Add CGI Characters to Live Footage | Blender VFX Tutorial
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange users link it as a go-to walkthrough when people ask how to integrate CGI characters or objects into tracked live footage, including lighting and shadow compositing.
Recommended by 2 people across 3 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What it is
A 34-minute Blender 2.8 tutorial from CG Geek that walks through adding an animated CGI robot to live-action footage. It covers motion tracking the camera, matching lighting with an HDRI, and compositing shadows and reflections so the character sits in the scene.
What people said
Recommends Arthur Edelman · 2020-05 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “How can i add an glass objet to an motion tracked scene with proper light coming through it?”
You can either create an HDRI with a smartphone or a 3d camera for best results. That would give you a good base to work with when it comes to lighting. Tutorial on how to make an HDRI [LINK] Another option would be to have a look at the scene you are tracking (if it is a video you took) and try to replicate the lighting according to it. That could involve setting up a 'sun' light object, or multiple area lights. Tutorial that helps with recreating studio lighting for artistic renders, for example [LINK] Tutorial for helping you set up an HDRI if needed, starting from 14:29 [this video]
Recommends Blunder · 2020-10 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Can I use blender for creating a 3D integrated scene?”
@AbdullahAlSayed do you know this tutorial? [this video] (Add CGI Characters to Live Footage | Blender 2.8 VFX Tutorial by CG Geek)
Recommends Blunder · 2021-01 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “How do I add my character animation in blender, to a videoclip?”
Search for "blender vfx" in youtube and you will find some good tutorials about this topic: [this video] (Add CGI Characters to Live Footage | Blender 2.8 VFX Tutorial - a dancing robot in your living room), [LINK] Disintegration Effect - VFX Blender Tutorial, [LINK] How to Make Lightsabers in Blender
Cites hightract · 2020-03 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Problems with compositing and Shading settings”
There is a problem setting up the shadow of my CGI model that I want to add to the camera image on the compositing screen. I can’t intervene in the shadows. In the tutorial I watched ( [LINK] 23:35 ) I make the node settings in the Compositing tab, but the image I get does not change the shadows and the reflected image is different. Not: I uploaded the HDRI image but there was no shadow so I put a point light. But I did not remove the HDRI image. If you say it may be related, I will throw the screenshot. [LINK] [LINK]
Cites Ted · 2020-12 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “New install of Blender; extremely slow when panning a video”
Thanks for that input. I was actually following this YouTube tutorial: [this video] and on that time (205s), he converts the video into a series of JPG files, as he claims its better to work with in Blender. I do this, and then start a new project and re-import but this time the JPGs. And still, it lags incredibly bad...