How to Add 3D Objects to Your Videos with Blender & After Effects | PART 1

[@fedor3000]

OMG Blender to AE is just what we need ! please more of it !! ❤

[@SurfacedStudio]

There will be more :D

[@AwesomeBlackDude]

@@SurfacedStudio Hello SS, any updated info in your description box also do you also have a tutorial on the FSpy plugin tool?

[@davidmbermeo]

What I appreciate about this channel is that you always show the final effect first then jump into the tutorials. Keep up the great work!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you for the great feedback :) Glad you liked it!

[@TKtimestretch]

How funny.. I'm working on a project that requires this knowledge on the day you released this video.. how cool!

[@SurfacedStudio]

That worked out well :D

[@Leukick]

This always happens with tutorials lol. Hope the project went well

[@TKtimestretch]

@@Leukick Thank you!

[@AsasinoManik]

same here, actually.

[@jimmymercuri]

I know I probably won’t get a response but how long did the rendering take for all of you?

[@SurfacedStudio]

Watch PART 2 HERE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/naTXXp2NpNh1idE Time Stamps 01:25 Tutorial Start 02:01 Things to Keep in Mind 03:06 Assigning a Video Clip to the Background 04:57 Aligning the 3D Scene with the Footage 07:38 Shadows & Modeling the Scene Geometry 13:12 Lighting & Shadow Catchers 14:28 Environment Maps 21:06 Adding Physics & Collisions 24:27 Configuring the Output Settings

[@zevidmusic]

I think giving the wall and groud a green diffuse will have a good result if you want to get shadow catcher in eevee. Just chroma key it in after effects and it still leaves the shadow.

[@SurfacedStudio]

There are some tricks on how you can get shadow catchers working in Eevee :) I'm still hoping they'll add official support for that into Blender soon

[@c418-i7o]

It requires 6 nodes to create a shadow catcher in evee. Not that hard but for beginners I'd say it's confusing.

[@Georgeparkerfilm]

Do you need both blender and element 3D? What softwares did I need to pay for?

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Finally found some time to take this 3D stuff more seriously. I knew you were the first one to go to. Thanks!

[@SurfacedStudio]

You’re very welcome :) I’m finally making new versions of some of theses older tutorials for the newer versions of Blender. I’m slow as usual but more coming soon :D

[@DoggoCreative]

This tutorial kind of changed my life ! It was the first time I came across Blender and picked it up. Here I am now make a living with Blender.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you for the epic comment! What do you do for a living now? I'm super touched to hear that my weird tutorials were useful to you along the way!

[@NickBeatoMusic]

Love you bro! Been looking for this! Why is the no other 2.8 blender and after effects tutorials? You saved me!!!!!

[@SurfacedStudio]

No worries bro :) Glad you found it useful! Hopefully part 2 will be done soon!

[@louisc2222]

thank you for this, Tobias.Looks like promising start of tutorial series. I hope we will get to camera tracking and more complex scenes. Thank you again for your work.

[@SurfacedStudio]

You're welcome Pavel! There will be more coming soon - hopefully I'll at least get part 2 up soon...ish :) And I do want to cover more complex 3D integrations as part of this series as well

[@fusionresolved]

This is exactly what I was looking for but the only problem is my footage is a moving shot and not a tripod shot and also I have a fbx file from mixamo so I'm completely confuse, a tutorial showing how to do this with moving footage would be awesome, thank you.

[@AnimationGoneWrong]

Tobias, another outstanding tutorial! I'm just getting into Blender myself, but this has some great content which only helps to inspire me to continue with my Blender experiments.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you very much :D Really happy to hear you got something useful out of the tutorial - Blender is a pretty cool, and also very fun, tool to use!

[@LesterFrancisco]

Im a KZbin user, and is the first time that i have the same KZbin video in two differents list. Nice work.

[@SurfacedStudio]

:D I hope that's a good sign?

[@maxmaseko]

Five years I have learned from your tutorials AE and Blender thank you very much

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you very much for the comment - really excited to hear you've been sticking around for that long :D Makes me feel slightly ancient though haha!

[@thierrybeghin1]

Great !! Amazing ! Incredible ! Thank you so much to share your experience !!! And the 2 parts in less than 1 hour : Great job Guys !

[@SurfacedStudio]

You're very welcome, glad to hear you liked it :)

[@2hip549]

You are re the only person on youtube that I have followed on all my accounts and definitely been with you the longest . I think its been 6 or more years niw. CHEERS TOBIAS another great tutorial

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you very much 2hip :D I appreciate the support and glad to hear you are enjoying my content - as much as it varies over the years haha!

[@TheSleazyFish]

I’m glad this came out because I just started working in blender. Thank you!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear that worked out :D

[@Likeblender61]

Hi , Thanks for the tuto. Maybe a little correction. The scale in Blender must always be 1 (CTRL A - Scale) but are not the real dimensions. Select the object and Press T in the viewport. Chose Item. The dimensions are then visible. Your cube has the dimensions 2mx2mx2m.

[@AnkurPal]

Thankyou, I need A Understandable Tutorial on Blender 2.8. Now I Found It😃☝️

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear you found the tutorial useful :D

[@BillZebubproductions]

Yet another excellent tutorial from a great teacher. Your effort is appreciate, sir.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Many thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@yima8282]

Can't wait for the next part. This is awesome

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you, hopefully won't take me too long to complete part 2 :D

[@ansonli0005]

I love these tutorial about composite 3D to live footage. Thank you very much.😊😊

[@SurfacedStudio]

No worries at all Anson, glad to hear you liked it :) I want to create tons more on the topic as there's so much to it (but it's actually not as difficult as people initially think). Hopefully I'll get part 2 done soon!

[@fulltimespy]

This is exactly what I was looking for! :)

[@SurfacedStudio]

That's great to hear, thank you!

[@fulltimespy]

@@SurfacedStudio Yes, this helps me alot to get into 3d vfx for my channel :) Adding things, removing them with after effects, blowing them up and such!

[@c418-i7o]

Guys, listen! This video is pretty good. It is good for basic things in Blender. But forget the way he set the perspective. There are free tools and even Blender addons for that.

[@SurfacedStudio]

You can use any free tool or add on you like to set the perspective :) For such a simple static shot I don’t think it’s necessary though and I believe there’s some value in understanding how to do it manually. But to each their own :)

[@weztastudio6170]

very awesome that you started to make tutorials on blender with after effects

[@SurfacedStudio]

Started a little while ago and it’s what I personally use :) Really just sharing what I do myself haha

[@AdventuresandLifestyle]

Yep i'm in Surfaced Studio. Spotted you icon on another channel. I want to learn and hopefully pick up this skill set too.👍 🇬🇧

[@SurfacedStudio]

Hi there! Hope there's something useful you can get out of my strange little tutorials. Glad to have you hear! I've always avoided 'SS' as abbreviation - as a German (or anyone really) that is not a good abbreviation to use...

[@AdventuresandLifestyle]

@@SurfacedStudio Take your point - my error not thinking ahead there! and have changed that unmentionable 👍

[@swainuk2024]

you are amazing! and literally the best way of explanation thank you so much

[@SurfacedStudio]

You're very welcome!

[@binyaminbass]

How did you get the background image in camera view to show up in rendered view? I had to do some workaround which included turning on transparent in Render Properties/Film, which I see you only did later on.

[@nilesbrandon4217]

I had the same issue as well. @Surfaced Studio, why did yours work without having to enable this?

[@LG2693]

You're doing an amazing job here. I really appreciate your work. Keep going!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you for the awesome comment, glad to hear you enjoyed the tutorial :)

[@Zachary.Jordan]

all your videos are so helpful! thanks!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad you like them! :D

[@akshaybeem]

This is what i wanted from years XD thank you sir

[@SurfacedStudio]

You're welcome :) Had to get around to it eventually haha!

[@akshaybeem]

@@SurfacedStudio cheers :D

[@ripvanscarface3366]

Hello 👋,can you do a tutorial on hoe to do Face Rig and Facial Expressions in Blender because I'm down for a short movie project and I need to Face Rig the characters in the vid clip,thanks 😊.

[@binyaminbass]

Shift Tilda?! Thanks for the hot key. I'll repay the favor: Shift . (period key) to enable/disable transform origin only mode. This tutorial rocks heavy. Can I do this in Davinci Resolve instead of AE?

[@RicoResolves]

Hey man, great series. Where are the other episodes? I've seen the Playlist and I'm really waiting on that video in which you build the wall, smash it, and then show us how you create it in Blender, and add it to your video. Same with the garage shot, how the roof came down. Can you show us a start to finish? So building the roof, having the barrel drop through it making the roof shatter, rocks dropping around you and then combine it with the video?

[@planatalks]

If you use the shader editor it will be better for the materials and so easy😁😁. Thnks for the tutor

[@SurfacedStudio]

I got a tutorial on the shader editor here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4fNn4Zrj5xqjdk I wanted to keep this video simple and not spend too much time on the materials as I'm just covering the basics :)

[@rgonnering]

This tutorial was great. It frequently went too fast for me, and I didn't end up with the same results as you, but I learned a lot, found out about Surfaced Studio. I don't have AE and didn't know about it. I am looking for an alternative. Thanks.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you for the comment 😀 The tutorial assumes that you’re fairly familiar with Blender (and AE). Also you’re looking for a free alternative to AE check out HitFilm Express :D

[@antontaukach]

Absolutely amazing tutorial, so easy to understand and follow along. I am subscribing!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you for the comment :) Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

[@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث]

Best viedo ever I found explain how to add mesh to a video , most other tutorial are rush not step by step explaining .

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you for the great feedback!

[@irenenaymova6170]

Cool tutorial, btw u can use shading editor to work with world and material settings. It much more easier there.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Yup - I covered the shader editor in a separate tutorial and wanted to keep this one as simple as possible :)

[@ps4gamingpro.b509]

thanks man i was looking a video like this since morninh thands

[@ihassan1001]

Although I don't use after effect, I use fusion from davinci resolve, but this tutorial gave me the base line I've been looking for and thank you for that good sir! Subscribed!!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you very much for the support and that is great to hear😊 Hopefully the workflow isn't too different, but all of the basic concepts should translate quite well to other software packages

[@ihassan1001]

@@SurfacedStudio you deserve more recognition... the work flow very different since davinci resolve is a node based software but since I am new to blender I was more interested in working and creating 3D model so you definitely covered that so very grateful for that!

[@skottmellins4584]

Wonderful tutorial… exactly what i was looking for. Thank you and congrats

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear you liked it!

[@vikmin4deluxe456]

I'm a bit late, but is it possible to add a 3D object behind yourself in the video?

[@SurfacedStudio]

Yes, you need to extract yourself from the video though (either via green screening or rotoscoping)

[@Marach79]

I think fSpy could have been useful here, just so more people learn about it and a more accurate way to match the camera to real footage. Maybe consider it for some future tutorial. In any case, thank you very much for everything you do.

[@kimtae858]

Huge thanks for namedropping fSpy. I watched this tutorial only to see if blender has gotten something akin to C4D's camera calibration tool. fSpy fits the bill perfectly for a FOSS replacement

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you for the comment and for pointing out fSpy :) Looks pretty neat. I think I tend to try to avoid plugins / external tools as much as I can since they can introduce additional complexity and for a still image camera match you can get away with a fairly simple eyeball-match in Blender. But that's just my personal opinion, I might give fSpy a try at some point just so I know what that workflow would be like :)

[@paulhyde7126]

i wonder have you done one of these for a scence with movement? In that case, would motion tracking be baked in to the Blender scene & geometry? thanks v much!

[@jimmymercuri]

I had a scene with movement and I used plug-in AE2Blend and the. Followed this, worked perfectly

[@Ben-zh1ou]

I‘ve been waiting for this. Thank you. Nice tutorial

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear you enjoyed it :D

[@pics3d]

@ Surfaced Studio Hi,great tutorial,thanks you,but i have a problem,i can not Aligning the 3D Scene with the Footage.My cube does not stay anchored to the "blender 3d floor" sorry for mi bad english and very thanks!!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Is your cube placed properly on the floor of your scene and the origin of the cube is at the bottom?

[@pics3d]

@@SurfacedStudio hi thanks for answer i have solved the problem i was doing something wrong...VERY THANKS!!!

[@fayazahmad6483]

Bro bro bro you r really my bro you teached me everything.....thanks

[@SurfacedStudio]

You're welcome!

[@cosmo514]

just downloaded a halo pelican dropship model, excited to see what I can do with it

[@SurfacedStudio]

Good luck and have fun!

[@cosmo514]

@@SurfacedStudio thank you :)

[@marekw6286]

I just start watching, but at 2:41 you are probably wrong - default cube in blender is 2x2x2 meters. We can see it in Layout window pressing N.

[@RayStudio95]

Cant wait for part 2. I really enjoy this tutorial.

[@SurfacedStudio]

That's great to hear, thank you :) Hopefully part 2 won't take me too long to create

[@aipsong]

Excellent information!!! Well developed and pertinent to what I hope to do in future videos. Many thanks!!!!

[@SurfacedStudio]

You are welcome! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial!

[@bake.agency]

Your awesome man.. great way your explaining stuff..

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad you’re enjoying my tutorials!

[@nicolenwaywah919]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Pls more for collaboration with Blender and Ae. Thanks again

[@SurfacedStudio]

There will be more :)

[@JayantChakradhari]

This tutorial helps a lot, thank you so much sir 😄

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear!

[@Sondre.K.Jensen]

great tutorial. I am a beginner, and when i load in a background image, it would not show up in the camera view. (video works, but not image) also when positioning the modell in the camera view, the modell was clipping in to the background video

[@SurfacedStudio]

Is there anything blocking the background in the camera view? Try setting up a blank scene with nothing in it, add a background image to your camera and go into camera view - does that work?

[@jdgcreative]

When i chose shadow catcher it doesn't dissappear ):

[@SurfacedStudio]

Are you using the 'Rendered' Viewport shading mode?

[@jdgcreative]

@@SurfacedStudio I tried all the viewports. But it worked when I put an environment map on. I was trying to not have to do that but it started to work. Then it took like 12 hours to render. I tried to turn the settings down. Was it because it was a png sequence? Also why did you make it a png sequence.

[@lourdanthonyvirtudazo1684]

Facing the same problem here. When I turn on shadow catcher for the wall and ground they both just stay there with the checkered pattern, not allowing me to see what I'm working on. Please help :(

[@syncorpiumanimations2401]

I am using blender 2.82 and i had a same problem but i found the solution. You have to go to the *render tab*, then *filmic* , then enable transparent. Belive me this will work fine, but make sure that *shadow catcher* in *object propeties* is still enabled otherwise it's not gonna work. I hope this will help :).

[@gopolarisstudio]

@@syncorpiumanimations2401 so...they skipped a step and that's why it didn't work lol

[@michaelray5622]

Wow! One video showed everything I needed to know. Do you think Blender is better at this process than Unreal Engine 4/5?

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you very much for the comment :) I haven't used Unreal Engine before so I can't really compare it to Blender. Does Unreal Engine allow to render your scenes and use things such as shadow catchers or multi-pass export (for lights, shadows, etc)?

[@michaelray5622]

@@SurfacedStudio , I’ve not used Unreal Engine 5 nearly as much as Blender. URE5 is being used in movie production and it uses a new real-time lighting system called Lumen in which I guess is an alternative to Ray Tracing. I’m practicing with Unreal Engine 5 because it will eventually utilize AMDs RDNA 2 technology (parallel processing) for more real-time features. They are using it for the new consoles so its only a matter of time that this feature is released for Windows. DirectX 11 is series processing geared for NVIDIAs Cuda but DirectX 12 in its full glory is programmed for efficient parallel processing so it’s going to be interesting.

[@TBORism]

you just made me want to start doing this. I have zero experience 😔 but I am so excited to learn with you.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Go for it - never too early to start! And I'm sure you'll enjoy using Blender :)

[@angelc5022]

The topic I was waiting for. Thank you very very much!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear :D And you are very welcome!

[@eddieg8s]

Great tutorial! Quick question: I started from where I left off today and when I select SURFACE>COLOR>ENRIONMENT TEXTURE and add the lookout photo it all stays purple rather than editing the cube. I also cannot seem to see my movie clip anywhere even when I disable the purple coloring. Any ideas? Thank you!

[@wibiz9657]

Great tutorial, however in the future I'd like to know what the key presses are for different keyboards, for instance my Scandinavian qwerty keyboard has tilda bound to a different key.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you :) If you have a custom keyboard or a different language keyboard or some custom mapping you might have to look up the relevant keys online. I try to cover Mac and Windows as that's the most common options, but anything beyond that might lead to me saying things like "Now press ALT, or OPTION on a MAC or SMACK on the XPro4NT keyboard or % if you have that mapped to ALT or Option..." and I don't think that'd be very enjoyable for anyone :D

[@venraikov]

We need camera tracking tutorial, you promised!

[@SurfacedStudio]

I haven't forgotten, I just haven't found the time for it yet

[@Ba55JunkieSLP]

lol, ofcourse we want shadow catcher Eevve! i reckon it needs some alphaover in the composite, but its tricky

[@SurfacedStudio]

Yeah it’s a bit fiddly! I hope they add proper support for it soon :)

[@MPTFACTS]

Nice sir this video is very helpfull

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear! Thank you for the comment!

[@quantumcored]

When a vfx guy starts a tutorial on a street you know some objects will fall from the sky. All jokes aside, I love your content and learned a lot from you. Can't thank you enough.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear you are enjoying my content :) Thank you for the comment. And yes, things fall out of the sky a lot... must be the weather :D

[@Sbhnh0]

Thank you! Please do more tutorials like this. ❤

[@SurfacedStudio]

You're welcome :) And that's the plan! Part 2 hopefully coming soon!

[@Sbhnh0]

I'm so excited for the part 2! ❤

[@bigshotmovieverse2621]

Always love your tuts. Thanks.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you very much for the comment :D Much appreciated!

[@KarimGames996]

can you tell me from where do i set the BG to transparent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@86Toonytoon]

Hello ! Great tutorial, it has been really useful ! Thanks a lot! I have one question : when I render my animation following your steps, there is a grey part as the background and not an alpha png look... I don’t understand where this come from... can you help me ? Thanks a lot !

[@SurfacedStudio]

Hi and thank you :) Looks like you missed to enable the 'Transparent' option in your Film settings in the Render tab as shown at 15:50

[@86Toonytoon]

Surfaced Studio thanks a lot for your response ! Yup, you’re totally right ! 😂 I did missed this step! You’re a savior ! 😄 Great job !

[@shadowmead8506]

@@SurfacedStudio Hi im having same problem ive 3d tracked some footage and added my 3d character when i go to render my character against transparent background my movie footage shows up too. i am using cycles for the realism and ive checked the transparent button. Ive even blocked all other assets from being rendered but that background shows up everytime. Thanks for your videos they are very entertaining!

[@mfypranav8689]

do more blender to after effects 3d integration bro, thank you for this

[@SurfacedStudio]

No worries bro, more tutorials will be coming soon!

[@mfypranav8689]

@@SurfacedStudio thank you i was happy to here this ss

[@maatys3160]

Hi nice video, but how i render the animation (i mean some object for example) without background or photoes and floor. Only animated object what i need, thanks

[@laniakea7495]

Thank you very much! I think I've found a free alternative to Element 3D, very good video!

[@alexdib3915]

very very helpful sir, thank you

[@SurfacedStudio]

Glad to hear you found it helpful :)

[@hernandezurbina]

Awesome tutorial, Tobias!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you very much for the comment!

[@shionfilms4387]

This video is nice 👍 Blender vfx is difficult for me. But I'm getting how to use Blender in this video!! Thank you ☺️

[@SurfacedStudio]

You are welcome, thank you for the comment :D

[@theereleastkris]

Thanks for the tutorial! I've run into a bit of an issue when trying to render out my animation...in the viewport the animation plays back fine, however when I render it, or even view animation via the Render tab (or ctrl+f11), it is stuck on some random frame with no motion or physics. When I say stuck, I mean the animation, as seen in the viewport, does not render out, and it just renders multiple instances of the random static frame. I found that a few people have had this issue online, but there didn' t seem to be a solution. Baking and switching engines didn't do anything for me. Is this just a bug with the newest release? I'd appreciate any help with the issue :)

[@metaltrooper8947]

This Video Deserves more Views

[@SurfacedStudio]

Awwww :D

[@akarshedits9199]

Hey, can you please show how to get reflections also like the shadow catcher!?

[@ayushtiwari2873]

Just a tip: you can use nodes for materials and it's better than scrolling

[@SurfacedStudio]

Yup, I cover it as part of my Blender beginner tutorial series here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4fNn4Zrj5xqjdk Decided against it for this video as I didn't want to derail the tutorial too far by going to another editor :)

[@CineBob]

I love to learn BlendA, with you.

[@SurfacedStudio]

:D

[@georges8408]

Hello man.. I have also another critical question. Is there any way to bring a model created in Blender to After Effects (Elements 3D) with texutes/materials ready to use like model in Elements 3D Packs ? I guess it should be exported as obj but till now no materials/textures working. IF there is a way, that would be awesome tutorial, but maybe it is impossible ????

[@SurfacedStudio]

You can export your model as an .obj file and export a separate .mlt file that contains the material information. Not everything will come across to Element 3D though, but you should be able to get at least textures and basic material properties across that way :)

[@1andDONEson]

AWESOME Bro!!! My problem is that the object doesnt fall even with rigid body enable to active? What did I miss?

[@SurfacedStudio]

Have you watched my basic physics tutorial yet? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaXNe5mNobZrpac

[@1andDONEson]

@@SurfacedStudio I've watched all your videos over and over and I think your awesome at what you provide. It was, I believe a 'set origin' issue. It's working great now. Thanks for the quick response...

[@SurfacedStudio]

No worries, glad to hear you managed to figure out your problem :)

[@juanfxblender]

This is awesome! Thanks for the tutorial!!!!

[@SurfacedStudio]

No worries, glad to hear you liked it!

[@dcoder6404]

Cool tutorial!... but where are those links to iPhone apps that create environment maps? The one you showed looked really cool. But Google is no help in finding that... Please link us up!

[@SurfacedStudio]

Linked the description up!

[@j58688grgrs]

Instead of a shadow, what if I want to render a glowing object that's radiating light on its surroundings? Could I composite that glow effect into the video? Could this be achieved with blender + AE?

[@reminimal3656]

Very nice video ! I'm trying to do the same kind of stuff, but in my case, the 3D object is very big and far away from the camera. I have good result but do you know how can I apply an athmospheric occlusion effect only on the mesh in Blender ?

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you! Do you mean like adding mist into the scene (e.g. like atmospheric fog)? There's a mist option available in Blender - or you can do it in compositing (e.g. After Effects, etc)

[@DPLawlorFilms]

How does everyone feel about compositing using After Effects rather than doing it in Blender? Isnt AE typically less proficient with 3D than 2D?

[@SurfacedStudio]

AE is a much better tool for Compositing (it's what it's built for) than Blender. Blender is great for 3D but once that's rendered you get much more power and control moving to a dedicated program (such as AE or Nuke or Fusion) for compositing

[@vongidi]

Danke. Bitte mehr Blender VFX 😌

[@SurfacedStudio]

Gern geschehen :) Mehr Blender tutorials werden kommen!

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

Instead of an environment map app would a Lidar scan off Polycam on my iPhone do the same or similar thing

[@SurfacedStudio]

As long as it's a seamless spherical image you can use it as an Environment map :)

[@CappsProductions]

Is this possible with tracking? I’m trying to replace somebody’s head with a bloody neck stub as they turn and face the camera.

[@javeddenton]

I would recommend fspy for matching photos to blender

[@SurfacedStudio]

You can and it looks like a useful tool :) For simple static shots I've always just done a manual match

[@dfella]

Thank you. Did you ever cover 3d camera tracking already? With an animated 3d object?

[@SurfacedStudio]

I haven't yet, it's one of the many things still on my todo list!

[@dfella]

@@SurfacedStudio Looking forward to it! Great work!!

[@dewbzki]

LITERALLY was looking for this. I know the workflow with C4D and AR but haven’t tried working with Blender and AE. Thank you for this 🙏🏾

[@SurfacedStudio]

That worked out well :) Thank you very much for the comment!

[@rowlandmartin85]

Is it a good idea to add lightning to a dark video? If it is how to you do it for moving footage?

[@SurfacedStudio]

Not sure how you define if it’s a ‘good’ or ‘bad’. You certainly can. If you have moving footage you need to use a 3D camera tracker - Blender has a solid one inbuilt :)

[@a.moevisuals]

How can i render beauty pass, shadows and AO is separate passes in png in blender? I cant find any videos showing this..

[@kebakha3348]

Like your videos very much!!! Keet it up :) Isn't blender default cube side's set to be 2 m long (which are shown in dimensions settings) instead of 1 m? Because in this case, cube should have been bigger than the human height, and camera-viewport placement would have been different

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you for your comment and you're right! The default cube is actually 2x2x2m :)

[@ataramadhan2956]

Hai bro.. i wanna ask something, When I export the obj sequence file, why is the process taking too long, sometimes it takes hours, and the total size of the obj file is 2 GB more (even then the export process has not been completed).. how to fix it??

[@SurfacedStudio]

How many polygons does you have in your scene and how long is your animation? Really just comes down to numbers in the end - and the power of your computer

[@ataramadhan2956]

@@SurfacedStudio I made a 3d donut and made an animation for 180 seconds ..

[@mastershifu7140]

This is a great channel, your videos are very clear and well explained, could you do a video of the same thing but in hitflim express?

[@SurfacedStudio]

Thank you very much :) I might at some point, but the basics are very much the same no matter what program you use for the 'compositing' part of the effect. I got quite a few tutorials that cover all the basics for HitFilm Express

[@DanMDL]

Hey! Thanx for the videos! I´ve seen some and they look amazing! I have a question if you might point me in the right direction maybe. How can I interact with a 3d object? IDK if you have seen FXHome youtube channel about grabing a 3d thor hammer. But i am more like you.. blender + after effects. I found that video extremely thedious to follow and maybe im wrong, but there must be a less time consuming way to do such a trick. Forget about the hammer, think of a spaseship steering wheel. a 3d gun, or a lever. I still cant find a way interact with a 3d object WHEN fingers are all across de object. It would be easy to hold something or have something over you. But grabbing it. I cant a single youtube video on how to do so. IS there any tutorial out there? preferably free? THANX in advanced! Really hope I can get some guidance.

[@mattstugart1570]

Awesome video! I am having trouble though, when I try to composite the photos together the final video has a black background but the pngs have transparent backgrounds. Any way to get a transparent background video like yours?

[@SurfacedStudio]

How are you compositing your photos together? Whatever software you are using are you exporting in a format that has an alpha channel (aka transparency)?