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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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This was a great introduction to a topic that doesn't get enough coverage, this was my first time getting exposed to any of the stuff I learned in this course. Sean has a very impressive resume and I would love to see more in depth courses on Compositing still renders, VFX and Green Screen from him.
Compositing in Blender is one of those topics that often get tacked on to the end of lessons but there's rarely ever a deep dive into it. Until now.
I never got the hang of rendering in layers and recombining them back together until I watched this course and the clear, detailed and concise explanations in it. Now I'm confident in it and can play with way more complex scenes that way.
The later lessons about video compositing, adding VFX and dealing with greenscreen were totally new to me and again the great explanations made the learning process a breeze and I would love a follow up course with a deeper dive into motion tracking and advanced techniques. I just need somebody to do the rotoscoping for me lol.
I can 100% recommend this course to anyone who uses Blender, whether for 3D, 2D, VFX or a combination. It contains a great wealth of knowledge.
Thank you, Sean!
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.