Surfaced StudioSpice up your 3D models with your own custom stencils - logos, text, anything you want! It's pretty easy once you understand some of the basics of texture painting 🙂
TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 01:04 Tutorial Start 01:45 Setting Up 03:01 Creating the UV Map 04:30 Creating Textures for Painting 09:48 Working with Stencils
In this tutorial I will show you how to add custom stencils to your 3D models in Blender! This will allow you to add your own logos, text or images onto your 3D models 🙂
In Part 1 (this part), we will cover how to add stencils to models with no materials or with simple materials. These materials do not contain any image textures. This makes it easy to add your own image textures to them that we can then paint stencils onto.
Part 2 (coming soon) will cover how to add stencils to 3D models that have image textures as part of their materials.
Blender 3 Texture Painting Tutorial | Stencils - Part 1Surfaced Studio2023-03-31 | Spice up your 3D models with your own custom stencils - logos, text, anything you want! It's pretty easy once you understand some of the basics of texture painting 🙂
TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 01:04 Tutorial Start 01:45 Setting Up 03:01 Creating the UV Map 04:30 Creating Textures for Painting 09:48 Working with Stencils
In this tutorial I will show you how to add custom stencils to your 3D models in Blender! This will allow you to add your own logos, text or images onto your 3D models 🙂
In Part 1 (this part), we will cover how to add stencils to models with no materials or with simple materials. These materials do not contain any image textures. This makes it easy to add your own image textures to them that we can then paint stencils onto.
Part 2 (coming soon) will cover how to add stencils to 3D models that have image textures as part of their materials.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:35 How it started 04:01 Partners in crime & Film Projects 06:44 Collaborations 07:20 My Gear 08:35 Advice for new YouTubers
Deepest love and thanks to my family for being a part of this journey!
OpenAI Sora is the next massive leap in text-to-video AI models. It completely blows all other models out of the water by creating (almost) photorealistic videos of up to 1 minute in length.
It is a diffusion model, but also incorporates an understanding of physics to model the real world with frightening accuracy.
It still has limitations and you can still, for the most part, tell it's AI, but it's getting us a big step closer to realism.
It's incredible power to hold in our hands and while it unlocks some truly amazing capabilities, there's also massive risks.
From the impact it will have on the video industry to a proliferation of misleading, hateful or abusive content spreading through the world.
It's something you have to see for yourself to be prepared for what might be coming next.
Share your thoughts below!
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Chat With RTX is a fully functioning tech demo app that allows you to run your own AI Chatbot on your local GPU.
You can use the standard AI model provided to bounce ideas back and forth and brainstorm.
You can train it with files from your hard drive. This allows you to search, find, ask contextual information from your own documents. All completely private - no internet required!
You can train it with YouTube videos and playlists. Chat With RTX will consume the transcripts and then be able to answer questions about the content of the videos.
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Stable Diffusion is a powerful tool to generate AI images. Plus, it's completely FREE! In this tutorial I will show you how to install what you need, start Stable Diffusion and generate your first images!
Stable Diffusion is a powerful tool to generate AI images. Plus, it's completely FREE! In this tutorial I will show you how to install what you need, start Stable Diffusion and generate your first images!
Master Clip effects in Adobe Premiere Pro allow you to apply effects to ALL clips / snippets of the same source file easily - anywhere within your project 😀
Unfortunately, they don't work with Audio Effects 😢
BUT, you can use the AUDIO TRACK MIXER to apply Audio Effects to ALL AUDIO CLIPS on the same Audio Track. This can save a TON of time and help you create better edits, faster!
Here's a 2 minute tutorial to show you how you can apply audio effects easily.
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Content Plan for 2024 01:23 New Gear 02:24 ActionVFX Sale
THANK YOU ALL FOR AN AWESOME 2023!
It's been a little bit chaotic for me and I've been struggling a bit keeping up with my content schedule for YouTube. But I'm excited for the new year! I hope you're all doing well and wishing you a Merry Christmas and a good start into 2024!
LOVE some of the new gear I bought, in particular the @DJI Osmo Pocket 3 (review coming soon-ish) and the Novation Launchpad X!
Finally, the ActionVFX Sale is going from the 18th to the 31st of December. 20% OFF orders up to $100. 30% OFF orders over $100. 40% OFF orders over $500.
There also will be free items every day for 8 days and a secret to be revealed for your chance to win a special something!
#notion a productivity and note taking app. However, it contains a lot of advanced features for task and project management. I've been using Notion for the last 6 months to plan my content for YouTube. In this video I want to share my experience.
❤️ LOVE - It's FREE! - Available on ALL devices + desktop - Databases that allow me to filter relevant tasks - Easy to reduce the noise and focus on what's important - Manage the clutter in my brain - Rich pages with check box list, headings, tables, embedded items and more!
😬 DON'T LOVE - I've seen a few syncing issues between devices - AI assistant costs extra (though I understand that!) - Wish I could make the tables wider to see more of them on desktop
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Mocha is an Academy Award winning planar tracker. GPU accelerated planar tracking, 3D camera solves, insert screens or 3D objects, mask and rotoscoping, remove objects and people from moving shots and more. The powerful PowerMesh feature even allows you to track and replace warping surfaces such as faces and shirts!
💎 SAPPHIRE
Sapphire is an Emmy Award winning collection of high quality effects, transitions and presets for film makers. Thousands of production-ready presets, fully integrated with Mocha for tracking and rotoscoping and you can even build your own effects and transitions using a nodal workflow.
♾ CONTINUUM COMPLETE
Continuum Complete is the Swiss Army Knife of visual effects. This collection of plugins, effects and presets brings 350 effects across 20 categories and thousands of great looking presets directly to your fingertips.
🎆 PARTICLE ILLUSION
Particle Illusion is a GPU accelerated 3D particle generator.
Thousands of presets, full control over particle properties, Fluid Dynamics and forces, 3D cameras, lighting and easy compositing workflows directly within After Effects and Premiere Pro.
There's even a FREE Standalone version of Particle Illusion available 😊
😎 OPTICS
Boris FX Optics is a Digital Toolbox for Photographers. It contains 160 effects from the Sapphire and Continuum collections to take your images to the next level. Optics works directly within Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and offers a non-destructive all-in-one workflow.
✂ SILHOUETTE
Silhouette offers Academy Award winning tools for rotoscoping, painting and compositing. Remove unwanted objects, paint over video and use Mocha's integrated tracking to apply your paint effects across your frames automatically.
🔉 CRUMPLEPOP AI
CrumplePop AI audio filters are easy to use plugins to fix bad audio and bring it up to studio quality. From echo, wind, click and noise removal to leveling your audio volume, these plugins are designed to make you sound professional with just a few simple clicks.
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It's Halloween! 🦇 Time to put on some creepy movies - or better yet, make them yourself! In this tutorial I will show you how you can easily transform your footage into a grungy horror look with just a few simple effects.
You don't need any plugins, we're just using inbuilt effects and some free grunge assets that you can download.
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@ActionVFXofficial have released a massive FREE VFX Practice Footage library! It contains 500+ professionally shot clips to practice your VFX skills.
All clips are filmed on cinema cameras and cover everything from action to sci-fi to invisible VFX.
The library is perfect to practice all your skills, from motion tracking and green screening to removals, inserts and full blown 3D integrations!
All actors have signed release forms so there's no legal worries for you to use them publicly, be that on your YouTube channel, in your own film projects or in your VFX demo reel to land that next job!
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In part 2️⃣ of my @UnrealEngine Movie Making Tutorial Series we're exploring Level Sequences. Level Sequences are cutscenes. They allow you to create cameras and animation to create your actual movie sequences.
TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:56 Brilliant 02:53 Creating Level Sequences 03:46 Working With Cameras 07:06 Configuring Cine Camera Actors 08:46 Animating Cameras 10:57 Animating Scene Objects 13:53 Keyframe Interpolation 15:04 Creating Keyframes Automatically 16:24 Combining Level Sequences
In this part of the Unreal Engine filmmaking tutorial series we're diving deep into Level Sequences.
You will learn how to create and configure Level Sequences within Unreal Engine 5. Then we go over how to create Cine Camera Actors, virtual cameras, that you can then move around and animate within your scene to create cool looking cinema shots!
After that, we talk about how you can animate other objects within your scene to be a part of that animated cut scene. And we go over keyframe interpolation to give you more control over how the animations play out. And, for ease of use, you will learn how to create keyframes automatically as you modify the objects in your scene.
Finally you will learn how to combine multiple Level Sequences. This works similar to movie editing where you can combine and edit together multiple shots you have created previously.
We will cover how to export your Level Sequences from Unreal Engine 5 in part 3 of this series (coming soon) 🙂
The RØDE Wireless Go II is an affordable compact wireless microphone system. It uses an 128-bit encoded digital transmission with a range of up to 200m.
The receiver has an LED panel that shows you all of your connected transmitters, signal strength and battery life as well as a variety of additional options.
It has a safety channel feature that allows you to record your audio at -20db in a separate channel as a failsafe backup. Additionally, the transmitters have a 40h internal memory to record directly onto the device in case transmission is cut out.
The RØDE Wireless GO II can connect to digital cameras, smart phones and operate as a USB microphone for your computer.
It works with RØDE native applications such as RØDE Connect, RØDE Capture and RØDE Reporter, but also works with your native apps as well as desktop applications such as OBS Studio.
In this video I took the RØDE Wireless GO II out with me to test it out in a large number of different situations to see how it would perform.VFX Vlog #13 - Blender Beginner Course + RØDE Wireless Reviews + Unreal Engine Filmmaking TutorialsSurfaced Studio2023-09-24 | My Blender Beginner Course is now available on @Skillshare-com ! Reviewing some microphones for @rodemic and creating a tutorial series for @UnrealEngine film making.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:11 Blender Beginner Course Now on Skillshare 00:55 RØDE Wireless ME & Wireless GO II Reviews 01:48 Unreal Engine 5 Movie Making Tutorial Series
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Looking for a solid Grab & Go wireless microphone solution? 🎙️ In this video we run the @rodemic RODE Wireless ME through a number of field tests to see how well it holds up!
TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:16 Overview 02:02 Sound Tests 04:29 Specs 06:18 What I Like 08:42 What I Don't Like
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Thank you so much for the support @rodemic ! 😀
The RØDE Wireless ME is a compact wireless microphone system that offers high quality audio transmission up to 100m. It can connect to digital cameras, mobile phones and be used as a plug & play USB microphone with your laptop or computer.
Equipped with a feature called GainAssist, it automatically handles sudden spikes and drops in your audio volume to prevent your audio from clipping or becoming inaudible.
It works with RØDE native applications such as RØDE Connect, RØDE Capture and RØDE Reporter, but also works with your native apps as well as desktop applications such as OBS Studio.
In this video I took the RØDE Wireless ME out with me to test it out in a large number of different situations to see how it would perform.
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:40 How to Upgrade RAM 02:18 How to Upgrade SSDs 04:16 Why upgrade?
Many thanks to @NVIDIA-Studio for the additional information regarding the Razer warranty information!
I do a lot of heavy creative work. I spend a lot of time in After Effects, Blender, Unreal Engine, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and loads of other RAM intense applications.
So I decided to MAX OUT my RAM to 64GB DDR5 SODIMM 5600Mhz RAM. The process is pretty easy - and you're still covered by the Razer Warranty as long as you don't break any components in the process.
I also decided to add an ADDITIONAL SSD to the laptop to allow me to store a lot of my media files, stock footage and data. Again, this is really easy to do! Just note that for the Razer Blade 16 your SSDs need to be single-sided (chips only on one side) to fit the narrow dual SSD slot.
Unreal Engine is an incredible too to create photorealistic 3D games and movies. It's been used in big budget TV shows and Hollywood movies, such as the Mandalorian.
In this series, I will show you how to use Unreal Engine to create cinematic movie sequences.
In part 1 I will cover the absolute basics: - How to download and install Unreal Engine - How to work with the Unreal Engine interface - How to create objects and modify them - How to apply materials to your objects to make them look less plain - How to trigger game logic and apply physics - How to modify the sky, atmosphere and lighting to your liking
This video is ideal for absolute beginners and people who've only just tinkered with Unreal Engine. The following parts will teach you how to create cinematic movie sequences, work with cameras and render your movies into video files.
TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:43 Razer Blade 16 Specs 03:07 Real World Performance 05:33 NVIDIA Studio 06:59 VFX Breakdown
The Razer Blade 16 combines the best of both worlds with the world's first dual-mode mini-LED display. The display can switch between 2 NATIVE resolutions: UHD+ at 120Hz - great for creators FHD at 240Hz - great for gamers (or creators who like gaming)
The laptop comes equipped with an NVIDIA® GEFORCE RTX™ 40 SERIES laptop GPU, delivering more graphics power density than any laptop currently on the market!
With 32GB of RAM, plenty of storage for your games or video projects and lots of ports (including an SD card reader), this 16'' laptop has everything you need.
I took the Razer Blade 16 for a long ride, building a complex VFX in Unreal Engine, Blender and After Effects, to see how it would perform in the real world!
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:19 The Sale 02:13 VFX Breakdown
ActionVFX product some of THE best action stock footage you can find online.
Their elements are used in big budget TV shows and Hollywood movies. And you can use them in your own film projects!
From explosions to fire, rain, dust and debris, water effects or meteor showers, ActionVFX has you covered. Purchase individual elements, entire collections or sign up for the ActionVFX subscription. And yes, you can use all elements you downloaded even after your subscription has expired!
They also have a ton of FREE action stock footage and sound effects you can download and use.
They constantly release new products and offer a bunch of behind-the-scenes and learning content as well.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:10 What? 02:04 What Engine Will You Use? 02:40 What Kind of Game? 03:16 Current Status - Planning 05:45 Concept Art & Reference Images
I've been tinkering with game development since I was a teenager (aka ages ago). It was my primary motivation for getting into IT in the first place and...
I actually started my IT career as a professional video games developer, working for an international games studio.
However, I never got around to making a video game of my own and, as responsibilities and adult life took over, it's been something I just kept putting off to someday 'later'.
But later may never come. So I'm going to start making that video game. Starting today ⭐
TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:43 Text-Based Editing Works 02:48 Quick Tip for B-Roll Footage
Text-Based Editing makes video editing as easy as editing a text document. Adobe Sensei AI will automatically generate transcripts for all your source media files.
You can then create a video edit simply by selecting the text in your transcript and inserting those clips directly into your Sequence.
You can further modify your edit by modifying the final text-based version of your Sequence. Copy and pasting text around will move those clips on your timeline accordingly.
It's amazing and absolutely worth checking out if you work with any videos that involve people talking 😀
#SurfacedStudio #premierepro #videoediting
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TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:36 How to get Photoshop Beta 00:53 How to use Generative Fill
Generative Fill uses Adobe Sensei AI to generate new image data based on your image selection and a text prompt describing what you would like to see.
You get returned 3 options for AI generated overlays that, for the most part, fit nicely into your image. From there you can generate more options or integrate the suggestion into your final image.
You can now access Generate Fill via the Photoshop Beta.
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TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:47 Match Lighting & Color 01:42 Match Blur & Noise 02:25 Match Motion Blur 03:03 Add Shadows, Reflections & Lighting 03:40 Final Colour Grading
If you're just getting started it's easy to miss these essential techniques. They're simple to apply, but have a huge impact on the look of your final effect. Here's the most important ones, summarised in less than 5 minutes!
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TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:29 Master Clip Effects 01:25 Subclips 02:32 My Effects 03:38 Default Transitions 04:13 Track Targeting
Master Clip Effects Apply and mange effects that apply to many clips across your timelines all at once. No more copying and pasting effects around!
Subclips Extract pieces of a video into individual (named) items in your Project Panel to easily organise, search and use your footage!
My Effects Organise your favourite effects for quick access and use. Also works with Effect Presets!
Default Transitions Apply your favourite transition to many edits at the same time. You can change your Default Transition and even adjust the default duration.
Track Targeting Decide which tracks are available to copy and paste media around on your timeline. Never overwrite a clip again!
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Midjourney is an awesome AI image generation service that can create impressive artwork from simple text prompts. In this video I tried to use images generaetd in Midjourney to make my own videos better.
Here's a few cool things you can do with it:
- Create stock footage images for cutaways, overlays and graphics - Generate video elements such as text boxes, icons, emojis and more - Generate the visual elements of your next logo, brand or title. Don't try to generate text! Add the text afterwards! - Generate awesome cinematic environments for green screening yourself into! - Generate the base images for cool cinemagraphs, which are photos in which a part of the image has been animated. - Generate environment images and then use tools such as Photoshop or After Effects to convert them to 2.5D environments to add some depth! - Generate images for inspiration. Environments, colours, moods, costumes and more. It's a great source of new ideas.
Get started with Midjourney for free (I'm NOT affiliated with them) midjourney.com
TIME STAMPS 0:00 Sale Details 0:48 Who are Boris FX? 1:35 Mocha Pro 1:43 Continuum & Sapphire 2:07 Silhouette 2:12 Particle Illusion 2:25 Optics 2:52 CrumplePop AI Audio Plugins
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Boris FX are running a MASSIVE SPRING SALE from 16 - 23rd of April. Get 30% OFF all products including the Boris FX Suite, Mocha Pro, Sapphire, Continuum and their new CumplePop AI audio filters.
Visit Boris FX via bit.ly/40aOQe3 and use code SURFACED-SPRINGSALE during checkout.
☕ MOCHA PRO
Mocha is an Academy Award winning planar tracker.
GPU accelerated planar tracking, 3D camera solves, insert screens or 3D objects, mask and rotoscoping, remove objects and people from moving shots and more.
The powerful PowerMesh feature even allows you to track and replace warping surfaces such as faces and shirts!
Sapphire is an Emmy Award winning collection of high quality effects, transitions and presets for film makers. Thousands of production-ready presets, fully integrated with Mocha for tracking and rotoscoping and you can even build your own effects and transitions using a nodal workflow.
Continuum Complete is the Swiss Army Knife of visual effects. This collection of plugins, effects and presets brings 350 effects across 20 categories and thousands of great looking presets directly to your fingertips.
🎆 PARTICLE ILLUSION
Particle Illusion is a GPU accelerated 3D particle generator.
Thousands of presets, full control over particle properties, Fluid Dynamics and forces, 3D cameras, lighting and easy compositing workflows directly within After Effects and Premiere Pro.
There's even a FREE Standalone version of Particle Illusion available 😊
Boris FX Optics is a Digital Toolbox for Photographers. It contains 160 effects from the Sapphire and Continuum collections to take your images to the next level. Optics works directly within Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and offers a non-destructive all-in-one workflow.
Silhouette offers Academy Award winning tools for rotoscoping, painting and compositing. Remove unwanted objects, paint over video and use Mocha's integrated tracking to apply your paint effects across your frames automatically.
CrumplePop AI audio filters are easy to use plugins to fix bad audio and bring it up to studio quality. From echo, wind, click and noise removal to leveling your audio volume, these plugins are designed to make you sound professional with just a few simple clicks.
For any questions or tutorial requests, just drop me a comment below :)
Note: a lot of the footage and clips came from the Boris FX YouTube channel and other promotional material 😊 Check them out here: youtube.com/c/BorisFXco
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TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:47 Tutorial Start 02:28 Creating additional UV Maps 04:43 Setting up Textures for Painting 06:29 Applying decals 08:25 Overlaying the Decals with Shaders 10:31 Blending Textures in the Shader Editor
In this tutorial I will show you how to add custom stencils to your 3D models in Blender! This will allow you to add your own logos, text or images onto your 3D models 🙂
In Part 1 (this part), we covered how to add stencils to models with no materials or with simple materials. These materials do not contain any image textures. This makes it easy to add your own image textures to them that we can then paint stencils onto.
In Part 2 we will cover how to add stencils to 3D models that have image textures as part of their materials. This requires setting up separate UV maps and additional textures. You will then learn how to blend these additional overlay textures on top of existing materials using the Shader Editor.
TIME STAMPS 00:00 Introduction 01:35 New Blender Tutorials 03:35 New Training Courses 05:55 New T-Shirt Designs
I'm currently working on some new Blender tutorials to show how to add stencils to your 3D models. It's going to be a 2-part series.
Part 1 will cover the basic scenario with a simple model. Part 2 will cover an advanced scenario requiring multiple UVs, textures and modifying shaders in the Shader Editor.
I'm planning to refresh my After Effects Complete Beginner Course. It's a big project, but I've started to get my hands dirty to redo the entire course!
We're working on some new T-Shirt designs. This includes finding high-quality printing companies, sourcing our own (high quality) shirts and thinking about how to get this side-hustle off the ground!