What Software Makes the BEST VFX???
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A factory is generally made up of different departments, all working together to produce the final product. The VFX industry is similar, with many different departments, each with its own area of expertise, all working together to produce the final product. As you'd find in a factory, each department requires a different set of tools and machinery to complete their task. In the VFX industry, each department requires a different set of software tools to complete theirs!
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Rotoscoping.
This skill is when the VFX artist basically traces around an object to create a mask that can then be used to remove the object from the shot to use on a different background. This process is quicker and easier when the background is a green or blue screen because you can then create this mask using color hues or Chroma range, a process known as Chroma Keying.
The majority of Big VFX houses outsource their "Grunt work" (Matchmoving and Rotoscoping) to India or Asia but when they do do it, they tend to use either, Silhouette or Mochapro, and some rotoscoping will be done in Nuke by Foundry.
Matchmoving.
Matchmoving uses a variety of different techniques to track the movement of that camera that is filming a certain shot, this enables them to create a virtual camera that mimics these movements so that when they composite any 3D elements they've created back into the original plate, the scale, orientation, are perspective are perfectly matched. This process (much like rotoscoping) is laborious and time-consuming and is generally "Outsourced" but the most popular software in use is 3D Equalizer, SynthEyes, and PFTrack. 3D Equalizer is the most popular and has been in use since 1996.
FX.
This department is mainly responsible for creating natural effects, water, wind, fire, smoke, magical effects, and explosions. Unlike CG objects, characters, and animals, these effects are all too big, and too complicated to be animated by hand, so VFX Artists simulate them using Procedural Simulation Software. The two that are most widely used are Houdini by SideFX and Maya by Autodesk. Houdini is however very much the most widely used, so much so, that it has become the industry's standard.
Modeling.
Modeling artists create 3D models of characters, animals, plants and objects. Working from concept artwork, photographs, and other reference material, they begin by creating a wireframe, commonly referred to as a "Mesh" and then use digital tools to "sculpt" it. When ready, the 3D models can then be passed on to be animated, textured, and lit. There are a lot of software options out there but the main ones used are, Maya by Autodesk, 3D Studio Max by Autodesk, ZBrush by Pixologic, Mudbox by Autodesk, and MODO by Foundry.
Animation.
Animators use CG rigs to animate the objects previously created by the modelers. These rigs can be set up to control where the joints or pivot points of an object are, or how far an object can move or rotate. The animators must then use these controls not only to control movement but to convey emotion. whereas a puppet may just drop its head, an animated character will make you feel its sadness.
Texture and Shading.
The Texture artist is responsible for creating photorealistic textures to be placed on the gray 3D models that were made by the modeling department. Maya by Autodesk and 3D Studio Max by Autodesk are generally used for shading because both feature a Node-based shading system. Textures, however, are usually created with either Mari by Foundry, Substance Painter by Adobe, or Photoshop, also by Adobe.
Rendering.
This is the engine that is responsible for the final 3D image generation and is generally connected to the modeling and shading software. The most widely used are Renderman by Pixar, Arnold by Autodesk, and V-ray by Chaos.
Compositing.
Compositors take all the CG components from each department and combine them with matte paintings and live-action footage to create the final shot.
Nuke by Foundry is the most popular and the most widely used, a similar software is Fusion by Black Magic Design but it is far less popular.
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@@MONTYJONTYofficial Are you saying Davinci Resolve is bad
I am a Black Magic fan
Listen, your comment is cheap
Your mentality is cheap OK
If you can not make movies with Davinci Resolve then it's your fault.
because you dont know to use Davinci Resolve.
Jokes aside, I also use AE for everything but your comments comes off as just another Adobe victim butthurt about getting gouged for that CC subscription. Look, we're all mad about the subscription but the industry uses Nuke or Davinci these days. No big studios are using AE because you have to pay that stupid monthly or annual subscription, then buy stupid after market plugins from third parties & pay their stupid fees just to do stuff that both Nuke & Davince do right out of the box.
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@@MONTYJONTYofficial the dont use AE in the industry sorry
No software will make the best VFX, the best capable team will!
Only if they've mastered all these goddamn constantly updated programs over the years. No software, no vfx, no team.
@@cemgulpunk Well that's exactly what a good team is, being able to adapt to the best scenario and use the best tool for a specific job, all software have there strengh and weaknesses, there is not like a fight against maya, houdini, zbrush or whichever, they are all good for a specific use
And also look at Star Wars in the begining, miniature environment, makeup, animatronics and matte paintings painted on glass, no software but a capable team with a vision
@@AnimationDunk ok boomer :)
@@cemgulpunk Lol I just know my history of art cause I actually am working in the best vfx studios out there and been studying art for most of my life, now let's see what you'll do raging about software updates kappa
I'm a heavy After Effects user: So I've gotten really good at working on things in other programs while I wait for After Effects to stop crashing.
hahahaha!
Change ur computer would u
@@gabeo9740 czcams.com/video/hpQQohcHk9Q/video.html
Hollywood - Maya and Nuke
CZcamsr - Blender and after effects
nope. Whatever makes the job done. ILM alone use all of them if needed, yes even After Effects.
i agree
sigma male - davinci resolve, blender/c4d
"to India or Asia"
India is in Asia.
My thoughts exactly.
Technically yes but when I head the word "Asian", I never think of Indians 🤦♂️
@@sicfxmusic You must be from the UK.
@@PeerlessUtopian I could be from any of the remaining 6 continents.
technically you are right, India is in Asia, but in the US, usually "Asians" means people from Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Korea etc smaller countries. Chinese are Japanese are also referred to as distinct from "Asia" although all of them are in Asia.
Today I'm super happy. Cause, today I've sucesfully made my first and complete render in Blender!!
@X D Aah... That's not it...
@@raktim_orgbro it is
Industry Standard
Compositing : Nuke
VFX : Houdini and Maya
3d Modeling (Props) : Maya
Sculpting : Zbrush
Texturing : Mudbox, Mari and Photoshop
Tracking : Boujou
Tree generator : SpeedTree
Enviroment generator : World Creator
Rendering : Arnold Render, Octane Render, Render Man, Vray
Photogrammetry : Photoscan
Movie Editor : Avid
Color Correction : Davinci Resolve
CZcams Standard
Compositing : After Effects
VFX : Blender
3D Modeling : Blender
Sculpting : Zbrush or Blender
Texturing : Substance Painter or Photoshop
3DTracking : Boujou or Blender
Tree Generator : Blender
Enviroment generator : Blender
Rendering : Cycles
Photogrammetry : Meshroom
Movie Editor : Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas
Color Correction : Adobe Premiere with Magic Bullet plugin
All the tools in the industry are within the reach of every professional, the problem is the generalization of CZcams tutorials.
Industry quality : Photoreal
CZcams quality : Like a render game.
Even ue5 looks more real than avengers 1 vfx which was made with arnold. 😂 😂 😂
@@aryaman3083 avengers 1 vfx was pretty good tho
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@@gokulsingh459 blender is a fantastic tool, but if when you render the AOVs, and later use common tools like after effects instead of nuke, the result will not be so good. You have to know what tools to use at all times to leave the best possible appearance. It is not the same to use Davinci Resolve to Magic Bullet for color correction, obviously Davinci Resolve will leave better results if you know how to use it.
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Something you forgot to mention Is Autodesk's Motionbuilder. It is the industry standard for dealing with dense motion capture data. It takes the data and solves or retargets it to the cg character and seamlessly stitches shorter sequences together into longer sequences so that the animation can be handed off to an animator who can either continue motion editing in Motionbuilder or move over to a DCC app like Maya to continue their edits. Not to mention it is used on set for seeing real-time feedback of the actors motions on their digital double. Motionbuilder is an integral tool in any pipeline that requires using motion capture data.
Depends on studio, pipeline and deadlines. Big studios have their own inhouse softwares for solving FX such has ILM's fire/explosion software Plume or Scanlines fluid software Flowline. Houdini is a big software for overall FX, but some studios has pipeline with plugins for FX in 3Ds Max. Blender has come far, but not sure how welcome it is to use in big productions with a very dedicated pipeline to work.
went through when I first started video editing, now it's taking a whole new switch and learning soft will only boost my courage for the
I'd love to see you do a video on set extensions involving water - lakes, rivers, the ocean.
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hi friend,
welcome my channel.
This was very informative. Kudos!
It really depends on the artist preference, I personally use combination of many, most recently reallusion character creator and Iclone are taking over my work, but my final render is normally done in 3Ds max.. It really depends on the artists.. Seen artists produce epic work of art with free software and Hollywood quality production companies producing inferior CG although big budget is used (Not to mention names :))
Thanks for your channel
You mean blender?
Unreal
3ds max is legend for the vfx !
Can I come for Apprentice program?
i use blender for most of my projects
just can say ,
it was reeeeallyyyyyyy nice!
Amazing breakdown! 👏🏼
I'm glad I found this channel.
Beautiful effects and designs
Hard to believe that not too long ago early CG effects were done with software that is script based, including character object creation and animation. Animators today have it made in the shade compared to early works such as Toy Story 1 and Titanic.
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You are so talented DUDE.👍👍👍👍
Keep it up!
I think you did not mention one
Blender it has all th e animation from compositing, sculpting, VFX, video editor, Rendering and so on
very good video and background music is also great
Thanks for this....Enjoyable
WOW!This is very good video for information
Your narration is top notch... I'm a fan
Thanks buddy ^^
Nice job bro and one big like😋👍
Yep, that's a cool description - but let's not forget that every VFX house has its own tools for VFX... based or created upon major software. nevertheless, if you want to dive into CG - just do it, it's not hard to convert from one software to another.. all the bells and whistles are the same, just in different panels! so just do your best!
houdini:
@@thegreatadil I love parametric modeling, and this pdg's... godsend
Umm Houdini
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One day millions of people will vanish, the rapture is near! Accept Jesus as Lord and Savior! And Live a Faithful Holy Life! He doesn’t want anyone to be left behind! time is short!
Call me a crazy person if you want too, but what I’m saying is the truth and you don’t know and realize, that you need Jesus! You don’t know Him, because you don’t go to Him! He is your only Hope.
Accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, that He died for you and all of our sins, acknowledge that you are a sinner and that you need Him, repent and ask forgiveness, and believe and have faith that He is real.
Now once you accept Him, you will receive the Holy Spirit, now while you are alive, read your bible, follow God, and live for Him.
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Great video, thanks!! I only missed some mention to motion capture software solutions ;)
Rokoko is the best for live motion capture.
Love the vid! I'm a fan of VFX
Very cool to see use of green screen in major productions.
Didn’t realize there would be different categories but that makes sense lol
wow very interesting!
thank you for this
Awesome art
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Thanks bro ^^
Amazing bro
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Very wonderful technology
In my experience maya is good for base modelling and zbrush is very advanced for sculpting .👍👍👍
hi friend,
welcome my channel.
Twd used Maya for simulation and animations, then after effects for compositing
Review of inhouse vfx softwares will be very very interesting!
Do we have access to those though? Like, are they available so people can review them?
@@IyeViking sure not. But some infos is available over the internet, if you start digging.
Wow fantastic
comparing maya with blender is stupid
blender has a to z tools like modeling sculpting animation texturing compositing and its free
but autodesk have the best softwares for all and its a business
maya for modeling uv animation simulations rendering
max for hard surface modeling uv animation and rendering
mudbox for sculpting and texturing and lot other softwares too
the main diffrence is one is free and other is a business
Tool maturity and all the add-ones, both commercial and written by users, is an important consideration.
damn... it'll need a top tier pc to done all of this sick vfx
You can do sick VFX on the worst computer, you just have to power through the slowness, it’s better to start on a slow computer than to wait years for a decent or good computer just so you can start
@@IyeViking indeed mate... tried already and it does work :)
Great video
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hi friend,
welcome my channel.
You should do a video on Shotgun (Shotgrid)!
Blender is great for all kinds of vfx! And it's free!
Yeah, I'm really surprised it wasn't mentioned even once. Is it really that behind or is it mostly just popularity?
@@arnox4554 popularity, probably
It's not that blender isn't good, it's just that people is more used to other programs
Blender is good, yes. It's absolutely fantastic. However it's the slowest compositor out there. I'd rather handle after effects crashing every 10 minutes if it means I can watch my effects in real time
If you want simplicity then use cinema 4D
info i didn't know i didn't need
could you please say the software used for making animated backgrounds?
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Where is the best place to learn Nuke for professional production?
I really liked this video.. It's ao informative for someone who is willing to enter thw vfx industry..
Autodesk Flame is the best finish system for me!!!!!
for me too
@@antonisntelis8635 not available on windows unfortunately
Isn’t Flame mostly used in TV/Shows/Commercials? I’m pretty sure it was used everywhere before Nuke kinda picked up and took off as the top compositor
@@IyeViking I think Flame is the batter choice than NUKE,But you need a powerfull PC with Linux System( CentOS or RedHat Enterprise Linux) and NVIDIA Quadro Card
Great 👌👌
Like the background music. Which one it is?
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Amo hacer estas cosas. Mi pc ocupa para todo
2:42 PFT-rack? hihi .. Pixel Farm Track! ... PF Track!
Nice
Yes
When You're Not Aware Of The power of Blender
This video is focused on movie vfx, not homemade vfx. As of now, blender really has no position in the industry pipeline and therefore is not relevant to mention in the video.
@@evengreven5515 i think you have no knowledge about blender. go and check barnstorm fx.
@@saparjumash man they used also 3ds max , houdini and finally blender . That way . Features of blender we doesn't know
@@toxic7516 last two years many studios have changed whole pipeline to blender. And blender community is also doing things in that way so studios could use it all in one machine. Wait 4 years and we will see
@@saparjumash what are you talking about? Open your eyes bruh, blender really has no position in a large scale pipeline for movie vfx. Blender does many things but none better than specialised softwares. Only studioes that uses blender arent big and doesnt have a big budget like weta for example. This barnstorm studio you talk about havent i heard about before and in their website they say they are primarily using houdini and nuke and sometimes maybe blender. Only because a small studio uses blender somewhere in their pipeline, doesnt make it an industry standard and worthy mentioning in the video: thanks for me now start hating on me like every other blender fanboy.
i did not know that Mudbox still a thing!
Nice video sar
I want to be a compositor,, should i also learn matchmoving and rotoscoping ?
*അടിപൊളി*
Cinema4D with Octane or Redshift render should be on this list somewhere.
no
for TV production yes, buut nt in movies
@@BaydamK So does Blender & After Effects
@@BaydamK they're actively used in movies though
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color correction, nice video
and like for the cities? Like in TASM 2 the Time Square´s buldings were made with what??
Good
How do you make video of vfx step wise ?
People make the best vfx,
not software.
Exactly what I was going to say! What a dumb video click-bate title ;)
but how about without software , how people can make vfx
@@penesign7936 - Watch Star Wars The Empire strikes back, 2001 Space Odyssee, Alien or Blade Runner.
Yes, but what makes it easier? Let's not lose sight of why we have tools in the first place.
@@brodriguez11000 "Let's not lose sight " Exactly!
The title reads "best vfx", NOT "easiest vfx".
Music is dope 😅
Thanks, made it myself! Links in the description! ^^
Sir I need this video background music please give me link or name
what about flame in the compositing section
You totally forgot about avid media composer when it comes to compositing.
Wich software use you
Wow
Can u comment on 'blender' coz tough its not much used commercially , I think its as powerful as other industrial standard ones
It's already being used in big studios, just not advertised as much. Almost every big studio has a Blender division in 2021
@@Vassay Happy to hear that
@@Vassay hi sorry but no maya is the standard modelling software by almost all the vfx studioes where max is used in gaming.Blender is really good but not industry standard.
@@abhi4154 Never said it is the standard right now. But Blender is quite steadily going up in ranks everywhere. Even though studios cling to 20-year old pipelines, it would be stupid not to use the power of Blender for their projects.
@@Vassay excatly.most of the studioes have built there inhouse tools around softwares like maya so its not that easy to move to blender all of a sudden.ps blender cant compete with maya in anyway in animation. Bcoz of all this i dnt think blender wil be standrd on any vfx houses anytime soon.it will be the goto software for indie gamedevelopers and small studioes but not for big vfx houses.
maya /max are not atall used for shading by big studios most of them go with renderman+katana ps shading is done by shaders of renderEngines not by max/maya.they jst serve as platform where we can tweak the shaders of rendering engine.
Thanks a lot for the correction! Great insight! I take it you're a vfx artist yourself?
@@FameFocus yes i am a texturing and lookdev artist. :) worked on a lot of feature films like 2019's lionking
hi friend,
welcome my channel.
so what is the usage of 3ds Max ?
3:19 talks about Houdini, shows unreal & unity game engine 🤦🏻♂️
The man behind machine
Lol the footage of the CG Rocket Marvel Character had nothing to do with rotoscoping. It has a generated alpha channel from 3D already
This info is too old, I mean the simulations in Maya take way too long, caching is even worst, usually simulations are done in houdini, and for 3D Animation, feelings of characters, motion graphics, and Animated scenes are usually done in Maya, 3Dsmax,Blender,Cinema4D, and Unreal Engine, with the integration of iclone and character create, saying Maya is the only choice would be accurate back in 2018
My favorite part was him using a clip from The Golden Compass to open that up with. That movie used C4D because they were THE cutting edge for hair & grooming way the Hell back in 2007.
Maya might be slow as heck with simulations, but it does still get used for simulations, I’ve talked to some people who work in VFX (it was through a CG forum) who mentioned that larger simulations are in Houdini and Maya’s used for smaller ones half the time
which artist does lightning ⚡ effects
PFT Rack. Also known as PF Track
Hello to Team Blender.
AKA blendertards
i only know how to use photoshop blender, after effects and premiere pro and these are not in list 🥺
Surprised Blender not in this list :(
No mention of Unreal Engine? Used for the Mandalorian as just one example, and FREE!
It's rather strange question to ask., There's no such a thing as "best vfx" or "best software".
Never heard of PFT Rack 2:42
I didn't understand what is matchmovement
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