Creating «The Helldive» in Blender and Fusion

I made my own version of the Helldive scene from Helldivers 2 using visual effects like Projection mapping, Re-entry VFX, particle smoke, and more!
Here's a timelapse showing how it was done.
Work done in Blender and Blackmagic Fusion.
Total time taken: 30 hours.
0:00 Texturing 3D Models in Blender
4:28 Animating in Blender
6:20 3D Compositing in Fusion
8:00 Creating Re-Entry Effect
11:55 3D Compositing the background
3D Models used:
Hellpod: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/h...
Super Destroyer: makerworld.com/en/models/2308...
Planet: • Create Cinematic Proce...
Hope you enjoy!
#helldivers2 #vfx #blender3d #3danimation #compositing

Пікірлер: 64

  • @josiahvalentine3430
    @josiahvalentine34302 ай бұрын

    I've been using fusion forever but never for things this in-depth... I gotta get on it haha this is incredible

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks alot! Fusion is capable of quite alot! It’s my favorite tool to work with atm, and I feel like I am barely scratching the surface 😅

  • @GyanPrakash
    @GyanPrakash2 ай бұрын

    That's RAW TALENT right there 😊

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you and thanks for watching!

  • @AjaythedogMale1606
    @AjaythedogMale16062 ай бұрын

    Legendary workflow

  • @ProMentalStudios
    @ProMentalStudios2 ай бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @rickyy_shenn
    @rickyy_shenn2 ай бұрын

    So cool bro, I just started using fusion as my compositor too

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    It’s an extremely powerful tool!

  • @FractalNoize
    @FractalNoize2 ай бұрын

    Very Cinematic

  • @Templar_of_Starcraft
    @Templar_of_Starcraft2 ай бұрын

    VERY COOLL THANKS fOR JOB

  • @apatsa_basiteni
    @apatsa_basiteni2 ай бұрын

    Scaringly good work❤❤🔥🔥

  • @EyesWideShotGaming
    @EyesWideShotGaming2 ай бұрын

    You're insane...this is absolutely amazing, great work, love the breakdown....would love to collab with you on a video if you're ever up for it! This is a skill that is beyond useful!

  • @user-ol6dk1os1v
    @user-ol6dk1os1v2 ай бұрын

    讓人驚艷,如果官方採用我會很開心😂

  • @justchris846
    @justchris8462 ай бұрын

    YOU did this? .............wow

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    Hahah!

  • @horle
    @horle2 ай бұрын

    This is awesome. I wonder how you get the models from the game. How do you extract them? I guess you just refine them in Blender and did not model them from scratch? Kept up with the great work!

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    Links are in description :)

  • @binyaminbass
    @binyaminbass2 ай бұрын

    Wow, so much done in fusion! I’ve been trying to get everything done in blender (backgrounds, fax) and using DR only for I can’t do in blender. But this approach looks very appealing; seems to allow for much more flexibility and makes it more manageable by not front loading everything into one blend file. Do you think your process takes longer?

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    It all depends! This process is very useful if you are working with heavy scenes that takes a lot of time to render in Blender. This cuts down render time massively. If you have a gpu with limited memory, this workflow here is a great way to avoid «System out of GPU Memory» error message when trying to render from Blender. Rendering this from Fusion takes like 2 seconds a frame, so it’s pretty good.

  • @binyaminbass

    @binyaminbass

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@skullbrew_ I'm usually pretty good for VRAM, but shorter render times does sound nice. Guess I gotta deep Fusion to my long list of things I need to learn. Thank you for showing off how powerful this is!

  • @Double-Mjay
    @Double-Mjay2 ай бұрын

    Really great! But you're going to hard on the DoF - especially on the first shot.

  • @destroyergameryt1028
    @destroyergameryt10282 ай бұрын

    Bro you are good but do you neeed to know about orbital Mechanics

  • @DavidRamos-fh7qn
    @DavidRamos-fh7qn2 ай бұрын

    awesome stuff! I am fairly new to blender and I was trying to recreate the re-entry purely with blender and i noticed you used fusion..do you think this is possible only using blender?

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    Absolutely! Same baseline technique as well. Create the «re-entry mesh», then add noise textures to it

  • @MackinnonProductions_
    @MackinnonProductions_2 ай бұрын

    Do you work with people collaboration wise and do you charge $$ for your work? Really amazing stuff!

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I definetely would work freelance if I wasn’t already employed full time doing vfx/cinematography/editing.

  • @MackinnonProductions_

    @MackinnonProductions_

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_ understandable. Would’ve loved to work with ya but keep you the amazing work!!

  • @David-hi9rp
    @David-hi9rp2 ай бұрын

    Can I ask from Beginning first start to this level how long has it taken you in Blender to get there? I have tried but its kinda to many buttons and menus and i know most software is the same Eg MAYA scares me but i do use SOLIDWORKS Help Please

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    In Blender only? I think maybe 3-4 years. But I’ve been doing compositing for many, many years.

  • @doughnut5286
    @doughnut52862 ай бұрын

    Wow bro... i thought it just compositing in fusion, but its 3D in Fusion too.... I never using it as 3D render before because its not that great because only OpenGL and not that "realistic" , but damn feels like im gonna try it....

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    The magic happens when you combine compositing and 3D!

  • @mylesprospero8105
    @mylesprospero81052 ай бұрын

    What was your learning journey like? because I want to create scenes to make my own music videos and I don’t know when I am ready to move on from modelling in blender

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    I’ve been using After Effects pretty regularly since I was an 8th grader, used a pirated copy of CS4 and did all Video Copilot tutorials by Andrew Kramer. So I did compositing for 10-15 years in AE, but followed Blender Guru’s doughnut tutorial for Blender, learned that, and then decided to learn Fusion as well. After Effects felt incredibly slow and chuggy to me and I craved something better. Fusion became the answer. I then watched all fusion tutorials I could find to learn it. I already knew 2D compositing pretty good from doing it all those years, so it was learning how Fusion worked with the nodes and stuff that I had the most issues with. But I finally came to a point where in my daily work (vfx comp) I started to rely more on Fusion than AE, and started to drop AE entirely after a while. Did this answer your question?

  • @thuvanhuynh5377
    @thuvanhuynh53772 ай бұрын

    Hope you make a slow tutorial for this. Love!!!!

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    There are too many things and techniques in here to make a tutorial 😅 The work alone took 30 hours, the tutorial would be 100 hours long 😅 But I could consider making tutorials on topics and techniques used here

  • @carlz0206

    @carlz0206

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_ can you do one about the workflow or process getting all that from blender to Fusion? been trying to do that but cant figure out how it works. Awesome workflow and thank you for sharing.

  • @spaceexpireaudio666
    @spaceexpireaudio6662 ай бұрын

    how much time rendering per frame in Cycles? Definitely would be too long with my RTX 3060 TI. Looks like I really need to learn 3d compositing in Fusion. So far I only use it only for certain effects and chroma keying.

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    The whole foreground sequence of the pods took 3.5 hours to render. It was 850 frames, rendered on a rtx 4070. The ships were just still frames that I projected back onto geo in Fusion. The geo was an Alembic file

  • @spaceexpireaudio666

    @spaceexpireaudio666

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_ interesting, thanks!

  • @MostellarStudio

    @MostellarStudio

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_ Awesome dude, I've got the RTX 4070 too, that's good to know. Awesome job by the way.

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    @@MostellarStudio Thanks!

  • @EMNM66
    @EMNM662 ай бұрын

    Where did you learn fusion from? This looks complex 😢

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    I read the manual

  • @EMNM66

    @EMNM66

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_ hmm could you help me understand how to approach fusion, where do I start as a noob

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    @@EMNM66 What would you like to do? I think you should start with a specific project you wanna do, then search up tutorials on how to do it in Fusion. Pirates of Confusion (youtube channel) is a great channel, so is Casey Faris. VFX Study is also a channel with great knowledge. So is Statix Vfx. So many 😅

  • @EMNM66

    @EMNM66

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_ thank you, were you able to learn everything from YT, or any course you have taken?

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    No course. Back in 2008 I started with After Effects and did all Video Copilot tutorials. Quit After Effects 3 years ago, and decided to step up my game. Watched KZread tutorials for Fusion only. But seriously though, reading the manual did magic. Not the entire thing, but sections on the different nodes etc

  • @tnbn55
    @tnbn552 ай бұрын

    Or just create it and travel the galaxy in it with Empyrion Galaxy

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    ….what?

  • @jicksdzn5394
    @jicksdzn53942 ай бұрын

    Where u learn fusion bro?

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    3-4 years ago, After Effects was making me tear my own hair out at work, and seriously started getting in the way of deadlines because of how chuggy and slow it was. Turned out Fusion was GPU accelerated, so I spent all my free time trying to learn nodes, watching tutorials and actually ended up reading the manual alot. Something finally clicked, and I could replace After Effects for good. Never looked back. Using Fusion almost daily in my day job helps one learn faster too, I suppose 😅

  • @MrZiaKoz
    @MrZiaKoz2 ай бұрын

    You can't get as much bokeh on distances like this unless you want to create a model effect

  • @greywolf9587
    @greywolf95872 ай бұрын

    music? sauce?

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/hGmcpc2hYqSuZZs.htmlsi=-_4RfWyON-BNLAwa

  • @greywolf9587

    @greywolf9587

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_ not all heroes wear capes...

  • @poopiecon1489
    @poopiecon14892 ай бұрын

    subbed

  • @poopiecon1489
    @poopiecon14892 ай бұрын

    can i have the fusion file ?

  • @poopiecon1489

    @poopiecon1489

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_ study it , nd play with it

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    You know what, I’ll give it to you if you still want it 🤓

  • @NiallWoods347

    @NiallWoods347

    2 ай бұрын

    @@skullbrew_I second this pretty please 😅

  • @skullbrew_

    @skullbrew_

    2 ай бұрын

    we.tl/t-Sc1oQ6IBl4