[Adam Dorsz]

Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately there are no blend modes under effects/opacity.

There are blend modes under effects/opacity for the image itself, but what I’m looking for is blend modes for the shape/mask, not the image.

Thanks!

[Adam Dorsz]

Yeah, there are so many to choose from! My biggest struggle is indeed the amount of things to learn because as you mentioned it is usually one person focusing on a particular process thus making it the best it can be. I thought that the specific compositing that I mentioned would be not too much for 1 person to learn so I’m going to carry on doing so, but a long road awaits.

[Adam Dorsz]

Thanks for the answer, I agree that it shows the process and I’m just being impatient trying to learn from the wrong side of things. Gnomon is something that I was looking for, but didn’t find before! Seems like a comprehensive course for generalists for a comprehensive price.

It’s hard to specify my skill level with compositing haha, I have a university degree in video production that included vfx modules using aaf and covered compositing so I can work with 2D compositing, but never had the chance to learn 3D.

Thanks again!

[Adam Dorsz]

Thanks for the answer!

Maybe just my expectations are too high, I have seen some of the tutorials that you linked before and did not use them as I don’t think they will help me with what I want to learn, all of those work well for some home made footage, they do not look realistic , they do not show specifically what I would like to do and so I didn’t use them.

The first link is a still image so I might as well do that in photoshop, the second link works with a 3D model as a base and just shows how to track a 2D object which I can do, rather than showing how to implement that into real footage. The third link completely does not look realistic, it also didn’t require using a 3D model because the object was so far away that a simple matte would do the job. The fourth link he just composites it in illustrator and photoshop and then pretty much just imports it into after effects.

I don’t actually think that anyone working with million dollar movies uses cinema4D, I keep on hearing about houdini and maya, but that’s the same thing with looking for tutorials for these two. I can easily find how to simulate a destruction of an object in houdini, but no tutorial shows a realistic composition of that object into the footage.

The only time that I can find something that looks realistic is in showreels, but then any tutorials are a massive downgrade. I was hoping that if such work is showcased that there will be at least 1 course that goes through an entire process of creating these super realistic scenes for big name movies. That way I would be able to learn the appropriate software, the pipline between what is used and so on.

[Adam Dorsz]

That works, thank you sir!

[Adam Dorsz]

That worked, thank you!