10 addons for making vfx in blender

[Music] hey guys and welcome to Top Channel 101 and today we're going to be looking at the best add-on for VFX artists fun fact 3D applications like blender 3ds Max Houdini Maya and Cinema 4D are used more for visual effects than making cartoons or animations Disney releases about three to four animated movies a year but releases more than 10 movies and TV series that take advantage of visual effects in the same yeah visual effects entails a lot of things from rotoscoping camera tracking mud painting set extension and adding a lot of effects we are going to look at addons that will help you give your movie or animation a high budget look number one we have after effects to blend the tracking transfer when it comes to motion tracking blender comes with an inbuilt motion and object tracker but you have to add the tracking points manually you need at least 8 tracking points to have a good track and they should not be abstracted during the tracking process so you have to manually scrub through your footage as you try to make sure that the tracking points stay connected in contrast with After Effects you have to do is hit track footage and the program will add hundreds of tracking points automatically and ensure the footage is tracked well this blender iron can transfer the tracking results from After Effects into blender which saves you all the stress of manually tracking the footage number two Ian Hubbard's steampunk this addon was a collaboration between Ian Hobart and Chip Walters the creator of Kit Ops both are big names in the blender Community it's a collection of animated and looped steam textures they have no background and can easily be dropped into your scene to give it more life and if you really want to take advantage of this collection you can use it with the free kids Ops iron which will make it easier to import and work in blender the materials have been set up to work with your scene lights so that they can blend seamlessly with your scene number three Ragdoll tools unfortunately it's not allowed to throw people around like ragdolls and sadly insurance companies would not even allow you to film them being hit by fast moving objects like cars for your movies so we have to set up for digital versions like what this Ragdoll add-on provides you can set it up to work with any character and time when the ragdoll physics can start so you can animate the character as you want and when you want them to fall or Collide in a physics accurate way you just turn on the ragdoll physics number four particle Library a simple way to improve the render and production value of your shot is by adding small things like particles flocks of buds garbage blowing away and more each add-on is known as a library of such items but it also gives you an easy way to direct and animate the particles in a physically Accurate Way the library is a collection with items like buds fish Sparks paper bags and more it also comes with over 57 animation presets number five we have weather FX addon VFX is not always about explosions and adding monsters sometimes it's the simple things like changing the weather so if you want a rainy day a snow day or to make it look windy this weather FX addon has the presets and tools to make your scene half the weather your director needs number six RBD lab not true VFX artists can do their job without a proper tool for destroying objects and for blendable VFX artists that tool is RBD lab it's a great add-on for disintegrating objects caving in roads creating realistic sinkholes and more each iron can also be used for scattering objects so it would be very useful for scattering debris after you make explosions and distractions it also comes with constraint support so you can destroy parts of an object and let the other part stay intact or break it if a force over a threshold is applied foreign Animax procedure animation system if the sort of effects you are doing is more non-realistic and more like Cinema for the more graph style then Animax procedure animation system is going to be your tool it's less physics and most terrorized motion it comes with more than 30 animation presets and 13 fracturing presets and if you want more you can make save and load your own custom presets what I like most about it is its transition effects number eight we have text stamps because Aaron if you have a live action footage spice it up with a new look using text systems this add-on has over 50 text stamps that can be added to objects in your scene and the iron does not do motion tracking so you have to track it fast using blender motion tracking tools or track it easily with After Effects and import the track data back to blender using the first add-on we saw in the list and now you can add water domain decos warning signs cracks and more with just a few clicks number nine Delta fluid materials if you are making a rainy effect this Delta flow iron is what you need to sell it you can use its materials to make dry objects look really wet you can also use it to make flow maps for rivers and water streams number 10 we have VDB lab it's hard to do VFX without explosions fire and smoke blender is capable of doing all this but you have to do a lot of experimentation to make good looking explosions this is what the artists at 3db lab have done they have put in a lot of research and development into making smoke simulations in blender and they have compiled their results into an amazing add-on called VDB lab this is truly an add-on for VFX artists out there all you have to do is to go through the simulation presets choose the ones you like customize it to your liking using the parameters of the add-ons and you're ready to render number 11 with half the city Builder Arrow when you are done motion tracking your footage you're probably looking for what to add to your scene to make it unique or create a different set from what you shot this city Builder addon comes with over a hundred buildings to choose from maybe you want a nuclear power plant in your backyard or a castle or modern buildings this city Builder has it all and finally we have real time frame Game generator while the Flames generated by this addon look a bit size they also look real enough to work for most shots you can change the direction of fire and a lot of other parameters the generator is best of the military nodes and runs in real time you can create some amazing slow motion 5 shots with it thank you for watching that was some VFX add-ons that you could use to make amazing visual effects shots see you in the next video

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Length: 7min 0sec (420 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 12 2023