Felix I believe if your set that goal to try to mimic movie quality effects and you push yourself you can absolutely do it. Every single person involved in these movies started somewhere and if they can do it YOU can do it. I'm happy to help push you if you're willing to try. Thank you for the kind comment but I want to see you next posting your movie work - so let's do it! 👊
Gosh what a ride it's been the past 3 weeks! rendering was and still is a pain though learned a ton of stuff and great advice throughout and I guess that's what matters. Suppose it's time for you to take a breather now haha. Keep in touch soon and thanks once again!
Awesome man yeah my back and my wrist hurt like hell from doing all these videos hahaha I'm going to take a break and of the week if I can! It's been a lot of fun. You're right rendering is always the bottle neck
Thanks Alan! this was so informative, and I have so many ideas about ways of using this. Could you recommend where to look more into camera tracking with lidar scan data?
I honestly haven't seen any courses that covered lidar which always annoyed me because I had to fork out $30,000 for a scanner not having any real proof it would make life easier. But it's pretty straight forward. I had been creating a course on camera tracking which covers this but it's on pause right now. Too many things in the works. I would say though that rather than LIDAR you can also look at photogrametry. It's not as accurate but it's another solution
Allan McKay yeah I’m pretty familiar with photogrammetry, and i think it could work. I hope you return to the idea of doing a camera tracking course, but at least for now thanks to you, it’s on my radar!
Amazing work! To tie this all together could you do a tutorial on super hero vfx CAPE shots. Like for Man of Steel or from Doctor Strange where hes flying or twirling it around his body in the first movie. This has always stumped me and I'd love to learn about the industry way of going about this! Is it pinned to a piece of geometry or do you model the actor out? There's nothing on youtube! Thanks!
On Superman returns we just had to people in green flapping his cape with a fan blowing a lot of the time - it wasn't anything special. Man of steel I didn't pay much attention to but I would assume they stepped it up a bit. Cloth with is just a lot of setting up the right conditions and controls to keep everything behaving how you want but ultimately there's always a lot of cheating and blending different sims if you need to get a specific performance. Dr strange was from my understanding a mixture of character rigging and cloth - I really like what they did. I've never personally animated a cape - there was a talk at IAMAG 2019 in Paris with the VFX supervisor for framestore that was pretty interesting talking about a lot of this stuff
You are not God, please don't use such statements.You are just a human and human means human you could not be like God and neither anyone can be like God.so please don't lie or support such liers who says they are God
You can definitely pull something like this off with MCG tools or of course houdini. I'll see what I can do. I attended a talk framestore gave a few years back we were speaking at (IAMAG Masterclass in Paris) it was really impressive what they had done.
I like your tutorials. Easy tutorial leads you nowhere. I like to understand concept not essy tutorial .. thank you so much. You tought me so much from youtube tutorial. If i get any full course of tyflow it would be amazing.
Thanks so much I’m planning to start releasing lots more in the next couple of weeks And I agree - easy doesn’t help - advanced but clear helps you really learn That you Bhanu
Hi Allan i am from Nigeria, I missed the first building destruction you sent via email, cause i was sick, please how can I get to watch the files again. Thanks great work
Basically a camera has to solve and guess 3D tracking based on 2D images. So it's purely guess work. Having a 3d accurate model of the environment you are capturing means it really just needs to snap the camera into place. It makes the solves completely accurate and only takes about 5-10 points too get a solve even of the most complex moves. So tracking takes an hour rather than days
Hi Roozy! I'll be honest, I haven't personally done any FX migration from Max to Unreal. I have done a lot of game work (Halo, Call of Duty, etc) but I have a few students in the Mentorship who are heads of Epic games or other big studios - maybe I can get them to do a guest post type video on this topic. It could be fun!
Thank you so very much again for all your hard work and generosity :) these videos are awesome! only one thing... I never got an email for video number 8? only 1 to 7, 9 and 10... am I missing something?
@@ph0t0dave thanks buddy might have just missed it. I've replied to over 350 emails this afternoon/tonight finally took a break (wrist is killing me) I'll take a look now. Thanks again!
I'm actually interviewing the CEO of red Giant on my podcast it might be a fun listen. I linked in the description to a friends Tutorial on how to do this in after effects if you want to take a look. The advantage of this is it's 3D so we can use that information to light the shot and do so much more with it. But I'm still impressed with some of the examples people have made just with after effects
@@AllanMcKay You're right but we don't have that kind of render farms which is in the film industry, That's why After Effects is good to render fast on average computer. Waiting for that Podcast.
@@-CQ at home I have 5 nodes which is plenty. I do suggest if you are working in FX to have at least 2 computers. Anytime you're doing simulation work 2 computers is critical. So you can work on one and let the other one do its thing. But I agree 2D solutions when you can get away with it are much faster
@@-CQ People overestimate needed computer power these last few years. You can render a lots of cool effect in scanline render, for example. Then again, remember Jurassic Park movie? From 1994. It was rendered on the computers that combined power is much much less, then on your mobile phone, yet it looks amazing. Often people blaming lack of farms for their poor knowledge on how to optimize scenes. Cheers!
Don't mind long lessons as long as they have the level of detail that these do, but would appreciate finding a way to do the good stuff without third-party add-ons (most of which I can't afford).
make sure spawn has an output to a new event, if it's not it will incrementally spawn particles which spawn more particles and likely crash. I 'assume' that is the issue here, without any other context. Hope that helps!
@@AllanMcKay hi i did it and worked thanks a lot. unfortunately at the end i have another problem. when i set up the material and assign it to instance material and adding the mesh in the event selecting render istances, whaen i render particle don't appear. they apper only if i select triangle mesh but anyway the result is not good material is not bright as should be.(i am using tyflow beta)
@@AllanMcKay Hi Allan, the same is happening to me. I cannot download the items from the mail you sent. I tried both methods but it keeps directing me to the box login page
For me is was different with each file, sometimes the one in the middle of the screen worked and sometimes I had to use the download button at the top right of the screen/page.
@@ipromiseternity Hi Isabel, yeah I realized that afterwards - doh! The email is fixed however, I've simply linked the files on the page. If you look on the page now you'll see direct links to all the files. Sorry about that, I think with all the Thanos training I've been trying to do finally posting this I muddled up the url in the original email. But check the page it should be all good now :)
I'm really tempted to check it out actually - just considering how many people are asking. @BlenderGuru seems to be crushing it - I've only had a chance to click through a few things he's done but it's really impressive!
@@AllanMcKay with the recent Epic and Ubisoft funds things are really looking good. Unfortunately, there's nothing like Tyflow, but who knows, once people like you will make the jump all big developers will follow. This was on my feed yesterday, realtime in EEVEE twitter.com/brentpatterson
@@AllanMcKay If you do decide to give it a go definitely look up Midge Sinnaeve (Mantissa) and Daniel Bystedt. Animation Nodes adds quite a bit more procedural node functionality (albeit I'm not super sure on the status of the add-on for b3d 2.8) Blender as a project could definitely use more users like you. I'd imagine the number of people with your expertise in VFX in the community is measured in 2 digits. At the moment the 'Everything Nodes Project' is still in its infancy but in the future they do want to revamp the physics in Blender. I'd imagine feedback and design advice from someone like you would be invaluable. (Well that'd be if you had the time to engage in the community, though, which based on your mailing list mails sounds kind of nigh) Anyhow would be cool to see b3d vids from you, even if to just chuckle at you being frustrated with some of the design.
I could try making movies with VFX but they won't look as good as yours because you are the best Allan you are amazing
Felix I believe if your set that goal to try to mimic movie quality effects and you push yourself you can absolutely do it. Every single person involved in these movies started somewhere and if they can do it YOU can do it. I'm happy to help push you if you're willing to try. Thank you for the kind comment but I want to see you next posting your movie work - so let's do it! 👊
@@AllanMcKay Thank you for inspiring me... they don't call you a award-winning VFX artist for nothing
Gosh what a ride it's been the past 3 weeks! rendering was and still is a pain though learned a ton of stuff and great advice throughout and I guess that's what matters. Suppose it's time for you to take a breather now haha. Keep in touch soon and thanks once again!
Awesome man yeah my back and my wrist hurt like hell from doing all these videos hahaha I'm going to take a break and of the week if I can! It's been a lot of fun. You're right rendering is always the bottle neck
One of my senior told about you and trust me u the best man. Getting inspired from you alot thanks alot 🔥
Thanks so much man I'm honored 🙏
Thank you, very helpful tutorial,
Please don't stop sharing tutorials like this...
My mentor :3... Thanks Allan for all your videos
You rock Martin! 👊
So HappY! Love this Stuff! Cant wait to Frankenstein all these effects I've learnt from you into something interesting. Thank you so much you LEGEND!
Cheers JP! DID YOU SAY FRANKENSTEIN?! that gives me ideas.. haha
Cheers buddy I appreciate you brother!
Thank you Allan - going to enjoy this one! Like how you integrate this shot in a live action shot as well.
Thanks so much buddy! I appreciate that!
good tutorial allan...all the best
Thanks so much!
Thank you, this is what i looking for.
Great Andrivision thanks so much! anything else you want to see just let me know. Thank you 🙏❤
@@AllanMcKay can you teach me how to make moving smoke with lightning like in this movie ua-cam.com/video/tGPjH1b-Z2Y/v-deo.html thank you
im down to learn alot with this channel
That's great treal!
So grateful for the tutorial, do you have any tutorials for comping this. Would love to know how the "destination" is kept inside the circle.
thank you master!!!!! you are so awesome always!
Thank you so much Yggrassil
Thanks Alan! this was so informative, and I have so many ideas about ways of using this. Could you recommend where to look more into camera tracking with lidar scan data?
I honestly haven't seen any courses that covered lidar which always annoyed me because I had to fork out $30,000 for a scanner not having any real proof it would make life easier. But it's pretty straight forward. I had been creating a course on camera tracking which covers this but it's on pause right now. Too many things in the works. I would say though that rather than LIDAR you can also look at photogrametry. It's not as accurate but it's another solution
Allan McKay yeah I’m pretty familiar with photogrammetry, and i think it could work. I hope you return to the idea of doing a camera tracking course, but at least for now thanks to you, it’s on my radar!
Great!
Cheers buddy! I hope you find it valuable
love you so much man.
Thank you I'm honored! 🙏🙏🙏
Amazing work! To tie this all together could you do a tutorial on super hero vfx CAPE shots. Like for Man of Steel or from Doctor Strange where hes flying or twirling it around his body in the first movie. This has always stumped me and I'd love to learn about the industry way of going about this! Is it pinned to a piece of geometry or do you model the actor out? There's nothing on youtube! Thanks!
On Superman returns we just had to people in green flapping his cape with a fan blowing a lot of the time - it wasn't anything special. Man of steel I didn't pay much attention to but I would assume they stepped it up a bit. Cloth with is just a lot of setting up the right conditions and controls to keep everything behaving how you want but ultimately there's always a lot of cheating and blending different sims if you need to get a specific performance.
Dr strange was from my understanding a mixture of character rigging and cloth - I really like what they did. I've never personally animated a cape - there was a talk at IAMAG 2019 in Paris with the VFX supervisor for framestore that was pretty interesting talking about a lot of this stuff
Ty so much dear Allan , I wonder where to find the other 1 to 8 videos ?
God of vfx
Thanks so much brother I appreciate the kind message! 🙏
You are not God, please don't use such statements.You are just a human and human means human you could not be like God and neither anyone can be like God.so please don't lie or support such liers who says they are God
Hi Allan, can you show how to make "Bending Reality" vfx in doctor strange ?, it kinda like inception and i think that work with praticle systems
You can definitely pull something like this off with MCG tools or of course houdini. I'll see what I can do. I attended a talk framestore gave a few years back we were speaking at (IAMAG Masterclass in Paris) it was really impressive what they had done.
I like your tutorials. Easy tutorial leads you nowhere. I like to understand concept not essy tutorial .. thank you so much. You tought me so much from youtube tutorial. If i get any full course of tyflow it would be amazing.
Thanks so much
I’m planning to start releasing lots more in the next couple of weeks
And I agree - easy doesn’t help - advanced but clear helps you really learn
That you Bhanu
@@AllanMcKay yes sir.
Hi Allan i am from Nigeria, I missed the first building destruction you sent via email, cause i was sick, please how can I get to watch the files again. Thanks
great work
Allan can you explain how lidar helps with tracking? you mean like geometry tracking?
Basically a camera has to solve and guess 3D tracking based on 2D images. So it's purely guess work. Having a 3d accurate model of the environment you are capturing means it really just needs to snap the camera into place. It makes the solves completely accurate and only takes about 5-10 points too get a solve even of the most complex moves. So tracking takes an hour rather than days
@@AllanMcKay thank you!
Hi Allan. Can you show how to migrate fx made in 3ds max into a realtime engine such as UE4 please?
Hi Roozy! I'll be honest, I haven't personally done any FX migration from Max to Unreal. I have done a lot of game work (Halo, Call of Duty, etc) but I have a few students in the Mentorship who are heads of Epic games or other big studios - maybe I can get them to do a guest post type video on this topic. It could be fun!
Thank you so very much again for all your hard work and generosity :) these videos are awesome! only one thing... I never got an email for video number 8? only 1 to 7, 9 and 10... am I missing something?
Hi David shoot me an email and I'll sort you out - better hurry! :)
@@AllanMcKay I actually did send an email earlier tonight but Ill shoot you another ;) Cheers!
@@ph0t0dave thanks buddy might have just missed it. I've replied to over 350 emails this afternoon/tonight finally took a break (wrist is killing me) I'll take a look now. Thanks again!
Sent!
@@AllanMcKay Got it! Thank you very very much again!! :)
Can we make the same kind of quality with Red Giant Particular in After Effects?
I'm actually interviewing the CEO of red Giant on my podcast it might be a fun listen. I linked in the description to a friends Tutorial on how to do this in after effects if you want to take a look. The advantage of this is it's 3D so we can use that information to light the shot and do so much more with it. But I'm still impressed with some of the examples people have made just with after effects
@@AllanMcKay You're right but we don't have that kind of render farms which is in the film industry, That's why After Effects is good to render fast on average computer.
Waiting for that Podcast.
@@-CQ at home I have 5 nodes which is plenty. I do suggest if you are working in FX to have at least 2 computers. Anytime you're doing simulation work 2 computers is critical. So you can work on one and let the other one do its thing. But I agree 2D solutions when you can get away with it are much faster
@@-CQ
People overestimate needed computer power these last few years. You can render a lots of cool effect in scanline render, for example. Then again, remember Jurassic Park movie? From 1994. It was rendered on the computers that combined power is much much less, then on your mobile phone, yet it looks amazing.
Often people blaming lack of farms for their poor knowledge on how to optimize scenes.
Cheers!
Cool! :D
Thanks! :)
A big salute to your creativity
Again you are proving that sky is the limit , thank you for spending time for us
😘 🙏🙏💌
Thanks so much it means a lot - you rock 👊😃😀🔥
What happened to Video 2 ? I used to be able to get to it. I'm looking for the render material settings for the reflection passes......
Hi Allan can you make this with sound effect
How do you close the portal though? In the movies, you can see Strange close the portals. and I'm having problems with that part
Where can I get the complete course for this??
Don't mind long lessons as long as they have the level of detail that these do, but would appreciate finding a way to do the good stuff without third-party add-ons (most of which I can't afford).
wait, so the course is coming back?
Hello Mr. Allen
How are you? I want information about your courses and how I can join you to teach
hi, as soon as i turn spawn on it crash. what can i do?
make sure spawn has an output to a new event, if it's not it will incrementally spawn particles which spawn more particles and likely crash. I 'assume' that is the issue here, without any other context. Hope that helps!
great i will try! thanks a lot
@@AllanMcKay hi i did it and worked thanks a lot. unfortunately at the end i have another problem. when i set up the material and assign it to instance material and adding the mesh in the event selecting render istances, whaen i render particle don't appear. they apper only if i select triangle mesh but anyway the result is not good material is not bright as should be.(i am using tyflow beta)
hai allan i missed the last 3 classes in thanis free course but now the training is been closed so what should i do right now
Thank you so much
Which is the best 3dsmax or maya
Imo, Maya for Animation, Max for modeling.
Hey did u check out the latest blender 2.80 its awesome😃 give it a try if u do have some free time in a while
DOCTOR strange vs thanks effects plz
Thanks to keep it mind thank you
how to download this
I can not download the box files. Links please
Try left clicking on them - I think a lot of people try to right click which isn't how to download them. Give that a try
@@AllanMcKay No. As soon as I click on those links they redirect me to Box Subscription Page. Where they tell me to login and subscribe
@@AllanMcKay Hi Allan, the same is happening to me. I cannot download the items from the mail you sent. I tried both methods but it keeps directing me to the box login page
For me is was different with each file, sometimes the one in the middle of the screen worked and sometimes I had to use the download button at the top right of the screen/page.
@@ipromiseternity Hi Isabel, yeah I realized that afterwards - doh! The email is fixed however, I've simply linked the files on the page. If you look on the page now you'll see direct links to all the files. Sorry about that, I think with all the Thanos training I've been trying to do finally posting this I muddled up the url in the original email.
But check the page it should be all good now :)
What saftware it is
3ds Max and tyflow
Im happy 😊 sir
Im subscribed to ur course also
💗
If only this guy started using Blender...
I'm really tempted to check it out actually - just considering how many people are asking.
@BlenderGuru seems to be crushing it - I've only had a chance to click through a few things he's done but it's really impressive!
@@AllanMcKay with the recent Epic and Ubisoft funds things are really looking good. Unfortunately, there's nothing like Tyflow, but who knows, once people like you will make the jump all big developers will follow. This was on my feed yesterday, realtime in EEVEE twitter.com/brentpatterson
@@AllanMcKay If you do decide to give it a go definitely look up Midge Sinnaeve (Mantissa) and Daniel Bystedt. Animation Nodes adds quite a bit more procedural node functionality (albeit I'm not super sure on the status of the add-on for b3d 2.8)
Blender as a project could definitely use more users like you. I'd imagine the number of people with your expertise in VFX in the community is measured in 2 digits. At the moment the 'Everything Nodes Project' is still in its infancy but in the future they do want to revamp the physics in Blender. I'd imagine feedback and design advice from someone like you would be invaluable. (Well that'd be if you had the time to engage in the community, though, which based on your mailing list mails sounds kind of nigh) Anyhow would be cool to see b3d vids from you, even if to just chuckle at you being frustrated with some of the design.
No way, Only Houdini
Better stay with 3DS Max, never again with Houdini.
Bad experience?