I love Blender…
And I tell people a lot about how much it can do. Yet, People often think it doesn’t do the same sort of stuff that people can do in Maya and 3DSMax in regards to TV quality visuals.
A lot of visuals are faked by using real photographs. Guess what? Blender can do that too.
So on this tutorial, we talk about two things, Fspy and UVProject. Fspy is a free, open source software that creates a camera and it’s position from the vertical and horizontal planes in our picture and exports them into Blender via an addon that you get when you get the software. And UVProject is a modifier – see I’m still all about the modifiers – that makes the UV mapping for your shader correspond with the view from your camera.
Couple these two together, and you can quickly create scenes that would take forever to build and shade.
And Hollywood has been using this process for years to make environments seem real.
You can find out more about Fspy here:
The photo used in this tutorial has come from unsplash
https://unsplash.com/photos/K5sjajgbTFw
And the person who photographed it is Nolan Issac:
https://unsplash.com/@nolanissac
Take a look at the video below to find out more. Better still, subscribe to the channel and you’ll see a new one of these every week. Sometimes a “One by One” where we talk about what each part of blender does – at the moment we are concentrating on modifiers – other times tutorials on specific things or quick tips to make your life easier.
You want to see something not here? Then let me know in the comments. I’m always keen to help out where I can.
Take care and stay safe.
GENVFX 