Making Lots of Quick Stuff with Photoscans

iain

My favourite upload, learned a Ton…

Carter Burr-Kirven

You've seen the Photoscanning Tips video, right? https://www.patreon.com/posts/capturing-i-can-59297156

Curd Williams-Hertz

Serious tutorial on poly cam or what ever iOS app you use for photo scans. My iOS photo scans come out looking so wavy and messed up.

Carter Burr-Kirven

Y'all have seen the Post Production Workflow video, right? https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-post-35533684

Levy Bergman

Obviously he can't give a uniform compositing method since every scene is different and has different lighting and colors, BUT there are subtle techniques in his arsenal what he uses to achive that classic Hubert look.. We just got a small taste of it in the end of the Cyberpunk scene video, but there are much more tricks he knows, I'm 100% sure about it :)

Nikita

There're plenty of those on YouTube. No need to distract the master with mundane things.

Nikita

Seems that Ian tries to compose as much as he can in the scene itself. Bringing stuff in 3D takes out the guess-work necessary for believable compositing results.

Ian Hubert

I know!!! At one point they said they had a mode that combined them, but either I haven't really figured out how to use it, or the difference is pretty negligible- I should try it out again, though.

Jason

Ah good, so Im not the only one frustrated with the Lidar scan results, which I thought was gonna be awesome!

Caden

I literally didn't even know the asset browser existed! Thanks for mentioning that!

Olivier Netter

My MasterYour videos and your work have been a great help for that one year project I published today (https://youtu.be/c_jrqV5v1IU) thank you very much and stay tuned until the end, you are in the credits... and somewhere in the final sequence. Hope you enjoy the vizualisation.

Casey Meehan

Inspiring to see how quickly you can make a stunning image. Keep it up :)

Larry Huang

Asset browser tutorial plz

This! I still feel awkward when I'm trying to do color grading that don't feel mushy/too uniform and applying some camera/lens effects that don't feel too weird/digitalish

Levy Bergman

Ian, I would love to see a full compositing video from you - combined with a full post production workflow 🙏

When you said "so i bought one" i thought you mean an actual tank

Ian Hubert

Oh! Well if I'm understanding you right, in Polycam specifically, those both implement the same technology (they're both considered "photo mode" (represented as "Auto and Manual")- video (Auto) mode just means it automatically takes pictures when the accelerometer tells it its moved a bit, as opposed to having to repeatedly hit the shutter button.) That said, the other mode is LiDAR, which - IMO- it's pretty worthless for most things (it scans crazy fast (and to scale, which is nice) but the average spatial resolution you can get seems to be about an inch). I feel like that's a confusing answer, but if you mess around with the app it should make sense.

Raffo VFX

interesting stuff as always. With polyicam, do you prefer using the video mode or the photo mode? Im curious

What? Did I just hear you said "millimeters"? I was expecting Imperial stuff, something like "it is a couple of fly shits thick" or "a bit thinner than an average raindrop" or "It is as thin as a dollar bill, folded 20 times" etc.

Doug Brown

wonderful stuff... thanks Ian

Dekker

23:50 is a perfect counter to AI art. The program could have created thousands of renders using hdris and a random assortment of photoscans, but it’s the human connection that matters the most for film. It’s a wonderful tool though..

Paul and Anna Spooner

23:23 "It is so hot in here" task bar says it is 65F outside. First-world problems?

Paul and Anna Spooner

For how often you use the exact same volume haze settings, you should probably add it to the asset browser.

Nikita

"I don't think people are going to notice that I'm using the same two people over and over again," — Ian, not realizing that in the future there may be monographs written scrutinizing every bit of his work.

Evan Barron

I'd love to see a video that goes over the asset browser, as I haven't really paid much attention to it. I hope it's not too much of a pain to set up, as it really seems to make this workflow smoother and easier

Nate Pantumsinchai

This was great! Love watching the creative decisions you make about lighting and composition! To me making shots look good is just as important as learning the nuts and bolts mechanics of Blender!

Tyler Adams

I still haven't touched the asset library/browser side of Blender. I know I would love it if you broke it down. Your way of teaching is very effective at cementing info in my brain! Cheers!

Otto H

I can't wait for that video on composition!

Awesome as always. Quick question: I see you have a ton of scans in your Asset Browser, I know they are stored in outside files but is there any limit or performance hit or anything to the number of things in the AB? Thanks (or should I say Tanks?)