WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.350 And there we go. 00:00:01.350 --> 00:00:02.640 The render has finished. 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:05.670 And with Blender version at 3 and cycles x, 00:00:05.670 --> 00:00:07.560 this only took a minute and a half 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:09.825 to render at a 1000 samples. 00:00:09.825 --> 00:00:11.400 In previous versions of Blender, 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.020 this would probably take 10 minutes, 00:00:13.020 --> 00:00:14.280 15 minutes, something like 00:00:14.280 --> 00:00:15.945 that for this complex of a scene. 00:00:15.945 --> 00:00:17.520 But there's only took a minute and 00:00:17.520 --> 00:00:19.435 a half, which is fantastic. 00:00:19.435 --> 00:00:21.950 And this is such a huge improvement 00:00:21.950 --> 00:00:24.005 from previous versions of Blender. 00:00:24.005 --> 00:00:25.670 But now that this has finished, 00:00:25.670 --> 00:00:27.350 let's jump into the compositor and 00:00:27.350 --> 00:00:29.405 really make our image standout 00:00:29.405 --> 00:00:31.790 to do this exit out of this window and 00:00:31.790 --> 00:00:34.775 then jump over to the compositing workspace. 00:00:34.775 --> 00:00:37.055 Click on Use nodes, 00:00:37.055 --> 00:00:39.485 and then you can press N to close off that panel. 00:00:39.485 --> 00:00:40.940 And then we're going to click and drag 00:00:40.940 --> 00:00:42.980 down here to get rid of that. 00:00:42.980 --> 00:00:46.805 So here we have our render layers and what we're gonna do 00:00:46.805 --> 00:00:50.150 is press Control Shift and then left-click on this. 00:00:50.150 --> 00:00:52.025 And that will bring in a viewer node 00:00:52.025 --> 00:00:54.395 so we can see exactly what we're doing. 00:00:54.395 --> 00:00:56.990 The shortcut to zoom out of this window 00:00:56.990 --> 00:00:59.180 is v. So if you had via couple of times, 00:00:59.180 --> 00:01:01.625 you can also hit Alt via zoom back in. 00:01:01.625 --> 00:01:04.415 What I'm gonna do is hold Shift and then right-click. 00:01:04.415 --> 00:01:06.170 And that will bring those two connections 00:01:06.170 --> 00:01:07.940 together with this little socket. 00:01:07.940 --> 00:01:09.335 And then we'll move it over here. 00:01:09.335 --> 00:01:10.880 So here is where we decide 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:12.500 what we want to add to our Render. 00:01:12.500 --> 00:01:14.150 Do you want the lights to glow 00:01:14.150 --> 00:01:16.190 a little bit or do you want to change the colors? 00:01:16.190 --> 00:01:19.130 This is where we get to decide that right now I want to 00:01:19.130 --> 00:01:22.085 add an angular node to make the lights glow a little bit. 00:01:22.085 --> 00:01:24.110 So to do that, we're going to press Shift a, 00:01:24.110 --> 00:01:25.820 go over to Filter and then add an 00:01:25.820 --> 00:01:28.565 a glare node and place it right here. 00:01:28.565 --> 00:01:30.680 When we do this, you're gonna see this is 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:32.555 the effect which is not what we want. 00:01:32.555 --> 00:01:34.100 Instead of using the streaks, 00:01:34.100 --> 00:01:36.545 we're going to switch it over to fog glow. 00:01:36.545 --> 00:01:38.645 And that looks pretty good. 00:01:38.645 --> 00:01:41.150 The quality we can go up too high and that 00:01:41.150 --> 00:01:43.715 will help make the quality just a bit better. 00:01:43.715 --> 00:01:46.535 And also I think the size is a bit too much. 00:01:46.535 --> 00:01:48.020 And the threshold that we're going to 00:01:48.020 --> 00:01:49.790 bring up to a value of two. 00:01:49.790 --> 00:01:52.565 This is going to help clamp down on some of the glows. 00:01:52.565 --> 00:01:55.340 You can see here it's still a bit too much. 00:01:55.340 --> 00:01:56.840 So what we can do is actually 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.060 instead of using a mix of 0, 00:01:59.060 --> 00:02:01.760 we're going to bring this in the negative devalue. 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.460 What this does if we bring this all the way up to one, 00:02:04.460 --> 00:02:06.350 It's only going to show the glows 00:02:06.350 --> 00:02:08.405 if I bring it all the way to negative one, 00:02:08.405 --> 00:02:10.655 it's going to show just the raw render. 00:02:10.655 --> 00:02:12.470 So if you go in the negative values at 00:02:12.470 --> 00:02:16.475 basically an acts as a opacity slider for the glows. 00:02:16.475 --> 00:02:21.605 Let's set this down to a value of negative 0.2 and enter. 00:02:21.605 --> 00:02:23.180 We'll see what that looks like. 00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:24.350 If you want it to be less, 00:02:24.350 --> 00:02:25.940 you can drag it even further and it's going 00:02:25.940 --> 00:02:28.430 to make the glows a bit smaller. 00:02:28.430 --> 00:02:32.520 But I think a value of about 0.2 works pretty well. 00:02:32.530 --> 00:02:35.105 Next up, let's change the colors. 00:02:35.105 --> 00:02:36.620 Let's press Shift a and go over to 00:02:36.620 --> 00:02:38.720 color and then add in a color balanced node, 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:40.400 and we'll place it right here. 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:42.305 We have three different values here, 00:02:42.305 --> 00:02:43.715 Lift, Gamma and Gain. 00:02:43.715 --> 00:02:45.290 And these are for the shadows. 00:02:45.290 --> 00:02:46.610 The lift is for the shadows, 00:02:46.610 --> 00:02:48.455 the gamma is for the mid tones 00:02:48.455 --> 00:02:51.140 and the gain is for the highlights. 00:02:51.140 --> 00:02:54.065 As for the highlights, we're going to bring them up a lot 00:02:54.065 --> 00:02:56.900 until we get a really nice look for the interior. 00:02:56.900 --> 00:02:59.060 As you can see, that really brightens up 00:02:59.060 --> 00:03:01.400 the scene and makes it look a lot better. 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:03.120 Might be a bit too much, 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.105 so I might try that down just slightly. 00:03:05.105 --> 00:03:07.070 And then for the shadows, 00:03:07.070 --> 00:03:08.900 I'm going to give them a little bit of 00:03:08.900 --> 00:03:11.180 a blue color just like that. 00:03:11.180 --> 00:03:13.085 And I'm also going to bring it down 00:03:13.085 --> 00:03:14.915 just a very, very slightly. 00:03:14.915 --> 00:03:17.735 Be careful with this slider because if you go too much, 00:03:17.735 --> 00:03:19.805 it's going to really break your scene. 00:03:19.805 --> 00:03:21.830 So I'm going to Control Z that I'm just 00:03:21.830 --> 00:03:24.665 gonna go just the tiniest little bit. 00:03:24.665 --> 00:03:27.275 Just like that I think is pretty good. 00:03:27.275 --> 00:03:29.090 And also for the highlights, 00:03:29.090 --> 00:03:32.285 I'm going to give them a little bit of an orange color, 00:03:32.285 --> 00:03:37.220 something like that, will look pretty nice. 00:03:37.220 --> 00:03:39.125 Somewhere around there. 00:03:39.125 --> 00:03:41.900 And maybe drag it up just a tiny bit more. 00:03:41.900 --> 00:03:44.285 That is looking pretty good. 00:03:44.285 --> 00:03:46.400 And also just to brighten everything up, 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.235 I'm going to add an a gamma note and place it here. 00:03:49.235 --> 00:03:51.020 And the lower you go with this value, 00:03:51.020 --> 00:03:52.805 the brighter the image is going to be. 00:03:52.805 --> 00:03:56.885 So let's try a value of 0.94 and Enter. 00:03:56.885 --> 00:03:58.730 And you can see there it just 00:03:58.730 --> 00:04:01.380 brighten it up just slightly. 00:04:01.540 --> 00:04:04.775 Also, what I'm gonna do is add a vignette. 00:04:04.775 --> 00:04:07.070 This is going to darken the edges of the corners and 00:04:07.070 --> 00:04:09.800 make these focus on the center of the house. 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:11.270 To do this, there are a couple 00:04:11.270 --> 00:04:12.530 of nodes that we need to add. 00:04:12.530 --> 00:04:13.700 First off, we're going to add in 00:04:13.700 --> 00:04:15.185 a Distort and then add an, 00:04:15.185 --> 00:04:17.870 a lens distortion node and place it here. 00:04:17.870 --> 00:04:20.435 We're going to set the distort value to one. 00:04:20.435 --> 00:04:24.110 Then I'm also going to add in a filter and a blur node. 00:04:24.110 --> 00:04:26.330 We're going to take the image and plug it 00:04:26.330 --> 00:04:28.370 into the image and set the mode from 00:04:28.370 --> 00:04:32.270 the blur from Gausian over too fast a Gausian in. 00:04:32.270 --> 00:04:34.730 Then we're going to turn on relative these values here 00:04:34.730 --> 00:04:35.960 now control how blurry 00:04:35.960 --> 00:04:37.640 the dark and edges are going to be. 00:04:37.640 --> 00:04:39.410 To test this, we can control Shift, 00:04:39.410 --> 00:04:40.880 left-click on this, and you can 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:42.770 see that edge is very sharp. 00:04:42.770 --> 00:04:44.810 If we bring it over to y and set 00:04:44.810 --> 00:04:48.155 the percentage of both of these to like 15. 00:04:48.155 --> 00:04:50.525 You can see there it's now quite blurred. 00:04:50.525 --> 00:04:51.800 If you want less blur, 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:53.165 you can drag it down, 00:04:53.165 --> 00:04:55.190 something like that and it's going to be a little bit of 00:04:55.190 --> 00:04:57.425 a sharper, sharper vignettes. 00:04:57.425 --> 00:04:58.790 But I think a value of 00:04:58.790 --> 00:05:01.940 15 percent on both of these looks pretty good. 00:05:01.940 --> 00:05:04.220 To actually plug this into our image, 00:05:04.220 --> 00:05:05.915 we need to press Shift a, 00:05:05.915 --> 00:05:07.745 go over to color and then add in 00:05:07.745 --> 00:05:10.190 a mixed node and place it right here. 00:05:10.190 --> 00:05:12.470 We're going to take the image and plug it into 00:05:12.470 --> 00:05:14.885 the bottom input of the mix. 00:05:14.885 --> 00:05:17.855 Then if we take this and plug it into the viewer, 00:05:17.855 --> 00:05:21.320 and then switch the mode from mix over 2, multiply, 00:05:21.320 --> 00:05:23.435 it's going to get rid of those y-values, 00:05:23.435 --> 00:05:24.860 but leave the dark values. 00:05:24.860 --> 00:05:27.380 And that's gonna give us the look that we want. 00:05:27.380 --> 00:05:29.360 This factor value now controls 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.115 how strong the vignette is. 00:05:31.115 --> 00:05:32.630 If you want it to be smaller, 00:05:32.630 --> 00:05:35.195 just drag it down and it's going to lighten it up. 00:05:35.195 --> 00:05:39.900 Probably around a value of 0.5 is probably good. 00:05:41.100 --> 00:05:43.330 And then finally, if you want to 00:05:43.330 --> 00:05:45.040 change the contrast or the brightness, 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.200 you can add an a brightness contrast node, 00:05:47.200 --> 00:05:50.259 bring up the contrast and the brightness just slightly. 00:05:50.259 --> 00:05:53.095 And that will help make the image a little bit better. 00:05:53.095 --> 00:05:55.345 So now let's take a before and after. 00:05:55.345 --> 00:05:56.560 Over here we're going to Control 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:57.940 Shift and left-click on this. 00:05:57.940 --> 00:05:59.080 Here is the before. 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:00.550 You can see it's pretty dull. 00:06:00.550 --> 00:06:02.155 There's not a lot of pop to it. 00:06:02.155 --> 00:06:04.405 But once we add in all of those nodes, 00:06:04.405 --> 00:06:06.115 Control Shift, left-click on this. 00:06:06.115 --> 00:06:08.365 Here's the after, and as you can see, 00:06:08.365 --> 00:06:10.820 it looks much better. 00:06:11.610 --> 00:06:14.020 To actually save this image. 00:06:14.020 --> 00:06:17.470 We can press F 11 to bring up the render results. 00:06:17.470 --> 00:06:19.420 You can save this image if you want to. 00:06:19.420 --> 00:06:21.370 But if you want to save that viewer node, 00:06:21.370 --> 00:06:23.505 what you need to do is click on this menu, 00:06:23.505 --> 00:06:27.125 type in a viewer and then select the viewer node. 00:06:27.125 --> 00:06:29.810 Over here, you can hover over this image and 00:06:29.810 --> 00:06:32.825 hit Shift Alt S. To add this in, 00:06:32.825 --> 00:06:36.080 we're going to call this render a final render. 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:38.150 And then one just in case I want to 00:06:38.150 --> 00:06:40.730 do another render or change a couple things up. 00:06:40.730 --> 00:06:42.830 I like to name my files final render one, 00:06:42.830 --> 00:06:44.735 final render two, and so on. 00:06:44.735 --> 00:06:47.105 There's allows me to keep everything organized. 00:06:47.105 --> 00:06:49.310 So once you've named your file, you can click, 00:06:49.310 --> 00:06:53.130 you can click Save As image and it will save it.