IanHubert posts
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Files: 339
Thoughts on Optimizing Your Cycles Renders
[This is written specifically for Blender's "Cycles" path tracer, but I assume a lot of the same logic applies to other path tracers? Also, I mention below, but if you have a render with crazy fireflies, feel free to post a link in a comment, and maybe we can identify the problem area]He...
Texture Paint Street-Markings in Blender
(Right click, save as- preview below)Road TexturesThis is a simple technique, I just also get distracted with tweaking the shader (although, the part at 22 minutes about making the different symbols/graphics could be kind of fun if you don't normally use Blender in that capacity?)ALSO! The bit a...
Asset: 33 Low Poly Crowd Figures
Low poly crowd figures as a dime a dozen online, but almost none of them seem to have any textures??This is mostly just a test from this evening (version 1), but it gave some handy results until I can do better. Ideally this would be done with more than 3 people, but! Quarantine! What'ch'a g...
HyperBole Engine Crash - Narrated Screencapture
Jet Engine asset available below if anyone wants!Here we go again! Sorry to everyone who got a notification email about this post last night- I forgot that deleting the post would create Infinite Confusion. The techniques in this video are pretty darn basic (straightforward physics sim, shape keys, ...
That Greenscreen Tutorial (Finally)
Okay! Sorry I've been quiet the past while! I was forcing myself to wrap up this guy! Only took me 6 months, but here we go! I ended up not including a ton of things I probably could have, but I wanted it to get people jazzed at the thought of doing something like this, and I felt like including...
A quick Grocery Store and Rando-Building using fSpy
I guess the title shouldn't necessarily be "using fSpy", since the fSpy part is only like 4% of the total process, and the rest is in Blender, but it's a great way to get the camera aligned to a photo, and makes the rest of the process way easier, since once you have it lined up, you...
Hairbrained Virtual Production Schemes
Just some stuff I've been thinking about! I have all these shoots I want to do, but we're still probably a ways off until I can do a proper one (Covid-wise). I dig the potential, though. In some capacities I think it could totally work (in terms of projecting different views on different pla...
Making a Shot pt3: Detailing
Previous Parts:Part 1: tracking/keying/masking/setup Part 2: Lighting("Deleted Scene": Making the Hallway)Hah! So! I mention (at length) in the video, but I had a little trouble with this one, because when you go from the blocking stages to the detailing stages, you really start to feel the ...
Retargeting Mocap (and lil' dude)
Woooo!!!! I wish I had this thing months ago! Here's a link to the free Rokoko retargeting addon.The bit about how to use it to apply Mixamo (or other) data to the characters is at 4:40 (and for more info, check out Sam's video explaining it better). Mostly I can't wait till quarantine&#...
Tutorial/Asset: Getting Neoclassical
This is one of my favorite types of modeling, tons of extruding and insetting! Maybe not technically a tutorial, since it's just me talking as I do stuff- but maybe some useful tips in there for cylindrical/spherical workflows? I got the inverted-profile bevel trick from a YouTube video, but I c...
Asset: BROIL restaurant
Zachary asked if I could upload this, so here we go! A lot of it you already have (pipes-n-burgers), but maybe it's nice to have it all assembled like this :) And the lighting fixture could be useful! I had to recreate a couple textures that I probably didn't have permission to be sharing (n...
Timelapse: Modeling the BROIL restaurant
Hey hey!! I've been working on a bunch of stuff, but gotten a little behind on posting about it here. Mostly working on editing for the Dynamo Dream episode. I'm SO close to picture lock, and once the edit's locked I can send it off to the sound team :D Editing is hard, though. I'm k...
Asset: 13 Photoscanned/Rigged Characters
[edit: cleaned up a bunch of the models since upload (weird little geometry bumps and such). Super easy to do with the sculpt tool!]Woooo! You guys would not believe how much time I've spent on this over the last 6 months. I'm excited :D It took a ton of trial and error (so so so many wrong ...
Asset: Big Mossy Rocks
So I make lots of cyberpunk work, and maybe you join the patreon like "yeah alright let's cyber-go" and instead I just do nature photoscans forever- but hot damn sometimes you how to follow your momentum (Alsoooo look an appreciation of nature's shenanigans is going to legit help you...
FutureProof Studios Tour
Hey! I wanted to share a bit of what you all are helping support by being here!! Pardon all the messes!
Environmental Graphics in Blender Timelapse
At some point I'd love to make an Actual Tutorial with some techniques I find the most helpful (I have a project in mind that could be pretty fun, I think), but until then here's a timelapse of putting a couple graphics together- I recommend scrubbing around to any bits you might be interest...
Asset/Screencap: Waterfall River
So not really a tut- just a screencapture, really, but this is one of those things I've been thinking about for like literally 5-10 years and finally decided to try- worked out better than I expected! It's nice that flowing water's fairly random looking.Here's the waterfall texture v...
Asset: Foxglove
First of all- thank you so much to everyone for your comments on my previous post! I'm afraid maybe I came across too strong?? I've been absolutely delighted by the attention the clip's getting, the responses just gave me a lot of thoughts. Thanks so much for listening :D It's foxglo...
Viral
Posted a new lazy tutorial! Nightmare Men! I forgot how much fun making those tuts were. In most of the lazy tuts I'm trying to secretly introduce folks to some new feature of blender, but this one was just for fun (well- maybea quick into to texture painting).But meanwhile! Hot damn! Never had ...
Asset: Environmental Plants
Whew! These were hard work! Very excited to share this one with you guys! It's the result of the first stage of the backyard photoscanning shenanigans. Learned a ton doing these guys, although I keep feeling like this technology is going to be totally revolutionized any day now with AI and all t...
Asset/Tutorial: Dust and Bugs
Hah! So- making tutorials for physics-based stuff is always a little daunting because it invariably comes down to "just tweak stuff till it looks right for your specific situation". With that in mind, I also wanted to put out some pre-made video textures that I think can be super useful for ...
Making a Shot pt 2 - Lighting
Part 1 - Tracking/Keying/Masking/SetupPart 3 - Detailing0:20 - setting up the lighting0:48 - Fishing shot breakdown1:46 - Creating depth9:15 - setting up HDRIs11:15 - Blocking in the environment geography19:13 - Making Eevee rad with Irradiance Volumes30:37 - Adding textures quick33:44 - Adding a mu...
Quick Update and Camera Motion Tut
This is just a quick tutorial on how to start creating a library of real-life camera movements, so you don't have to emulate stuff with noise modifiers. Maybe useful to someone out there!ALSO you can super hear the GPU grinding as I tweak the eevee renders. Gotta see if there's anything I ca...
Asset: Two Succulents
Hey! So- I just uploaded 10 of these guys to the tier 7 folks, but I wanted to share a couple here, too, just because I think they turned out pretty gorgeous. I'm excited to stick them on shelves/along walkways and such (or put 'em in a vending machine maybe? heh)right click save as:Two Succ...
Asset: 10 Succulents
Man, compared to scanning people, small inanimate objects are a piece of cake, haha!So- I've got my more practical big-ol-plants collection coming soon (very excited about that one), but I spent this afternoon scanning/cleaning/optimizing a bunch of succulents, and wanted to share them first. Co...
Asset: Burger Scene, Mechanics, and Animations
Alright! Took me a sec to get it up here (had to figure some stuff out), but I think it's all ready! The issue is that while the mocap data is super small (like, 7mb for all of them), once I import it into blender the file size balloons to half a gig(???)- SO, I'm giving you the mocap data s...
Making a Monumental Burger (w/ burger asset)
This video talks about photoscanning, and a little sculpting, and all that fun stuff! Not really a tutorial, just thought it might be fun to document some burger-scanning shenanigans. =========Also hey hey! I gotta get caught up with all the stuff I should post on here! It's been a wild week. I&...
Weekend Update
So after a particularly aggressive bout of social distancing, Kaitlin and I finally hung out with some friends for a weekend. It felt great! Nate and Selena have been good friends for a while now (I've known Nate since 2008 or something??), and we've worked on a ton of stuff together (going ...
Photogrammetry Madness - nature stuff
Hey hey!! :D So I took like 3000 pictures around my yard yesterday (and a few out in the mountains on the Olympic Peninsula today), and I've been trying to optimize the resulting photoscanned models. I've been really pleased with how it's turning out, but I'm also learning a ton abou...
Asset: Industrial Greeble of Love
So- this is admittedly a little thing, and I wasn't so sure about this bit when I first modeled it, but I've ended up using it in every scene everywhere in the past few months, and now we're basically in love, so I wanted to share.You need a walkway? Railing? Rooftop bit? Robot part? Ven...
