You know when you’ve spent hours or days on a 3D render only to realize you’re not happy with the color of the main focal object of your scene?
That’s where compositing can save you! In a 3D workflow, compositing tools will let you change an object's color, material, shadows, reflection, your scene lighting, and almost anything else AFTER you’ve rendered. When it comes to saving time, it’s your digital superpower!
In this course, you’ll learn how to break your 3D scene down into layers and passes that let you adjust and tweak your 3D render in ways you didn’t know were possible. You’ll learn how to create a matte for literally anything in your scene, and if you don’t know what a matte is, you’ll learn that too!
We’ll also take a look at 2D compositing for visual effects. Adding laser blasts into a sci-fi scene? Yep. Keying your first greenscreen? Definitely.
This course will show you all the most common filters and nodes and how to use them to dial in some of the most popular visual effects techniques.
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These courses should help you get up to speed in no time.
We’ll look at the ways to organize your 3D scene that makes sense for compositing, and then go over many of the types of layers and passes you can create to rebuild your 3D scene in 2D
Next we’ll be putting everything we’ve rendered back together in a way that lets us adjust almost anything we want.
Some of the most common tasks for compositing are creating post effects that add minutes or hours to your 3D renders, like depth of field or motion blur. It only takes seconds in compositing!
We’ll learn about alpha channels, the many ways to create them and how to use them, and then we’ll go over some strictly 2D visual effects compositing, like laser blasts and greenscreens.
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I have learned a lot about compositing and now I can make anything that I want and stop dreaming about it.
When I was just a child, I thought that to make these videos I need to spend months to learning all of that stuff, then spend days to make part of it.
But I watched this course only by 5~ days.
Thank you Sean Kennedy and CGcookie for this great compositing course.
This course just showed me a side of Blender I did not know existed. Up until now I always envisioned creating in Blender, then moving it to other apps for more complex compositing and boy was I completely wrong on that!
Sean has a very easy to follow teaching style, and packs a lot of concepts into incredibly concise lessons. In fact, when just looking at the length of the videos I thought there was never going to be enough time to get into much of anything, but I was totally wrong again.
I recommend watching the whole course then coming back at it for practice. I caught myself writing down questions to ask (what about cryptomattes? Or other ways to make masks and keys? And so on), just to find out that Sean was covering exactly that on the next lesson. Always one step ahead, and making the whole learning process very smooth, modular, and enjoyable!
I sure hope he comes up with more courses that dive into more detailed advanced techniques!
I learned a lot. Thanks for your time and hard work. One criticism, you could have covered the basics of video tracking. I'll be waiting for your video tracking course. Hint, hint, hint.