Cinematic Fog in Blender - The Ultimate Guide

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Timestamps:
00:00 - 00:58 - Fog - The Short Film
00:58 - 04:42 - Overview of the Video
04:42 - 09:54 - Globalized Fog
09:54 - 15:13 - Localized Fog
15:13 - 17:19 - Fog Tips and Trikcs
17:19 - 19:40 - Post processing the Volumetrics
19:40 - 20:53 - Optimisation Tips
20:53 - 21:59 - Final Thoughts
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I loooove the mood in your shots!

[@ShlomoRaz69]

Finnaly! A video talking about the Fog in blender! thanks!

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[@gloriouslumi]

The "W" value for Noise Textures determines how the noise evolves over time. For best results animate this value changing VERY SLOWLY, as just a small value change can make a huge difference. Couple this with some movement on the local X-axis and you can get some pretty decent results.

[@stache_obj]

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[@Lucidus_V]

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[@stache_obj]

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[@demonishARC]

Love it ! I always use the Mist/fog in my renders but never been to this depth.

[@stache_obj]

Glad I could help in whatever lil way possible

[@nevanks]

Fantastic tutorial.

[@nathitappan]

This is awesome! Thank you! The masking tip in the end is invaluable, thanks for sharing

[@stache_obj]

Glad u found it useful. Cheers!

[@A.Jackson2848]

Great info. Bookmarked.

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The scenes look so real! It’s beautiful, can’t wait to hop into blender and try it out on my ocean scene

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Appreciate it. More coming soon

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Can't believe I'm just finding this channel now. Amazing tutorial and love the renderings!

[@stache_obj]

Glad you like em 😄

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Thank you sir! This is the exact tutorial I’ve been looking for!!!! Super easy to follow and very professional!

[@stache_obj]

Glad it helped my brother

[@dominikpomp4389]

Really great short film, love the cinematic shots, but what stands out to me the most is the sound design. Can tell you've invested a lot of effort into the project overall. Goated channel, keep it up man!

[@stache_obj]

Love sound design compliments. My favorite part of the whole process lately. Appreciate you saying that my man

[@rugslump]

I've been struggling with atmospheric fog in my scenes for AGES, and I never thought to plug in gradient textures / ramps into the principled volume. so glad I stumbled upon your channel!

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Love the text on your thumbnails!

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[@stache_obj]

Aaah. I love sound fx praises. My favorite part in the editing process really

[@TheSyado]

I am Working on a Project including lots of fog and these Tips came at the right time!

[@stache_obj]

Glad I could be of some help

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Mind boggling

[@frankusvolubilis9210]

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[@stache_obj]

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[@Mind-Splitter]

These shots are so impressive!!

[@stache_obj]

Which one's your favourite

[@Max_Mustermann]

Thank you very much for the useful tips. One additional thing maybe worth mentioning, although it isn't directly fog related, is that god rays can also be faked to a degree by using the "Sun Beams" node in the compositor.

[@andreybagrichuk5365]

Really so good explanation. Thank you for your content. Really nice

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Glad you liked it!

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It's impressive, the amount of useful information there is in this single video.

[@stache_obj]

Glad you think so!

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before your Water tutorial and now your fog tutorial these are the kind of quality videos we all need like the amount of details in each video is so useful and all in one Pls keep it up

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Glad you thought so. Gonna try and maintain this standard

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For the steam card planes, you can see some "popping" as the camera goes through the card. (Soldier walking shot.) It's a good idea to gradually fade out the cards using distance to camera.

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[@stache_obj]

Thanks man.

[@WittyDZN]

loved this video. Thanks for sharing some info which honestly i even didnt know abt. Mist pass can even be used in comp for adding cards in front or behind the desired objects too which i always do on my comp

[@stache_obj]

That's a great trick. How did I not think of that. Thanks

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Oopsie. I take a lot of time. I'm sorry 😅. I do not promise to get any better either

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Dope teaching style and as a fellow editor i know it was hard work creating the graphics and putting this video together. Very valuable content.

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[@PrometheusPhamarus]

Using the right light paths output/ inputs, you can use cycles global world volumetrics, no need for a cube, though sometimes that is to be prefered. All lights will work with global volume scattering, despite some folks saying it doesn´t work, given you set the light paths up right.

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Really? Thumbnails are such a tricky thing. You never really know if it's good enough or not

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One additional tip to render volumetrics quickly is to use Eevee for the volumes as a separate pass and composite that back into your Cycles render :) Loved this video, absolutely love all of your content and tips, I learn SO MUCH from you every video. You are a precious gold mine in the Blender community, thank you for all you do!

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Great tip. And thanks for the kind words 😊

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My cover art? Do you mean my thumbnail or my channel art? Irrespective, I'm obliged

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[@SarahC2]

15:00 "Does the fog work when the camera goes into the volume?" isn't a stupid question for people who've used other renderers. For instance in Thea Render (unbiased R1/R2) if the camera is in the volume, the volume calculations don't run correctly as the ray comes from the camera TO the lights, and never goes through the air/fog transition that would kick off the fog calculations. The USER has to select the object the camera is "inside" of. This kicks off fog rendering the moment the ray leaves the camera which gives correct results. Blender looks through ALL objects, and calculates the volume area (even with NON-manifold shapes!) and checks if the camera is inside one of them! Quite advanced checks! So that's why I say it isn't as stupid question "Does a camera work in the fog volume?"

[@stache_obj]

Now I don't feel so stupid 😂

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Happy to hear that. Godspeed now

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Same in my case, I went from a 1650 laptop to a 4070ti pc and it had a GREAT impact on my Blender journey allowing me to use Cycles as an animation renderer instead of only a still one.

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@@yeetbro3659 It is just such a motivation boost, when there is no more hours of waiting for a test-render😅

[@yeetbro3659]

@@Js-qo2fw Well since I use cycles mainly I have to wait hours or even days, but atleast its possible, whereas on my old laptop it would either not render or would take hours for something that can be rendered in minutes. It most certainly is a motivation boost!

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[@stache_obj]

Thanks brother. Appreciate your support

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0:01 screaming my head off at my monitor over this, this is fucking magnificient

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[@methlokaijufan9729]

I wish there was a way to do this in maya too. Every time I try to add volumetric fog there the whole viewport starts lagging and the renders take way longer

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Dude am I watching a Movie? You never cease to blow my mind away 🤯 Not only the tutorial is very awesome and useful, the Animations you create for it are just Incredible🔥! I wonder if you even sleep, creating such high quality videos regularly with movie like visuals. I'm from India as well, would love to meet you :D

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Your thumbnails are always peak

[@stache_obj]

Glad you said that man. Thumbnails are my weakest point I feel like. So I appreciate any kind of feedback on them

[@Havel_The_Rock]

Great work this is amazing! Btw you could turn the shot at 0:28 into an hour long loop, love the vibes

[@stache_obj]

Haaa. You think I can beat lofi girl with that

[@Havel_The_Rock]

@@stache_obj lmaoo yeah for sure

[@jameshughes3014]

fog is easy to add but soo hard to get right. Thank you for this.

[@stache_obj]

I agree. Glad you found some help through this