As a filmmaker, I'm always gobsmacked at how technology is expanding our prospects for what's visually possible. It's great that you don't necessarily need to resort to just slapping a blue filter on your footage anymore to achieve a nighttime effect.
Had to give this a like for the roto work alone. Respectfully. Been following you guys for almost a decade. Have evolved right along with you. Thank you for all you’ve given to this community.
This is quite possibly the most advanced and difficult tutorial I've ever seen them make and while I probably won't attempt this at all I had a blast watching it.
This feels like a lot of this work would have been easier to mask and edit this in photoshop and then bring it into After Effects for the final comp. Save some render time too. But always great stuff!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking but maybe because they reuse the masks throughout the comp, it makes easier to do it in AFX . The auto mask feature in photoshop is really good now a days too. You can knock out a large chunk of that masking work quick.
This looks ungodly amazing. I do wonder if the fog is the only moving part of the image, would it have been easier to create everything in Photoshop as separate PNGs for the layers, then bring it in to After Effects for composite? Haven't thought that through entirely so maybe there's a problem doing it that way, but that was one of my initial thoughts watching all the masking. Either way, you guys killed this! It looks freaking awesome!
You can actually just bring your entire photoshop file into after effects rather than exporting PNGs, granted you will have to be careful when managing your smart objects and organizing layers. I think the point they tried to make here is that you can use these compositing tools in After Effects to do this, but to take it that step further with actual video you'd have track the shot, but in the end it'll be the same process.
Love this one! Even though it looks like it had to take a crazy amount of hours, there's something less intimidating about starting with just a single image instead of a bunch of different assets.
I'm not a filmmaker or videographer but I am a photographer and retoucher. And all i can say is each day to night is different and you'll have to be ready to re-invent the wheel everytime. I'm taking a lot from this!
I feel like bringing the image into photo shop and separating the elements there would literally save hours, just by having multiple tools to make selections rather than just the pen tool. Once the selections are separated bring the PSD file into after effects as layers and just use the auto trace option under the layers menu to create your masks
I’ve watched every single episode of your channel. I love it have learned so much from you guys. Have you ever done a video on actor pay percentages? Getting ready to start my first feature project and I’m curious how to base their pay.
This is an amazing, comprehensive, look at how to turn a stock image from day to night. Your attention to detail is extraordinary. You really exposed a lot. Very well done. Now, I need you to do it again but this time with a video. And add some people, and maybe a car with headlights. Ok, thanks!😄
😮This had to take at least a month if not more to pull off! To say that you luv what you do would be an understatement x10. All that work put into one photo... wow!!!!! No way I'm doing that, so with that being said, you guys are walking GODS at what you do!
Ryan, always as cool as expected. I saw this video 3 times and no need a painkiller because of headache. Great job. It's "low budget" but not "low skills". I wish there was a more simple method for an overall look 😢. But yeah layers. matter. Thanks AGAIN Film Riot. ❤
This is so great and I would have loved to learn this a few years ago. It definitely opens up the world to have these exterior establishing shots and have them look so real
from an old fan follower, for the first time questioning, Why you are using Mercury software only instead of taking the power of GPU Acceleration in your project ? Does that make a difference in your render in this particular scene? Thank you 9:37
Facts 😂 😂 Knowing me I would've probably thew my day/night lut on that thing, made a few adjustments with a duplicate and be good after 2-3 mins lol. I respect the Work from not only these guys but ALL Filmmakers and editors, amazing to watch talented people do what they do.
The tilt was unnecessary, because it was a still image. Tilting the image did not help with creating the illusion that it was 3D. Making the image static but keeping the fog moving should be a better option to achieve that 3D illusion. However, everything else looks so gorgeous! Well done!
Love the final look. Props on the masking effort, but why not cut out the layers in Photoshop? I feel like it could save some time? Maybe not? Feathering would be a bit different I guess, which could have its own time sink.
I feel it could have been done A LOT easier on the masking front, actually. If only after effects had this amazing masking tool called Rotobrush... Oh wait.
can you guys maybe make a tutorial how to make a moving light source flicker such as a flashlight? I've only found tutorials that use stationary lights/lamps that wouldn't translate well into moving lights.
Thanks for the video. Happy Halloween. How time has passed. Good riddance. 10+ years. Casually remembering Dave Dugdale right now, it is 10:47 PM and I am about to go to bed. Had been waiting to come back to finish watching this video for a few days.
"ENEMY" ( Dennis Villeneuve) Minute 64 The film has an excellent effect... jake is shown interacting with his dupleganger in a very realistic way. Could you replicate it?
OR... You use almost every DaVinci Resolve and Fusion AI features to avoid all your so 2000's precomps of precomps ;) , and ... make your different selections/mattes with the Magic Mask (roto ? seriously in 2023 ?), add a Depth Map node to isolate elements and make a Z depth in your scene, to finally use Relight which will allow you to take volumes into account when putting realistic lights here and there... And of course, as you're smart, you quickly choose to make the whole thing in Fusion, because you prefer dragging a long pipe from the node of one specific spot - where you did half of the selection job yet - and don't want 20 layers to dig back into to get back what you need 😉. In the end, as you're even smarter and have added some foxy MediaOut nodes at specific spots in your node flow, you'll find them back in Resolve to separately grade each element you like in a serious grading app 😃 Ok, though it was a real advice here, I stop my sarcastic tone now just to share my surprise with you : I know you're kind of worshiping AE for different reasons no one has to really comment (habit, length of service, etc etc), but really, don't you think you could switch to anything nodal when absolutely every criteria of a specific job shows you you'd be way more comfortable with ? Did you for example count the number of "copy & paste" stuff you're talking about ? 😛 Anyway, I still enjoy your topics and tone, thx for everyhing ;)
yes davinci is killer to do this same effect at a simple level instead of the layer format adobe has, but hey its all in the end results. So I guess people won't know what they are missing until they experiment with davinci effects.
@@edy5082 Well, this is correct but I sometimes feel that it's nicer to explain a bit what's missed... I think a lot knows or has heard about nodes being a lot stronger than layers, reason why the industry doesn't use AE ( type this site URL and this after :) /watch?v=lKQIN7hZt3I&t=520s ) , but instead of specific apps names, I find it better to explain WHY people should give a try to nodes :)
You all always impress me without how much you can clutter your videos with ads and unrelated fluff. i miss your old videos where it was just solid tutorials by talented people.
Or you can just take your cheap day for night color corrected Image to Stable diffusion as img2img and ask it to finish it for you and then generate a depth matte from the same AI and use that as a depth mask for different fog stock footage and then ask it to generate another version as a ref and color correct your fog and image based on it... (For all this to work you might spend more time crafting a prompt than the time it would've taken you to create all those masks)
This is so far from the original shot it kind of looks unreal in its own way. The final result has an AI generated feel, respect for the insane levels of effort and experimentation alone here though.
As a filmmaker, I'm always gobsmacked at how technology is expanding our prospects for what's visually possible. It's great that you don't necessarily need to resort to just slapping a blue filter on your footage anymore to achieve a nighttime effect.
Had to give this a like for the roto work alone. Respectfully.
Been following you guys for almost a decade. Have evolved right along with you. Thank you for all you’ve given to this community.
This is quite possibly the most advanced and difficult tutorial I've ever seen them make and while I probably won't attempt this at all I had a blast watching it.
This feels like a lot of this work would have been easier to mask and edit this in photoshop and then bring it into After Effects for the final comp. Save some render time too. But always great stuff!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking but maybe because they reuse the masks throughout the comp, it makes easier to do it in AFX . The auto mask feature in photoshop is really good now a days too. You can knock out a large chunk of that masking work quick.
This looks ungodly amazing. I do wonder if the fog is the only moving part of the image, would it have been easier to create everything in Photoshop as separate PNGs for the layers, then bring it in to After Effects for composite? Haven't thought that through entirely so maybe there's a problem doing it that way, but that was one of my initial thoughts watching all the masking. Either way, you guys killed this! It looks freaking awesome!
Yeah, good question.
Old habits are hard to change, perhaps?
You can actually just bring your entire photoshop file into after effects rather than exporting PNGs, granted you will have to be careful when managing your smart objects and organizing layers. I think the point they tried to make here is that you can use these compositing tools in After Effects to do this, but to take it that step further with actual video you'd have track the shot, but in the end it'll be the same process.
Love this one! Even though it looks like it had to take a crazy amount of hours, there's something less intimidating about starting with just a single image instead of a bunch of different assets.
This is legit one of my favorite episodes from you guys, this is great.
I'm not a filmmaker or videographer but I am a photographer and retoucher. And all i can say is each day to night is different and you'll have to be ready to re-invent the wheel everytime.
I'm taking a lot from this!
Always tricky to get Day-for-Night right, great tips
I feel like bringing the image into photo shop and separating the elements there would literally save hours, just by having multiple tools to make selections rather than just the pen tool. Once the selections are separated bring the PSD file into after effects as layers and just use the auto trace option under the layers menu to create your masks
Turbulent displace will never fail to put a smile on my face
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I actually learned a lot of interesting techniques that I’ve been curious about for a while now.
I’ve watched every single episode of your channel. I love it have learned so much from you guys. Have you ever done a video on actor pay percentages?
Getting ready to start my first feature project and I’m curious how to base their pay.
This is perfect for a project that I'm literally working on right now! Thank you Film Riot!
Excellent! That amount of work definitely produced a terrific look.
The Goo Goo Dolls/Masking montage was COMPLETELY gratuitous! Please MORE gratuitous moments! Loved it!
This is definitely and by far the most EPIC day for night tutorial i've ever seen! HUGE PROPS and THANK YOU!
10+ years following your channel and still turbulent displacement meme cracks me up lol
most in depth tuto i've seen to recreate a night scene, result is impressive
You guys always get me with Turbulent Displacement 😂 Every. single. time.
Great episode as per usual. Keep up the good work.
Thompson has my undying gratitude.
Results are crazy good with this technique!
Nice content
Wow this was fantastic. Great results. There is so many meh day-for-night shots in major Hollywood films.
This is an amazing, comprehensive, look at how to turn a stock image from day to night. Your attention to detail is extraordinary. You really exposed a lot. Very well done.
Now, I need you to do it again but this time with a video. And add some people, and maybe a car with headlights.
Ok, thanks!😄
You make it look so easy but wow that's complex
For you it looks easy???
😮This had to take at least a month if not more to pull off! To say that you luv what you do would be an understatement x10. All that work put into one photo... wow!!!!! No way I'm doing that, so with that being said, you guys are walking GODS at what you do!
Yeah I'm surprised they didn't. Use channel combiner to isolate some of the areas
channel combiner ? @@rpgmakerbloodytutorials9486
Ryan, always as cool as expected. I saw this video 3 times and no need a painkiller because of headache. Great job. It's "low budget" but not "low skills". I wish there was a more simple method for an overall look 😢. But yeah layers. matter. Thanks AGAIN Film Riot. ❤
What I mainly got out of this was - hire a vfx specialist. 😂 Nice results!
Final result is amazing. Thanks for these hacks. Appreciate your hardwork, guys.
Wow, this tutorial is pretty deep! Great results! love it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.... Thompson RULES... LOL
Warms my heart to see turbulent displacement.
All of that clipping is a form of torture!! 😢😂
Blown away by the results
This is so great and I would have loved to learn this a few years ago. It definitely opens up the world to have these exterior establishing shots and have them look so real
from an old fan follower, for the first time questioning, Why you are using Mercury software only instead of taking the power of GPU Acceleration in your project ? Does that make a difference in your render in this particular scene? Thank you 9:37
My god this is insanely cool.
Wow incredible! I always enjoy seeing your videos!
You guys are talented and fun. But I wish FR was more of a Davinci Resolve shop😎
Only the Real Ones stopped everything when that Turbulent Displacement dropped 🍻
You gotta make the Loki season 2 color grading it’s super cool
You guys are so goofy. Always have been. I love it 😻
That was incredible!
Turbulent Displace! 🤘 😎 (headbanging)
this went way over my head but it's still cool!
This is officially the most complicated film riot tutorial I've ever watched😂😂, but so amazing
When does the Black Friday sale start for the Triune store?
I think it really would have been easier to shoot that scene at night. But respect! 😉
Facts 😂 😂 Knowing me I would've probably thew my day/night lut on that thing, made a few adjustments with a duplicate and be good after 2-3 mins lol. I respect the Work from not only these guys but ALL Filmmakers and editors, amazing to watch talented people do what they do.
Wouldn't it be easier to fix the image in Photoshop? just wondering!
Ryan and Josh better still be making film riot videos when I’m in my elderly years or else I might die prematurly
Can you make a tutorial on how to make the world between worlds effect like in the Ahsoka show? It would be awesome! Thank you.
The tilt was unnecessary, because it was a still image. Tilting the image did not help with creating the illusion that it was 3D. Making the image static but keeping the fog moving should be a better option to achieve that 3D illusion. However, everything else looks so gorgeous! Well done!
@2:22 you said "why keeping" instead of "while keeping"...my wife says this too...and it drives me crazy. Stop it. lmao
Nice nice guys. When are you guys putting out a new short?
this is insane ong
I love when people do some photo manipulation using After Effects enstead of photoshop
I'm lighthing a candle for Thompson! 🕯
How would you do the Loki's "time slip" effect?
Holy smokes that was AMAZING! How long did this take???
No idea why UA-cam chooses not to send me notifications when you guys upload a new video, but ill keep checking back until they get it right
Happy Bloodtober! 🎃👻
Why u dont use photoshop to separated object
Have you seen the new relighting function in resolve?
Damn dude. I've done this sort of work but actually having the patience to make a tutorial this detailed would kill me. Good thing I'm not a teacher.
Love the final look. Props on the masking effort, but why not cut out the layers in Photoshop? I feel like it could save some time? Maybe not? Feathering would be a bit different I guess, which could have its own time sink.
I feel it could have been done A LOT easier on the masking front, actually. If only after effects had this amazing masking tool called Rotobrush... Oh wait.
absolutely insane...I don't think I'll be trying this any time soon haha but very cool to see
Superb !👌👌👌
Film State? Film State! It is time to bring it back!
truly amazing
I cannot believe you did this with stock images. The title does not do the video justice.
Nice job!
Sehr Cool!!
Can you do another version with Davinci Resolve?
Funny words, magic man 😂 (I'm not a vfx artist)
Amazing work.
can you guys maybe make a tutorial how to make a moving light source flicker such as a flashlight? I've only found tutorials that use stationary lights/lamps that wouldn't translate well into moving lights.
If the torch will be held by an actor I've done that by just having them actually make it flicker using the switch
Take a shot every time Ryan says "Masks"
incredibly awesome
Great information.
UA-cam channel selling
It's still wild hearing copyrighted music being licensed and allowed on UA-cam lol
Will we ever see another film challenge like y’all used to do?
Hey, could you guys do an episode on the demon voice in the new Exorcist movie? Thx
Amazing and why outsourcing is a real thing 🤣
Supercomp?
Haha ffs, the second time iris came in💀😂
can someone explain, why does he always use duplicate curve? (I'm still newbie)
Just easier to control than having it all on one curve, especially if you decide to change things later
Please do the spaghetti effect from the new season of Loki!
Amazing.
I need a nap after that.
Thanks for the video. Happy Halloween.
How time has passed. Good riddance. 10+ years. Casually remembering Dave Dugdale right now, it is 10:47 PM and I am about to go to bed. Had been waiting to come back to finish watching this video for a few days.
Easy Peasy nice and sleasy: this should only take ME around 247 ... YEARS TO DO! 😢😹🤣 C U then!
Nice!
"ENEMY" ( Dennis Villeneuve)
Minute 64
The film has an excellent effect... jake is shown interacting with his dupleganger in a very realistic way. Could you replicate it?
OR... You use almost every DaVinci Resolve and Fusion AI features to avoid all your so 2000's precomps of precomps ;) , and ... make your different selections/mattes with the Magic Mask (roto ? seriously in 2023 ?), add a Depth Map node to isolate elements and make a Z depth in your scene, to finally use Relight which will allow you to take volumes into account when putting realistic lights here and there...
And of course, as you're smart, you quickly choose to make the whole thing in Fusion, because you prefer dragging a long pipe from the node of one specific spot - where you did half of the selection job yet - and don't want 20 layers to dig back into to get back what you need 😉.
In the end, as you're even smarter and have added some foxy MediaOut nodes at specific spots in your node flow, you'll find them back in Resolve to separately grade each element you like in a serious grading app 😃
Ok, though it was a real advice here, I stop my sarcastic tone now just to share my surprise with you : I know you're kind of worshiping AE for different reasons no one has to really comment (habit, length of service, etc etc), but really, don't you think you could switch to anything nodal when absolutely every criteria of a specific job shows you you'd be way more comfortable with ? Did you for example count the number of "copy & paste" stuff you're talking about ? 😛
Anyway, I still enjoy your topics and tone, thx for everyhing ;)
yes davinci is killer to do this same effect at a simple level instead of the layer format adobe has, but hey its all in the end results. So I guess people won't know what they are missing until they experiment with davinci effects.
@@edy5082 Well, this is correct but I sometimes feel that it's nicer to explain a bit what's missed... I think a lot knows or has heard about nodes being a lot stronger than layers, reason why the industry doesn't use AE ( type this site URL and this after :) /watch?v=lKQIN7hZt3I&t=520s ) , but instead of specific apps names, I find it better to explain WHY people should give a try to nodes :)
Hey Flimroit will make Vedio on how to make horror movie on iPhone❤❤
Photoshop was invented in February 1990.
People before that date : 😄🤣😂
You all always impress me without how much you can clutter your videos with ads and unrelated fluff. i miss your old videos where it was just solid tutorials by talented people.
Or you can just take your cheap day for night color corrected Image to Stable diffusion as img2img and ask it to finish it for you and then generate a depth matte from the same AI and use that as a depth mask for different fog stock footage and then ask it to generate another version as a ref and color correct your fog and image based on it... (For all this to work you might spend more time crafting a prompt than the time it would've taken you to create all those masks)
Haha, didn't read this one... The depth map and BTW all the rest of AI stuff could be done in Resolve...
This is so far from the original shot it kind of looks unreal in its own way. The final result has an AI generated feel, respect for the insane levels of effort and experimentation alone here though.
Did the roto guy have to book into any therapy sessions after this?