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- How to make a killer night time scene
- The answers to 3 common beginner questions
- The fundamentals of compositing
- Why compositing is similar to food production (no really!)
- How to add eye popping glow and glare effects
- How to add a background image quickly and easily without re-rendering
Since starting Blender Guru a year ago, I’ve received a TON of emails from people asking for help with the compositor. I’d even go so far as to say it’s been the most requested tutorial.
So today I’ve decided to answer all those requests and create a tutorial:
Watch the video here:
http://www.wowfactorbook.com/introduction-to-the-compositor/
First!
EVER!
…now I’ll watch the video.
YEAH! Thank groodness! I’ve been looking for something like this!
This tutorial looks awesome, but my computer won’t play videos =/ Have you ever considered making text tutorials?
Very cool tutorial Andrew. So can i use the compositor also for videos like apple shake oder autodesk combustion?
How to handle this with the timeline?
Hi Andrew… good tutorial…bis bis…
Another one.. Another one… plz.
Bye Bye from Perugia (Italy)
is this what you used to make the smoke simulation faster?
Beautiful tutorial!
Would you please? 
This time would be a very handy gift if you shared the blend too!
Sounds great! Please release a version in text so that people with low bandwidth connections can use it! It would be awesome if you did something like how you presented Creating Volumetric Clouds or Creating Depth of field. That way people can read the awesome tutorials without having to try and download pdfs through special services that may or may not be blocked by their ISPs. (Like the Creating Realistic Fire tutorial)
Thanks
Share the blends, please!
I’ve got Blender 2.49. Where’s the Compositor??????
hey andrew
I’m getting real started in the compositor (thanks to you) but my i’ve got a question: is there a key on your keyboard to add a node? (like in 3dview you can press spacebar)
greetz cedal
p.s. i will upload some images of my work later to show!
Is this video still available? It doesn’t appear to be online any more.
Sweet! Thanks, I really needed a tutorial that gave me more experience with the compositor.
Once again thank you for sharing your knowledge. Thanks to this tutorial (and a very little bit of Gimp) I’ve been able to turn this drab render
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s26/bobo75014/blazPMibl.jpg
into something more convincing
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s26/bobo75014/Purgatory_Final.png
Hi,Anrew price,
My progress link following your tutorial.
Thanks
http://haqzaf.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2y6c2v
http://haqzaf.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2y6d7t
Hi,
This is my second try.
Link is here:http://haqzaf.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2yackn
In this try only the green man fiigure enhanced to show glow, glare effect, which was tutorial essence.
In my earlier link,all the green man surface was applied glow and glare effect.
I have better understanding of compositing and how to isolate and mask only the selected mesh to add material,texture,add effects like glow, glare.
Thanks to Andrew Price.
Hi, this is my third try.
Thanks, AP
Link
http://haqzaf.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2ycvie
glow glare clearly visible.
thanks a lot Andrew, is very good tutorial!
i love your tutorials, they are fab-u-las
Well done again. Any chance of including the blend file – it would make working with the WOW Factor and starting to get into the compositor a heck of a lot easier.
where is the original blend file?
Thanks Andrew but what about animation?, how can I render layers (animation not stills) and composit it on other compositing sofware?.
Thanks for all your tutorials.
See you.
the compostier tutorials are amazing along with the wowfactor it is defntley worth evrey penny keep up with the good work andrew
I wish I’d started watching this earlier. But is there a place to download the .blend file?
Great tutorial, Andrew. Thanks. I’m stoked I found your site. I’ve been learning Blender 2.6 from the ground up and your tutorials have helped a lot.
Really worthless…….
very good tutorial, thank you and your explanation is very nice.
but where should we add the name for glare tutorial you told will be available for free?