Subbed for showing the process without the plugin first. Using plugins to simplify repetitive workflows is great, but even greater is understanding what it's doing it.
Honestly, nobody has done more to promote VFX for the public than Ian Hubert. It's not even close. The Blender team would be the closest after that, but they're a whole company
Ian inspired me to pick up blender again after 10 years, which, in combination with the pandemic transformed our entire environmental art department into a mainly 3D/VFX oriented course. I don't think it's possible to even comprehend the butterfly effect that man has had on the entire industry.
This is some legendary deep technical work man. One of those tuts 100,000 people will watch and maybe only 100 will try. Advice to everyone who CARES about VFX...follow this tutorial, and join the course. This guys workflow is legit, and I can vouch that this is effectively the workflow all legit VFX artists will continue to adopt.
You can't imagine how much I'm thankful and happy that you explained that. I've been asking the community and experimenting a lot with how to do it since Ian explained it in one of his conferences, but I couldn't figure it out. Hats off to you, man. Thank you for the video. ♥
Bro the music you made for the intro had no business going that hard 🔥🔥 I need a longer version 😂😂 I'll be jamming that all day long while working on my projects , aside from the music I'm so glad I discovered you're channel bro the quality of ur videos are as stunningly even more informative I really hope you keep up 🙌
@@zizouhani3583 haha I'm glad you like that song, Zizou. I'm going to release it on Spotify soon and I'll try to come back here and remind you when I do. Or you can follow InLightVFX on Spotify :)
This is exciting, what a cool workflow! I was thinking recently "why cant we delight entire scenes for integrating CG?" And now I have the answer thanks to you, Ian, and Nathan!
This was very well presented and I'm really glad you mentioned that this primarily works for diffuse materials/lighting in the original footage. Many people these days would have left that out and people trying this at home would quickly run into issues if their footage contains anything shiny/refractive/reflective etc.
YES. We need more videos like this that do deep dives on Ian's tips and tricks. Ian has lots of really good videos online showing how he does things but is usually too fast for a newbie to follow. Thank you
Superb technique, and brilliant explanations all throughout the video. It's crazy that we're getting this info for free, and that too being spoon-fed to us. Thank you so much for this, Jacob!
Our company, back in the early 2000's, invented delighting on ultra high fidelity stills in Photoshop, by hand, for major fashion and advertising campaigns. Dozens of retouchers do some form of delighting in NYC on higher end campaigns without realizing it by locally attenuating dynamic range in an effort to manage visual distraction. It's been around for a while in still at least, but manually relighting without 3 dimensional rendering requires extreme amounts of skill and artistry in photorealism, hence why our company was pretty much unique in "delighting for relighting (in post). I knew there would be a day that it was easy to do in 3 dimensions and that's not an area that was of interest to our photography sector clients, so eventually we shifted off of it given its high cost".
Respect to Ian Hubert-he’s done more for public VFX education than anyone out there, hands down. The Blender team comes close, but they’re an entire organization. I’m also planning to break down some of his techniques soon and show how you can apply them yourself.
Being someone who has never received any education in anything relevant to the making of a modeling program, I never would have imagined that the values assigned to a particular color tint could be extrapolated that way and subjected to mathematical equations to accomplish anything like this. Cool!
This video is beautifully made, and really informative. Thanks so much! (also Ian's (and Nathan's) work is just incredible. The taxi scene in his latest Dynamo episode is beyond words)
Fun little technique for basic shots with no actors. I'm oveedue to sign back up for Ian's patreon. I imagine he'll have some interesting use cases on there. Nice presentation style dude. Very clear.
I guess you technically could have actors, but it would be extremely time consuming to make an exact match move animation for delighting them. of course that's assuming you're committed to the digital lighting and won't just approximate it on set.
This is the perfect addition to Ian and Nathan's work! Deconstructing what goes on behind the scenes in Compify activated the math side of my brain, and I've got a much better understanding of how this technique works now. This video also has some of the highest production value I've ever seen in a tutorial, and I commend you for the huge amount of work you put into this. I look forward to your upcoming VFX course!
This tutorial is so well put together and explained. Thankyou to everyone who helped make this possible. I have been a vfx lighter for 12 years and have always wondered how off the shelf photogrammetry programs delight. Thanks for leveling up my knowledge!
This tutorial is really good. Really great job explaining how dividing the footage with its lighting works. Ian also has a sort of tutorial/explanation for the Compify add on on his Patreon for those interested, but honestly this video covers what you need to know
Okay - this is actually huge! This course is gonna be amazing for finally collecting real footage VFX making in one place! Can't wait! Will back up the kickstarter for sure! Oh yea and the technique is cool as well I guess (just playing xd this technique is freaking mindblowing 😱)
I'm not a VFX person, but I love watching VFX content. This stuff looks great. And the fact that it's all available in Blender is really cool. And the fact that Blender is free always blows my mind.
It's so awesome to see Advancements of this nature because it helps individuals achieve their creative ideas in a way that blends with an artists brain, Rather than requiring a PhD in mathematics, computer engineering, & quantum physics (Just so an artist can craft their vision) ~i've always felt like this part of the development process is the main stuff that's roadblocking us from seeing more projects come to life, such as video games or videos
For sure if you dont have a 360 HDRI that match the footage you could keep a shadow catcher approach and a depht Map generator on Krita for still or DaVinci resolve i have interesting 3D conversion with that, but this delight technic is really a PBR gold standard for relighting a footage it's really interact with any PBR textured model. Thanks for sharing this.
Seeing compify on the patreon was one of those very rare "seeing the future" type moments. It's somehow so obvious and simple in hindsight that I'm genuinely surprised to have not seen this technique before. Absolutely incredible
i've been using Blender for a year and i gotta say i could only understand 20% of the tutorial instantly. A long way to go still. Thanks So much for the tutorial, it looks so promising, i just need more skill saturation myself.
Nathan Vegdahl's plugin is more like it, though Ian distributes it and probably contributed in some manner to it. Both of those people are intelligent wizards.
It's very much both Ian's and my plugin. For one thing, its development was bankrolled by Ian (he was paying and supporting me--very patiently, I might add--the entire time I worked on it). And for another, this technique builds on top of an approach Ian already came up with (projecting footage onto an emissive material), and I don't know if it would have even occurred to me to try to figure this out without seeing him do shots that way. But thank you for the kind words!
@@max6947 I have not tried it yet, but I think so. Watching this video comparing stuff, I do not see any hurdles also doing this in Octane. Of course not automated via a plugin, but it should be doable 🙌
See my solution would have been to just compsite both sets of footage with blending set to "Screen" or "lighten". But i do see how this gives you much more flexibility and one 1 render pass. Brilliant!
Edit: The Kickstarter is over but you can now pre-order the course here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/inlightvfx/course
you're very handsome
Where do you find the music you use in your videos?
Amazing tutorial! Thank you!
Corridor in the house! Thank you guys, that means a lot!
Hey glad to see the Big guy's are here 😀
ow GOD, going to the world!
I am finally early on something! :))))
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Subbed for showing the process without the plugin first. Using plugins to simplify repetitive workflows is great, but even greater is understanding what it's doing it.
Thanks for appreciating that. You gotta start with the fundamentals!
I am de-lighted with this video, and I've only just started it!
yes, thats the pun.
as much as I love Huberts super fast tutorials, this made me understand what I was missing in his tutorials, thanks!
Those were his public RUclips videos, but his Patreon has much longer form ones that go into a lot more detail on a lot of areas of vfx.
@@the_greck found it, wow howd i miss this thx
bro finally remembered his youtube password
@@Alphain 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂 That's brutal
😂😂😂
hi there alphain
Xdd
Honestly, nobody has done more to promote VFX for the public than Ian Hubert. It's not even close. The Blender team would be the closest after that, but they're a whole company
😂😂😂
He’s like the new Andrew Kramer, which did more than After Effects
Maybe in the blender niche only.
Ian inspired me to pick up blender again after 10 years, which, in combination with the pandemic transformed our entire environmental art department into a mainly 3D/VFX oriented course. I don't think it's possible to even comprehend the butterfly effect that man has had on the entire industry.
Industry people don't need any gurus for inspiration. You know or not ..
This is some legendary deep technical work man. One of those tuts 100,000 people will watch and maybe only 100 will try. Advice to everyone who CARES about VFX...follow this tutorial, and join the course. This guys workflow is legit, and I can vouch that this is effectively the workflow all legit VFX artists will continue to adopt.
Thanks for being my hype man, Andrew :)
You can't imagine how much I'm thankful and happy that you explained that. I've been asking the community and experimenting a lot with how to do it since Ian explained it in one of his conferences, but I couldn't figure it out. Hats off to you, man. Thank you for the video. ♥
Absolutely, Kareem! Glad to hear it helped.
Bro the music you made for the intro had no business going that hard 🔥🔥 I need a longer version 😂😂 I'll be jamming that all day long while working on my projects , aside from the music I'm so glad I discovered you're channel bro the quality of ur videos are as stunningly even more informative I really hope you keep up 🙌
@@zizouhani3583 haha I'm glad you like that song, Zizou. I'm going to release it on Spotify soon and I'll try to come back here and remind you when I do. Or you can follow InLightVFX on Spotify :)
@@InLightVFXI will be waiting for it too🫶🏾
I'm here for the song.
Hey, thank you Rob! :)
Amazing video but just wanna point it out, we can reduce the samples to 1 while baking and it doesnt affect it at all and will bake instantly
This is exciting, what a cool workflow! I was thinking recently "why cant we delight entire scenes for integrating CG?" And now I have the answer thanks to you, Ian, and Nathan!
Hey, thank you! That means a lot.
This was very well presented and I'm really glad you mentioned that this primarily works for diffuse materials/lighting in the original footage. Many people these days would have left that out and people trying this at home would quickly run into issues if their footage contains anything shiny/refractive/reflective etc.
YES. We need more videos like this that do deep dives on Ian's tips and tricks. Ian has lots of really good videos online showing how he does things but is usually too fast for a newbie to follow. Thank you
ONE OF THE BEST TUTORIALS OUT THERE!!! hats off for going up the standards to teach us something dope!!
Superb work bro. I honestly feel a bit smarter after watching your videos even though i have a very vague idea about 3d nodeling/rendering and SFX
Superb technique, and brilliant explanations all throughout the video. It's crazy that we're getting this info for free, and that too being spoon-fed to us. Thank you so much for this, Jacob!
This is what i call a breakthrough! Great Approach to explaining and blowing minds in one video.
Our company, back in the early 2000's, invented delighting on ultra high fidelity stills in Photoshop, by hand, for major fashion and advertising campaigns. Dozens of retouchers do some form of delighting in NYC on higher end campaigns without realizing it by locally attenuating dynamic range in an effort to manage visual distraction. It's been around for a while in still at least, but manually relighting without 3 dimensional rendering requires extreme amounts of skill and artistry in photorealism, hence why our company was pretty much unique in "delighting for relighting (in post). I knew there would be a day that it was easy to do in 3 dimensions and that's not an area that was of interest to our photography sector clients, so eventually we shifted off of it given its high cost".
The man, the myth, the composer. He does it again. Nice work, Jacob!
i didn't expect the music😂😂
it was really good
@@TheHolyCornflake but was it AI generated?
@@eobet nope
I need more
The tutorial is just so fun to watch! Thanks for all the work!
You literally saved me
I've never really wanted to pay for a blender course until now. That course trailer was freaking epic!
your executions are just amazing. the amount of effort you put. most underrated guy
Respect to Ian Hubert-he’s done more for public VFX education than anyone out there, hands down. The Blender team comes close, but they’re an entire organization. I’m also planning to break down some of his techniques soon and show how you can apply them yourself.
this is absolutely crazy, simply amazing workflow for super realistic images. amazing
Dude, your ACESCG video saved my life. Can't wait for this VFX course, your videos make it a joy to learn!
I really appreciate hearing that, Marshall. Thank you!
Being someone who has never received any education in anything relevant to the making of a modeling program, I never would have imagined that the values assigned to a particular color tint could be extrapolated that way and subjected to mathematical equations to accomplish anything like this. Cool!
so well explained, im not sure if I've just spent so long researching this or not but its finally clicked
This video is beautifully made, and really informative. Thanks so much! (also Ian's (and Nathan's) work is just incredible. The taxi scene in his latest Dynamo episode is beyond words)
Totally agree, I'm endlessly inspired by those guys :)
Dudethe quality and effort put into your videos is out of this world, super impressive
Your production quality is always amazing. Awesome stuff man
Fun little technique for basic shots with no actors. I'm oveedue to sign back up for Ian's patreon. I imagine he'll have some interesting use cases on there. Nice presentation style dude. Very clear.
I guess you technically could have actors, but it would be extremely time consuming to make an exact match move animation for delighting them. of course that's assuming you're committed to the digital lighting and won't just approximate it on set.
This is the perfect addition to Ian and Nathan's work! Deconstructing what goes on behind the scenes in Compify activated the math side of my brain, and I've got a much better understanding of how this technique works now. This video also has some of the highest production value I've ever seen in a tutorial, and I commend you for the huge amount of work you put into this. I look forward to your upcoming VFX course!
I really appreciate it, Lonnon! Thank you for recognizing how much work goes into it :)
Awesome video mate, glad you decided to visit this topic!
Thank you, Mahdi!
Really appreciate the efforts behind that shot where you just showed all the arrows pointing towards geometry just for the sake of tutorial
hats off🙌🙌
Hey Nishit, thanks for appreciating the work it takes!
This tutorial is so well put together and explained. Thankyou to everyone who helped make this possible. I have been a vfx lighter for 12 years and have always wondered how off the shelf photogrammetry programs delight. Thanks for leveling up my knowledge!
Thank you, Dan!
WAw the production value of this video is way up there. Congrats & THANKS :)
@ 0:36 Bro did you just compose that fire track for an intro?!
This tutorial is really good. Really great job explaining how dividing the footage with its lighting works. Ian also has a sort of tutorial/explanation for the Compify add on on his Patreon for those interested, but honestly this video covers what you need to know
that intro song was enough to subscribe... wth 🔥🔥
5 minutes with suno AI gives you that :D
@@Tweedledee__I’m pretty sure he did it for real!
This is probably the most mind blown I've ever been, this is honestly incredible, great video!
Okay - this is actually huge! This course is gonna be amazing for finally collecting real footage VFX making in one place! Can't wait! Will back up the kickstarter for sure! Oh yea and the technique is cool as well I guess (just playing xd this technique is freaking mindblowing 😱)
Thank you so much for the encouraging words! See ya on the Kickstarter!
This course is what I need. I’m about 1 year into learning blender and I have a very scrappy approach thrown together from random RUclips tutorials.
Just use code "free" at checkout.
dank music - great :)
ayyy thanks man!
This guy right here...This MAN right here carried me the whole freakin time!
Saving this for when I get to blender… everything is so very clear and well explained mate, thank you
you're one of the only channels i've seen that actually has a nice recording setup in terms of lighting and aesthetic
intro music hits hard, thanks for the tutorial, the best!
Great video, Jacob! It's really well put together and presented, and I'm looking forward to your Kickstarter next month!
James! Thank you so much, I appreciate the encouraging words :)
For sure the highest quality tutorial I have ever watched, in every aspect. Thank you!!
amazing! bravo!! congrats on the kickstarter.... and you made a really cool song
Thank you!
WOW just blew my mind, this is a major upgrade and turning point in the VFX process
I'm not a VFX person, but I love watching VFX content. This stuff looks great. And the fact that it's all available in Blender is really cool.
And the fact that Blender is free always blows my mind.
The question is, why not? Get stuck in my friend!
Damn that delight jingle was going hard the mix
Why is this channel so fucking pristine?
The effort that went into making this video is very respectable! Thank you.
instant follow. short and concise and packed with info. great job!
As always fantastic work, demystifying many vfx worlflows and creating knowledge that will be referenced for years.
Why you keep using ACES with all it's defects it has still boggles my mind though.
It's so awesome to see Advancements of this nature because it helps individuals achieve their creative ideas in a way that blends with an artists brain, Rather than requiring a PhD in mathematics, computer engineering, & quantum physics (Just so an artist can craft their vision) ~i've always felt like this part of the development process is the main stuff that's roadblocking us from seeing more projects come to life, such as video games or videos
Ace! Thank you and shout out to Ian and Nathan!
Great video! I will say, though... Going from dark shots (like Blender, the renders, and your studio) to stark white is *_BLINDING!_* XD
Dude, this is insane. I'm definitely going to be trying this out on my next project
Wow! This was amazing!!! I really hope we'll be seeing more content from you going forward.
Thank you, Ahmed!
I agree, it's always delighting when I see Ian Hubert's work.
Jokes aside this is so damn cool!
For sure if you dont have a 360 HDRI that match the footage you could keep a shadow catcher approach and a depht Map generator on Krita for still or DaVinci resolve i have interesting 3D conversion with that, but this delight technic is really a PBR gold standard for relighting a footage it's really interact with any PBR textured model. Thanks for sharing this.
Seeing compify on the patreon was one of those very rare "seeing the future" type moments. It's somehow so obvious and simple in hindsight that I'm genuinely surprised to have not seen this technique before. Absolutely incredible
this technique isnt really new. its been used for at least a decade already, its just division
Great video! Thanks for showing the hard version as well. It really shows the value of good tools generally, and Compify specifically
Amazing technique will come in handy in some of my projects.
This was like watching the Plumbus video in Rick & Morty. (Loved the video)
Thanks! The course will show the workflow process between blender and Davinci/fusión.
Yes, that will be an important part of it!
@@InLightVFX take my money! But i dont have so much jaja
Damn, that's an impressive plugin.
Almost makes me want to get back in to Blender.
this is really cool, thank you for sharing!
To think that such a tutorial is available for free. Thanks! Amazing work!
This is so well edited, cannot stop watching!! 🤤
This video is such a delight, pun intended def XD. Always impressed with the amount of effort your put in Jacob!
I appreciate you, Charan! Thanks for your help giving feedback during the editing process.
This is a very good approach to tutorials. Open the black box and neatly pack it up again.
i've been using Blender for a year and i gotta say i could only understand 20% of the tutorial instantly. A long way to go still. Thanks So much for the tutorial, it looks so promising, i just need more skill saturation myself.
Nathan Vegdahl's plugin is more like it, though Ian distributes it and probably contributed in some manner to it. Both of those people are intelligent wizards.
It's very much both Ian's and my plugin. For one thing, its development was bankrolled by Ian (he was paying and supporting me--very patiently, I might add--the entire time I worked on it). And for another, this technique builds on top of an approach Ian already came up with (projecting footage onto an emissive material), and I don't know if it would have even occurred to me to try to figure this out without seeing him do shots that way.
But thank you for the kind words!
Great technique, I would love to see the upcoming VFX masterclass
Dude you have to make a full song of this tune it is amazing! "Use the magic of delight"
Love those graphics when you explain complicated things. Very well made video!
the process reminds me little bit of how people used to do HDR by taking a darker image and lighter one and combining to get a higher dynamic range
Insane method and awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing and expanding on such a cool technique!
the fact that this works with image sequence is mindblowing
would be cool to see you make a tutorial on how to capture environment HDRI by yourself
I can't point a single flaw in this video. Clear teaching, to the point and absolutely stunning visuals.
Just look up exposure modification 😂
Match-luminance right in 3D, that's awesome!
Wow, new knowledge unlocked. Thank you so much!
Also the production quality of this video is insane and inspiring. Keep up the amazing work 🙏🙌🔥
Thank you so much, Raphael! I really appreciate hearing that from someone as talented as you.
Hi Raphael, is it possible to create a similar workflow in octane?
@@max6947 I have not tried it yet, but I think so. Watching this video comparing stuff, I do not see any hurdles also doing this in Octane. Of course not automated via a plugin, but it should be doable 🙌
I love how simple the method is with simple math we learn in high school.
A great highlight of the delight process!
I been looking for this solution for years.. thank you so much my friend. ❤❤❤
This tutorial was de-lightful! 🥁
Mighty interesting! Your tutorial videos are impressively polished too.
Thank you, Louis! I really appreciate it.
It will be almost like a birthday gift next month, certanly I'll be there
great video as always mate
What a great tutorial! You are an amazing teacher. I understood the whole thing.
See my solution would have been to just compsite both sets of footage with blending set to "Screen" or "lighten".
But i do see how this gives you much more flexibility and one 1 render pass. Brilliant!
You guys are so amazing! And again, Ian Hubert never make me disappointed, you guys inspired me again!!!!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
outstanding tutorial. instant sub! and also big thanks to ian and nathan! ian is a genius.
Im not even a blender user and im interested in the course. As long its industry approved techniques that can be used accross other plateforms.
The quality of your videos is impressive