How I made a Car Short Film in Blender - BTS

[@creasedaf1s900]

Honestly this is the reason that I don’t give up on blender , with masters like yourself blender becomes so much more then just free open software , this is true industry standard work. I know it is a cliche right now but please consider creating an in depth course that really delves into your thought process and problem solving, cheers mate

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot for the words!! I absolutely do agree. Blender is by far my favourite software and that is NOT because it's free. It's because of the lightweight package that can solve (almost) anything you throw at it! Thanks for the suggestion. I will for sure be interested in making something like that!

[@thatsreallyamoon]

I really stick to only blender for this reason. And when I say only blender, I really mean it. It's really easy as beginners to continously get wrapped up in all kinds of addons and external softwares because you hear random people use that. When you do that, you lose focus on how Blender itself could have done some things for you. So you basically keep screwing yourself over and over. I think blender alone by itself is extremely powerful and it would do us good to resist the urge to constantly look for outside of it to get the same job done.

[@redi4ka951]

​@@thatsreallyamoonwell it depends. If you are into game dev industry then substance painter is a must. So is Marmoset toolbag. I mean, hypothetically, you can do everything these programmes do in blender, but it would be much easier and faster to just go with external solutions.

[@socks2441]

@@sammak7190 you might be surprised how much blender is used in professional media. i sure was. ive seen a few things about it, one of which was a ted talk from someone in the industry and he mentioned all the different shows and movies he used blender for.

[@joeschmidt6597]

oh shit this is free open source animation software?

[@leokimvideo]

Looks amazing, so real

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!

[@bitlong4669]

Does it? It has that miniature toys look. As if it used hot wheels in a built up miniature city. Wonder if that’s the colouring or lens depth, or frame rate.

[@siddharthsinghjayaswal8454]

@@DanielVesterbaek I'm impressed buddy, how to contact you I'm a creative director I wanna make movies like this in the future

[@Rackifw]

I didnt even think about doing car smoke with png's and a particle system, you just opened my third eye holy, ty

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Heheh, you are very welcome man! :D

[@ThinkerThunker]

Amazing how in just the past decade Blender is now capable of this. Really cool!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Yeees, Blender is my favorite software :))

[@themineralhunter]

This looks amazing! Only things that catches my eye are the speed of recovery and accelerations of the Bronco after landing, the sports car restarting and the speed of the stop when the police approach at the end. They need more time to accelerate and decelerate to be believable. Feel like toys.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Aaarh yes :/ You are right about that. Well, some things to learn for the next one ^^

[@capsANDedits]

Imagine: how good it will be when there is actual sounds of every object and environment

[@akshayakhi9285]

Great work, modelling, texturing, lighting, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, screenplay all are excellent

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Hehhe, Thank you so much :))

[@tostyjoost]

6:19 "this lighting looks very weird, very bright" ... i thought that lighting looked the best actually, very real. the sun never makes soft lines and big contrast.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Hehehe, oh okay - thanks for the input!! Well... I guess I really love the soft lighting. Which makes it less realistic of course

[@youtubemusicplaylists3172]

Very Baby Driver-ish (the car stunt movement). Awesome reference!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!

[@RYMANN_]

absolutely amazing! keep up the excellent work.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!

[@GaryWee111]

This is SSOOOOO AMAZING!! Thank you for your time making this!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks for checking it out!!

[@NC17z]

Great Film Sequence and really good breakdown of how you pulled it off. Thanks for posting all the challenges you ran into and how you got around them. I'm off to check out more of your videos! Thanks again for posting.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to check it out. Happy you enjoyed it!!

[@Kalikux]

Camera work is insane anyway i can improve on mastering this kind of stuff

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot man!

[@dmor6696]

good enough for a game still a work of art, no doubt

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks!! Yeah - one day I really want to be able to make photo-real stuff. Still not there yet ^^

[@nijatIbrahimli]

awesome! You're so talanted!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!

[@LenzGraphics]

Beautiful

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thaaanks!

[@АнтонСавичев-й3р]

This! Is! SO freakin cool man! And insane realistic!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!! Wish it was more realistic though, hehe.. Looks a bit like a cartoon

[@Ctrl_Alt_Sup]

Setup, optimization, render... full control! All it's amazing.

[@ivo-andrade]

I look amazing! Fair play doing it all by yourself!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!! :))

[@saebr]

This is truly amazing.. I really hope you could do a complete step by step tutorial on this... From building the city with Hdmi maker all the way to lighting, animation and final render. I really hope you consider that. Thanks a lot

[@TallyTalwarOfficial]

I agree. I would love to learn how you did this. Creating a 3d space and do stuff inside it is something I've always wanted to do. If you will do a step by step series, then I will sub and turn on notifications and follow along, I promise.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you for the suggestion!! I would be happy to, but it would take a loooong time to record all that and it would end up as a very long series. Making a more in depth video on how I project hdris and build environments that way might be a better way to attack it. Thanks again for the suggestion!!

[@saebr]

@@DanielVesterbaek How you projected the hdr and create the environment would be great. Truly appreciate it & looking forward to it. Thanks again

[@TallyTalwarOfficial]

@@DanielVesterbaek ok. I’ll Still subscribe and try and follow along. But these videos are a bit advanced for new users.

[@MathewJang-v3l]

Still wait for this to happen! Really grateful!@@DanielVesterbaek

[@TimTangents]

Wooooooh 🎉 Baby driver drift. Addon is amazing! Thank you for making it

[@DanielVesterbaek]

You are super welcome!! I made it for myself at first because I wanted a tool like that - one of my friends said I had to make it a product so other people can use it too, hehe

[@Ichinin]

Wow. Didn't know that blender was that good.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Blender is really strong! :D

[@360Fov]

Holy shit, Launch Control is pretty amazing....talk about doing all the hard work (car wise)...amazing.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot man! Was super fun to make the tool :D

[@etxkevin7452]

Professional quality, well done!! I remember using Blender 1.0 back in the 90s. It's come A LONG WAY!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Hahah, it has indeed! Blender is such an awesome tool, which is growing every day. :) So cool you saw Blender at its very early phase!

[@poluokolotogo]

Absolutely awesome! It will be great opportunity to dive deeper into that process

[@GrrahamH]

This is crazy ! Honestly amazing work currerntly learning blender so this just gives me motivation to keep learning

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Happy to hear that! Best of luck with your journey

[@kvazimodo2642]

Dude this is solid gold, thank you!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Glad you liked it!

[@fabriciomira2]

Wow, impressive Daniel! 👋👋👋

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!

[@just_passing_through]

I mistakenly read this thumbnail title as “Making a film in a blender”, and my immediately thought… isn’t that how Hollywood makes all movies these days?

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Pretty accurate, yes - Hehehe

[@cadiumdan]

Blender isn’t commonly used in high end vfx productions or pipelines. It’s mainly Maya, Houdini, 3ds max. Blender is still considered a hobbyist tool amongst professionals.

[@hendriksprikdesign]

@@cadiumdanYes, yet!

[@StevenTheTalisman]

Lots of respect to you man, this is amazing.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@l30singalong]

to create thing like this would take me my whole life

[@lassebauer]

Fantastic breakdown! ...and a good warm up..😉

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a ton! Hahah, yeah, right? :D

[@zakey9662]

i've never thought blender could do this

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Maan! Whyy? Blender can be frustrating for sure, but it's such a good tool :)

[@Ed1TMedia]

Thank you for making this, very insightful, I just realized over the weekend that HDRI maker seemed to have a lot of new features, so I guess I'm going to have to dig into these!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

You are very welcome!! Yes, HDRi Maker had a lot of new features lately. Honestly, there is a ton in there I didn't even get to use yet. I just want to say that in the end I did bake it to geometry, which is not a part of the add-on (yet at least, hehe).

[@Insomnialennsomnia]

Thank you very much for those tutorials and thos awesome tool

[@DanielVesterbaek]

My pleasure! I love making animations and animation tools that I need - And it's always nice to be able to share what I find out with you all

[@Insomnialennsomnia]

@@DanielVesterbaek For the particle system did you use Smoke Images?

[@DanielVesterbaek]

@@Insomnialennsomnia Yeah, actually an image sequence. I found a nice one online that was CC0

[@Insomnialennsomnia]

@@DanielVesterbaek Thank you very much I was experiementing with Principle Volume as Emitter

[@markokovacevic3225]

Beautiful result! Thanks for sharing !

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a ton! Thanks for checking it out!

[@IvakaraTV]

This is very interesting, I am a beginner in this field, I started making some trailers using mainly AI technology, but I love learning Blender too.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

That is awesome! I use both AI and Blender too

[@reviews9216]

What are those AI tools you used?

[@shivramgavas]

your work is amazing

[@RaquelFernandespt]

Amazing project man! Congrats, keep going.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks ton!!

[@juhada]

this is really inspiring craftsmanship. Thanks for breaking it down.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

For sure!! Super happy to share the process! Thanks for the comment

[@benspear]

Amazing! Really interesting to see your AE compositing too. Done is better than perfect :)

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Heheh, absolutely man! :D

[@peaolo]

Amazing job! I just realized that there are no drivers into the cars and this gives unconsciously the impression of self-driven cars 🙂

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Hehehe, oh well - there is actually small peeps inside all of the cars, but they are just not so visible - or detailed 😄

[@jhcopyrightfreevideoandmus5879]

Wow man!!! It's wonderful!😍😍😍😍😍

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!!

[@jhcopyrightfreevideoandmus5879]

@@DanielVesterbaek Most welcome

[@zzzzsleeper]

Amazing work mate

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!

[@ankitkumar9851]

If anyone thinks that's easy. You're dead already this man invested his lot of hard work , vast experience, knowledge and skills over this and tons of hours to make this beautiful art possible....... So it's not impossible but it requires time lot of fkin with good skills and most important patience 🫠....... hat's off to this guy❤️

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a ton for the appreciation of my work man! So happy to get comments like this

[@MannyVanDelight]

Better than naming your cameras after frames is to give them names like Shot-01, Shot-02 etc. You'll be able to add additional shots simply by going down the alphabet or like this -> Shot-01a. This detaches you from a frames driven naming convention and will make more sense in the edit where things are shuffled around and often come from different animation files/timelines. LOVE the tip for binding cameras to timeline makers tho!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Oh this is cool!! Thanks for sharing the tip!!

[@artisthebalint]

Beautiful breakdown my friend! Can't even imagine how long this took haha. Amazing animation!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!! - Well you for one know a lot about rendering cars. Both moving and static! :D But yeah, there were a lot of shots in this one to prepare, hehe

[@jitheshkuyyalil]

Oh! My God! Amazing! Thank you so much!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Happy to hear! Thank you so much

[@SviatoslavPetrov]

Perfect work!!! Thanks for sharing exp.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

My pleasure!

[@HaikuTutorials]

This is crazy!! Thank you for sharing this :)

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks for checking it out!!

[@mungufenibrandomourice3353]

Dude I know nothing about blender but i wanna learn it. All in all it looks great, thanks for the inspiration

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!

[@RoyGachanja-i5p]

Dude you are awesome❤

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much man!!

[@mrsimo7144]

This is amazing work. Thanks!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much

[@haulfilms]

incredible work!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks!!

[@preciousfrancismsongole4694]

Am now your favorite fan... I just a subscribe and like button. Cool stuff... Keep it up

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Hahahh, truly appreciate it man!! ^^

[@thomasthomas8091]

That looks amazing!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!

[@BluewaterAutoRestorationZurich]

Great video , fantastic add on

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!! Happy to hear you think so ^^

[@pixelvader2451]

I also use Infranview lol. Really lightweight image viewer. Amazing you work here btw

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@andrew_d1612]

Really professional, This is cool! 🔥

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot Andrew!! 😄

[@holyshiftstudio]

Great breakdown! Thank you for making this video

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bvladimirpl]

Man, this is entirely so amazing! Congrats... keep doing this.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks, will do! Love creating 3D Shorts :)

[@aymanfatani]

Wow Wow .. Work well and perfectly done !!!!! Bravo Bro

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!! :)

[@shogun64582]

Wow 😍this shortfilm is so good and realize, looklike.... Fast & Furious but mixed some Cartoon style

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Ahahah 😂 that is awesome to read! Thanks for the comment

[@Index3D]

Beautiful breakdown Thank you for making this, one thing At 1:04 instead of pressing 'm' to create a marker, we can simply select the camera and press '+ B' to bind it. without having to create maker

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Yeah, hahaha - Another guy also told me. In the past you had to create markers first, but now they let you skip this step. Old school Blender guy here, hehe Thanks a lot for pointing it out!))

[@Quickartflicks]

This is amazing 👏 👏 Love to see a near 3min video with any song which is u not gonna do right?😂😂

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Hahaha, well, I would indeed love to make that, but 30 seconds take 1 month, so 3 mins would be half a year 😅

[@РоманПавлов-ч6е]

that amazing result!!! good job!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Very happy to hear you think so :) Hope you enjoyed watching it!

[@incredifall]

impressive!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks!!

[@dr.kauffman]

Nice Job, dude!! Looks like The Car Album cover D: (Arctic Monkeys latest album)

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Heheh, yes it does!! I had never seen that cover before ^^

[@vasanthr7394]

wow mind blowing. hats off bruhhhh

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!

[@WildReview-hd8cu]

U need more subscribers that u have, continue that way

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Hehe, thanks a lot! Will do :)

[@Stickybutton]

Definitely way out of my level.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Arh man... That's just a matter of time :D

[@hectorthespector]

Beautiful work sir, congratulations

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot man!!

[@uzairanis10]

man that subi looking spicy

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Heheh, thaaanks!

[@challengedollar2880]

first video seeing of yours here and 1 minute into the video ive subbed. thanks.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Welcome aboard! :D

[@amarajitproductions3902]

Trying to understand "Blender"... so for it's vector based 3D with all variables' controls... Great Programming... gona try it...

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Yeees! It's a super nice tool! Very open and easy to write add-ons to, which is awesome too :)

[@sergomers557]

So cool!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!

[@MathewJang-v3l]

I'm huge interested in how you create the city street just by projecting the HDRI map! Can you share a bit of how to do that in a new video, please? Must confess, I'm deeply amazed by your work! The realistic vide is totally insane!

[@HR-yd5ib]

or you type a line of text and Sora is creating it for you 🤯

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Absolutely! I had an Alpha version of Sora that I have been using my entire career ;)

[@SandeshHR]

Incredible!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks!!

[@nicklasandersson2593]

Wow! Amazing!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!

[@dejavu001]

Great work. Really cool.

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!

[@imkgaurav]

Woo,really nice work. Thanks for sharing the process,it really helps ,🙌

[@DanielVesterbaek]

My pleasure 😊

[@uaon99]

great work!!!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@itellyouforfree7238]

This is great!!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!!

[@OliseForel]

It came out looking great!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot!! Happy to hear you think so

[@DodiOrb]

Really amazing!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks!!

[@jayakumarseenivasan]

amazing wow, thanks for sharing bro..

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot man! Happy you found it useful!

[@wassatir9065]

wow dude, u no noob, u progamer, thanks for showing, greetings

[@nasu5637]

this is really cool

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you!!

[@lanceevans1689]

Very impressive!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you!!

[@georgios.marinoudis]

Excellent!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!

[@naeemulhoque1777]

Looks so beautiful ❤

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot! :)

[@WW_Studios]

Love it!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much!!

[@stache_obj]

dude, what a great render. and what a great breakdown too. love the addon . and the tiny neat little tricks you taught in the video. thanks for the breakdown. would love to know if you prefer ACES above other methods. Has it helped elevate your color grading and creative process in a big way or not that much?

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you so much! Really appreciate your comment. :) Regarding Aces, my take on it is that when you get it set up and understand it, it's easy to use and well.. it's just a better workflow for colors than anything else out there. Nuke makes it super easy to also composite in Aces. Usually, I just work with Aces inside Blender and edit in sRGB in after effects.

[@stache_obj]

@@DanielVesterbaek gotchya man. gonna give it a try for sure. thanks!

[@chris-varghese]

I am always blown away by your stuff ahahah hope you keep going 😎

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks a lot! Heheh, yes that is indeed the plan. Love making stuff like this

[@sandybaystudios]

dope

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks!!

[@FlorianAzar]

Great work!

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@mikerusby]

looks really good. I have struggled with my own cityscape and know how long this stuff takes

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Yeeees, it seems simple to add in some buildings, but it's quite hard to get it right, hehe

[@floppy12k]

Sejt at finde andre danske 3D artister der også bruger blender! Subbed :)

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Heheh, glad for at høre du kunne lide det. :D Blender er alt for fedt at arbejde med. Alt det bedste fremover til dig - og tak igen!

[@yinchenglin7578]

This is crazy! Ples show some process of street mapping and setting,and take my money !

[@DanielVesterbaek]

Thanks for the suggestion! I would be happy to show my process for projecting mapping