WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:04.160 Welcome to the CGI of VFX a final scene. 00:04.170 --> 00:07.700 Very excited because we're going to bring this all together now. 00:08.100 --> 00:12.530 So this is going to be initially all about getting everything ready. 00:12.530 --> 00:18.810 We're going to import assets that you wish to using your scene adjust your camera's view if it's slightly 00:18.810 --> 00:21.760 out here you'll see what I mean about that in a few moments. 00:21.880 --> 00:24.930 And then finally get the ground ready for shadows. 00:25.080 --> 00:29.270 So let's go get everything ready now and hop on over in a blender. 00:29.670 --> 00:34.020 So we have the cube in our scene and it's mapped out relatively well. 00:34.020 --> 00:35.770 I'm happy with all of that. 00:35.790 --> 00:41.940 One of the first things we should do is just make sure that these sort of empties these little crosses 00:41.940 --> 00:49.290 that are on the scene are actually in the right place in our world and they are all on the ground. 00:49.320 --> 00:56.850 Now I can pretty much guess with some degree of accuracy that this whole thing is flat and if it is 00:56.850 --> 00:59.780 all flat all of these should exist on the same point. 01:00.090 --> 01:06.250 So let's whiz round and check this out in orthographic projection. 01:06.420 --> 01:12.350 And from the side so we should find that all of these line up and they don't. 01:12.720 --> 01:16.320 All of these are slightly tilted as we can see. 01:16.440 --> 01:19.320 One empties up the top here and the others are below. 01:19.320 --> 01:22.500 Now they're going to be scattered about ever so slightly. 01:22.500 --> 01:28.710 However what we can do is rotate the camera and make sure we've got the camera selected rotated on its 01:28.800 --> 01:34.560 x axis and let's bring it up so they're all roughly level. 01:34.560 --> 01:35.590 That's good. 01:35.630 --> 01:40.100 And then just bring it down ever so slightly to the y axis. 01:40.260 --> 01:46.500 And I'm just going to rotate the Omni access is just a little bit more and I'm happy with how all of 01:46.500 --> 01:47.730 those are laid out. 01:48.060 --> 01:53.310 We can also just check for any sideways motion as well from the other way. 01:53.400 --> 02:00.360 But that looks pretty much straight now the camera is definitely and fully set up. 02:00.570 --> 02:04.260 So these empty empties are crossing through the ground plane. 02:04.290 --> 02:09.990 Now the cube itself that can go completely and this ground plane here this is what we are going to use 02:09.990 --> 02:17.430 for our shadows so let's make sure that scaled up appropriately to capture any shadows of our models. 02:17.430 --> 02:20.700 Now I'm going to have to toggle the ground on and off. 02:20.700 --> 02:29.310 I'm going to be wanting to place a plane there on the runway so I'm going to go ahead and spend on him. 02:29.310 --> 02:37.480 Go ahead and find the there where it's Section 10 assets models F 22 flying objects F 3 2. 02:37.510 --> 02:38.910 Wow it's huge. 02:38.910 --> 02:40.030 That is no good. 02:40.050 --> 02:46.900 Well first of all let's make sure it's located in the right place in our scene and then scale it accordingly. 02:46.980 --> 02:53.860 So I'm going to whiz round and the side is going to have to be there. 02:54.680 --> 03:00.770 And if we look at it in 3-d space it'll have to be there and it's going to have to be lifted up ever 03:00.770 --> 03:01.590 so slightly. 03:01.760 --> 03:04.530 Let's see what that looks like in the scene. 03:04.550 --> 03:07.160 That is a wee bit large. 03:07.260 --> 03:09.460 Dorner hide that one hide this. 03:09.590 --> 03:16.640 And now we can rotate it locks to the z axis that's pointing down our runway and then we'll just scale 03:16.640 --> 03:17.560 it down accordingly. 03:17.560 --> 03:25.400 Now as you scale it is going to scale a way from the plane itself Summerset the pivot point to the 3D 03:25.400 --> 03:28.720 cursor vanished scale towards the 3-d cursor. 03:29.280 --> 03:34.110 I didn't start with a mouse far enough away so didn't have very granular control. 03:34.290 --> 03:38.420 And I'm going to make sure it's semi realistic in terms of its size. 03:38.520 --> 03:41.820 And I can go ahead and start animating that as well. 03:41.820 --> 03:48.550 And one of the ways that you can animates to make sure things work out well is whiz round to the top. 03:48.840 --> 03:55.290 And we've got a set here now I don't know where the end of the runway is so before I do anything else 03:55.320 --> 03:59.820 I can go back to the camera view and let's add in a key frame. 03:59.820 --> 04:03.700 So at the beginning it's going to be where it currently is. 04:03.800 --> 04:12.340 So it's go to frame 1 or in this case frame to key in the location and rotation data. 04:12.690 --> 04:17.410 Now as the camera pans round it's going to come into view. 04:17.560 --> 04:23.100 And by the time it's at frame 48 so to be at least at the end of the runway so I'm going to move it 04:23.130 --> 04:24.510 but only on the y axis. 04:24.600 --> 04:31.110 But in the press the y axis again so moving it's along its own y axis I can move that to the end of 04:31.110 --> 04:34.490 the runway and press I and I again. 04:34.500 --> 04:40.920 And now as we play it back quickly we will see it moving along the runway. 04:40.920 --> 04:48.160 Now one of the things to bear in mind is that all of these movements will be naturally s curved so he'll 04:48.180 --> 04:53.690 slow down between each key for it and that can produce something very unnatural to get around that you 04:53.690 --> 04:57.340 would need to switch to the graph Ed as we've done in the past. 04:57.480 --> 05:03.210 Instead of having these nice smooth transitions with the handles in this case just along the y axis 05:03.470 --> 05:10.350 where you can adjust those handles if you want or indeed go to the handle type hit V and make it a vector 05:10.350 --> 05:12.570 type that will work as well. 05:12.570 --> 05:18.840 In fact you can select everything and hit V and go to vector and that kind of makes things nice and 05:18.840 --> 05:20.150 linear to work with. 05:20.310 --> 05:26.670 Not very good for organic movements or perhaps things that naturally need to slow down or you need curves 05:26.670 --> 05:27.660 to control them. 05:27.750 --> 05:33.780 But for setting up scenes like this this can be handy to have things moving linearly So they're not 05:33.780 --> 05:39.570 sort of slowing and speeding up because once the plane starts going it's not going to suddenly slow 05:39.570 --> 05:40.830 to turn a corner. 05:40.860 --> 05:43.600 It can do that very easily. 05:43.830 --> 05:51.390 So there's lots more to do in terms of moving things along and setting up nodes and now it is time for 05:51.390 --> 05:53.750 your final challenge in this section. 05:54.540 --> 05:57.660 It is time to finish your scene. 05:57.660 --> 06:00.740 Set your samples and resolution low. 06:00.750 --> 06:03.570 This will speed up your work flow a lot. 06:03.600 --> 06:10.440 I can't impress as much as possible as you don't wait around for ages to get samples going create any 06:10.440 --> 06:11.850 animations you want to use. 06:11.850 --> 06:15.420 I've got a little bit more to go with mine as you're going through. 06:15.420 --> 06:16.830 Check your animations are good. 06:16.860 --> 06:20.850 At this stage in the course we really want the plane. 06:20.850 --> 06:26.820 If you're doing a plane or whatever your animating really want it to look like it's part of the scene 06:26.850 --> 06:28.160 and not separate. 06:29.070 --> 06:32.080 Set up your nodes as per the still image. 06:32.100 --> 06:37.950 Remember a movie is simply a series of still images played back one after the other. 06:38.340 --> 06:45.960 Now when you go to your nodes and go to your compositing know what you'll see is there's already something 06:45.960 --> 06:47.250 already set up. 06:47.460 --> 06:51.550 Now in this case you could use that to move forward. 06:51.570 --> 06:57.720 However I would recommend deleting what's currently there and setting it up afresh see you get the hang 06:57.720 --> 07:00.460 of putting these things together. 07:00.600 --> 07:08.910 Finally up those samples up that resolution and render your final scene and share balls of video now 07:09.240 --> 07:10.640 and give that a go. 07:13.060 --> 07:15.390 Wow okay guys welcome back. 07:15.400 --> 07:17.200 How did you get on. 07:17.230 --> 07:23.010 Well it's time for me to go in and go through the stages I've done to finish off my scene. 07:23.140 --> 07:25.950 So let's hop back on over into a blender. 07:28.240 --> 07:30.920 Okay so this is my scene so far. 07:30.940 --> 07:35.160 I will just make this a bit larger so I can show it to you guys. 07:35.290 --> 07:40.470 And so all I'm failing in pressing the right keys on the computer that doesn't help. 07:40.660 --> 07:44.830 So I'm just going to turn off the ground plane here so we can see what's going on so we got the planes 07:44.860 --> 07:47.650 coming in from the side. 07:47.650 --> 07:52.350 This plane taking off and then these planes will bank away. 07:53.500 --> 07:54.850 The final move. 07:55.000 --> 08:01.090 Looking good now the first thing we need to make sure is just what happens when we go and render our 08:01.090 --> 08:01.810 scene. 08:02.110 --> 08:11.410 We get the movie and I do mean the movie because on the video sequence Ed we've still got our time line 08:11.410 --> 08:13.780 our video here playing. 08:13.780 --> 08:16.090 We're not going to use that at the moment. 08:16.090 --> 08:21.250 In combination with the compulsive Teddy's her son literally just going to remove fat from our scene 08:21.310 --> 08:23.960 and save my work now I've done that. 08:23.980 --> 08:27.780 When we go back over and go and render our scene. 08:29.140 --> 08:35.890 We kind of almost get a result but it's really horrible. 08:35.890 --> 08:42.370 First of all I'm going to make sure I got CPR rendering turned on which I have done at 10 percent of 08:42.460 --> 08:44.620 4 k.. 08:44.770 --> 08:46.410 That's fine. 08:46.420 --> 08:54.500 And Wolf we got down here in terms of samples sampling and Willa up my render to five stars. 08:54.540 --> 08:58.920 Glass got a little more detail let's go for it. 08:58.930 --> 09:01.380 Well as we come through that's fine. 09:01.390 --> 09:06.580 Let's go to a place where we should be able to see more of the planes. 09:07.120 --> 09:10.790 Okay so something's going on it's not quite right. 09:10.840 --> 09:13.930 That's fine I wasn't expecting it to be working straightaway. 09:13.930 --> 09:16.330 Let's go have a look at the node editor. 09:16.780 --> 09:22.600 Well I haven't created that but it's been kindly added in for me. 09:22.630 --> 09:23.710 Bit confusing. 09:23.740 --> 09:25.060 Yes. 09:26.080 --> 09:33.610 So rather than going through and trying to recreate all of this lots or rather move it around so it 09:33.610 --> 09:34.710 all fits. 09:34.710 --> 09:40.540 I'm going to remove the bits that I know are at the moment just rubbish. 09:40.540 --> 09:41.980 So let's get rid of that. 09:42.010 --> 09:44.110 This undistorted I'm not gonna need that. 09:44.110 --> 09:49.660 However I will want the scale just like we have before with single image. 09:49.660 --> 09:51.000 This time it's for the movie. 09:51.010 --> 09:53.460 We want the render size. 09:54.560 --> 09:55.300 Be fine. 09:55.300 --> 09:55.500 Yep. 09:55.520 --> 10:03.320 And we want it to fit so it doesn't matter what size scene we have it fits our scene how what size resolution 10:03.770 --> 10:06.630 we have here it automatically scales accordingly. 10:06.770 --> 10:07.870 So that's the top bit done. 10:07.880 --> 10:11.700 And we've got one render layer sorted here and the other one is not. 10:11.720 --> 10:13.540 Let's go have a look at the render layers. 10:13.560 --> 10:20.780 So you got foreground and background that is not that intuitive but we certainly don't know is where 10:20.780 --> 10:22.710 things are situated at the moment. 10:22.850 --> 10:27.020 So we've got our ground plane which is going to take our shadows this turn that's on. 10:27.050 --> 10:30.770 There we go we've shadows through our ground plane here. 10:31.010 --> 10:35.080 And that is on layer 10. 10:36.700 --> 10:37.210 Fine. 10:37.210 --> 10:38.950 Everything else is also on by a 10. 10:38.950 --> 10:41.400 So we need to move the ground plane to a different layer. 10:41.590 --> 10:43.760 I'm simply going to move it to. 10:45.010 --> 10:45.820 Or layer. 10:45.830 --> 10:47.080 Oh it's on both layers. 10:47.080 --> 10:47.560 Is it. 10:47.570 --> 10:48.890 That's interesting. 10:48.890 --> 10:51.380 Let's move it to just layer one for the moment. 10:51.380 --> 10:52.380 Perfect. 10:52.430 --> 10:59.080 So now we have that on layer 1 we've got our planes on layer 10 all of them I believe. 10:59.210 --> 11:00.620 Yup. 11:00.620 --> 11:03.530 Now we need to give them a pass index. 11:03.530 --> 11:09.800 I've set my plane so pass index of 1 so I can isolate them. 11:09.800 --> 11:11.720 So that's that's all sorted. 11:11.810 --> 11:13.580 And we've got the ground plane here. 11:13.580 --> 11:19.550 So the final thing is on the rendle layers to set up the foreground and background foreground and background 11:19.550 --> 11:24.040 doesn't really make any sense other than to call it whole scene. 11:25.900 --> 11:32.550 And just ground so we can have the difference between the two and work it out from there. 11:32.560 --> 11:37.720 Now we're going to have to have everything on here turned on and here. 11:39.070 --> 11:42.520 We not going to mask anything off so that's Turn that off. 11:42.550 --> 11:43.300 Excellent. 11:43.300 --> 11:48.940 So on the whole scene we have everything rendered and it's just two layers of the scene renderings fine 11:49.270 --> 11:52.900 on the just ground we want to exclude play. 11:53.500 --> 11:54.820 Whatever layers this is. 11:54.820 --> 11:55.950 This is like 10. 11:56.340 --> 11:59.050 OK finally let's have a look at the lamp. 11:59.050 --> 12:06.800 It's not sunlamp and I'm to have hard shallows one slightly softer than hard shadows but there we go 12:06.820 --> 12:09.190 slightly fuzzy shadows but that's it for the moment. 12:09.270 --> 12:11.830 I want the effect to be quite strong. 12:11.890 --> 12:13.660 That looks fine to me. 12:13.660 --> 12:16.890 Let's go in hit round and see how that comes out. 12:17.140 --> 12:19.390 Well it won't come out as anything at the moment. 12:19.390 --> 12:20.910 Why won't it come out as anything. 12:20.920 --> 12:30.070 Well let's have a close look at the node editor and let's switch this back across to the road. 12:30.280 --> 12:33.910 So at the moment nothing is plugged into the output do we have an output. 12:33.910 --> 12:38.860 Yes we have to on the board a select those and move them. 12:38.980 --> 12:44.710 I didn't mean to move everything boots on to have moved them in so we can see what's going on. 12:44.710 --> 12:49.120 Now I'm not going to use a backdrop here because I'm going to find it hard enough to see stuff as it 12:49.120 --> 12:49.720 is. 12:49.720 --> 12:56.500 But if we plug in the render layers into the compositors it auto renders we have that back out. 12:56.500 --> 12:57.100 Excellent. 12:57.100 --> 13:01.630 So now it's just a matter of setting up a sim the settings as we had before. 13:01.630 --> 13:08.950 Now notice down here we're missing index objects queening to go back into our render layers. 13:09.160 --> 13:15.670 And on the passes of the object index an object index we don't need the vector outputs. 13:15.790 --> 13:18.610 And on this one we've got some extra things as well. 13:18.610 --> 13:19.880 We don't need those. 13:20.020 --> 13:21.270 And then we reach render. 13:21.280 --> 13:26.480 After we've done that right this should be ready to go and ready to link together. 13:26.590 --> 13:28.180 Let's go ahead and do that. 13:28.390 --> 13:28.750 Right. 13:28.750 --> 13:30.080 Nodes nodes nodes. 13:30.100 --> 13:32.680 These can always be a challenge to get right. 13:32.680 --> 13:40.240 I'm not only use my view I am gonna use the composite node I'm going and leave this as a 3D image editor 13:40.720 --> 13:43.290 and we need to render we haven't rendered yet. 13:43.300 --> 13:44.870 Let's go ahead and render. 13:46.960 --> 13:47.440 Excellent. 13:47.440 --> 13:52.370 So we got our planes and we got the just the ground itself as well. 13:52.370 --> 13:53.990 Will a swap then round. 13:54.340 --> 13:58.300 Okay so we're going to have to take all index objects. 13:58.320 --> 13:59.550 I d. 13:59.800 --> 14:03.900 From the ground and the planes are not sure if I've done the ground. 14:03.970 --> 14:08.820 So let's just have a look at the grounds settings okay. 14:08.830 --> 14:13.620 It's not got anything so set with the ground with the pass index of two. 14:13.900 --> 14:15.520 Let's bring in the items. 14:15.520 --> 14:19.250 I know we need so I need an I.D. mask. 14:19.630 --> 14:29.290 And that is going to help us isolate the ground when we mixin the image after we've isolated the shadows 14:29.290 --> 14:31.590 or what the difference is between the two. 14:31.840 --> 14:35.220 And that's going to be an index of too because as the ground. 14:35.440 --> 14:36.870 Let's move that to one side. 14:36.870 --> 14:40.640 I'm jumping ahead of myself we need to combine these two together. 14:40.710 --> 14:46.900 So I'm going to add a colour mix and we're going to add them together keum add by dividing. 14:46.900 --> 14:49.570 We're going to combine them with division. 14:49.600 --> 14:54.680 I'm going to put the image is in and the outputs that we get from here. 14:54.670 --> 14:58.190 Plus it's strenth for commodities have a look should be bright white with anything. 14:58.210 --> 15:00.110 That's exactly the same. 15:00.910 --> 15:03.830 Because anything divided by anything exactly the same as one. 15:03.960 --> 15:08.130 And any difference will actually be highlighted. 15:08.170 --> 15:11.320 That's a great start to isolate the shadow. 15:11.320 --> 15:17.620 And we've also isolated the planes themselves kind of bit but we're going to mask off the planes in 15:17.620 --> 15:18.910 a few moments. 15:18.910 --> 15:24.420 Let's now mix in our next bit so we've got this coming in. 15:24.430 --> 15:26.700 We're going to have an I.D. mask here. 15:26.740 --> 15:32.430 We're going to bring in our image itself that's starting to look. 15:33.320 --> 15:34.370 A bit funky. 15:34.370 --> 15:36.350 Have I got that the right arm dividing here. 15:36.350 --> 15:37.910 I want to multiply. 15:37.940 --> 15:41.930 We got that white layer that is looking good the shadow is also looking good. 15:41.930 --> 15:44.250 Now let's plug it in. 15:45.600 --> 15:47.270 Our Alpha layer here. 15:48.200 --> 15:53.960 And that has brought back in our background but has made the rest disappear. 15:53.960 --> 15:57.250 Have I got that the right way around I have gone the right way around. 15:58.390 --> 16:01.690 Let's just rerun don't the make sure that everything's working. 16:01.720 --> 16:04.060 How have there we go the shallows just by itself. 16:04.120 --> 16:10.900 If in doubt re render and then if it doesn't work then you can be in doubt or something along those 16:10.900 --> 16:11.420 lines. 16:11.710 --> 16:17.020 Okay finally then we need to bring back in just the planes themselves who are going to be mixing the 16:17.020 --> 16:20.560 planes with whatever's coming out of here. 16:20.800 --> 16:23.810 So that's duplicate this multiplying node. 16:23.820 --> 16:27.420 And we can use that as a starting point and plug in our planes. 16:27.460 --> 16:37.300 Now we're just mixing together because we want the planes by themselves on top of our scene with a factor 16:37.300 --> 16:39.100 of 100 where they are. 16:39.100 --> 16:41.220 So we need another idees mask. 16:42.710 --> 16:46.610 And using an I.D. mask of one here. 16:47.000 --> 16:52.180 So we've isolated that with saying any think that's the planes is 100 percent okay. 16:52.190 --> 16:54.290 We've got that just the wrong way round. 16:54.290 --> 16:56.030 Perfect. 16:56.030 --> 16:57.020 Excellent stuff. 16:57.020 --> 17:00.390 So let's just try that in any other place in the scene. 17:00.390 --> 17:06.890 They'll If we move is that auto updating Well kind of it's moved the scene but it hasn't actually moved 17:07.280 --> 17:08.720 forward our models. 17:08.720 --> 17:12.550 So this is what they look like if they were just scooting around we do need to re render. 17:12.710 --> 17:17.880 But that's okay because during a render there we go the planes just taking off. 17:17.960 --> 17:20.140 And let's go back a little further. 17:20.940 --> 17:24.310 Excellent so we've got the planes flying very low level over ground. 17:24.310 --> 17:27.100 Hopefully they don't look like they're about to hit the ground. 17:27.100 --> 17:29.660 That's crazy low level might be doing just that. 17:29.680 --> 17:31.060 The final render. 17:31.060 --> 17:37.140 But now is the first pass of my final animation now because it's my first pass. 17:37.150 --> 17:44.170 I'm not too fussed about the quality I'm going to output this to my downloads folder and then I'm going 17:44.170 --> 17:54.720 to set this to a year hand eight to six for encoding as an MPEG for the rest look so k.. 17:55.740 --> 17:58.900 Okay so this is slightly different in blender two point seven nine. 17:58.920 --> 18:03.690 If we go ahead and scroll down to the output settings obviously we're going to change this once again 18:03.690 --> 18:04.500 from a PRNG. 18:04.500 --> 18:06.660 But those other options are not there. 18:06.840 --> 18:12.630 But if we go ahead and pick MPEG video and I'm sure some of you have already worked that out under the 18:12.630 --> 18:19.830 encoding Stetsons we can go down here and pick 8 2 6 4 in MP 4 and that would go we're in the same position 18:19.830 --> 18:21.150 as we were before. 18:21.150 --> 18:25.370 Remember it's about a decent output folder so you can bind your files as well. 18:27.920 --> 18:34.040 And I'm going to call it this plane's first run. 18:34.040 --> 18:39.910 Now it is important that I know what it is going to make sure that these settings are as low as possible 18:39.920 --> 18:45.500 I don't care about quality at this point and leave it set at five samples and I'm going to render out 18:45.530 --> 18:49.070 this animation surrender render animation. 18:49.220 --> 18:57.110 And as we can see here it's going to take several minutes to go through and render out all the individual 18:57.110 --> 19:01.730 frames and put them all together into our final composite. 19:01.850 --> 19:05.240 And I will see you guys back once this is rendered out. 19:05.240 --> 19:10.120 And here we go see the planes taking off and the others fly past that looks great. 19:10.160 --> 19:16.310 Apart from a little judder right at the very beginning as that plane taking off you see there it scoots 19:16.310 --> 19:17.520 a little on the runway. 19:17.540 --> 19:19.010 I think we can modify that. 19:19.070 --> 19:21.150 We're ready for a full render. 19:21.470 --> 19:25.950 Okay so here isn't a fool rendle Haven't gone as deep as that. 19:25.970 --> 19:31.370 But what we have got here is a high resolution so we can see more of what's happening on the screen. 19:31.370 --> 19:35.540 There's still a little bit of a judder on the runway something we can all fit well we always come across 19:35.540 --> 19:39.380 things we can refine about your models but I'm really happy with that. 19:39.380 --> 19:40.880 How did you guys get on. 19:40.880 --> 19:43.670 I'd love to see your VFX and CGI. 19:43.670 --> 19:45.390 Please show your work in the discussions. 19:45.440 --> 19:47.590 And I will see you in the next lecture.