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Quick Tip - VSE Green Screen

April 24, 2017
Hey all!

I am so excited that I get to share this with you guys so soon! Since working on the transitions, I've also been working on getting a green screen effect using only the VSE and GOD has been super gracious to me in that this morning HE showed me how to "formulate" the process to where you only need adjust the effect.

I had just uploaded the test when I felt led to record it and get it online using the example footage, as it really is a good example. Remember though, if you want to do complex green screen, rather stick to the compositor and the whole process. If you want a quick result - this is the method for you!

In the description, I do warn you to look out for certain issues that might be a bother:
 - Blurred footage (can easily leave an outline)
 - Fades (in other words, the green fades out extremely rapidly)
 - Compression artifacts (image sequence is best)
 - Low Quality footage

If you avoid these things as far as possible and you have a really nice punchy lime green, then you'll get the result you're looking for! :D

So without further ado, here is the video!


GOD is so fast!!!

Biggest thanx to GOD for helping me with this. Without HIM, none of this would be possible! :D

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Have a great one!!!

Thank YOU!!!!!!
 

Quick Tip for VSE Transitions

April 15, 2017
Hey all!

Today I get to share with you guys a brand new Quick Tip video. In this one, we talk about transitions. Whether we do tutorials, animations or even tests, we will eventually come to the point where we would need to edit something, and that is where transitions come in. I believe the simpler they are, the better, because fancy effects are more for showing off, not really everyday use. This video, will show you a way that allows you to go a little over the top, while also allowing your ...
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Toon Shading - Cycles Caustics

March 30, 2017
Hey all!

Super glad to be able to get this video done. I have quite a story behind this one that I know you are gonna luv reading, so to prevent the temptation of watching first, the tutorial is at the bottom of the post.

Why cover caustics in Cycles when it was done in Blender Render already?
   A fairly obvious question to those who use Cycles, but not to everyone. Cycles is a newer engine in Blender and is built for realism. This makes things like toon-style NPR extremely difficult. Styles li...
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Workflow - Node Groups

March 27, 2017
Hey all!

About a week ago, I got some comment on YouTube from a user called: CNR Games. He was very excited about the Node Groups I was using in the Compositing: Toon Shading with Soft Shadows tutorial. As many of you know, Node Groups are a way of putting together sets of nodes that just make your setup look cleaner and function better. You could say it is a form of logic visual programming.

Anyway, in my projects, I usually use a very specific set of nodes that I use in pretty much every rend...
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