Yeah, I was actually quite tempted to tackle a certain shot from the sequel, but it was far more complex that what I can achieve in a realistic period of time.
@@DECODEDVFX Speaking of realistic period of time: how long did it take you to build all this, starting from the moment you chose this specific scene? PS: love it!!
I feel like I've gotten to where I can understand about 80% of what you're doing but that's a far cry from being able to do it on my own. Great vids - very inspiring as to just how good final projects can be.
Loved seeing all the work arounds you did to get what you wanted out of each scene without overloading your computer. Great stuff! Anyone from old school LightWave days remember the Blade Runner Tyrell Corp yramid/ziggurat scene? This brought me back.
Speaking of LW, I chuckled a bit when he said motion blur added 3s/frame. I remember when it doubled render times, which were generally hours per frame at the time for me(486DX-33MHz).
I find the Blade Runner style pretty nice and easy to pull off. The dark tones and dense volumetrics give you a lot of freedom to not care that much about details, yet have everything look convincing and cool because the darkness & fog help your brain fill out the empty spaces and lack of detailing. Nice work on this one!
well done looks great :O) always great seeing these, i'm sure i am not alone in saying these are useful for many learning so you can see the progress and see it done in Blender alone instead of in an out of paid software to achieve something that looks good enough to be on the way to do a full feature. it's really important, so well done!
Great fun! I have been a huge fan of this movie for decades. I recently learned several new things about the FX photography for this film (40yrs later!) watching Adam Savage's appearance on The Corridor Crew on UA-cam (FX guys). You captured the essence of the shots really well. Only 2 things really stood out for me in a way that told me something was off: those blinking lights you added at the end stood out as not integrated into the depth and needed blurring or more effect from the mist. The only other feeling was of the sky deep BG which you don't seem to ever mention. There is a kind of permanent overcast but sunset at the horizon feel in Blade Runner's big shots. With your progress becoming apparent each time soon enough you'll be tricking us by showing the reference footage you used to make a scene only to then reveal that THAT footage is ALSO your recreation! Maybe that could be a good challenge/game for everyone in the 3D artist community: A then B shots shown People have to pick the real one. Keep up the great vids. You remain very inspiring to a newbie to 3D stuff like myself.
You are in a room, sitting on a can, pushing out a replicant, when all of a sudden the phone rings and you over to the side, noticing that there is no toilet paper left....
This was awesome !! Personally on my rig my PC will die but I think the only thing you missed out on was the buildings glowing when the flames come out
The lens flare on the car is wobbling around a bit and the smoke of the cigar is not affected by the ceiling fan, but these are the only two flaws I could spot. Well done.
It's a basic geometry nodes set-up. I just made a grid that instanced a different model from the collection at each point of the grid. Then I gave each one a random rotation. I used the math node's snapping function to ensure that the city blocks would only rotate at 90 degree angles.
@@DECODEDVFX I tried it out and it didnt worked. Now i looked back into the video and realised that the geometry nodes you used in the video are different (you can see that because in the image there is an size y connected to the input wich clearly isnt there in the video) can you send an updated image? love your Content btw :)
I mean you got close but if you really wanted to go all the way. Some procedural cloud data wouldn't have hurt along with the proper HDRI mapping. Not only that but doing a pass with some atmospheric volume might have helped as well as I feel your initial pass is a little too shiny. To really add on to the grunge and dystopia. That and a lot of the lighting just doesn't feel real to the scene especially with the fire effect not generating a light. It wouldn't have hurt to put an invisible light that flickers on and off with the fire. Have you ever looked into proxy data for your models you can have like a bajillion polygons without it slowing your scene down. This was a good attempt although I feel like you could have pushed further in a few places. Your eyeball shots I just wanna say chef's kiss mwah! Also, I'm not saying I could do any better but these are just things that I felt were "off". I totally understand you had a deadline but like two more days and this could have been perfect. Good luck and keep doing what you do.
Yeah, a lot of stuff you mentioned was actually in the render but it either didn't show up, or it was absorbed by the volumetrics. For instance each flame has a flickering point light at it's base, which you can see at 13:14 onwards. Volumetics tend to swallow up any light at this scale. When the lightening strikes I timed a 500,000 watt point light to go off, illuminating the buildings. But in the final render you can barely see it.
@@DECODEDVFX I saw that what I meant is that It didn't illuminate the entire refinery spire-like in the original film. When the fire burst from the towers it should be illuminating the entire structure for a moment before dimming entirely.
Very cool stuff man! I am making film scene recreation too but just one frame. Cannot even imagine doing a shot lol Huge respect! May I ask when you make a video, would you record your voice first and cut recordings or you are voice overing the edit? As I am trying to change my recording style for my channel I am very curious to know! Sorry if it is too much to ask.
Thanks. I usually cut together a basic timeline from the footage I've recorded, then I go through that and make bullet points about the parts I want to cover. Once I've got that, I record the audio. Then it's just a case of going through the audio line by line and matching it up to the appropriate footage. I usually have to record extra stuff to fill in the blanks. It isn't a very fast way to work, but it's the most efficient workflow I've found for the style of video I make. Most videos take me 5-10 hours to edit.
@@DECODEDVFX Thank you for your kind reply. That is a pure dedication for the edit and surely it is paying off. It deserves the audience. Thank you for sharing and I hope to see more contents from you!
Try tackling something with more hair particles, like a bear or tiger or something. That'll be a real challenge i bet (And i wanna get tips on how to render fur myself haha)
i know they used actual physical models for this film and i think that's the secret. just because you CAN do something in digital 3D, it doesn't mean you should. nonetheless, this is very good.
I think they used a forced perspective on city scene. Farther buildings are physically smaller, to make them look even more distant. This is not a critique - Your videos are great!
If you haven't seen Corridor Crew interview Adam Savage a week back, you absolutely owe it to yourself. Adam gives some inside info about the exterior Blade Runner scenes. ua-cam.com/video/1W1gH8CueHk/v-deo.html It's a FANTASTIC interview from start to finish. You're welcome.
While this is really impressive, the original scene was not THIS colorless. It seems the you even did the lights properly in your cityscape, but you killed the colors much more than the original.
Blender's volumetric system zaps a lot of the vibrancy out of lights (That's accurate to how light behaves in the real world). The movie shots didn't look like that because it's a miniature, so all of the lights are actually quite close to the camera. I could have replicated that look by compositing all of the lights onto the image in post I suppose, but I liked the way it looked as it was.
Y'all can finally stop asking me for a Blade Runner scene now.
lol both bladerunners are such gorgeous movies tho
Yeah, I was actually quite tempted to tackle a certain shot from the sequel, but it was far more complex that what I can achieve in a realistic period of time.
@@DECODEDVFX I want more Blade Runner Father!!!
@@DECODEDVFX Speaking of realistic period of time: how long did it take you to build all this, starting from the moment you chose this specific scene? PS: love it!!
@@DECODEDVFX take all the time in the world but please recreate the scenes from the sequel.... I would really appreciate it
You know someone cares about detail when they make the ceiling fan wobble
I feel like I've gotten to where I can understand about 80% of what you're doing but that's a far cry from being able to do it on my own.
Great vids - very inspiring as to just how good final projects can be.
Same Haha
Same here.
The work paid off!, when the video started I didn't know if it was your recreation or an actual scene from the movie!
Thank you!
This is fantastic, been playing around with some of these tools for blender so watching this really does help cheers.
This isn't Blade Runner...
This is Blend Runner. XD
(Great work btw. Everything looks so cool)
Loved seeing all the work arounds you did to get what you wanted out of each scene without overloading your computer. Great stuff!
Anyone from old school LightWave days remember the Blade Runner Tyrell Corp yramid/ziggurat scene? This brought me back.
Same! Rendered that scene many many times.
Speaking of LW, I chuckled a bit when he said motion blur added 3s/frame. I remember when it doubled render times, which were generally hours per frame at the time for me(486DX-33MHz).
Been watching Blade Runner Blender videos since november and happy to see new one!
I find the Blade Runner style pretty nice and easy to pull off. The dark tones and dense volumetrics give you a lot of freedom to not care that much about details, yet have everything look convincing and cool because the darkness & fog help your brain fill out the empty spaces and lack of detailing.
Nice work on this one!
Wow! This is AWESOME 💘
I love it!
Wow that was an awesome effort. Really impressed with the results and the resourcefulness to get there. Who needs corridor crew anyway
Wow incredible! Wow. Thank you.
This looks great like Professional or expert grade . Great job . I wish I had that kind of skill .
Me too I will sacrifice anything to learn blender.
You’ve done a man’s job, sir.
Amazing work, that's absolutely outstanding.
This looks incredible!
amazing! this is my favorite movie
Awesome job!
Amazing as always man, keep it up!
Beautiful! I enjoyed it very much! Great work! Subscribed.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
Great work man, thank you!
Amazing job. Thanks for sharing.
Just one word: AMAZING! Congrats man. Loved it. :-)
Thanks a ton!
Bravo dude
Looks great! Funny enough i watched a video about bladerunner a few days ago!
I had to pick up my jaws from the floor!
Incredible work man.
Man this was so dope. Thanks so much fo sharing your experience, this was absolutely helpfully 💯🙏🙏🙏🍻🍻
well done looks great :O) always great seeing these, i'm sure i am not alone in saying these are useful for many learning so you can see the progress and see it done in Blender alone instead of in an out of paid software to achieve something that looks good enough to be on the way to do a full feature. it's really important, so well done!
Looks brilliant, great job :)
Thank you very much!
I love your videos so much it’s such a great watch, and I learn stuff about Blender along the way!
Awesome, thank you!
@@DECODEDVFX Np!
Totally amazing!
Cheers mate.
The lightning comes from outside the frame at 00:18? Awesome work though man!
Yeah, I know. I noticed it as soon as the video was published. Typical.
@@DECODEDVFX lol always the way 😆
Great fun!
I have been a huge fan of this movie for decades. I recently learned several new things about the FX photography for this film (40yrs later!) watching Adam Savage's appearance on The Corridor Crew on UA-cam (FX guys). You captured the essence of the shots really well. Only 2 things really stood out for me in a way that told me something was off: those blinking lights you added at the end stood out as not integrated into the depth and needed blurring or more effect from the mist. The only other feeling was of the sky deep BG which you don't seem to ever mention. There is a kind of permanent overcast but sunset at the horizon feel in Blade Runner's big shots.
With your progress becoming apparent each time soon enough you'll be tricking us by showing the reference footage you used to make a scene only to then reveal that THAT footage is ALSO your recreation! Maybe that could be a good challenge/game for everyone in the 3D artist community: A then B shots shown People have to pick the real one.
Keep up the great vids. You remain very inspiring to a newbie to 3D stuff like myself.
looks amazing
You are in a room, sitting on a can, pushing out a replicant, when all of a sudden the phone rings and you over to the side, noticing that there is no toilet paper left....
Totes amazeballs
Awesome like always 👍
Blender is truly incredible
I love this movie so much
At 0:18, the thunder above the letterbox hahaha. Great stuff though.
Incredible work! Very inspiring - also, 7:27 is there any addon which does low poly generation like this?
Not as far as I know, but I wouldn't be surprised if one exists.
Thanks for another awesome video D! Appreciate ya
like tears... in the, rain. 🌧️
Nice work!
Amazing!
This was awesome !! Personally on my rig my PC will die but I think the only thing you missed out on was the buildings glowing when the flames come out
The lens flare on the car is wobbling around a bit and the smoke of the cigar is not affected by the ceiling fan, but these are the only two flaws I could spot.
Well done.
"make the refinery fire with this simple trick"
my 1660 super: Take it easyyyy......
amazing video, all the steps.... awesome mate.
which RTX do you have (or had at the moment of the video)
When I made this video I had two 3090s I believe. Before that I had a 3070. I currently have a 4090.
@@DECODEDVFX thank you mate for answering.
Blend Runner
Wow.
In the beginning the storm trough the cinematic bar
Yeah, I know. I uploaded the wrong version. I noticed as soon as the video went live.
@@DECODEDVFX haha, but that's awesome dude. You're literally AMAZING
hell yeah!
cool video, though I had to stop as it just felt like a disguised Nvidia advert. Nice work tho
What did you do between 6:58 and 6:59 to get this randomized pattern for the city
It's a basic geometry nodes set-up. I just made a grid that instanced a different model from the collection at each point of the grid. Then I gave each one a random rotation. I used the math node's snapping function to ensure that the city blocks would only rotate at 90 degree angles.
@@DECODEDVFX Could you share a screenshot of the geometry nodes' node tree?
Sure. i.imgur.com/y6DjO94.jpg
@@DECODEDVFX I tried it out and it didnt worked. Now i looked back into the video and realised that the geometry nodes you used in the video are different (you can see that because in the image there is an size y connected to the input wich clearly isnt there in the video) can you send an updated image? love your Content btw :)
I mean you got close but if you really wanted to go all the way.
Some procedural cloud data wouldn't have hurt along with the proper HDRI mapping. Not only that but doing a pass with some atmospheric volume might have helped as well as I feel your initial pass is a little too shiny. To really add on to the grunge and dystopia. That and a lot of the lighting just doesn't feel real to the scene especially with the fire effect not generating a light. It wouldn't have hurt to put an invisible light that flickers on and off with the fire. Have you ever looked into proxy data for your models you can have like a bajillion polygons without it slowing your scene down. This was a good attempt although I feel like you could have pushed further in a few places. Your eyeball shots I just wanna say chef's kiss mwah!
Also, I'm not saying I could do any better but these are just things that I felt were "off". I totally understand you had a deadline but like two more days and this could have been perfect. Good luck and keep doing what you do.
Yeah, a lot of stuff you mentioned was actually in the render but it either didn't show up, or it was absorbed by the volumetrics. For instance each flame has a flickering point light at it's base, which you can see at 13:14 onwards.
Volumetics tend to swallow up any light at this scale. When the lightening strikes I timed a 500,000 watt point light to go off, illuminating the buildings. But in the final render you can barely see it.
@@DECODEDVFX I saw that what I meant is that It didn't illuminate the entire refinery spire-like in the original film. When the fire burst from the towers it should be illuminating the entire structure for a moment before dimming entirely.
Very cool stuff man! I am making film scene recreation too but just one frame. Cannot even imagine doing a shot lol Huge respect! May I ask when you make a video, would you record your voice first and cut recordings or you are voice overing the edit? As I am trying to change my recording style for my channel I am very curious to know! Sorry if it is too much to ask.
Thanks.
I usually cut together a basic timeline from the footage I've recorded, then I go through that and make bullet points about the parts I want to cover. Once I've got that, I record the audio. Then it's just a case of going through the audio line by line and matching it up to the appropriate footage. I usually have to record extra stuff to fill in the blanks.
It isn't a very fast way to work, but it's the most efficient workflow I've found for the style of video I make. Most videos take me 5-10 hours to edit.
@@DECODEDVFX Thank you for your kind reply. That is a pure dedication for the edit and surely it is paying off. It deserves the audience. Thank you for sharing and I hope to see more contents from you!
Thank you. I've been really enjoying your videos.
@@DECODEDVFX That is so sweet of you. Thanks!
Where do I get the program that you used to create the ziggurat displacement maps?
windmillart.net/?p=jsplacement
Try tackling something with more hair particles, like a bear or tiger or something. That'll be a real challenge i bet (And i wanna get tips on how to render fur myself haha)
génial !
goodly
How many years of experience do you have with 3D?
Can you give us the link to that free texturing program? Can't seem to find it.
I must have forgot the link. windmillart.net/?p=jsplacement
@@DECODEDVFX Cool... thanks.
How long did this project take?
I'm not sure exactly. It was made over a few weeks but I had other projects going at the same time. It was a lot of hours though
Keep in mind that's the "new" Spinner from the Denis Villaneuve Bladerunner movie, not the original design.
The part of the city that is brightest looks like water in the final render. Otherwise, nice job.
Understood you totally man. (and that's ALL i can do )
i know they used actual physical models for this film and i think that's the secret. just because you CAN do something in digital 3D, it doesn't mean you should. nonetheless, this is very good.
This is the old Bladerunner, this would havbe been impossible at the time, with CG
I think they used a forced perspective on city scene. Farther buildings are physically smaller, to make them look even more distant.
This is not a critique - Your videos are great!
Sir what is your pc configuration..?
Ryzen 5950x, two RTX 3090s, 32GB RAM, 3TB SSD storage.
Should be called Blender runner
wow, your pc renders so fast, it takes mine like 10 hours for 250 frames at only 200 samples....
If you haven't seen Corridor Crew interview Adam Savage a week back, you absolutely owe it to yourself. Adam gives some inside info about the exterior Blade Runner scenes.
ua-cam.com/video/1W1gH8CueHk/v-deo.html
It's a FANTASTIC interview from start to finish. You're welcome.
Yes, I've seen it. It's really good.
jesus bro
Now to recreate the missing shots from David Lynch's Dune. Ha ha ha...
When you say "this video was sponsored by Nvidia", can you elaborate? Do they pay you? If so how much. Do they give you GPUs, if so which one(s)?
Yes, sponsored videos are paid for by the sponsoring company (in this case Nvidia and Scan). I have two RTX 3090s in my workstation.
sneed feed
I'm the 800 like bruh
While this is really impressive, the original scene was not THIS colorless. It seems the you even did the lights properly in your cityscape, but you killed the colors much more than the original.
Blender's volumetric system zaps a lot of the vibrancy out of lights (That's accurate to how light behaves in the real world). The movie shots didn't look like that because it's a miniature, so all of the lights are actually quite close to the camera. I could have replicated that look by compositing all of the lights onto the image in post I suppose, but I liked the way it looked as it was.
CBB
Why
vhat?
Help me!
I feel the urge to write “first”
The scale looks completely off. Its like its filming a miniature.
It should. I'm literally replicating a miniature...
@@DECODEDVFX yes but it shouldn't look like its the size of a table. Its because most of the edges are out of focus makes it look tiny tiny.
lol so cheesy
Blend Runner