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.

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@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