Summary: Step 1. Get a free sky image from Unsplash Step 2. Plug the image into both the Base color and the Emission of the Principled BSDF Step 3. copy the rotation of the image plane to the camera (it's better to use the copy rotation constraint IMO) Step 4. Match the horizon line in the image to the horizon in your 3D scene Step 5. Use a sky texture (Nishita) for your environment Step 5. Turn off shadow visibility for the plane so it doesn't cast a massive shadow over your scene Step 6. Make sure the lighting in you scene roughly matches the lighting direction of the cloud image (or flip the cloud image horizontally to match your scene lights better)
@jxdzi
Жыл бұрын
Thanks mate will be saving that to the desktop
@thomasfrose
Жыл бұрын
Neat!
@tcapozzoli
Жыл бұрын
Could you please do that for all the tutorials I watch and forget? Lol…maybe chat gbt can do it?
@kiyu3229
9 ай бұрын
Idk why but my Sky texture is way to bright
@aniketgore0 Жыл бұрын
This channel has became one of my favorite so quickly. Thanks for the great content.
@RyCkS_
Жыл бұрын
it's my favorite too 🔥
@megan8494 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for not gatekeeping and sharing all of this AMAZING material with us.
@peterrandall6761 Жыл бұрын
You should definitely do a breakdown of the mountain sunset scene example you showed, the lighting is amazing. It'd be cool to see how you did it!
@Crimsin19937 Жыл бұрын
Scaling to flip the image seems so simple, but I never even considered that! Genius, my dude! Thanks a ton!
@TheWinterSoviet Жыл бұрын
I really like your 10 minute tutorials, they're incredibly useful. Keep going!
@jeremvfx Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much . As a beginner i've seen a lot of tutorial on how to model , render etc but nobody talks about the sky , so thats really helped me!
@abrarahmedcgi Жыл бұрын
Great to see Max sharing his techniques. Top class digital artist.
@thearcanamodernau8130 Жыл бұрын
Back when I was new to Blender I couldn't figure how to make HDRi's look good so I tried this and thought "huh, this seems like a pretty dumb fix but it works, I bet a professional would look at this and think it's a crappy trick". Thank you for confirming that sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
@sarahdeecreates4 ай бұрын
Neat little tutorial, Max. I wanna teach like you when I grow up :-)
@mr_pike4609 Жыл бұрын
I literally just spend the last 2 days trying and researching this. Thanks youtube but a bit late. Something I learned is that getting the mist pass to combine mountains with mountains from a photo can look really good! Edit: if you use this in an animation. Animating the top edge of the image a bit to the left or right using a shape key creates a cool parralalex effect. Gives the idea the clouds are moving.
@beyondus2508 Жыл бұрын
dude, you are a GOAT for uploading all these vids recently. thanks for sharing!
@Rockberries Жыл бұрын
I'm excited for the future of this channel mate, I'm glad I was early. Thanks for your valuable content, no bullshit, only solid and practical advice.
@sykobob Жыл бұрын
I'm finding these tutorials incredibly useful. Thank you
@drottningu Жыл бұрын
Instantly subscribed yesterday. This is now the best channel for blender content. Thanks for sharing with us.
@andrewjk87 Жыл бұрын
These are great man! I'm a c4d user but all these techniques and practices still apply!
@BeautempsTW Жыл бұрын
Awesome ! This channel is an open window to a world of possibilities. Thank you again for sharing this
@puntloosPD Жыл бұрын
wow channel has been only posting 1 month and already very high quality tutorials and absolutely necessary ones
@bbvenancio Жыл бұрын
Don't forget to set the roughness to 1 so the image doesn't look washed out. Also you can put a hue/saturarion node to make tweak the colors a little bit.
@DouArts Жыл бұрын
Damn, Max's getting consistent. Excited for your future content bro!👀
@ThePaddingtonsChannel Жыл бұрын
The addon "Import Images as Planes" would make it even easier since it automatically sizes the plane to the image aspect ratio, no UV stretching... Also you could still mix this with HDRi s to get realistic environment lighting. Although "free" HDRi are more difficult to find.
@APRICEPRODUCTION
Жыл бұрын
AmbientCG has an awesome collection of free HDRi and textures check them out :)
@littleanswers1370
11 ай бұрын
polyhaven
@littleanswers1370
11 ай бұрын
free 8k images
@blubb12blubb3 Жыл бұрын
so simple yet so genius, thanks!
@bernard93 Жыл бұрын
You got my sub. Thanks for the info. Straight to the point and ain't confusing. Looking forward
@HunterL850 Жыл бұрын
I’m so glad your channel was in my recommended! Your walkthroughs are great!
@vladyslavriabchenko333 Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I have been searching for!! Thank you for the amazing tutorial, Max!
@hot.cheetos Жыл бұрын
holy ur channel is growing fast. good job man, really fun to watch these
@Graphical_Gurujii Жыл бұрын
i am actually doing this from so long, this saves a lot of time
@omkarprabhu777 Жыл бұрын
I knew about using images as backgrounds, but parenting it to camera trick is just great, I will definitely use that from now on.
@beofonemind Жыл бұрын
thanks for teaching this to me, what a great technique.
@bujedo.j2091 Жыл бұрын
If you want to copy another object rotation, you can add an object constraint and click on copy rotation. Great video!
@grootproductions9773 Жыл бұрын
This guy is going places! Mark my words!
@CritelliArt Жыл бұрын
Cube unwrap squad unite! Nice work. I know how to do this stuff but never put it all together like this. You could also add the image as a background on the camera but you can't control the brightness of it. Thanks!
@glenmenas94246 ай бұрын
Great video 👍
@blenderguyvideos6 ай бұрын
Very useful for me whos blender knowledge is only 2 months. Subscribed for sure 🙏
@K3W_HD Жыл бұрын
Been using blender for 3+ years and after watching countless blender videos, I consider this channel to be second only to Ian Hubert imo
@yodajo8728 Жыл бұрын
i discovered your channel 5 mins. ago, instantly subscribed
@ryandinh4238 Жыл бұрын
I always ask around when I see people post of a render with beautiful sky yet for some reason they never care to answer. Thank you, I think the sky is very important.
@mrak1133 Жыл бұрын
i searching whole yt for this tutorial , i learned a lot thanks for the tutorial sir
@seryozhailyas4 Жыл бұрын
This is what i need, thanks man. Keep it up 👍👍
@viveks. Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video man. Solved my most of the problems.
@deathtrap80 Жыл бұрын
Love your content bro, keep up the good work!
@clausbohm9807 Жыл бұрын
sssshhhhhhhhh! You are giving away all the secrets ... No really brilliant stuff you have here. Subscribed!
@doubleustudios2020 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Max! Keep up the great work. 😎
@arhamsulman4704 Жыл бұрын
MAN!!!!1 KEEP THESE COMING
@damianvanheerden143611 ай бұрын
I often do this now with more realistic renders like the one I posted two weeks ago on my twitter and Instagram accounts, if I had watched this sooner I could have applied it when I made the final renders instead of shuffling the plane around. Next time I try it out when I make a more realist render, Thanks for the tips in this video.
@JoshuaRappeneker Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for!
@neonasheed4490 Жыл бұрын
mate your tutorial are awesome!!!
@yugendommy153 Жыл бұрын
Great video Max! Thanks for the tips 🔥
@mini.aakash Жыл бұрын
Such a detailed tutorial 🥹 thank you so much for this tutorial
@STARU2U Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I love it :) I watched this video and just clicked subscribe
@Puckerization Жыл бұрын
Great tutorial. I'm liking the content you're providing....glad I subscribed.
@animzotic6672 Жыл бұрын
Aah...yes finally I can finish my render 🔥
@TopChannel1on1 Жыл бұрын
incredible
@agustincampagna Жыл бұрын
This video saved the day 👏
@SanOcelotl Жыл бұрын
For photorealistic resoults just use photos, easy
@ChrisChoiThird5 ай бұрын
Good tip.
@Groffili Жыл бұрын
Hm... Yes, admitted, this can give you some very beautiful and realistic results. Which is not that much of a surprise, when you _take_ something beautiful and realistic and just paste it into your scene. But from a video that had "create" and "in Blender" in the title, I had expected a bit more.
Жыл бұрын
Try Add ons -> Images as Planes That saves a lot of hassle with UVs etc
@markokovacevic3225 Жыл бұрын
Awesome content! I already see I'll be spending a lot of time on your channel :) Thank you for sharing!
@kseniazaks Жыл бұрын
thank youuuuuuu thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@cyrusshepherd4902 Жыл бұрын
You are awesome bro in everything 😘❤️🔥🙂
@ahmedshaab7544 Жыл бұрын
pls never stop making videos.
@ankitseth5821 Жыл бұрын
Ah really lovely tutorial ✨
@Ablumz2 ай бұрын
What about when you animate your camera to rotate on z axis in an animation?
@FulguroGeek Жыл бұрын
If you Image is not high resolution enough, you have plenty of Ai upscaling nowday that can bring your image up to 8k. great tutorial. thanks for the trick very usefull!
@vazzmatazz
Жыл бұрын
Make sure the upscaling "model" was trained to handle photos and/or textures specifically. Use a generic upscaler at your own risk.
@RomboutVersluijs Жыл бұрын
One downaide with using it as a plane in the backgrt and as an emitfer is that the image looks much flatter in terms of contrast. I boticed the image looks much better when it was open in the uv editor. Why not add it comp later to keep the contrast? You can always render thr image transparent and use the backdrop plane only as visual reference
@maximedersoir7055 Жыл бұрын
That's amazing, but now I have an issue where it's one of my objects that is casting a shadow onto the sky plane! Is there a way in the object settings/material settings to have it not receive shadows?
@caluuumero Жыл бұрын
amazing job, thx dude
@TenaciousDM Жыл бұрын
These tips are amazing. I have no excuse to not be making stuff now haha
@kshitijbhate2723 Жыл бұрын
Your tutorials have been awesome but I would like to add a catch to this. Sometimes when you really want those indirect lighting details, you don't get it by this method, so in solution for this use sky texture for the direct lightning and thus indirect lighting from the direct ones, and you also add your hdri with mix rgb that will provide you more indirect lighting information, cause what I think is, proper indirect lighting is responsible for photorealism and also cinematic look, if you get your indirect lighting wrong , the render will look more like render and less photoreal. Hope this helps
@andrey.003 Жыл бұрын
nice tutorial. would you please also give some recommendations where we can get urban building facade images to use then as windows background in interior renders? thanks
@aaa.academy.3d Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this man really usefull
Жыл бұрын
Very good ! Thanks !
@jvsonyt Жыл бұрын
"and thats it" video done at 1:01
@s0pn1L Жыл бұрын
U can jus use copy loc constraint if ur camera shakes
@BibliaMinecraft Жыл бұрын
do you have tutorial for such a great water?
@tcapozzoli Жыл бұрын
Love your tuts…simple and to the point explaining the how/why. One question, do these work in animated scenes just as well or just reserved for stills?
@alexxxx1448 Жыл бұрын
Might God bless you !🙏🏼🙏🏼🔥🔥👍🏼👍🏼
@jannovak6987 Жыл бұрын
genius idea
@mostlyharmless8811 ай бұрын
and .... what if you move the camera? So in feature film VFX we often do this in Nuke, but instead of sticking it on a plane, we project onto Spheres, ideally you have a spherical stitches texture as well. That way the camera can pan freely.
@daishin8492 Жыл бұрын
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss keep making videos
@prasadjArt
Жыл бұрын
Yasssss
@kevinjlakner2 ай бұрын
Hey In my Principled BSDF I don´t have the circle in emission to connect it, only have emission with a dropdown with color and strength, How do I change it?
@kdom4953 Жыл бұрын
How did you make the ground , the reflection is majestic ,
@dawidbuchalski3585 Жыл бұрын
Would you make tutorial about realistic water?
@LeppikVideo
Жыл бұрын
Same. Please share the realistic water secret!
@kiyu3229
9 ай бұрын
Chuckcg made a tutorial About that
@USBEN. Жыл бұрын
Lol i just asked this yesterday. Thankyou.
@RezZx.1308 Жыл бұрын
Could you do a tutorial on the second example you put up please? This is incredible!
@jasonseng888 Жыл бұрын
I love your tutorial so much!Can you make a video about how to make fog or clouds to your senses?
@Manlike_J Жыл бұрын
Ayo thanks sensei
@hassaan25 Жыл бұрын
How do i make a night scene with sky texture?
@AdebowaleAdebayo-xp3cfАй бұрын
what if the light in the sky picture is coming from like behind the clouds and not from the left or right
@scorch- Жыл бұрын
W Video
@sleeepin Жыл бұрын
can you make a quick tutorial for output render settings and best optimization. My renders are always pixelated when i zoom in
@clarissa8804 Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@Searly Жыл бұрын
hey, i have a question... how have you got that second viewport showing the rendered view with the camera perspective?
@guttersnipe77
Жыл бұрын
Check out Max’s ‘how to make amazing renders…’ video about 2:00 in
@mianzubair7129 Жыл бұрын
How I can available sun dis in sky texture
@Kalyptic Жыл бұрын
-Facepalm- I had no idea you could disable shadows for individual objects...Thanks
@Lavah Жыл бұрын
Doesn't the plane still be able to block the light of the sun, or does unchecking the shadow box fix that?
@RetroPlus Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU
@raystarzee3929 Жыл бұрын
I would like to ask , for your art work do you use kit bash or created everything from scratch?
@GarGarGarGarGarАй бұрын
does anyone know how to get that mini render viewer in the bottom right corner
Пікірлер: 181
Summary: Step 1. Get a free sky image from Unsplash Step 2. Plug the image into both the Base color and the Emission of the Principled BSDF Step 3. copy the rotation of the image plane to the camera (it's better to use the copy rotation constraint IMO) Step 4. Match the horizon line in the image to the horizon in your 3D scene Step 5. Use a sky texture (Nishita) for your environment Step 5. Turn off shadow visibility for the plane so it doesn't cast a massive shadow over your scene Step 6. Make sure the lighting in you scene roughly matches the lighting direction of the cloud image (or flip the cloud image horizontally to match your scene lights better)
@jxdzi
Жыл бұрын
Thanks mate will be saving that to the desktop
@thomasfrose
Жыл бұрын
Neat!
@tcapozzoli
Жыл бұрын
Could you please do that for all the tutorials I watch and forget? Lol…maybe chat gbt can do it?
@kiyu3229
9 ай бұрын
Idk why but my Sky texture is way to bright
This channel has became one of my favorite so quickly. Thanks for the great content.
@RyCkS_
Жыл бұрын
it's my favorite too 🔥
Thank you for not gatekeeping and sharing all of this AMAZING material with us.
You should definitely do a breakdown of the mountain sunset scene example you showed, the lighting is amazing. It'd be cool to see how you did it!
Scaling to flip the image seems so simple, but I never even considered that! Genius, my dude! Thanks a ton!
I really like your 10 minute tutorials, they're incredibly useful. Keep going!
Thank you so much . As a beginner i've seen a lot of tutorial on how to model , render etc but nobody talks about the sky , so thats really helped me!
Great to see Max sharing his techniques. Top class digital artist.
Back when I was new to Blender I couldn't figure how to make HDRi's look good so I tried this and thought "huh, this seems like a pretty dumb fix but it works, I bet a professional would look at this and think it's a crappy trick". Thank you for confirming that sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
Neat little tutorial, Max. I wanna teach like you when I grow up :-)
I literally just spend the last 2 days trying and researching this. Thanks youtube but a bit late. Something I learned is that getting the mist pass to combine mountains with mountains from a photo can look really good! Edit: if you use this in an animation. Animating the top edge of the image a bit to the left or right using a shape key creates a cool parralalex effect. Gives the idea the clouds are moving.
dude, you are a GOAT for uploading all these vids recently. thanks for sharing!
I'm excited for the future of this channel mate, I'm glad I was early. Thanks for your valuable content, no bullshit, only solid and practical advice.
I'm finding these tutorials incredibly useful. Thank you
Instantly subscribed yesterday. This is now the best channel for blender content. Thanks for sharing with us.
These are great man! I'm a c4d user but all these techniques and practices still apply!
Awesome ! This channel is an open window to a world of possibilities. Thank you again for sharing this
wow channel has been only posting 1 month and already very high quality tutorials and absolutely necessary ones
Don't forget to set the roughness to 1 so the image doesn't look washed out. Also you can put a hue/saturarion node to make tweak the colors a little bit.
Damn, Max's getting consistent. Excited for your future content bro!👀
The addon "Import Images as Planes" would make it even easier since it automatically sizes the plane to the image aspect ratio, no UV stretching... Also you could still mix this with HDRi s to get realistic environment lighting. Although "free" HDRi are more difficult to find.
@APRICEPRODUCTION
Жыл бұрын
AmbientCG has an awesome collection of free HDRi and textures check them out :)
@littleanswers1370
11 ай бұрын
polyhaven
@littleanswers1370
11 ай бұрын
free 8k images
so simple yet so genius, thanks!
You got my sub. Thanks for the info. Straight to the point and ain't confusing. Looking forward
I’m so glad your channel was in my recommended! Your walkthroughs are great!
Exactly what I have been searching for!! Thank you for the amazing tutorial, Max!
holy ur channel is growing fast. good job man, really fun to watch these
i am actually doing this from so long, this saves a lot of time
I knew about using images as backgrounds, but parenting it to camera trick is just great, I will definitely use that from now on.
thanks for teaching this to me, what a great technique.
If you want to copy another object rotation, you can add an object constraint and click on copy rotation. Great video!
This guy is going places! Mark my words!
Cube unwrap squad unite! Nice work. I know how to do this stuff but never put it all together like this. You could also add the image as a background on the camera but you can't control the brightness of it. Thanks!
Great video 👍
Very useful for me whos blender knowledge is only 2 months. Subscribed for sure 🙏
Been using blender for 3+ years and after watching countless blender videos, I consider this channel to be second only to Ian Hubert imo
i discovered your channel 5 mins. ago, instantly subscribed
I always ask around when I see people post of a render with beautiful sky yet for some reason they never care to answer. Thank you, I think the sky is very important.
i searching whole yt for this tutorial , i learned a lot thanks for the tutorial sir
This is what i need, thanks man. Keep it up 👍👍
Thanks for this video man. Solved my most of the problems.
Love your content bro, keep up the good work!
sssshhhhhhhhh! You are giving away all the secrets ... No really brilliant stuff you have here. Subscribed!
Thank you so much Max! Keep up the great work. 😎
MAN!!!!1 KEEP THESE COMING
I often do this now with more realistic renders like the one I posted two weeks ago on my twitter and Instagram accounts, if I had watched this sooner I could have applied it when I made the final renders instead of shuffling the plane around. Next time I try it out when I make a more realist render, Thanks for the tips in this video.
Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for!
mate your tutorial are awesome!!!
Great video Max! Thanks for the tips 🔥
Such a detailed tutorial 🥹 thank you so much for this tutorial
Thank you so much! I love it :) I watched this video and just clicked subscribe
Great tutorial. I'm liking the content you're providing....glad I subscribed.
Aah...yes finally I can finish my render 🔥
incredible
This video saved the day 👏
For photorealistic resoults just use photos, easy
Good tip.
Hm... Yes, admitted, this can give you some very beautiful and realistic results. Which is not that much of a surprise, when you _take_ something beautiful and realistic and just paste it into your scene. But from a video that had "create" and "in Blender" in the title, I had expected a bit more.
Try Add ons -> Images as Planes That saves a lot of hassle with UVs etc
Awesome content! I already see I'll be spending a lot of time on your channel :) Thank you for sharing!
thank youuuuuuu thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are awesome bro in everything 😘❤️🔥🙂
pls never stop making videos.
Ah really lovely tutorial ✨
What about when you animate your camera to rotate on z axis in an animation?
If you Image is not high resolution enough, you have plenty of Ai upscaling nowday that can bring your image up to 8k. great tutorial. thanks for the trick very usefull!
@vazzmatazz
Жыл бұрын
Make sure the upscaling "model" was trained to handle photos and/or textures specifically. Use a generic upscaler at your own risk.
One downaide with using it as a plane in the backgrt and as an emitfer is that the image looks much flatter in terms of contrast. I boticed the image looks much better when it was open in the uv editor. Why not add it comp later to keep the contrast? You can always render thr image transparent and use the backdrop plane only as visual reference
That's amazing, but now I have an issue where it's one of my objects that is casting a shadow onto the sky plane! Is there a way in the object settings/material settings to have it not receive shadows?
amazing job, thx dude
These tips are amazing. I have no excuse to not be making stuff now haha
Your tutorials have been awesome but I would like to add a catch to this. Sometimes when you really want those indirect lighting details, you don't get it by this method, so in solution for this use sky texture for the direct lightning and thus indirect lighting from the direct ones, and you also add your hdri with mix rgb that will provide you more indirect lighting information, cause what I think is, proper indirect lighting is responsible for photorealism and also cinematic look, if you get your indirect lighting wrong , the render will look more like render and less photoreal. Hope this helps
nice tutorial. would you please also give some recommendations where we can get urban building facade images to use then as windows background in interior renders? thanks
Thanks for sharing this man really usefull
Very good ! Thanks !
"and thats it" video done at 1:01
U can jus use copy loc constraint if ur camera shakes
do you have tutorial for such a great water?
Love your tuts…simple and to the point explaining the how/why. One question, do these work in animated scenes just as well or just reserved for stills?
Might God bless you !🙏🏼🙏🏼🔥🔥👍🏼👍🏼
genius idea
and .... what if you move the camera? So in feature film VFX we often do this in Nuke, but instead of sticking it on a plane, we project onto Spheres, ideally you have a spherical stitches texture as well. That way the camera can pan freely.
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss keep making videos
@prasadjArt
Жыл бұрын
Yasssss
Hey In my Principled BSDF I don´t have the circle in emission to connect it, only have emission with a dropdown with color and strength, How do I change it?
How did you make the ground , the reflection is majestic ,
Would you make tutorial about realistic water?
@LeppikVideo
Жыл бұрын
Same. Please share the realistic water secret!
@kiyu3229
9 ай бұрын
Chuckcg made a tutorial About that
Lol i just asked this yesterday. Thankyou.
Could you do a tutorial on the second example you put up please? This is incredible!
I love your tutorial so much!Can you make a video about how to make fog or clouds to your senses?
Ayo thanks sensei
How do i make a night scene with sky texture?
what if the light in the sky picture is coming from like behind the clouds and not from the left or right
W Video
can you make a quick tutorial for output render settings and best optimization. My renders are always pixelated when i zoom in
Thank you 🙂
hey, i have a question... how have you got that second viewport showing the rendered view with the camera perspective?
@guttersnipe77
Жыл бұрын
Check out Max’s ‘how to make amazing renders…’ video about 2:00 in
How I can available sun dis in sky texture
-Facepalm- I had no idea you could disable shadows for individual objects...Thanks
Doesn't the plane still be able to block the light of the sun, or does unchecking the shadow box fix that?
THANK YOU
I would like to ask , for your art work do you use kit bash or created everything from scratch?
does anyone know how to get that mini render viewer in the bottom right corner