this video is sponsored by capturing reality in today's video i'm going to
be showing you how to become an earthbender using visual effects in the previous video i
announced a giveaway of the meepo v4 the winner will be announced in this video
all right so the setup that we're using today is the panasonic s1h with the atomos ninja 5.
alright so now that we have recorded our short film i have the act of actually moving a rock
all we need now is our rock so either we are going to model one but it will always look fake
so a better alternative would be to actually scan a real rock and that's exactly what we're
going to be doing in today's video but before we continue to that part i quickly wanted to grab
an hdri map from this location with an insta360 camera i'm going to record the environment so i
have that lighting information later in my 3d software and i can use the exact same lighting
setup as in this environment at this moment this is going to make everything look super realistic
may the force be with you
clean
all right so now we are in a different location with a rock we have plenty of these rocks
in my neighborhood which is really cool uh so we can make a very diverse
pack of 3d stones you have multiple ways to record these you can either
use a high-end camera with a high resolution that will give you obviously the best results
but you can also use your phone and just take photos with your phone and that will give you
incredible results so i will be doing both of these and you can even use just a video while
you're running around the stone and filming it and it will transform that into 3d data
so right now the sun came out and that's actually not ideal when you're doing or
that's also not ideal anyway we don't want hard shadows on our object we want to record our photos
when it's cloudy or in an interior where the light is consistent also try to keep all the settings on
your camera so all the photos that you're taking are actually consistent throughout the entire
photo shoot wait for a cloudy day to take your photos and then you should be good to go
we captured all the footage we need for our 3d scanned rock so all we need to do now is
open up reality capture so for this video i will just use my photos from my phone because i think
that is the most accessible way for everyone to take a photo just make sure that you shoot in pro
mode so you are actually shooting manual photos and every single photo is in the same settings
as the previous photo so every single photo has a consistent setting screw onto photos so you
don't have color shifts or focus shifts or stuff like that i brought my photos in light wave and
just lifted the shadows a little bit and brought the highlights down just a touch just to make it
a more flat image because when we're scanning we want as much data as possible after that in
reality capture i go to inputs and i import my images so it creates a point cloud based on all
the images i took so it will automatically align all the images and make a point cloud generation
of my object just make sure you have photos of the entire object you're trying to 3d skin after that
we can mesh our model and i exported this model in cinema 4d and then i can simply unwrap my object
within reality capture itself and then it will reproject all the textures of my photos on the
model so we are actually uv unwrapping the model and applying the textures to it we can then bring
it into any 3d software of choice so in my case i will be using cinema 4d for this animation but for
example if you want to create virtual productions you could go for unreal engine and reality capture
is actually from epic games so also the creators of unreal engine so it works together flawlessly
you can simply export your object from reality capture and simply import it in unreal engine and
just drag and drop it in your scene and voila you have your real object within your unreal
virtual production so that got me super excited about this software i'm super excited to try it
out more and play around more with it so for me it was the first time using reality capture and i had
a flawless experience i imported them in reality capture and immediately had amazing results i was
really stunned with that in cinema 4d i already imported my footage and already made an animation
using a cube and a vibrate tag to make it hover a little bit and just animate it this cube with
the animation of my hands and make it seem like it's coming to a float in front of me before
actually i'm going to hit so i just animated it along the animation that i thought i wanted the
rock to actually float um as and and come in front of me before i actually cast the earth
i also added some smaller rocks to my scene and some leaves that i tried to recreate just as close
as what we are seeing in the forest because when i lift off the rock i want to have some energy in my
scene and i just wanted to play a little bit more with dynamics in my scene as well and that gave me
some pretty cool results obviously if i would play more with this and really look at the
physics of it i could have done a better result here but i think it already adds that power to
my scene and that's exactly what i was going for so then i simply replaced my cube with my
rock that i brought in from reality capture and then i used all my 360 photos that i captured
with the insta360 one x2 and i turned that into an hdri to get my light environment i imported
that as an hdri in cinema 4d and i immediately got realistic looking results for my lighting
so all i had to do from here is set up my octane settings and export for after effects in after
effects i imported my beauty for the rock and i just did some minor compositing like i always do
i'm not going to repeat this process because i literally repeat it in every single video
what are you doing
working on my chi lame we'll see about that
the conclusion of this video is just how easy it is to take any object from reality capture
it into a virtual production and it's really in a matter of a few clicks and just using your phone
you can get some incredible looking results and that's something that i'm super excited about
because i don't enjoy modeling as much and just being able to import anything into my 3d software
is just something that i see myself doing all the time alright so that's it for this video i hope
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so now for the giveaway in the last video i asked for people to create something creative using my
venom animation render and so it got downloaded over 500 times which was really amazing and so
from the people that participated in this giveaway these two are my absolute favorite
guilty
but of course when it comes to any giveaway we have to choose one so i had to discuss with the
theme which one was the most creative because we were not talking about just the technical aspect
of things but just the creative concept and we thought that this one was super creative and he
was thinking outside the box alright so you will be receiving a meepo v4 congratulations it's going
to be an amazing ride please be safe when you're doing so and start off because it goes insanely
fast so i don't want you to yeah break a leg because that's what they say when they wish you
luck right but in this case you will be receiving a meepo v4 we will be reaching out to you to get
that in order and now we're also going to start another giveaway in hopes of doing this more often
maybe you guys enjoy that so what i will do for this video is you can download this video file
from my earthbending shot and what i want you to do is up to you so you can do literally anything
with the scene be creative you don't have to uh you can earn vent or rock but you can also
do something completely different whatever do you think i'm doing there i'm going to let it
up to you and i'm super excited to see what you guys can come up with so to send this video the
easiest way i think is if we're going to start joining the dysport chat if you don't have that
you can also tag me on instagram or reach out to me on instagram at inyasalea and otherwise just
join our discord server i will link that in the description and i will also create a segment for
these type of challenges the winner of this challenge will get a one year
license to creator galaxy so you will literally be able to win anything on our website and yeah just
take your filmmaking skills to the next level this contest will end 14 days after the upload
date of this video so if you want to have more details i'll leave them in the description below
apart from that i hope to see you guys and girls in the next one until then create epic videos