The Impossible Domino Run in Blender

The Impossible Domino Run in Blender, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 65 lectures, based on 13 reviews, and has 148 subscribers.

You will learn about Create an entire 3D scene and integrate it to live footage in Blender Track a shot, create a 3D scene, and integrate it This course is ideal for individuals who are 3D artist wanting to expend their skillset or 3D artist willing to know more about tracking, rendering and compositing It is particularly useful for 3D artist wanting to expend their skillset or 3D artist willing to know more about tracking, rendering and compositing.

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Summary

Title: The Impossible Domino Run in Blender

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 65

Number of Published Lectures: 65

Number of Curriculum Items: 65

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 65

Original Price: $74.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Create an entire 3D scene and integrate it to live footage in Blender
Track a shot, create a 3D scene, and integrate it

Who Should Attend

3D artist wanting to expend their skillset
3D artist willing to know more about tracking, rendering and compositing

Target Audiences

3D artist wanting to expend their skillset
3D artist willing to know more about tracking, rendering and compositing

In this Blender tutorial we will create an impossible domino run in a child’s room!

I love dominoes, but I am too clumsy to try the beautiful run that you can see on the internet. But I’m not clumsy in a 3D software and I chose Blender to create this scene that defies the laws of gravity!

Blender is the FREE software that everyone is talking about. Being free is not its most interesting feature. What is really great is that you can do EVERYTHING in a single software.

Indeed, we will track our scene, model the dominoes, render them, composite them and even add the sound without opening another software! No need for After Effects, Photoshop or even Paint to make the whole movie.

This tutorial covers all the steps you need to get the final result you can see in the video :

Tracking the entire scene in Blender
Modeling our domino
Several techniques to distribute our dominoes and make them tumble…
Using simple copies, modifiers, drivers…
With Animation Nodes, the amazing free addon from Jake Luke that can turn Blender into Mograph
Building the scene using the very powerful tools seen previously
Rendering our shot, using Cycles, the excellent Blender render engine
Texturingof the dominoes to make them as realistic as possible
Compositing the shot inside Blender
Removing the tracking markers with the compositor
And to calibrate our scene without ever leaving Blender

This tutorial is of an intermediate level, but remains accessible to motivated beginners.

Blender is free to download and to use, for anyone.

I will soon release a complete series of tutorials on Blender to learn everything from scratch.

I use several addons in this scene, all free to use and available on the net.

As always, all the step-by-step tutorial files are provided.

I remain at your disposal in the chat rooms for all your questions.

See you soon in Blender!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Tracking the scene

Lecture 1: Exercice Files and Projects

Lecture 2: Importing and setting up the movie clip

Lecture 3: Tracking

Lecture 4: Finishing the shot

Lecture 5: Cleaning the tracks

Lecture 6: Calibrating

Lecture 7: Setting up the scene

Chapter 2: Distributing and Tumbling Dominoes

Lecture 1: Creating the domino

Lecture 2: Simple distribution and tumbling of dominoes

Lecture 3: Along a path

Lecture 4: Tumbling the dominoes

Lecture 5: Correcting the deformation on the path

Lecture 6: Making the domino flower – 1st Row

Lecture 7: Making the domino flower – 2nd Row

Lecture 8: Finishing the Domino Flower

Lecture 9: Using Drivers to simplify the flower creation

Lecture 10: Creating a simple domino pyramid

Lecture 11: Making a spiral pyramid of dominoes

Lecture 12: Tumbling the spiral pyramid

Chapter 3: Animation Nodes

Lecture 1: Introduction – What is Animation Nodes ? How to install it

Lecture 2: Distributing Dominoes with Animation Nodes

Lecture 3: Rotating the dominoes

Lecture 4: Animating the dominoes with Falloff

Lecture 5: Adding randomness to the dominoes

Lecture 6: Dealing with the last domino

Lecture 7: Using Actions to tumble the dominoes

Lecture 8: Using Physics with Animation Nodes

Lecture 9: Baking Animation Nodes to keyframes

Chapter 4: Building the final scene

Lecture 1: Setting up the floor

Lecture 2: Drawing the main line of dominoes

Lecture 3: Distributing the dominos on the line with Animation Nodes

Lecture 4: Adding the Physics

Lecture 5: Adding the Domino Flower

Lecture 6: Adding the pyramid

Lecture 7: Adding the Looping Ramp

Lecture 8: Importing an Animation Nodes Tree

Lecture 9: Modeling the ramp

Lecture 10: Finishing the ramp

Lecture 11: Joining the main line to the ramp

Lecture 12: Previewing the animation with Workbench

Lecture 13: Creating the second junction

Lecture 14: Making the Turnstile

Lecture 15: Preparing the wall

Lecture 16: Creating the long line on the wall

Lecture 17: Adding the flowers

Lecture 18: Exporting and importing to Alembic

Chapter 5: Materials and rendering

Lecture 1: Preparing the scene, Setting up a shadow catcher

Lecture 2: Adding HDRI lighting to the scene

Lecture 3: Creating the Domino material

Lecture 4: Refining the material

Lecture 5: Adding a light

Lecture 6: Adding textures to the dominoes

Lecture 7: Adding the Ramp material

Lecture 8: Adding stands to the ramp

Lecture 9: Creating color variations on the dominoes

Chapter 6: Compositing the scene

Lecture 1: Compositing inside Blender

Lecture 2: Denoising the render with the Compositor

Lecture 3: Mixing the denoiser

Lecture 4: Grouping nodes

Lecture 5: Removing the tracking markers

Lecture 6: Protecting an area of the shot from the marker removal

Lecture 7: Color grading : fixing the white and black values

Lecture 8: Color grading : introducing colors to the shot

Lecture 9: Adding ambiant occlusion (AO)

Lecture 10: Preparing the final render

Instructors

Lionel VICIDOMINI
Instructor in 3D Motion Design

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