in this video I'm going to share the one secret that I use to make my visual effects look super
realistic this is already the last video of my six part VFX training series I hope you enjoyed
it so far if you want access to all six videos then click the link in the description below
we've already taken a deep dive in a world of VFX to layer Foundation we've also talked about
the best computer your money can buy which tools are the best for the job and most efficient heck
I even share the exact steps you need to take in order to create epic VFX every single time
I just wanted to stop for a second and say thank you so much for everyone who has seen the series
your dedication is definitely gonna pay off I've received a lot of emails and DMS on my Instagram
about fellow creators that want to up their game and I can just tell you one thing you're gonna
love the bonus that is coming at the end of this video because as said before VFX is hard but it
doesn't have to be if you know the exact steps you need to take alright so now I'm going to show you
the exact method on how I create super realistic looking visual effects in compositing so once you
have your entire VF vaccine and you bring it in your compositing software in my case After Effects
here you have to make everything blend together so here the magic really happens say you have
an export from 3D software it always looks super clean your edges are Ultra sharp there is no noise
whatsoever everything is non-distorted it's just a clean image and that's a problem so whenever
you're creating VFX the biggest problem that most beginners make is they make their 3D models to
perfect and in reality nothing is perfect if you would have a transformer robot beginners would
tend to make a clean robot clean chrome Metals clean car paint on top of the models but that's
actually not what makes it look realistic in reality these robots have fought worse
and they actually got scratched they got dirt on themselves they got paint that is actually
fading off the sun was all the time on the Spain so it has some kind of cooler shifts maybe you
really have to think about all these things this is already a big part that is going to help you
get super realistic looking visual effects by just making them look not perfect whether you
apply dirt to it or not it's always going to look way too clean and that's just because 3D
software render your image super clean and when you're recording with a camera you always have
the following issues such as lens distortions some chromatic aberrations at the edges of your camera
you might have some vignetting you might have a camera noise depending on the lights you have
used you might have some color shifts depending on the codec you have used so all these things
are things that you don't see on the 3D model so now what is the big secret here well it's really
simple you have to make your 3D look more shitty so this process is actually called crepitization
so when you have your 3D integration and you place that on top of your original footage you now want
to apply all these different things that you see that is in the original footage so what you want
to do is add again a noise and Grain in there you want to match the exposure level so that's
the brightness of your footage and your 3D and you can actually use the info panel here to check
how black something is and how wide something is and also how saturated something is foreign
oftentimes I see beginning the effects artists use way too saturated 3D stuff in a very flat
scene so really match your course that's the number one goal here once you have matched your
course you can apply the noise you can apply some lens Distortion some chromatic aberration
and some vignetting on top of all of that maybe some Edge blur so I'm using a channel blur for
that and then finally once you have done all that it looks pretty good integrated on your
original footage and then on top of that you want to apply a grade which is going to grade
the original footage but also your VFX shop and that's going to make everything blend
Better Together alright so that's basically a big secret in the DFX industry a lot of people forget
to crepetize their footage they just export their 3D and they're good to go but this will
always look fake anyway now that you know the exact method on how I achieve realistic looking
visual effects you've almost finished the six part training series to drastically improve your
knowledge to create visual affects in the most efficient way possible and even though that you
know what it takes to create epic looking visual effects this is just a start the most important
thing is to know where to start because if you put in the time and get frustrated along the
way you're just gonna end up quitting and that's something that I had to struggle with more than
I wanted to but if you are committed to this you can create epic looking visual effects in
a matter of weeks and that without any prior knowledge or experience I've said this a lot
in this training series VFX is hard but it really doesn't have to be so that's why I
want to make the people that are very serious about visual effects a pretty insane offer to
work together with me and if you join within the next five days I'll even throw some extra bonuses
in there also you won't need to spend thousands of dollars on software because we're actually
collaborating with Maxon and Adobe they also saw the value of this Academy so we made this amazing
deal with them which honestly is just a bonus on top of everything else alright thank you so much
for watching you can always reach out to me on Instagram if you have any any questions or send
an email to hello epicvfxacademy.com until next time create epic videos
if you want access to all six videos then click the link in the description below