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Making a brutalist car render - Full Process tutorial (1.5h)

In this one I just kind of shoot right into the dark with not much planning ahead and just try to come up and explore the scene as I go along. I ended up being very happy with the result and hopefully y'all learnt a thing or two along the way :)

Here's the final result :)

2022-02-06 01:33:47 +0000 UTC View Post

just a piece I'm happy with

Started messing around with this digital compiling aesthetic and it ended up being really fun going in and adding a bunch of cool details and experimenting with how you can process images together for cool results. I plan on making a video on it as it's something I don't see a lot of people doing...

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How to make rain in compositing - Tutorial (37min)

Here's a walkthrough on how I composited the race track sequence. I've been getting a lot of request on how the rain and volumetrics where done so hopefully you'll be able to learn a few neat tricks in this one.  

Film LUTs: 2022-01-29 20:30:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Add-on: Pro Lens 2

This is the version 2.0 of the Pro Lens add-on. I've really gone in and remade the whole thing and I'd say it's quite different from the last version and a whole lot better. Everything is now a lot more smooth to use and works great with the newer versions of blender. I've added buttons and panel...

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Asset: Car Tire

Here's a tire asset I made for my upcoming short film. I'm really happy with the result so I decided to share it here with you guys :) Sorry for not being very active for the past month, it's been a lot going on and I wasted a lot of time on a project I ended up scrapping. But I've finally found ...

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Add-on Update: Wiggle - v2

Here's a wee update to the Wiggle addon! I've now added a location option and moved all of the transforming to the delta translation so you can move and rotate the object freely while also having wiggle. Something I want to implement into the future updates is a wiggle for the bones which I haven...

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Making a cinematic jungle shot - Tutorial

In this video I go trough how to make a quick and easy jungle scene in blender :) 

Botaniq: https://blendermarket.com/products/botaniq-trees


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Creating particle dust stuff - Tutorial

Hey hey hey! In this video I go through my process of creating the spice scene from my upcoming project. Hopefully y'all find this helpful :)  

Free stock footage: https://www.premiumbeat.com/...

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Texturing and grooming a chimpanzee - Tutorial (1.5h)

Here's a highly requested video on how I did the texturing and grooming for the chimp I'm working on right now.  

Chimpanzee model: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/chimpanzee...

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Add-on "Optimize" - Tutorial

Here's a video on how to use the Optimize add-on.

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Add-on “Optimize”

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Add-on: "Optimize"

Here's a fun little add-on that decimates your selected objects based on the distance from the camera. Hopefully this is gonna be a nice tool to have in your tool belt :)

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2021-11-18 19:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Asset: Graffiti, cables, grunge overlays

Here's a little asset pack I made that should hopefully help with adding more character to your scenes. Feel free to use these in whatever you want :)

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The Drink - Early Release

"The Drink"   After a little more than 2 months of work here it finally is! "The Drink", a short film that's 100% CGI and made by me using Blender, After effects, Marvelous Designer and Davinci Resolve. It's definitely my most ambitious project to date and I'm very pleased with the fina...

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Sound design for The Drink - Tutorial

Here's a little video where I talk about my sound designing workflow!  

Soundly: https://getsoundly.com/ 

Davinci Resolve: 2021-10-30 14:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Cheating fluid simulations - Tutorial

I've always kinda had this thought of faking stuff using displacement and video textures. Obviously using image textures is cool but using video textures you have so many more possibilities so here's a video explaining kinda how I do it. Hopefully it's helpful :)

Stock video used: 2021-10-25 02:13:28 +0000 UTC View Post

The Drink - City compositing breakdown (17min)

Whassup, a lot of y'all have been asking for a compositing breakdown of this shot so here ya go! If you have any other things you would want me to talk about, feel free to comment :)

Some addons that I use:

2021-10-20 10:57:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Rolling Shutter - Tutorial

Here's a quicky tut on emulating the rolling shutter effect. It's a small thing but can be a nice little touch to y'alls renders :)


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Asset: Stickers

Here are a few stickers! These could be great for just adding some grittiness to a wall or something. I have found myself using a lot of stickers to add more character to flat elements so hopefully y'all can make some good use out of them too :)

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2021-10-13 21:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Asset: Road Scans

For the past week I've been obsessing over asphalt/sidewalks/roads etc and I've been just going around photo scanning a ton of it using Polycam. Surprisingly they turned out pretty great and I have been using them for all of the car shots ...

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60s City Environment - Kinda how I did it (walktrough)

Hey hey hey! A lot of people have been asking for a video where I talk a little about this city shot from The Drink so here you go :)


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Asset: Kitchen Interior Stuff

Here are a bunch of kitchen decoration assets! 

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Asset: Kitchen Interior Stuff 

2021-09-25 23:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Addon: Image texture setup

Here's a new little add-on that should speed up your workflow! I find myself having to do this exact process too many times so I decided to just automate it instead, hope y'all find it helpful :)

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2021-09-23 18:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Making a shot from scratch - The Kitchen (part 3/3)

This is part 3 of a 3 part series where I create a shot from scratch. This time around I'm making a kitchen environment from The Drink.  

Hope y'all find it helpful!

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Making a shot from scratch - The Kitchen (part 2/3)

This is part 2 of a 3 part series where I create a shot from scratch. This time around I'm making a kitchen environment from The Drink. 

Hope y'all find it helpful!

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Making a shot from scratch - The Kitchen (part 1/3)

This is part 1 of a 3 part series where I create a shot from scratch. This time around I'm making the kitchen environment from The Drink. 

(will be posting part 2 and 3 in the coming days )

Hope y'all find this helpful! 



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Asset: Plants and Bushes

Here are a few more nature scans! These are more focused on plants and bushes

They are all optimized to run smoothly and take up as little vram as possible so you should be able to run them on most machines. Enjoy!

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2021-09-12 01:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Doing depth of field in post - Tutorial

Here's a video where I explain how I use After Effects to create depth of field in post. Hope ya like it  

FL DOF: https://www.frischluft.com/lenscare/

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Tutorial: Nature Assets

Here's just a quick video explaining how to use the nature asset pack

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Nature Asset Pack 

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Asset: Nature Scans

For the past week I've been going around scanning a bunch of cool nature assets that I now have compiled into this pack. Feel free to use them in whatever you want, they have been optimized to run very fast on any machine without much of a quality loss so have fun duplicating them around as much ...

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Speeding up renders and compositing them

Here's a pretty random video where I experiment with a way to massively improve render times and also utilizing compositing to get the best out of a render

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