How to make EEVEE look better in 10 MINUTES!

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So you want to make EEVEE look better? Or you wonder how to make EEVEE realistic? To get Blender EEVEE realistic renders and to make EEVEE look like cycles, watch this video!
I will show you how to make EEVEE look better in under 10 minutes. These simple tricks apply to any scene, but for this tutorial I've created a fancy Sci-Fi corridor to work with.
Follow along and learn how to take your EEVEE rendering skills to the next level!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:26 Volumetrics
0:55 World Properties
1:22 Post Processing Effects
2:05 Indirect Lighting
4:03 Compositing
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[@KaizenTutorials]

Do you have any more tips on how to make EEVEE look REALLY good?! Share 'm here!

[@DaddyMouse]

I personally also use a bit of noise texture on the volumetrics to make it less uniform, and even simulate smoke when needed.

[@Leukick]

At 4:00 in it looks like "contact shadows" is turned off? Another crucial tip for EEVEE is to turn on the contact shadows option on all of your lights. If you have like 20 individual lights in your scene, that option has to be toggled on for each light.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Great tip! I forgot that indeed. Thanks! 💪🏻💪🏻

[@DemShion]

@@Leukick Select all the lights in your collections, then go to the shadow settings, hold ALT and enable it on there to have them all toggle the option at the same time, contact shadows sometimes give a not so great effect tho, it often times murders soft shadows and other kinds of indirect light, so enabling it on all objects might not be ideal.

[@Leukick]

​@@DemShion Thank you :) Yeah I never thought about the ALT option

[@TheDucky3D]

Awesome

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks a lot man!

[@Just-A-Clown111]

HONESTLY, i already knew all this stuff, but i wanted to see your render

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hey, that’s fine by me ;-) hope you liked it!

[@fadhil4008]

I knew all this stuff but the way he implemented them is better than me

[@attentivenettle7643]

Same

[@ronioclarenzo6137]

One of the best tutorials on Eevee rendering I've ever seen. All functionalities are concisely yet effectively explained and also brought together for a completely synchronized application! Excellent!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Wow, thanks for the kind words!

[@nabeedanish]

Using Evee and Composting can save much time in rendering in Blender nice short videos with a bunch of lessons thanks Kaizen

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem!

[@RSpudieD]

This was really interesting and I'm impressed with the difference! I'm always impressed with how much some compositing can change the look. Great video!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! Yeah compositing can really take stuff to another level. So it’s always good to do atleast some basic compositing!

[@mr.onelife5195]

Starts off showing the 1st render looking really good. Making me think what is wrong with that. Then showed the second one and was blown away.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Haha you love to see it! I often feel like my plain renders are fine. But I always still tweak them with settings and compositing and it always makes it a lot better! Definitely worth it :-)

[@crownyvalentine5200]

This really, really helps, Especially the compositing part, thank you!

[@KaizenTutorials]

You’re welcome! Glad it helps 🙏🏻

[@RubberDuck5]

Just like everyone else on every video. I never used blender, but I feel compelled to say I already know everything, this is why I search for these videos. This one was perfect and helped me a lot, but offourse I knew it already. Thank you, awesome quality.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Haha thanks!

[@matthodgesmusic]

Can't argue with the excellent results. On volumetrics, I'd add compare the results for different tile sizes. Sometimes I get the effect I'm after with a larger tile size. Also depending on the scale of the scene you might want to adjust the start and end values. Adding some noise texture can also work nicely in some cases. I'm always looking at how to get the most out of Eevee, so this was very useful, especially the compositing.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Great tips! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

[@bilaljaved4234]

Love the quick style tutorial and amazing tips! Thank you.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Great to hear! I’ll try to do more of these 🙏🏻

[@zana3d]

Absolute gold. I have a scene thats been a huge bother for me and your tips have helped immensely. I cant wait to try them out. Liked and subbed.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! That’s great to hear. Hope it turns out as good as you hope with these tips 🙌🏻

[@shalsa07]

Amazing tutorial. nice and direct very simplistic. Especially loved the compositing tips...great work...

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you!

[@pedrogrilo277]

Brilliant. I am coming back to this video every single time I use EEVEE. Thank you :))

[@KaizenTutorials]

That’s awesome to hear! Glad it helps 🙌🏻

[@IvanFlack]

Wonderful tutorial...I will be trying out some of these techniques today! Thanks!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Wonderful! Good luck and have fun.

[@florrcorr5607]

I'm barely starting with blender so I understood nothing, but I'm definitely saving this for later!! Even if I barely got what exactly it is you're doing, I think I could follow this, since you explained it very well

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! That’s really goos to hear and if you run into any problems, feel free to ask some questions in the comments! Good luck and have fun with Blender! 🙌🏻

[@_20TWO]

Looking good Kaizen!

[@steprockmedia]

I left a project rendering overnight in Cycles and it got frame 44 out of 6,000. It looks great, but it's not practical. This Eevee setup offers me a usable solution - thanks!!!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Nice! Glad this helps. Yeah cycles can be a pain for long projects for sure!

[@mjf4186]

Really useful compositing tips, I know I will use it a lot in the future, less work comparing doing post-processing in DaVinci or Lightroom.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! Glad it’s useful 🙌🏻

this is awesome, just subbed and thumb up to this, im practicing my eevee skills for animation intentions and this is a HUGE step of a tutorial, thanks!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thats great! Thanks for subbing and glad the video helped 👍🏻

[@arleksey]

i`m a c4d user with redshift, watching this video in tiers :'( watching and crying =) Real-time mixing of passes with beauty render is outstanding, never seen this before!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you Alexey! But... Blender is free, so you can always join the club and follow along aswell 😉

[@almerbatti8586]

loved it ! Thank you for this man

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome! You’re welcome.

[@HardMa5ter]

The compositing part helped a lot, I subscribed and will follow the channel!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad to hear it, thanks for the sub!

[@Leukick]

Bro this is an amazing tutorial. Great work

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks so much!

[@scottlee38]

Thank you for this!

[@KaizenTutorials]

You’re welcome! 💪🏻

[@kautsarch]

i will trying this tutorial, this is awesome 🔥🔥🔥

[@KaizenTutorials]

Have fun!

[@EladdNZZ]

Only just recently started using compositor more and still getting my head around it. All the tips were relevant but I did like the compositing segment best.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! Glad it was useful 🙏🏻

[@paulroberto2286]

wow this was exactly what I was looking for! thank you!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome, thanks!

[@nbakerify]

How have I not seen your videos before this? Thanks for some great tips!

[@KaizenTutorials]

I blame the algorithm! 😜 thanks, happy to hear you liked the vid!

[@vincejuliuscedeno]

This tutorial is my favorite so far.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Heck yeah 😎🤜

[@AllyG1967]

Lots of great info in this thanks

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad you liked it, thanks!

[@MIHAO]

great stuff, thanks

[@ian_b]

Great! Thanks!

[@juarezmenegassi]

Thank you man!

[@KaizenTutorials]

You’re welcome!

[@BlenderFan]

Thansk for showing this very helpful tutorial. Great job.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Your welcome! Glad it was helpful!

[@kaizu4914]

I switch to eevee from cycles and this video really help!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad to hear it!

[@vlodgoral8258]

awesome, very concise and super resourceful, new subscriber!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks a lot!

[@issac7787]

Power of compositing. Thank you

[@KaizenTutorials]

Absolutely, thanks!

[@BubbleVolcano]

wonderful！

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks!

[@DaddyMouse]

This is insanely good!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks alot!

[@zlashyg7304]

Helped alot ^^ Thanks!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Good to hear!

[@hjin7108]

That's so cool ! 👍🏻

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you!

[@ThereAreNoFacts]

outSTANDing - incredibly helpful :)

[@KaizenTutorials]

Great to hear! Thanks.

[@jafarsadiq6226]

Thank you for sharing valuable knowledge

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem, thanks for watching!

[@jbanimations8475]

Great video, thanks!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@GreenSee17]

Thanks! Helps a lot

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome, you’re welcome!

[@mote.silente]

Thank you!

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem! 💪🏻

[@AscaryLazos]

nice tut!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks!

[@patatica]

amazing tutorial ;) thanks

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you!

[@julzius6796]

Good job this was so useful

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks, glad to hear it!

[@anthony_2310]

bro you changed my life!)

[@KaizenTutorials]

Haha thanks!

[@mrkalo55]

Really helpfull! thanks men!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Cool, no problem!

[@blasterxt9]

Thanks buddy

[@KaizenTutorials]

You’re welcome!

[@ardianfirmansyah3558]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@KaizenTutorials]

You’re very welcome!

[@friendlyreptilian3767]

very nice explanation, thx

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks!

[@Villio.]

this is gold

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! 🙏🏻

[@kingwalz]

Thanks so much!

[@kingwalz]

Cycles is a bitch!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hahaha

[@purplevoice189]

these points are so great👌

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you!

[@purplevoice189]

@@KaizenTutorials you are welcome 🙏

[@beaudean51]

Love this

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks!

[@oluwadamilola6233]

Knew all these but still i learned some new trick never played with shadow in the composting like this before

[@KaizenTutorials]

Great to hear it was still informative on some level! :-D

[@rexgaming4986]

Thank You So Much Bro You Are Really Intelligent I Subscribed And Thank You Again This Was Lit🔥

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you for subbing and I appreciate the compliment! 💪🏻

[@CheerleaderTW5566]

Thanks for sharing really helps alot. I'm crying

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem, glad it was useful to you! 🙏🏻

[@user-mm9nn8gu7w]

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[@kbystryakov]

Отличный гайд! Большое спасибо за такую полезную информацию для фанатов рендеринга в блендре

[@KaizenTutorials]

You're welcome, thanks!

[@trinitrotoluene3D]

Amazing how you still reply to everyone’s comments Great tutorial, even if from 2 years ago

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! I try my best :-D

[@superjarri]

I'm pleasantly surprised that the title was actually not a clickbait lol nice tips indeed

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hahaha happy to hear it!

[@BigBroTV777]

Dude... You Are A God...

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hahaha thanks

[@kill5326]

amazing thank u! >.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad you like it!

[@phoebeconsuella6220]

good tuto thanks

[@KaizenTutorials]

thank you!

[@FusionArt_3D]

wow nice ❤

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks 😊

[@MrFoxANDnoobie]

Thanks

[@juanfernandojimenezbuitrag2434]

I already knew this but I learnt that I need to increase the resolution for the light bake and yes, it seems better I was using 5 or 6 samples X option

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome!

[@cashtanimations]

I watched this video twice, that good it is! :D actually knew most of the stuff (because I work mainly with Eevee), but was curious about how indirect lighting works..do you think it can be used in animation? with bigger scenes, where camera and stuff moves?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome, love to hear it! It can definitely be used for animation. Like you saw in the vid I used it there as well. Thing is, it can be a little heavy on the computer. So what you could best do is, instead of doing one big irradiance volume, do several small ones on targeted locations where you want lighting and reflections!

[@cashtanimations]

@@KaizenTutorials Thanks a lot, will give it a try!

[@wyesea3256]

Ngl this is the first time I am excited to use eevee for my rendering after watching this vid, I always use cycle cuz the quality is so much better but the time really is a huge issue 😭

[@KaizenTutorials]

Check out my latest video also to learn how to make great materials in eevee!

[@ardianfirmansyah3558]

Underrated

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! 🙏🏻

[@primitivecg]

This is truly brilliant , thanks for sharing man, +1 ..liked , subscribed and here ..

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks a lot! Welcome to the club 💪🏻

[@stobbabyningen]

thanks a lot!))

[@KaizenTutorials]

💪🏻🙏🏻

[@Master22062]

I usually use Cycles..so I had NO idea that world color affects even closed spaces since that is not the case in Cycles. Thank you!!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Well as far as I know you're right on World Color not affecting closed spaces. This hallway isn't completely closed as the part behind the camera is open. So the world color does bleed in through there!

[@Master22062]

@@KaizenTutorials I just scaled a cube, put the camera inside, world colour to blue. Cycles rendered shading...nothing. everything black, as expected. Eevee rendered shading.. everything blue 😁 So I think it's an Eevee quirk 😊

[@KaizenTutorials]

Aah ok! Haha well could very well be 🤗 thanks for sharing!

[@abhishek-farswan]

It is a big wow

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks!

[@genesis2303]

One thing I often do is adjusting white point and black point in curves in compositor, didn't see this much on compositing videos, kind of wonder why? I'ts basic thing which immediately help to find better contrast.

[@KaizenTutorials]

That’s a great tip! Adjusting the white and black balances makes for good contrast and it really ties everything together in the scene 👍🏻

[@anonypanfilov1768]

thx u!!!!!!!!!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

You’re welcome!

[@_blender_man_]

Cool

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks!

[@victorfioravante6787]

Muito Bom !!!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you!

[@lazzy5397]

Great video. Specially compositing stuff. I have a request. Any way to make exteriors like a nature scene look realistic in eevee? I struggled a lot with scenes like those a during project.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! Yeah well the gist of it is that all these things apply to almost any scene in EEVEE. So making sure you have a good HDRI, irradiance volume and reflection cubemap where it matters (water e.g.), additional point lights and a sun light (since HDRI’s don’t cast shadows in EEVEE) lined up with the sun from the HDRI. Then some compositing and it should get you a long way! 🙏🏻

[@KaizenTutorials]

Ofcourse materials, subsurface scattering and translucency (for plants e.g.) is also very important to creating realistic looking scenes for nature in EEVEE!

[@silindilemthethwa268]

Took my scene from okay to you'll have to pay for this quality. 😂

[@KaizenTutorials]

The best kind of quality 👌

[@TheFramedesigner]

muito obtigado pela ajuda

[@KaizenTutorials]

You're welcome!

[@eternal_inferno6132]

KAIZEN !!!! THE ROBOT FROM THE COOL SPACE GAME

[@KaizenTutorials]

What space game? I’m curious now haha!

[@ZOMBY2511]

that was really useful! though the shift click on the color ramp nodes didn't work for me.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hmm maybe they changed that since it's an older tutorial...

[@ZOMBY2511]

@@KaizenTutorials oh I got it, I also needed to hold ctrl, so it would be Shift+ Ctrl + left click.

[@Nevertrust_]

Im new at this blender and I wonder if you can save eevee custom settings, so I don't have to come back here over and over and over. Btw thanks for the tutorial it really helps me a lot

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem, glad you like it. You cant save the custom settings specifically. However I think you can store them in your default start-up scene. Just set everything you want as default up and then go to file > save as start-up file or something like that. Not sure if it works for all the eevee settings and compositing but its the only option I can think of! Good luck and happy blending!

[@Nevertrust_]

@@KaizenTutorials ill try this thanks

[@rugged980]

This is a good. Thanks. Is there a way to have a vector pass in Eevee or any alternative to it. Though not related to your tutorial

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! Sadly, as far as I know, there is not an easy 'just enable it' button in Blender. I believe there is a way to create a vector pass with nodes in the compositor. Have a look here; blenderartists.org/t/how-to-render-vector-pass/690552/2

[@chrystianyaxche5381]

very good tutorial, although you skipped the part about how to put those layers in the renderl layer. One question: how do you show the operation of an individual ramp color and then return to the normal view, thank you

[@KaizenTutorials]

With CTR+Shift + Left mouse you can preview nodes. To get the full material back just preview the final shader node. This only works with the node wrangler addon.

[@karstenz.8754]

Very well done tutorial. Thank you for that. That brings me to a question: is all the processing you have done also viable for a long animation scene where not only camera but also objects are moving?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! Well yes, these are very basic compositing tricks to get a better look in general. So it should apply to almost any scene. However if you have many lighting changes in your animation, it could be that the settings for one scene are great, but for the next they look ugly. So it really does depend on your scene! Generally speaking though this should work fine 👍🏻

[@karstenz.8754]

@@KaizenTutorials Well, I have a lot of lighting changes. Is it possible to have multiple indirect lighting bakes? I still try to figure out, if (or how) I get a good render result with Eevee as render time with cycles will take me 16 days and with eevee only 16 hours. Quite a difference I would say 😃

[@KaizenTutorials]

Ah, yeah well that makes it a bit harder. I'd say the best way to test it to just render single frames from throughout your animation and see if it works. If it does, then I see no reason why it wouldn't look good across the entire thing. To answer your question, yes for sure you can add multiple Irradiance volumes. You can make them really small aswell just to get lighting data on a particular area. Same goes for the reflection cubemaps. I used big ones in this video, but smaller ones can be even better when used properly!

[@karstenz.8754]

@@KaizenTutorials thank you for your detailed reply. Definitely will try that out. If I cannot get it done, I will rely just on standard settings of ambient occlusion, bloom, screen space reflection... Again, thank you very much -:)

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem, good luck! 🍀

[@odworiemmanuelken8594]

Hi Bro, this is really cool. However, I would like to know something about composting. Do you have to do it for every key frame (like one rendered image at time in the whole image sequence) before you convert them to a video format? Or its just Done for only one key frame and the changes take effect automatically for all the other key frames

[@KaizenTutorials]

Compositing in Blender is applied to every frame automatically when you render. So in my case I just render 1 frame, use it to see what compositing I want to apply and then after just render the animation.

[@bigtahoomas6884]

Yo I actually I have two questions, one 3d modeller to another. how long did it take you to model this scene? I'm fairly new to modelling (last few years) and always feel like I rush things, so any perspective you could give me would be a massive help. also, did you make custom materials or use presets but modified colour values?

[@KaizenTutorials]

I’m not sure exactly anymore, but I think I spent about 6 hours modelling and texturing this. All materials are either very basic procedural materials done in blender or they’re downloaded via the Blenderkit Addon.

[@bigtahoomas6884]

@@KaizenTutorials Cheers for the speedy response dude, you Rock!

[@sharaudramey9336]

lmao, what is even going on? I'm in way over my head. Don't what I just watched but for some reason I can tell it is good! Thanks... lol

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hahaha well as long as you enjoyed it ;-)

[@ahmetbaykara.mp3]

Wow, amazing difference 🔥 How does the indirect baking system work on animated lights? Does it calculate every single frame? (Police car, ambulance, tv screen, light color change, alarm, etc...)

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yeah you need to cache the lighting! I’m not 100% sure on the animated light, but I’m assuming it will take this into the bake.

[@StuSutcliffe60]

How did you make the dust particle floating ? After effect?

[@KaizenTutorials]

No, it's a big cube covering the entire scene with a particle system, low to none gravity settings for the particle system and a small, thin, hairlike object as the actual particle.

[@212Filmmaking]

Great video!! One other thing that I think helps a lot is adding depth of field too. Once again good job on the content, I subscribed!

[@KaizenTutorials]

That’s a very good tip. DoF is crucial to mimic camera lens realism. Thanks for subbing and thanks for the kind words :-)

[@giovannimontagnana6262]

how come you have so little followers? underrated channel

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you, appreciate that! Hopefully one day I have over 100K 💪🏻

[@renderpeach]

When I bake indirect lighting for my pretty heavy 120 frame animation it seems to get stuck when 'Baking light cache'. Is it worth waiting or is it just stuck in a loop

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hmm it could be stuck, but on the other hand baking the light cache can take a LONG time, especially if you have a high lightmap resolution. So it could also just take ages!