The Impossible Domino Run 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