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Dynamo Dream Old VFX Retrospective (Patreon)

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2021-06-03 05:20:54
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Going through a bunch of older versions of shots from Dynamo Dream, and talking about how they evolved into the finals! I ended up being a lot more particular towards the end, so I iterated some shots quite a few times. 

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Dynamo Dream Old VFX Retrospective

Going through a bunch of older versions of shots from Dynamo Dream, and talking about how they evolved into the finals! I ended up being a lot more particular towards the end, so I iterated some shots quite a few times.

Comments

Anonymous

What? A new 37min Hubert video? Cancel all my plans tonight!

C14

Thank you for sharing! Excellent!!👌🏻

Anonymous
>>61133793

Could you link to the video on when you made the background (around 8:35)? Ive been binging all your videos but I dont recall that one

anup giri

So cool !!!! Can you please a a detail tutorials for including everything. Modeling to rendering .. please

Mario Taylor

I love it! It's fascinating to see the iterations and hear your thoughts about them. Oh, and I seriously thought that the character climbing down the ladder was green screened and not animated. Shows how much I know. :D

Nathaniel Caauwe

Hehe, your bit at 6:15 about blurring everything and printing it in with the depth pass being "hacky"... speaking as someone who comps for a living, that's a legitimate way to do that, and exactly what I would do in a shot like that. Plus I was just talking with a co-worker today about how everything is a hack :P

Thomas Sturm

It's so great to see the iterations for some of the shots in the episode and to hear you speak to things that worked and things that ultimately didn't work. It's very inspiring and gives me a lot of ideas for what I can do in my renders.

Blake Rizzo

I love these types of videos so much. I’ve learned so much watching it! Thank you so much for doing it! So excited for the new episodes!

Kai Christensen

I learned a lot from watching this! It's comforting to know that even the pros are still learning every day. Thanks for the breakdowns, looking forward to more Dynamo Dream stuff!

Tardsmat

The last shot does imo work really well as it is without people. It has that vibe of a residential area, where at night there's just nothing going on and things are weirdly still despite it being really dense

IanHubert

If you're not starting with live action footage, the first episode may not be very useful, so it might make sense to start with the second episode.

IanHubert

OH YEAH!?? That's actually rad to hear! I'd always been a bit self-conscious that the photoscan didn't hold up, and was kicking myself that I HADN'T just shot a greenscreen plate :D

IanHubert

Oh hey Nathaniel! And man, yeah!! In the past couple years I've started realizing that in general that technique is SO much more realistic than the old "screened feathered solid mixing in with the depth pass" approach (which is something I've done for like 15 years without ever really questioning it :P)

Shape

Hey Ian! Did you ever make a video tutorial about your use of the depth map and other post prod stuff? I'm really struggling to get that haze and atmospheric effects and my renders always look so bland.

IanHubert

I've touched on bits of it in different videos, but I want to make another video this week going into it all in more detail!

Shape

Thank you!

Wolfers

Wow you have learnt and evolved so much since your first Dynamo videos. Can you imagine having all this knowledge and tech back when you did the other episodes? Your hard work is so very noticeable in the things you do. Im excited to see more of your creations.

Wolfers

lol same! I didnt realize that was animated. For a "first janky photo scan" its movement sold it.

Judd Hyland

Wow, wow, wow. I could watch 20 hours of this. Easy.

Zachary Macintyre

The third shot you show (Jo's salad hideout with the beacons) has been my desktop for a year and a half now! At the start it felt like a really tall order to reach that level of quality, and although I haven't actually met it yet, I feel like I could in theory now my knowledge has progressed. I loved seeing it in motion with the better camera angle in the episode, it felt like another step up :)

Jeffrey Lee

You talked about render issues with the volumetric lights (34:18), but I just assumed they were clouds of moths.

Dewi

Epic stuff, just when I thought you’d taught me all I could ever expect to know. This was brilliant, probably the most valuable 37mins ever. The missing meta pieces...

Zeke Faust

Perhaps it's a testament to how good you're getting! You're independently inventing things that have been mainstays of the craft forever

Lonnon Foster

Thank you for sharing so many of the pain points in the process. It's inspirational to see you power through the problems and come up with such great results, and even where it falls a bit short, it's helpful for me to see where you decide "eh, good enough" and get on with your life so you can finish. Fighting perfection is a constant battle, and having reminders that people with a lot more experience than I have are still fighting it every day gives me well-needed perspective.

simon wu

Hey, you mentioned you made a video about making the background of the shot where she's walking over the stools. Can you link that?

IanHubert

Ahaha, probably just means I should watch more tuts :P. Honestly, I dove into after effects back in like 2001, learned some stuff, and just kinda kept doing the same stuff ever since. I've changed my workflow SHOCKINGLY little in the past 20 years.

Dario Vilanova

Thank you very much for sharing so much information. I would love to know how you compose those foggy skies. amazing.

Zeke Faust

Lol, I think that's true with a lot of people. And to be fair, the art of compositing hasn't changed much in 20 years either. Add, subtract, multiply alpha, divide alpha, it's all the same.

Christopher Marsden

I love this... I watched the episode twice on You Tube. I then downloaded the 2K version from here and watched it twice. Have watched all of your breakdowns and tutorials on you tube was overjoyed when you released it. I have to say after watching this retrospective that even though you point out issues you weren't happy with, it all blends together well. I don't think they would be noticed by the average viewer unless they slowed down the playback speed. You have come a long way since SBFP, which I thought was awesome, and it is amazing to see the progress of your style and skill. I also binged the original Dynamo and was disapointed when it ended.

Nathaniel Caauwe

Hehe, it all comes down to that in the end. I feel like there are a few tricks these days that people hadn't thought of 20 years ago that have added to some more realistic comps. Whenever I stop procrastinating and start doing my own tips on YouTube :P

Manuel Grewer

I love these detailed behind the scenes episodes. Stellar job explaining your creation process. I just recently started learning Blender and so far, hard surface modeling is pretty much all I can do. Seeing your creative approach to Blenders systems is really helping me getting quick first results. It was especially great to see how some of the scenes have evolved and to hear your thoughts on what worked and what did not. More of these please!

Lukas Sprehn

The original Dynamo is still listed on the Patreon About page as something Ian wants to complete. :)

Muhammed Sahd Salmi

Ian could you do a tutorial on rainy , foggy scene where kaitlin looks through the window and of course that drone kinda shot where there's dripping rain and wetness all over the buildings . How would you choose a rainy sky for th shot??? Is it mist pass on after effects!!!!!

john voss

I'd love to see a tutorial on eye tracking / effects like the "milky" eye

Nate

This was really awesome to see!! Thanks for making it! My take away is that the photorealism really comes in during that last 20 percent of tweaking. It's incredible to see the differences and how far you've taken it.

Martin Balaguer

Ian, amazing work as always. Would love to see a tutorial on how you composite in After Effects!

The RUBORD Conspiracy (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-20 10:00 Hey Ian — do you do your chroma keying in blender too? A lot of folks on YouTube say the keyer in blender sucks and to key in another program and import that into blender for camera tracking and final compositing.
2021-06-05 16:09

Zeke Faust

The keyer in blender doesn't suck, it's adequate and you can certainly get passable keys but it's slow and you really need to know what you're doing

Dulina Chandrasiri

Hey Ian, could we get a compositing tutorial one of these days? Really struggling with it :(

eh aaron

The attention to detail is incredible! There's alot happening in at the same time. I didn't even notice the crab on the truck bit when I watched the full episode.

Arsh Waseem

Damn funny how Im not the only one glad to know mate

Arsh Waseem

I think he did tell that for the rain he used a shader that emulates rain

Ben Moltzer (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 He did one ages ago on here but it's pretty hard to find the post so I bookmarked the unlisted video itself for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57GiAdttFgQ&list=PLiIvZ9aC1aAlizI92GQmyCvqTSyinRFLA&index=2&ab_channel=IanHubertIanHubert That being said he also mentioned a few techniques in this video that he said he doesn't do anymore.
2021-06-07 08:27 He did one ages ago on here but it's pretty hard to find the post so I bookmarked the unlisted video itself for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57GiAdttFgQ&list=PLiIvZ9aC1aAlizI92GQmyCvqTSyinRFLA&index=2&ab_channel=IanHubertIanHubert That being said he also mentioned a few techniques in this video that he said he doesn't do anymore.

He did one ages ago on here but it's pretty hard to find the post so I bookmarked the unlisted video itself for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57GiAdttFgQ&list=PLiIvZ9aC1aAlizI92GQmyCvqTSyinRFLA&index=2&ab_channel=IanHubertIanHubert That being said he also mentioned a few techniques in this video that he said he doesn't do anymore.

Critt

Yes! Would love an in depth compositing tutorial / workflow overview as well.

syrz05

Hey Ian, could you make a tutorial on how to make planets like the one in dynamo dream? I loved that shot!

NickTricc

at 28:00 you talk about adding moss and driplets... That would be an awesome tut! We already have the brick-picture, so adding more details like that would be amazing to know how to !

Jason S

There is a currently a moss tutorial if you go back a bit. But no driplets :(

Joseph Ulibarri

Hey Ian! Pro tip: I bought a mannequin to play dress up for photogrametry scans and its a real game changer! I am getting perfect, and I mean perfect scans. Then just rig em to yer dudes!

Zachary Macintyre

There is a droplet tutorial way back! I think it's with another topic in a video, search for droplets maybe.

NickTricc

That is an AWESOME idea!!

Joseph Ulibarri

Its a big improvement, I'd say I went from 15% usable scans to 100% usable scans! I also put the mannequin on a turn table so the camera stays still. I'm getting 100% picture alignment in reality capture.

Phil South

At some point you should also really talk more about your use of fog, if you haven't already :D

Anderson Atlas Author

yeah, this was fun to watch. you learning is me learning (even if its just the process of doing better) and every scene is inspiring!

Paddy

excellent

ee dan

excellent

Sohail Wazir

sir how you making the footage in blueish color.

MD AKIB NUR (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 hi ian, i just want to show you one of my work,i just made all alone for long 34 days,single handed. i believe you will like it. and everyone will too. inspired by you . https://youtu.be/UGSZxkY1drc
2021-09-20 10:28