Proper Linear Workflow | Fusion, AE, PS, Octane, C4D

[@RohitJalan]

I left my dinner to watch this. Totally worth it.

[@mystorical1998]

i ate my dinner while watching this ;D

[@RohitJalan]

@@mystorical1998 I guess one of us had dinner 😂

[@tiarasparks12]

This is how I know your a great CG artist. I thought the final render of the desk was a photo not a model.

[@chrisshaw4286]

hahaha I'm glad it wasn't just me. Great no-nonsense tutorial 🙌

[@jeffvalencia7656]

Yes me too! that blew me away lol

[@PeterJansen]

CG is composited slightly differently in at a vfx house using subtractive compositing. So instead of adding together all the passes, we subtract them from the beauty, do our changes, and add them back on. By the way, they shouldn't need to be composited in a particular order, CG passes are designed to be purely additive, no special blend modes required. Subtractive compositing is beneficial because of this: Say you have a scene with multiple lights, GI, reflections, refractions, SSS, volumetrics, hell even caustics. With an additive workflow, you'd need to have a pass for each of them just so that you can add it all together to recreate the beauty. But what if you know you only need to modify say, the reflections? Including all those passes is a waste of disk space, and a total overcomplication. With subtractive, you can just render your beauty and a reflection pass, subtract the reflection from the beauty, do your adjustment, and add it back on top.

[@AndreyLebrov]

That’s interesting, never tried it :) thanks

[@rbsn3d]

Stop stop stop...what? Subtract it from the beauty, make changes and add it back on top? How, lets say inside AE, would i have to do this? Veeeeery interesting!

[@chrisp1628]

Cool, Peter! Thanks for sharing. What would be the blending mode to subtract the passes correctly from the beauty?

[@AlexSuperBasic]

In AE you stack the pass which you wish to modify on top of the beauty pass, using blending mode substract. Then duplicate that specific pass on top, add your effects on it and add it back in blending mode linear dodge :)

[@chrisp1628]

@@AlexSuperBasic Thanks, Alex!

[@MurrayFrost]

4:00 When he pulled up C4D and I saw the computer and desk setup as CG, I was like, "wait! That was CG??!! WOW!"

[@AndreyLebrov]

Thanks mate. There will be a case study featuring that room :)

[@StevenKaneCo]

2:1 ratio, dynamic lighting and another kickass video. What have we done to deserve such greatness!

[@AndreyLebrov]

You're the greatest support :)

[@AkshayKumarX]

This is the second time now that I've wanted some knowledge on a topic and lo and behold you upload a video within seconds. *WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!?!?*

[@heyraylux]

Fixing the AE color settings to make the linear EXR images actually look nice... Thank you for this video... can't believe how much tinkering I did in C4D trying to figure out something that was an AE problem.

[@bisheshaale7628]

Hitman is back!!!

MAN, YOU ARE THE DIFFERENT LEVEL OF ADUCATiON!! YOU ARE THE BEST DUDE. HONER TO WATCH YOU..

[@omarhamed3894]

The new logo reveal.. *LOVE IT*

[@AndreasZachariou]

I usually watch these videos twice, not because I miss something or need to double check, but because I get distracted by those damn lights... Awesome stuff as always Andrey, thank you!

[@AndreyLebrov]

Damn lights say they are sorry :D

[@romeosixonefive7941]

I been locked in a room watching your videos for like 3 hours so far

[@icedicefilms]

OMG! You are back I'm so happy 😁

[@Diddyo007]

Thanks for producing this video in UW format. Not enough content producers do it currently so it's greatly appreciated to see. спасибо!

[@citygxd9443]

This is really thee highest ratio of information to time ive ever seen an artist teach with... you truly are of the different breed... i thought my learning in 3d was approaching a bad plateau and i watched this followed by the others.... whole new world to learn. more videos please! even deeper more advanced. as hard to understand as possible so i can break it down!

[@citygxd9443]

i would give anything for you to tutor me further through learning the fine details in 3d artwork...

[@grosst]

А вот почему все пасы с октана у меня были такими темными.... А я просто всегда поднимал white point до 0,3. Благодарю за эту информацию.

[@craveleaks8102]

Wow, after a long time, finally now I understand linear workflow. C4D and Octane render used to look really bad but now I get it how linear workflow helps. Thank you. Andrey Lebrov

[@RobiworksLt]

Super excited to see you again!

[@noexchavez]

Deeply grateful to have found your channel this morning. THANK YOU

[@pushkarev_aleksandr]

господи боже, ты один из самых полезных чуваков на ютубе в этой сфере, продолжай создавать контент!

[@spazzimcgee]

This is really important work you're doing for this particular community. Really appreciate you for it!

[@jamesconkle9158]

Looking at octane documentation “neutral response” only affects the image when the “camera response” adds color tint. Neutral response: “Only the tint color will be cancelled if you make it active.” They also specifically say to set the response to sRGB and a gamma of 1 in the camera imager and suggest converting sRGB image texture to a gamma of 1.

[@jjjames4484]

You are my hero and so I think, as Vray user, could help any newcomer to get some things. Right now Vray, and probably every render engine out there it's actually biased. The fact that uses progressive sampler doesn't imply that it's unbiased. So for those who don't know. Unbiased will be a render engine that gives the same importance to every ray cast made. Not only that but also that calculates that path in every bounce until that ray has no more energy. Because this would be inefficient unless you are doing scientific work, all renderers use a biased solution. And all renderers are NOT physically correct. The fact it's proven because they use models (like Blinn, GTTX, Phong...) which are approximations of reality, but never reality itself. Another thing it's that Vray makes every calculation as linear space (gamma 1.0) to get correct results. And no color space it's applied unless the user specifies it. You DO have a virtual frame buffer which applies a correction gamma curve just so that you can see a correct "preview" of what you have. Also, Vray works with wide gamut, it doesn't use Lab as one might suppose. Still, I found it hard to understand how to work with ACES. wouldn't be better to just export your linear images and after post-production export to whatever format you want?

[@darksoul_delhi1746]

Today was my first class of Nuke where my faculty told me about sRGB and cineon data whose value goes above 1 and boom now i just saw your tutorial on same topic...You're on Right Track Sir👍

[@Sketchyvisuals]

Woah the room is dark now, I DIG IT.

[@FerrisFilms77]

yooooooo this guy is an alien. Straight from Another world. BOSS

[@Teus123]

I don't know much about some things that you say but i still learn quite a lot from you! Love your videos 👍👌

[@_arjunpk]

And I've seen all of your tutorials and 1 thing that I have noticed is your intro templates ,all the templatea you used in your videos are really creative 👍👍.

[@mystay88]

Thanks for all the info. Really helped me to manage colour space workflow.

[@jman7093]

Awesome! Can't wait for you to touch on ACES Colour Management. It can get pretty technical with the different IDTs and ODTs. Its something I want to get my head around completely in my next personal project so would be a great to hear an explaination from a c4d/octane user rather than from Alex Fry's technical look at the Lego movie stuff on the ACES Academy channel.

[@pansitostyle]

The new light is real 😏 Starting to see this new video, thanks before ends!

[@dimitriwyotat]

Boom! He's back and now I got goose bumps. Thanks man, awesome work!

[@lagfx9]

He is back! Awesome man! thanks for all the support

[@andrews5948]

Man you are beast and best, надеюсь одного дня я буду хотя-бы близок к твоему уровню в этом ремесле:)

[@firnekburg4990]

This was the best explanation of linear workflow ever, thanks man. Aces color space looks so much better, i'm intrigued ;d Top notch content as always : )

[@benjaminshields9421]

Man I hope you know you inspired me to start trying to sell my work to others. Love your stuff man

[@dermotfaloon_streetmonkey]

Lovely tutorial - cutting through the bull as usual. Excellent job.

[@nikzav211]

Ооо, спасибо за новый полезный урок, давно хотел про это узнать по подробней)))

[@kareemtaibadv3178]

Finallllly You Back

[@MatthRomero]

I am really happy that you are back. Thanks to you I improved a lot. Thanks for the videos and their dedication. great ideas and ways to practice

[@MandeepSingh-xk2wy]

Man this work is too hard when starting, but all the hardwork is worth the wait and effort. All I want to say is thanks Andrey. Thank you for being a good teacher. Although my mind is totally effed up right now because of not getting realistic renders. But all my worries goes away when I watch your videos. Peace. And hey at least give 2 vids per month😋😋 they are tasty. Btw nice Color grading.

[@jocg9168]

Nice video great as usual will share with the Lighter here :) thanks, But I have to say Linear workflow is one thing and exr output one completely other thing, in production we use a lot 16Bit exr as Zips to save space and also you can find enough range for the 3D compositing. as long you don't render tonnemapped exrs. For HDR (lighting) aswell displacement, 16Bit is not that bad (as many people think) Can work perfect with small size files with big videos and the difference is not that visible by naked eye.

[@artakturner]

*Thnx a lot.. You give a lot of information in a short video*

[@georgetirlea1771]

Lets support this guy to make more videos! 😁 THX! You are awsome!

[@XyaraxiaGaming]

I noticed the new fireflies on the background. I love it. ❤

[@fackerazo]

Awesome tutorial, right on the money. Thanks a lot!

[@ANigerianPrince]

Hells yeah. I loved this and the ACES you made after.

[@Yitzhakk]

thank you for getting straight to the point man. Thats what im talkin about.

[@LeRoiPapayou]

I've only read the title but man, THANK YOU , I know this is gonna be great

[@mampiisaotaku]

great video as always. now more people should understand the importance of compositing. And thanks a lot dor explaining linear workflow

[@lubomiratan]

i am digging the new interior ;)

[@AndreyLebrov]

Thank you mate! We enjoyed making it

[@IbnAbdssalam]

That's like minde blowing to me.. Every time I see one of ur vids I feel so stupid and motivated at the same time 😂 thnx man ✨

[@AndreyLebrov]

I feel stupid all the time. It's ok :D Being stupid and motivated is a great combo actually ;)

[@3D-Court-Exhibits]

Awesome again and again, this man knows what he does!

[@WangleLine]

Andrey, the new intro looks fantastic!~

[@AndreyLebrov]

Thanks :P

[@holmbergadam]

never clicked a video faster

[@virdi1992]

Man, you're insane. I admire the passion.

[@moch230]

Sweet! Pumped to see your ACES tutorial. Great tutorials man!

[@MrMarans]

damn that was great. knew about the passes and Extractor, but never understood how to get all the passes together so it looks like the render of the 3d programm. that was really great and thank you so much! Im so motivated now to reopen old projects I rendered as exr's and try things out with it. only knew how to handle the z-path

[@artistsukh1127]

You are back!!!!! Awesome 💜💜💜

[@razorblade-]

Спасибо за туториал! Для новичков очень полезно

[@sejadmosawi1973]

if someone entertains me on youtube! it's you😏. Good to see you andrey

[@eminzeynalov3395]

Andrey, your lessons are great. Beautiful colors, lighting. Very nice and pleasant explain. The sound quality is great. Nice to watch and listen. Every free minute I watch and listen to your lessons. As for me, your lessons are of the highest quality on youtube. We are waiting for more lessons. Thanks you.

[@airshark4579]

This dude's a wizard

[@jeffvalencia7656]

Logo is on point. your studio looks so dope, great content and video quality man KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK !! :)

[@NoSkillzRPG]

uh Andrey goes ultrawide nice!

[@nachanishauri]

yeah that great andy please more turtorial abut this and ae composition dont forgot little houdin 😀

[@Tomydurand]

Thanks a lot Andrew! This will be clearly usefull for my next project!

[@slyasassin]

YOUR BACK! WELCOME BACK!!!

[@langley8418]

This was the video I didn't know I needed to see

[@hypersapien]

I detect an upgrade to your magical energy sprites!

[@housseinkheireddine6434]

Oh God, finally! Welcome back master blaster 😎

[@MechNominal]

Very good overview!

[@cleanerwolf]

Really helpful video! The workflow I used so far in Fusion was to have OCIO_colorspace node after every image input, converting it to sRGB and then working in sRGB colorpace, but Gamut seems to work a little bit better.

[@timgrove3927]

You're a lord man. Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to ACES!

[@jasfordedits]

your videos are beautifully made and so well presented, this channel is amazing

[@AndreyLebrov]

Thank you very much 😊🙏🏼

[@YogeshRajKumar]

I was wondering abou passes and just in time..i got notification of your video bro 😍 Edit : i am happy that i learnt after effects ignoring fusion and iam happy i started learning c4d😄

[@LeRoiPapayou]

And as I thought that video was just fire! Thank you for all the great content you bring us again and again

[@Blotch666]

The bottles have had an upgrade!

[@hirish5907]

really interesting ! thank you so much for this video.

[@TheFrenchMonkey]

Very helpful man! Cheers!

[@AndreyLebrov]

Always a pleasure 👊🏻

[@Robstar]

And again - Thank you! By the way. Your new room looks amazing!

[@Fqdunjy]

Hey man, seems you are a little bit of tired. Always remember to make sure that you get enough rests. Nice video as always.

[@baronsonics]

soooo glad i just watched this . was trying to figure out why i felt like everything was wrong in my colors why multi passing

[@ghilesmix]

love what you do, very technical tutorials, helps a lot thank u so much

[@ArameoDios]

Great channel man!!! great content!!

[@pascalfurst7864]

There is also a free plug in for AFX that splitts up the renderpasses autmatically without the need to duplicate and change the Extractor Plug In settings yourself. It is called ProExr(the guy also created Exr Plug In for AFX) and comes in addition with a Cryptomatte plug in in the zip file

[@Ameerhamzaminhas]

perfect exactly what i was looking for.

[@imjayluciano]

You just blew my mind Andre! I've always wondered if you could make a tutorial on how to make an intro with your logo on C4D and AE? I've been wanting to do one with mine but the other tutorials I've seen are not very helpful.

[@juanpablofrances620]

told you that you could upload with this ratio

[@AndreyLebrov]

I never said I can’t )) I cant use clickable end screens any more 😄 thank you 👊🏻

[@nicklawrence277]

It would be so nice if you create a training course. You explain things so well 🧐

[@sid-k]

EXR layers support in Fusion > Resolve 15.2.4 Fusion recognizes EXR layers. EXR layers drop-down list, you will find at end of the inspector > tools tab.

[@abelarabian3895]

This really helped, thanks!

[@jankarl5269]

Ok I didn't even expect that room to be CG

[@hexagonscalfmedia4357]

Excited to see you! Great video ! I'm your schoolgirl ;) Best greetings!

[@MatthewDealer]

Exactly what i needed! Thank you very much for this tutorial 😍

[@abderrahmanes323]

Thank you so much , following you from Morocco

[@nicky592]

oh geez, thanks for this, i was just having difficulty with a project and color space!

[@manojlogulic4234]

Great video, thanks!

[@abdallammar]

I really love your tutorials 🔥🔥🔥

[@bomboi163319]

ANDREY. THANK YOU SO MUCH!