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[pt.1] REALTIME CAR DESTRUCTION! - FULL COURSE

IMPORTANT NOTES TO READ:
[chek useful links down below]
RECOMMENDED VERSIONS TO USE FOR THIS TUTORIAL:
- Blender versions from 3.6 to 4.0.2 ( doesnt apply in newest)
- RBC version 1.3.2 ( dont try the tutorial with newer versions)

In Bendermarket you can find any version of the addon in your profile's downloads. The new updates of either RBC or Blender might not apply completely, so ensure to respect these indications!

Is finally happening.
My absolutly fav...

[ASSETS] Car Destruction Realtime - Maserati asset

Here you can download a nice starting point for the REALTIME FULL CAR DESTRUCTION COURSE !

There are 2 versions of this asset:

- THE BASIC VERSION : Is the starting point for the youtube public tutorial (no breakable parts)
Comes only with the body of the car and the 4 wheels separated, for a simple deformation like will be shown in the public tutorial (very basic, just some compression in the main body, no breakable parts, no breakable windows, no deformable p...

Big news: Car destruction VFX in Realtime in Blender - FULL COURSE COMING

Good morning people!

In the next days I will post what I consider my absolutly favourite tutorial on everything I always did: Realtime Drivable Cars completely destroyable with realtime deformations.

Something that I am trying to do since forever.
And finally my research gave his fruits with a whole new technique that works great.

I already made a tutorial last year a...

[Part 2] 3d scans & Polycam: my full workflow

Part 2 of my favourite process for getting nice 3d scans results.

After posting my Polycam city project presentation publicly, a lot of people asked me how exactly I get those nice results.

So here is the full process.
Ensure also to watch part 1.

3d scans & Polycam: my full workflow - PART 1

After posting my Polycam city project presentation publicly, a lot of people asked me how exactly I get those nice results. So here we go:)
Full process divided in 2 parts videos.

[ASSETS] IT'S POLYCAM CITY!

Introducing Polycam city!
LINKS:
- (Download link down below in this post)

- Video explanation: https://youtu.be/e8BronEIhks

A bunch of city-related 3d scans made with Polycam app, optimized and ready to use for making cities!

"Whats special about this? I can perfectly do them using polycam"
WOO calm down, let me explain:
all these mod...

Preparing cars for simulations and/or destruction: 16 essential tips

I wanted to have a standalone tutorial on my 16 recommended essential tips for preparing a car 3d model for phisics simulations in Blender.
Which means: driving a car in Blender with phisics simulations or even a heavy cinematic car destruction simulation.

By doing this, in future I will simply need to link this video whenever I need when doing car smashes or similar :)

At THIS LINK you...

[ORIGINAL FILES] Deadpool car crash scene - Endless Engine Challenge

At THIS LINK you can download my original Blender project of the car crash with deadpool.
At THIS LINK instead you can watch the final result.

I am partecipating in the "Endless Engine" challenge (one of the biggest public 3d yearly contests) and this is my video submission.

Honestly ...

Tutorial: Creating a better glow effect

Why you should avoid Blender's glare/glow effect, and how I usually make a much better one.
Enjoy!

[ASSETS] PROCEDURAL ANIMATED FIRE + HEAT DISTORTION - drag & drop setup!

[Download link below] 1 single node shader, drop it on a cube... BAM! you get instantly a complete procedural fire+smoke+animation included!
Then create a sphere, drop the heat distortion shader on it... BAM! you get the heat rifraction as well!

Its procedural, which means REALTIME tweaking.
No bakes, no cache, no waiting times, all included in the shaders.

Customize the fire shape and speed to your own preferences !

You have NO IDEA of how much Im happy to share th...

Full course: Deforming Tower in Venice

The complete process from start to finish, explained beginnerproofly.
I divided the video into 4 parts:

PART 1
PART 2
PART 3

PART4 2023-02-15 13:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post

[ORIGINAL FILES] Venice Deforming Tower - Blender VFX

Download at the link below the original project. Tutorial coming this week!
How to deform towers in real footage using only Blender.

This time Im using cloth simulation on the iconic tower of San Marco Square in Venice!

I wanted to challenge myself to make the entire process in Blender this time, so no post production, no compositing, no unnecessary work after the render:)

Sometimes you can forgive yourself and just render a scene straight out of Blender without having...

Greenscreen set extension with Log footage in Blender

Blender, greenscreen, set extension, cgi, the stuff that we like to do!
I am especially happy about how good the grass trick works in this.
Enjoy :)

[TUTORIAL] Easily making meteorites storms!

In this Blender tutorial I create hundreds of meteorites falling from the sky in just a few minutes.
Cool thing: they play almost in realtime and render so fast, because they are just video texture assets!

Meteorites stock footage assets downloadable here
https://www.patreon.com/posts/assets-metorites-77859135

[ASSETS] Metorites rain!

Ok this is huge: in this post you can download 4 video files: 1 for the meteorites, 1 for the alpha channel, 2 variations of additional particles.

The basic idea is that in Blender you simply use the "import images as planes" function, and you will have your meteorites rain in a matter of seconds!

They are just flat images, and this means that it will play in realtime in any computer, and you can have HUNDREDS of meteorites in a single scene :)

Is different from the realti...

VFX tutorial: adding atmospherich fog (+zombies) to real videos

The title says it all :)

Basicly we can make any shot look cinematic using Blender.
Enjoy!

A powerful phone app for VFX realism

I ever wanted something like this.
For vfx stuff you always want an accurate light in Blender that matches the light of your footage, so this app is for you.
Note: if this app is only for Iphone (not sure), you can perfectly follow this tutorial using any other app that makes 360 speheric pictures anyway.

Grabbing HDRI on your phone very quickly is super useful honestly!

[TUTORIAL] Meteorites: Realtime and procedural

My recent intuition about realtime procedural volumes in Blender hits again... this time with meteorites !

Original file available for download eventually here
https://www.patreon.com/posts/assets-realtime-76818572

[ASSETS] Realtime Meteorite for Blender

In this post you can download the original project of a procedural realtime meteorite concept (only 1 mb of file!) at the link in this post.

ALSO tutorial available at this link (the link is for the tutorial only, for downloading the file instead get it in the bottom part of this post) https://www.patreon.com/posts/76819828

[ORIGINAL PROJECTS] Explosions: procedural and realtime

DOWNLOAD the original project (only 1,5 megabyte!) of this procedural nuclear explosion at the link in this post.
Ok this is the most crazy discovery I made after a very long experimenting.

Basicly its a procedural workflow for creating explosions, which turned out to work IMPRESSIVLY GREAT!

Its now my favourite way of dealing with volumes (explosions, smokes, fireball, similar).

The main big things about this workflow are:

- realtime animation playback  2022-12-20 10:34:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Ground SHOCKWAVE tutorial - Blender

Creating a progressive, brutal, breathtaking ground shockwave manually in blender can be very frustrating.
Luckily RBDlab team has made some awesome updates to their addon for Blender, that allow to create these effects very easily, and really push the limits of what is possible to do.

Also in the tutorial I show some tricks to manage huge simulations when everything starts to be very slow.

RBD lab addon at this link:
2022-12-13 13:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post

[TUTORIAL] Optimizing 3d scans

Everybody is capable of applying a decimate modifier to a 3d scan, but I see almost nobody taking care of the texture being destroyed in the process.

So in this tutorial I show you how to transfer the textures from a very high poly object to a low poly version after a decimation.

Using autumn assets (and asset browser)

[ UPDATE: this video is old, now I made an addon called Autumn Elements that you can watch and download at this link here https://www.patreon.com/posts/autumn-elements-113482214 ]
Here I show you how I made and how I suggest to use the autumn elements assets.
Also a good occasion to show you how to use asset br...

[ASSETS] AUTUMN ELEMENTS

[DOWNLOAD LINK UNDER THIS TEXT]
I am very excited to start to share with you a bunch of assets on which I was working on lately!

This first pack includes a bunch of high quality autumn elements that you can easily drag and drop in your scene.
Also includes animated lea...

[TUTORIAL] Maximize realism in BLENDER VFX!

I see too many people on youtube pretending to have a nice result in vfx in blender by just activating a shadow catcher.

I mean, that's a good starting point, but we can do additional tricks to get way better results using some little tricks!

There are thousands of things that can help reaching a good level of realism in Blender, but in this video I sum up my favourite techniques that I always use when doing visual effects in Blender.

Example file with dragon downloadab...

[ORIGINAL PROJECTS] Tricks for maximum realism in VFX in Blender

Tomorrow will be out a tutorial in which I show you some wild tricks for unlocking the maximum realism in your visual effects in Blender.

IN THE MEANWHILE blow here you can download an example file that I used in the tutorial.

Dragon model by 3dhaupt on free3d.com

Making a self destruction jump VFX in Blender

Here is the complete explanation of how to create the disintegration jump visual effect on a real video, using Blender.
USEFUL LINKS FOR STUFF MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:

- REMOVAL AI (background remover)

https://removal.ai/

- PIFUHD TUTORIAL (ai 3d model generator from 1 picture)

https://you...

TUTORIAL: Replace guns in real videos

Simple and powerful technique for making 3d track of an object in Blender, and replacing it with a better one like in movies.

If you want you can download this footage+example file in the level 2,3,4 of the patreon.

Let me know how it works for you!

[ORIGINAL PROJECTS] Replace objects in Blender

In the link in this post you can download the original file used in the tutorial that will be out tomorrow.
The tutorial expalins how to replace objects with CGI objects like in movies, is very easy to do and literally helpful.

In this specific case, I was using an old Phantom drone battery as a reference object for the tracking, then replaced with a scifi gun in Blender.

NOTE: if you open the file, you will have to re-link the footage (annoying blender things... ) so basic...

TUTORIAL: DYNAMIC METAL BENDING with Blender!

Here is a new technique for dynamic metal bending using Blender!
Very easy and quick to setup, can be used for any type of deformation (car crashes, impacts, explosions) and I like it a lot!

I already made a a car crash tutorial in my channel in the past, but thats a different workflow: it was using cloth simulation for the deformation.

Which was awesome and super adaptive... but sometimes you may want to have a quicker solution (maybe less adaptive but very easy to setup, and ...