1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,690 Hello everyone and welcome to another video. 2 00:00:02,685 --> 00:00:03,945 This video, I wanted to do 3 00:00:03,945 --> 00:00:05,405 some final touch ups on 4 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,170 our scene and make it look better. 5 00:00:07,170 --> 00:00:09,930 I wanted to also mentioned the importance of taking 6 00:00:09,930 --> 00:00:11,460 a break from your scene and then 7 00:00:11,460 --> 00:00:13,590 coming back to it with a fresh mind. 8 00:00:13,590 --> 00:00:15,450 A lot of the time when you're working with 9 00:00:15,450 --> 00:00:18,290 a large-scale scene and you're working on it for hours, 10 00:00:18,285 --> 00:00:19,445 you'll be blind to some of 11 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,090 the problems that come with it. 12 00:00:21,090 --> 00:00:22,790 As you can see in this scene, 13 00:00:22,785 --> 00:00:24,065 I didn't really notice when I 14 00:00:24,060 --> 00:00:25,500 was working on it that the lights 15 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:28,460 inside are way too dark and they're just really dull. 16 00:00:28,455 --> 00:00:30,945 They have this like white tend to him and 17 00:00:30,945 --> 00:00:34,065 it just doesn't look good, so we're going to fix that. 18 00:00:34,065 --> 00:00:36,995 So I wanted to mention that it is very important to take 19 00:00:36,990 --> 00:00:38,370 a break from your current scene 20 00:00:38,370 --> 00:00:40,110 and then come back with a fresh minds. 21 00:00:40,110 --> 00:00:42,520 You can see all of the issues with it. 22 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,810 So here's what we're gonna do in this video. 23 00:00:44,810 --> 00:00:46,520 You can see the inside is too dark, 24 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:47,800 so we're going to fix that. 25 00:00:47,795 --> 00:00:49,945 I also noticed on the right side that 26 00:00:49,940 --> 00:00:51,980 we have some floating lights over here, 27 00:00:51,980 --> 00:00:54,130 so we're also going to fix that. 28 00:00:54,125 --> 00:00:57,505 Another thing I wanted to change is these lights here. 29 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:59,900 They are basically the same brightness 30 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:01,360 as the lights on top. 31 00:01:01,355 --> 00:01:03,865 And it's kind of distracting if you look over 32 00:01:03,860 --> 00:01:06,770 here and your eyes are drawn to this area. 33 00:01:06,770 --> 00:01:08,180 And I don't really want those things 34 00:01:08,180 --> 00:01:09,410 to be the focal point. 35 00:01:09,410 --> 00:01:12,580 Those are just a subtle detail that I wanted to add. 36 00:01:12,575 --> 00:01:15,115 So we're also going to create a new material and drag 37 00:01:15,110 --> 00:01:18,490 the brightness down on those stair lights. 38 00:01:18,485 --> 00:01:22,405 Another thing is the foreground is just a bit too dark. 39 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,440 You can't really see these chairs over here. 40 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,110 You can see that they're like an outline up a chair, 41 00:01:27,110 --> 00:01:29,170 but you can't really see any details on them. 42 00:01:29,165 --> 00:01:30,595 So we're also going to turn up 43 00:01:30,590 --> 00:01:31,970 the world settings and then 44 00:01:31,970 --> 00:01:35,140 maybe fix the lines on these plants right here. 45 00:01:35,135 --> 00:01:37,415 So let's go ahead and jump into it. 46 00:01:37,415 --> 00:01:39,095 So let's go ahead and jump into it. 47 00:01:39,095 --> 00:01:41,075 I'm going to exit out of this render. 48 00:01:41,075 --> 00:01:43,585 And then we're going to change a couple of the settings. 49 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:46,730 We'll go select one of the lines over here and remember, 50 00:01:46,730 --> 00:01:48,050 since we all did it, 51 00:01:48,050 --> 00:01:49,220 it's going to apply it to 52 00:01:49,220 --> 00:01:50,960 every single line inside the house, 53 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:52,160 which is very useful. 54 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,520 We're going to jump over to these lamps settings 55 00:01:54,515 --> 00:01:56,045 and the power of this, 56 00:01:56,045 --> 00:01:58,595 I'm going to drag all the way up to 15. 57 00:01:58,595 --> 00:02:01,265 So the inside is a lot brighter. 58 00:02:01,265 --> 00:02:03,275 Then for the color, we're gonna go with 59 00:02:03,275 --> 00:02:05,935 a nice orange color somewhere around here. 60 00:02:05,930 --> 00:02:08,360 I think we'll look pretty good. 61 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,610 And as you can see already, 62 00:02:10,610 --> 00:02:12,800 the interior is looking much better. 63 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,300 As for the world settings, 64 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:15,650 we're going to jump over to the world 65 00:02:15,650 --> 00:02:17,090 settings and the strength of it. 66 00:02:17,090 --> 00:02:19,440 We're going to bring up to a value of 0.2. 67 00:02:19,444 --> 00:02:20,634 This will just make sure that 68 00:02:20,630 --> 00:02:22,430 the outside is a little bit brighter. 69 00:02:22,430 --> 00:02:24,050 We can see the chairs a lot better 70 00:02:24,050 --> 00:02:26,570 now and the whole thing just looks better. 71 00:02:26,570 --> 00:02:28,820 Let's grab the lights on the exterior, 72 00:02:28,820 --> 00:02:31,090 these lights right here for the plants. 73 00:02:31,085 --> 00:02:33,545 And we're going to change a couple of settings here. 74 00:02:33,545 --> 00:02:35,365 So we'll jump over to the settings. 75 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,980 And the first thing that I'll do is 76 00:02:36,980 --> 00:02:39,250 I'll bring the strength up to 100. 77 00:02:39,245 --> 00:02:42,265 And I also want the blend to be bigger. 78 00:02:42,260 --> 00:02:44,390 So I'm going to drag the blend up all the way, 79 00:02:44,390 --> 00:02:46,270 probably let's go with a value of one. 80 00:02:46,265 --> 00:02:47,545 And then for the sides, 81 00:02:47,540 --> 00:02:49,310 I also want to drag those up so 82 00:02:49,310 --> 00:02:52,060 they're going to be a bigger spread. 83 00:02:52,055 --> 00:02:55,465 Something like that, I think will look better. 84 00:02:55,460 --> 00:02:58,970 Just so we can see those lights a little bit better. 85 00:02:58,970 --> 00:03:01,670 Then finally, we're going to fix the interior. 86 00:03:01,670 --> 00:03:03,200 So let's go into wire-frame. 87 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,650 And then I will select the light over here 88 00:03:05,645 --> 00:03:08,375 and press Period at to zoom in on it. 89 00:03:08,375 --> 00:03:11,005 As you can see, this thing is just floating there. 90 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,240 It's not on a ceiling or anything. 91 00:03:13,235 --> 00:03:14,365 So let's fix that. 92 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,120 We're going to select both of those objects will 93 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,410 go into side view by hitting three. 94 00:03:20,405 --> 00:03:23,575 And I'll also grab this light and 95 00:03:23,570 --> 00:03:26,540 the lamp and de-select the window. 96 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:27,890 And I don't think I ever mentioned it, 97 00:03:27,890 --> 00:03:29,900 but to de-select with box alive to 98 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:32,000 you can press B and then draw with 99 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,620 the middle mouse button to 100 00:03:33,620 --> 00:03:36,610 de-select an object that's very useful. 101 00:03:36,605 --> 00:03:39,725 Then we'll click and drag and place it on the ceiling. 102 00:03:39,725 --> 00:03:41,935 We'll zoom in over here and then right 103 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:43,940 about there looks good. 104 00:03:43,940 --> 00:03:46,400 Let's go into camera view and check what that looks like. 105 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,020 So I'm going to hit 0, Z and go into rendered view. 106 00:03:51,020 --> 00:03:53,660 If we then press Z and toggle or village, 107 00:03:53,660 --> 00:03:55,330 you can see those lights are gone, 108 00:03:55,325 --> 00:03:58,195 which actually I think looks a bit better. 109 00:03:58,190 --> 00:03:59,270 There we go. 110 00:03:59,270 --> 00:04:00,590 And I'm also going to 111 00:04:00,590 --> 00:04:02,440 change the material on these things. 112 00:04:02,435 --> 00:04:05,305 So I'm going to select those lights on the stairs. 113 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:07,660 We're going to jump over to the Material tab. 114 00:04:07,655 --> 00:04:09,805 You can see that this material is using 115 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,840 the same material over here. 116 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,760 So if I select this object, 117 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,130 you can see it's using that light material. 118 00:04:16,130 --> 00:04:17,750 So I don't want to change this one. 119 00:04:17,750 --> 00:04:19,310 I think that one looks pretty good. 120 00:04:19,310 --> 00:04:21,830 So what we're gonna do is select this object. 121 00:04:21,830 --> 00:04:23,150 And then we're going to hit that 122 00:04:23,150 --> 00:04:25,090 too to create a new material. 123 00:04:25,085 --> 00:04:28,265 We'll call this stair lights. 124 00:04:28,265 --> 00:04:30,265 And as for the strength of this, 125 00:04:30,260 --> 00:04:31,520 so we're going to bring it down to, 126 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,290 let's try, let's try 25. 127 00:04:33,290 --> 00:04:34,790 Let's just cut it down by half. 128 00:04:34,790 --> 00:04:36,710 And then we'll go into a rendered view 129 00:04:36,710 --> 00:04:38,930 to see what it looks like. 130 00:04:38,930 --> 00:04:41,210 That looks pretty good. I might want 131 00:04:41,210 --> 00:04:43,250 to go even lower. Let's try 20. 132 00:04:43,250 --> 00:04:44,500 And then for the color, 133 00:04:44,495 --> 00:04:46,995 we're also going to bring it over to a nice orange, 134 00:04:46,995 --> 00:04:49,885 more of an orange color, something like that. 135 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,730 And I think that's just going to look a bit better. 136 00:04:52,730 --> 00:04:55,250 And there we go, That looks pretty good. 137 00:04:55,250 --> 00:04:56,810 So a lot of the time when you're working 138 00:04:56,810 --> 00:04:58,660 with big scenes like this is, 139 00:04:58,655 --> 00:04:59,905 I will do about like 140 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:01,310 five or six renders before 141 00:05:01,310 --> 00:05:03,250 I'm happy with the final result. 142 00:05:03,245 --> 00:05:06,445 And actually I think those lines are a bit too orange, 143 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,620 so I'm going to actually bring the saturation down. 144 00:05:08,615 --> 00:05:10,135 So you can do that by going over to 145 00:05:10,130 --> 00:05:11,810 the saturation value right here in 146 00:05:11,810 --> 00:05:13,910 the color and bring it down 147 00:05:13,910 --> 00:05:16,460 just a little bit, something like that. 148 00:05:16,460 --> 00:05:18,790 I think that will actually look a bit better. 149 00:05:18,785 --> 00:05:22,135 So now let's jump over to our render one more time 150 00:05:22,130 --> 00:05:23,570 and then double-check that those are 151 00:05:23,570 --> 00:05:25,190 the settings that we want to change. 152 00:05:25,190 --> 00:05:26,530 So to do that, you can press 153 00:05:26,525 --> 00:05:29,485 F to bring back your original render. 154 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:30,930 So you can see here we change 155 00:05:30,925 --> 00:05:32,755 those lights are going to be a bit brighter. 156 00:05:32,750 --> 00:05:34,010 We change these lines and 157 00:05:34,010 --> 00:05:35,360 those lines are actually in the ceiling. 158 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,580 Now, the background is going to be 159 00:05:37,580 --> 00:05:39,770 brighter and the interior 160 00:05:39,770 --> 00:05:41,720 is going to be brighter as well. 161 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,000 So you can go over your scene and pick if 162 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,120 there's anything else that you want to change. 163 00:05:46,115 --> 00:05:47,935 If you're happy with the final results, 164 00:05:47,930 --> 00:05:49,750 we can go ahead and render this out. 165 00:05:49,745 --> 00:05:52,075 I'm going to jump over to slot t2. 166 00:05:52,070 --> 00:05:54,440 And you can do that by hitting two on your keyboard or 167 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,100 coming up to this menu and then selecting a slot t2. 168 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:00,860 This will allow us to render it and then 169 00:06:00,860 --> 00:06:03,460 preview what the before and after it looks like. 170 00:06:03,455 --> 00:06:05,605 So now that we've selected a slot t2, 171 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:06,910 we are ready to render. 172 00:06:06,905 --> 00:06:09,905 I'm going to press Control S to save my project. 173 00:06:09,904 --> 00:06:11,394 And then we'll jump over to 174 00:06:11,390 --> 00:06:14,530 the render and then click on Render Image. 175 00:06:14,525 --> 00:06:17,065 This should only take a minute or two since we're 176 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:19,960 rendering at a 1000 samples with cycles x. 177 00:06:19,955 --> 00:06:22,985 So once this is done, we will take a look at it. 178 00:06:23,650 --> 00:06:27,380 The render has finished and here is our result. 179 00:06:27,380 --> 00:06:30,200 Now to preview the previous render to this render, 180 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:31,850 we're going to press 1 on the keyboard. 181 00:06:31,850 --> 00:06:33,610 So this is the previous render. 182 00:06:33,605 --> 00:06:36,175 You can see everything is much darker and 183 00:06:36,170 --> 00:06:38,890 the colors are not as saturated. 184 00:06:38,885 --> 00:06:40,105 And then if we go to slot 185 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:41,990 t2 by hitting two on our keyboard, 186 00:06:41,990 --> 00:06:44,480 this is the second render that we've created, 187 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,630 and as you can see, it looks a lot better. 188 00:06:46,625 --> 00:06:48,745 The interior pops a lot more. 189 00:06:48,740 --> 00:06:49,910 There's a lot more colors. 190 00:06:49,910 --> 00:06:51,430 The brightness is a lot better. 191 00:06:51,425 --> 00:06:53,045 And I think it just looks overall 192 00:06:53,045 --> 00:06:54,815 much better than the first result. 193 00:06:54,815 --> 00:06:57,115 So we'll do that one more time. Here is the first one, 194 00:06:57,110 --> 00:06:59,530 and here is the second one. 195 00:06:59,525 --> 00:07:01,615 At this point you can exit out 196 00:07:01,610 --> 00:07:03,050 of this window and jump over to 197 00:07:03,050 --> 00:07:05,180 the compositing workspace and then 198 00:07:05,180 --> 00:07:07,610 change a couple of settings if you wanted to. 199 00:07:07,610 --> 00:07:09,620 So if you want the vignette to be darker, 200 00:07:09,620 --> 00:07:10,990 you can drag that this way. 201 00:07:10,985 --> 00:07:13,375 The corners are going to be darker just slightly, 202 00:07:13,370 --> 00:07:15,710 which I'm going to go with a value of 0.6. 203 00:07:15,710 --> 00:07:17,500 So I'm going to bring it up just a little bit 204 00:07:17,495 --> 00:07:20,435 because the scene is overall brighter. 205 00:07:20,435 --> 00:07:22,585 As for the color balance, 206 00:07:22,580 --> 00:07:24,020 I'm going to set the color of 207 00:07:24,020 --> 00:07:26,380 the shadows to be a little bit more blue. 208 00:07:26,375 --> 00:07:28,075 And then the midtones, I'm going to bring 209 00:07:28,070 --> 00:07:30,500 more over to a yellow color. 210 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:32,660 So we're going to preview what that looks like. 211 00:07:32,660 --> 00:07:35,030 I'm going to hit M to mute that note. 212 00:07:35,030 --> 00:07:36,170 And this is the before, 213 00:07:36,170 --> 00:07:38,570 and then this is the after with the color correction. 214 00:07:38,570 --> 00:07:40,070 And I think it looks a lot better. 215 00:07:40,070 --> 00:07:41,510 It might be a bit too red, 216 00:07:41,510 --> 00:07:44,090 so I might go over to more of a yellow color, 217 00:07:44,090 --> 00:07:46,900 something like that might be pretty good. 218 00:07:46,895 --> 00:07:49,025 And then for the highlights, I'm also going to go 219 00:07:49,025 --> 00:07:51,575 over to more of a yellow color. 220 00:07:51,575 --> 00:07:54,865 And then maybe drag them up just a tiny bit. 221 00:07:54,860 --> 00:07:57,800 There we go. So this is a before. 222 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,920 This is the after with the color correction. 223 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,100 And that looks pretty nice 224 00:08:03,095 --> 00:08:05,365 if you don't really like how red the interior looks. 225 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,740 Another thing that you can do is 226 00:08:06,740 --> 00:08:08,180 go over to color and then 227 00:08:08,180 --> 00:08:11,200 add in a RGB curves right here. 228 00:08:11,195 --> 00:08:12,445 If we place it between the 229 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,090 color balance and the Gamma node, 230 00:08:14,090 --> 00:08:15,800 we can switch the mode over to 231 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,720 the red channel and then just 232 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,240 drag this down and just slightly. 233 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,610 And that will help reduce some of the red colors, 234 00:08:22,610 --> 00:08:25,340 which actually I think that looks a lot better. 235 00:08:25,340 --> 00:08:28,550 You can also go over to the color mode and 236 00:08:28,550 --> 00:08:29,870 driving entire thing up 237 00:08:29,870 --> 00:08:31,880 just slightly and that will brighten it. 238 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,650 And there we go. 239 00:08:33,650 --> 00:08:36,350 So now let's take a look at it from the before and after. 240 00:08:36,350 --> 00:08:38,900 We'll Control Shift left-click on the render layers. 241 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:40,210 This is the before, 242 00:08:40,205 --> 00:08:43,535 and then this is the after width, the color correction. 243 00:08:43,535 --> 00:08:46,225 So now at this point we can save this project. 244 00:08:46,220 --> 00:08:49,220 We can press F 11 to go back into the rendered view. 245 00:08:49,220 --> 00:08:50,990 So here is our render with 246 00:08:50,990 --> 00:08:53,360 the previous compositing nodes. 247 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,150 And you can see it's a bit too red. 248 00:08:55,145 --> 00:08:58,555 But if we grab the menu here and type in the word viewer, 249 00:08:58,550 --> 00:09:00,620 we can select the viewer node. 250 00:09:00,620 --> 00:09:01,850 And this is the after. 251 00:09:01,850 --> 00:09:03,530 And I think that looks a lot better. 252 00:09:03,530 --> 00:09:07,340 We can then press Shift Alt S to save this project, 253 00:09:07,340 --> 00:09:10,120 and then I will call it final render. 254 00:09:10,115 --> 00:09:11,785 And then two, since that we 255 00:09:11,780 --> 00:09:13,940 already rendered one image. You can see it right here. 256 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:15,710 Final render one. I'm going to render 257 00:09:15,710 --> 00:09:17,740 this one as a final render too, 258 00:09:17,735 --> 00:09:19,865 so we can keep everything organized. 259 00:09:19,865 --> 00:09:22,525 Then you can click on Save As image. 260 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,190 And there we go, That looks much better. 261 00:09:25,190 --> 00:09:27,170 So here is the before and after with 262 00:09:27,170 --> 00:09:30,050 our previous render and then our render now. 263 00:09:30,050 --> 00:09:33,070 And as you can see, the overall image pops a lot more. 264 00:09:33,065 --> 00:09:34,975 So again, it's very important to take 265 00:09:34,970 --> 00:09:37,040 a break from working on a scene as you can 266 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,080 come back to it with a fresh mind and 267 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,660 see what the problems are in that scene. 268 00:09:41,660 --> 00:09:44,690 So there you go. We've now created the modern house. 269 00:09:44,690 --> 00:09:46,040 And in the next video, I'm just going to 270 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:47,630 talk about what is next in 271 00:09:47,630 --> 00:09:49,640 this course and some things that you 272 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,980 can add to this house if you wanted to change it up.