Compositing of 3D elements into footage

[Nathi Tappan]

After finishing the course I think the only question that still remains for me is how to properly set up and apply shadow catchers, or how to track/play with perspective to add 3D elements (static or animated) into footage.

Like at 10 seconds in this commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85rd61s4KM

I think that might be out of scope for a Fundamentals course and probably why it was left out. But if you guys have any resources to recommend on this topic, I’m all ears!!

[Sean Kennedy]

Shadow catchers would have been great to demo, but yeah, that struck me as a bit more outside of this topic and more in line with something like “Compositing CG into live action”. There’s definitely a lot out there on these topics, I think even on CG Cookie, maybe? I would love to do a much more complex, detailed compositing course one of these days!

[Nathi Tappan]

Totally! It’s such a huge facet that I’m surprised you packed so much into the one course alone.

Definitely watching a next course if you make one. This one was awesome!

[Martin Bergwerf]

HI Nathi,

on the CGCookie site, there are a few older ones (You can filter on Visual Effects, when you go to the 3 little lines on the top left  > All Courses)

https://cgcookie.com/courses/compositing-a-3d-monster-into-a-live-action-scene

https://cgcookie.com/courses/compositing-transformer-vfx-in-blender 

Still a lot of good information there!

[Nathi Tappan]

Nice! I didn’t see these before. Thanks Martin, will definitely add them to my watch queue.

[Dwayne Savage]

I totally agree. I would definitely like more courses from you. I just subscribed to your YouTube channel. Martin, thanks for the links. I’ll have to check them out. Nathi, keep asking questions I’m learning a lot from just your post 😀. 

[Nathi Tappan]

I think if I add any more questions the CG Cookie staff might quit lol 😂

Jokes aside, I’m glad my questions help Dwayne! Thank you for always coming in with clutch tips!

[Sean Kennedy]

I love your questions as well! It lets me know what people would want to see more of!

[coyo]

I recently did a super basic “Suzanne in the parking lot” shot and found these videos useful. I think they are older but they helped me get a good grasp of the process in spite of me knowing next to nothing about video.

Jacob Zirkle: (the newest) https://youtu.be/ui0JUHE12k8?si=C0YJkybrRXROv5bA

CGMatter: (very in depth and he’s got other fun vfx videos as well) https://youtu.be/WLSGG7sDEac?si=wNE05rXk9E2ItSgn

Ian Hubert: (I think there might be others but could be on his Patreon) https://youtu.be/lY8Ol2n4o4A?si=bq5An1gc5pXujSgH

[Dwayne Savage]

@coyohti is that Ian Hubert as in the writer of the short tears of steel? I’ll have to check that out. 

[Nathi Tappan]

Wow! Great recommendations! Thanks for sharing @coyohti!

I miss the CGMatter videos that are not automatically in 2x speed 😅

[coyo]

@dillenbata3 – The same! He’s been working on a series of short films that I can highly recommend. Absolute craziness. I love them so much. 😀 I’m subbed to his Patreon and he cranks out some really amazing stuff. He’s also worked with Nathan Vegdahl to develop a variety of Blender addons and tools for filmmakers…stuff that mostly wooshes over my head but might be of interest to others.

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