-ify" being "I give you my free time for free!"... It's good and all, but keep your free time balanced! 🫡

[@Grefins999]

Always wondered about One Click Damage, and similar addons. How hard could it honestly be?

[@CGMatter]

@@Grefins999 already have ocd in the scopes ;)

[@Maya-f4v4u]

@@CGMatter blud didn't you already make your own product similar to that. free-ifying your own products is crazy

[@w.lf404]

thank you and this is a great idea for a series!

[@Zhincore]

That's my kind of series! Love it!

[@TheLucasSavage]

thank you mister blender person

[@SongStudios]

I do feel like selling an open source model in a blender plugin which does kind of not much, and making it paid (emphasis on this), is just kind of taking advantage of others

[@DefaultCube]

like i don't know for sure - maybe they made their own - but regardless couldn't hurt to just link the github at the bottom - 99.9% of people won't bother to look into it anyhow

[@SongStudios]

@@DefaultCube unfortunately it's not required for models with Apache 2.0 licenses. Making your own AI depth estimator would require so much work though. It's possible but at the same time you've got better ai models that you can use for $0 in your commercial product.

[@yellowcrescent]

You could probably say that about many open source (or freely-available) libraries, models, APIs, or tools used to create a paid plugin. The plugin might still have some utility to people if it provides a good integration with Blender-- but I do think creators should note which key models, libraries, or APIs are used in their products. Just like if someone were to create a GIS data plugin, it would mention whether it's using OpenStreetMaps or Google Maps, etc. All that being said -- it looks like the AutoDepth AI plugin ships off your image data to a remote server to do the processing and people seem to report it's pretty slow, and it requires you to run Blender with administrative privileges... which shouldn't be necessary. It looks like the creator is paying for (or using some CPU free tier) cloud compute capacity according to his YT comments, so as soon as they stop doing that, the plugin will likely cease to function. Their plugin panel UI looks decent at least...

[@dannyfranco199]

This series is the way. You hit the nail on the head for sustainable, unique, and helpful content. Please keep them coming!

[@gravisludus]

Gotta subscribe when someone is giving us so much value like this. Thank you.

[@jacobmougharbel3092]

The hero we don't deserve.

[@רפאל-ב]

This might be my new favorite series

[@AqilDaiyan]

Mine too, I love it 🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@Tanweerr86]

Perfect! Was looking for this exactly! Hope to see more in the series!

[@TheLivevil12]

this is such a fire series idea

[@TrikaArts]

this series will pop off its amazing

[@ArtZee-ch9nk]

This idea must be good because I don't even use Blender and it was suggested to me. Plus, I watched the whole thing.

[@Kazumo]

Real king. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@neptun3189]

I got to work on some serious shit because years ago I took the step to learn blender from your channel. Thankyou good sir

[@mater5930]

I love this series!

[@Mtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmt]

You’re an absolute legend tq

[@donaldlouwe3939]

Excellent tutorial

[@nourghafarji]

This is a bold move! hope you can handle the suggestions in the future! this is pure gold content, problem solving and saving money in the same video!

[@dodebogdan813]

For this series, you just got my Sub ! Keep them coming!

[@RajatSharma-j7g]

I am new to blender and you blew my mind

[@williamcousert]

I bought that plugin the day it was released. I had some problems getting it to work, but got no response from the developer. I'm glad I spent less than $10 on it.

[@lomborg4876]

I like this series😂

[@FINOTECGISTUDIO]

thank you for your likeness sculpting technique it helps too much for my startup animation studio. thank you keep it up

[@marekzielinski1582]

I love that idea for the series!

[@BerkeAltay]

i love this. keep it coming cube

[@Ablumz]

would binge watch 1000 of these

[@VFXRevolutionTutorials]

Great idea for a series please keep this up

[@Aptass]

great idea for a series!

[@FancyFun3433]

this is fantastic, thank you

[@EliousEntertainment]

Very good idea for a series!

[@sebastiangudino9377]

This one in particular seems to be a perfect pair for that video you did on parallax mapping a few months ago, since we could very much parallax this per pixel instead of true vertex dispalcement to get better quality (And presumably better performance, since we will literaly only have four vertex)

[@nerv4316]

your upload is always amazing. you really help me learning blender. i know this sentence won't worth much but still thank you sir

[@Taz_Olson]

You can also do a way better version of this using the Depth extension for SD A1111 which can easily generate an inpainted mesh with deformation based outward from the camera POV rather than just being a flat extrusion, you should really check it out, it's pretty cool how much better it is for most things though it does tend to get a bit messy of a mesh

[@danialsoozani]

Amazing series!!!

[@keriatin5338]

Alr alr alr ,this is fire ,more ,we need moreee

[@hikam9721]

I love it, please do more!! 🔥🔥

[@jamesconkle9158]

Thank you! Just what I was looking for 🙏

[@jamesconkle9158]

Now to find a way for this to use multiple sources that’s temporarily stable 😅 this would be great to project footage back on to geometry

[@Saphiresurf]

Love this idea for a series heheh :)

[@FlyingSnake]

My hero

[@sansnom8061]

this is why I subscribe

[@RenderRevolution]

Yes man I will for sure wat h every episode, count me in!

[@designteam882]

THX MAN.. Love whats you doo:)

[@Spiral_Arch]

Now he has released the plugin "Auto Painter Ai", it would be nice if you could make a tutorial to do something similar but for free 😌

[@oliverdive9759]

❤ did anyone told you I love you For what you are doing on this KZbin channel, Because I did

[@ProjectHelisexuality]

It reminds me of the relight effect in the paid version of Resolve/Fusion. With that you can add lighting and shadows to video. I suppose you could do the same with this - but frame by frame.

[@457Deniz457]

Very good video and bust uncovering :)

[@GameDevGeeks]

do it for free is my motto, definitely a good series idea

[@mahmoud_ali_963]

Thank you very much

[@BlenderProcedural]

Amazing!

[@jaejohnson7845]

I also found, that using depth map with displace modifier then Quad remesher sub serf and repeat worked really well with a car engine

[@Creepy_c]

i like the idea

[@IGarrettI]

Great idea!

[@True-VFX]

*starts sweating*... New series sounds great! We chill? 👀

[@ignorante.promedio]

😁

[@HUE3D]

Great addons!

[@cinematicgarage7879]

i have been using midas . thats cool thanks

[@yuniorfrometa4749]

thanks for sharing this bro

[@jinchoung]

this is a GREAT idea for a series! you'll have to fend off the blendermarket sent assassins tho lol. may heaven protect you.

[@blanketparty5259]

Commenting for the algo , this is good stuff.

[@ArtZee-ch9nk]

this is fire

[@tendividedbysix4835]

That's sick! Hey if you do it with the modifier you could use this as like a speed hack for modelling maybe

[@ChloeFable]

thank you

[@QuinoLozano-bn9xt]

Thanks!

[@JosephSlinker]

I actually want a tutorial on making blender plugins. I know there’s some simple ones out there, but I wouldn’t even know where to start with something more advanced like integrating an AI model, even if someone else already built it.

[@iiTzMYUNG]

Well i don't blame the creator for anything there was demand and he just supply and make some bucks and people only realizing this because he made a good amount of money which can be done for free!!! and probably the people are new in the blender using this addon!

[@no-lifenoah7861]

It’s not too difficult to rephrase this as saying “Blender Procedural took advantage of new blender users for money”

[@joselovelife8636]

I would LOVVVVE to learn how to do some of director chris cunninghams techniques from the 90s!!

[@ОлександрГуляєв-р1б]

Realy XD I thought his AI corrects a little bit, at least makes the objects whole and not just a blunt extrusion))) Thank you

[@tlf4354]

Thank you so much for the amazing tutorial!~ Let's keep Blender free and avaliable for everyone~

[@EntropicalNature]

Very nice video idea indeed :) Love the intro, blasting away them money earners. I guess this would have been harder to do in older versions of Blender.

[@achi9869]

Woah thanks.

[@JizzyDipper]

thanks man! i was wondering how to do this a few months back

[@workflowproject]

insightful

[@grobknoblin5402]

THIS IS AWESOME! Such a cool idea because some of these addon creators are taking the mickey! keeping us free of scammers!

[@stial]

Yeah!

[@crazy3289]

thats whats up! hell yea

[@SonoraWolf]

While I know this is an AI model to create a depth map, a lot of phones that also use LiDAR and save the depth map of the shot which in some cases can be extracted which is super nice, I know some tutorials exist to extract them.

[@VisualistAyush07]

We want to see more videos like this

[@Looki2000]

depth anything v2 is current state of the art

[@ollied2025]

How do you make a blender plugin that runs a depth estimation program like this? Can you include other python libraries in a plugin?

[@pinpointping6175]

U buy the plugin

[@alexfurer]

“Don’t buy the addon, give me money”. Good one dude!! Still appreciate the vid. Keep them coming and relive me from the addon-porn.

[@carlglacier9044]

I’m here for the Robin Hood vibes

[@3dParadox]

Ai render addon is pretty cool to mess around with. It's not paid and I wish it was just so you could make a video about it lol. It just feels like it could be done another way especially animation. Even more especially is running stable diffusion locally because it was super complex. I would urge you to test it out

[@Ponlets]

this is neat good for lazy VFX work tho :)

[@JimPAnimation]

Thank you! Do Facebuilder next :-)

[@3dParadox]

Please make this a series i feel like i struck gold

[@CharlesDanielCharly]

the goat himslef is exposing people 😂 I remember when a guy was mad just because he teach us how to do seomthing he was selling with geometry nodes I bet guy wasn't even using the same node tree

[@ramanrafiq7888]

Nice!

[@tripplejaz]

Almost positive Davinci Resolve has this in its free version as well

[@TrentisN]

Would be good to buy the addon and compare results.

[@emimeemio]

Nice, thank you!!

[@jakobschonfeldt]

Cool stuff! Is there a similar model that can generate heightmaps from satellite imagery?

[@madshader]

Do you make tutorials on how to code your own blender addons?

[@vay911.]

Useful…❤

[@chj.schwarz]

haha I love your attitude

[@nullsmack]

Is it possible to do this and not have it try to connect the closer items to the further away ones? Or would someone doing this then need to edit the mesh to cut those connections so it's not streaking on the sides?

[@Fleischkopf]

But what about the heat vision depth map? What does it do?

[@ric-reich]

blender big boss man

[@sythys_]

nice video

[@michaelwhite4810]

I guess marigold produces affine-invariant depth (like most depth estimation models), while it looks detailed, the quality is actually bad in terms of accuracy.

[@StudioGalt]

I think this is a good idea for a series, but I would advise to be less confrontational, because the addons value is in the time savings not about technical fidelity. Whether $8 is a fair price will vary customer to customer. Would love to see more free alternatives, and free workflows.

[@artekal3d]

Exactly, that's the only thing I felt weird about in this video. There's probably a reason that addon is sold a quite bunch. I had a client who wanted this exact kind of plugin to make parallax videos out of still images from AI. And btw this is exactly how i'm planning to go forward in the future; showing how to make a particular texture/model/effect on KZbin and selling it in case someone wants to save time and buy it instead. Everyone's happy!

[@Dhruv1223]

Have you tried depth anything? I feel its better than marigold but im not sure

[@deedyago]

Stable diffusion has great depth control net filter, very verry gud (maybe next video idea on how to implement it with 3d?)))👀