How To Make "Found Footage" Using BLENDER! (Complete Workflow Tutorial) 

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What I have worked out is to not manually Animating the camera. When I do a "handhelt Shot" Video, I actually take my phone and record how I walk with it. Then I put that video into blender and motion track the video. And then I have the most acurate camera shake.

The backrooms creators have a lot of great techniques

A neat little trick for walk animation is - there is a navigation method under view>navigation>walk navigation. Once you are in it you can control the navigation like unreal engine or any fps game. And on top if you press tab key when in navigation it enables gravity the player would always stick to the ground below. Under preference you can set the player height. When recording navigation just hit record and walk around as you like, once done stop recording then on top you can always refine it with noise and graph editor.

or an easier way of stopping the noise is by going to restrict frame range and then if you want it to start again just add a new noise and restrict the frame range to start again at the point you want it edit: also instead of rendering a full video, you should render an image sequence and bring into blenders video editing section and convert that to an image sequence that way if it crashes you can re render from the point it crashed

It's even in EEVEE which makes it all the better. I don't have the time (or GPU computing power) to wait for a full animation to render out in cycles. Thanks for the inspiration!

9:38 You can select all the faces with A, hit U, and use cube project to project the faces evenly to avoid the uneven textures. Then you can just select faces and scale them in the UV editor.

I wish this video was made back when I was trying to learn to do the found footage style in Blender, It's crazy how you simplified the whole process that had me pulling my hair. Really great tutorial.

I love this! So cool. I'm working/repped writer and I've never really wanted to do physical filming, but I used to be an art director on The Walking Dead and I could see myself using this sort of workflow to make proof of concept. Thanks for sharing!

i have zero clue how blender works yet you somehow explained this all in a way that was easy to follow

for shaking the camera we can use camera shakify addon which is free and eazy to use

definitely would be better off filming the camera movement and camera tracking it for the motion. this looks very keyframed by hand

i just got blender today and as of right now, i'm watching this tutorial. i'll let you know how it goes. wish me luck! 😁

Currently working on a script for a found footage analog horror series! :D Thank you for uploading.

This is awesome man, thank you for making this! It never fails to amaze me just how much you can do in blender.

WOW! This is exactly what I was looking for to get started! Thank you so much for creating this walkthrough and sharing all the information and downloads!

This is the best tutorial I have come across so far! Thnx a lot!

i use an addon called camera shakify for the camera shake. it had a selection of different camera shakes, and its completely free, and its the addon i use the most. you just select the camera shake you want and then thats all you have to do.

Kudos for taking the time to share your expertise and guide others in their learning journey. However, I'd like to pitch in some unsolicited feedback. Here are a few giveaways that caught my eye, indicating the possibility of the footage being fabricated: - Repetitive textures, notably in the pillars. - Impeccable shapes, like the flawlessly cut rectangular hallways. A touch of irregularity in the bricks would add authenticity. - The flashlight's light forming a perfect circle with a seamless gradient and evenly distributed lighting. - Movement synchronized with light, especially evident at 0:42. Typically, people first shift their gaze with their eyes, followed by a delayed movement of the head and flashlight. - Lack of echo, which is often present in environments with stone surfaces that reflect sound waves. - Peculiar floor texture, especially at 0:45, resembling a somewhat cartoonish appearance, as if post-processed with a posterization effect. - At 0:27, the brick wall texture on one plane contrasts sharply with a different stone texture on the adjacent plane. - At 0:37, a support structure seemingly penetrates into a pillar. Construction workers would install it immediately before or after the pillar instead of cutting it, unless there is a reason to do otherwise. - At 0:40, the inner brick wall texture rotated by about 25° aligns with the outer brick wall texture, a repeating texture. For those also learning how to make found footage, here are a few nuggets of advice: - Reference images are your friend. - Prioritize audio quality over video; a video with subpar visuals but stellar audio is leaps and bounds ahead. - Personally explore locations, capture visuals, record ambient sounds - immerse yourself to replicate a more genuine experience. - Break problems down into smaller pieces. Nobody makes tutorials for everything. It's surprising that anybody made a tutorial specifically for found footage.

Amazing tutorial! What I find to be the best way of getting a realistic camera move is to actually record a real video in a place where you can walk around -and then make a quick 3d camera track of it. Then you can always put an animation layer on the camera and key it however you desire :)

this is perfect tysm

I had a try at this a while ago, but had the same problem as you: it looks like a video game. Not sure what it is, but it just doesn't look real. Kanepixels nailed it.

This is crazy job!!!

This great work not only explain the way to make such backrooms videos, but also taught us how to make them! People can learn a lot form this and they can make their own dream come true! Thanks a lot!

I'm soo happy I found your channel!!!

You could also adjust the falloff of the lights with nodes

it looks great i like the little medieval book as well and about blender i feel you i am still strugling to learn it

thank you for these videos that teach me something in blender

you should enable the control overlay so we can see which ubttons you press :)

TYSM im trying to complete my "schoolrooms" found footage series but i haven't gotten a filming opportunity in a while so i made a 3D model of the school and i needed to make the camera walk but i didnt know how untill i watched your video♥️

The thing about the camera shake idea you told everybody, i now realized this:I don't need the camera shakifier since i got a better way cause of this youtuber, Thank you! by the way I subscribed cause of this tutorial.

13:52 you cant key frame the noise but there is a box "restrict frame range" you can use

This was an amazing tutorial, watching it come together. Could Metahuman be imported and be used for the cameraman?

Thanks! this is really complete workflow tutorial with all information I needed and even more! :D

amazing tutorial! have you ever tried using the walkthrough mode to animate the camera live w the wasd buttons? I've seen other creators do it here, wonder if that could be an easier workflow or if you lose too much control. Thank you!

Damn this is so dope hope one day i just be as good as you

Monster behind just coming to a fridge to eat last slice of pizza, which explains his pose

A tip for realistic camera movement…Camera Shakify addon…that’s it-

I'm really enjoying this, but, I have no idea how you did the inset to the faces like that, mine goes horizontal, yours seems to go vertical, without rotation. Am I doing something wrong?

13:50 ''restrict frame range'' does the trick 😜

thank you my good sir but is there a better way of stopping the noise aside from adding a new camera i watched the part many times but still didnt understand it

bro only 5k subs should be illegal for this level of content

The most accurate way is to record yourself walking around. No animation can represent the randomness of human movement.

thank you so much! this helped me a lot!

great video! I will try this method out soon

Have you tried out seams and clicking u and uv unwraps? It would make the up part way easier

As a person who's trying to learn Blender, I understand everything that is said in the video, but lack the navigational skills to find the settings and properties in it.

your pc specs please..

7:58 How? Can somebody explain

If you have a problem with flashlight not following the camera movement, make sure you first select the light before camera and then ctrl+p...

nice work bro

Creating a tutorial for beginners and using timelapse is unforgivable

Great tutorial! If it’s fine, can I have a link to your laptop since it is really good for this (if you have a pc it’s ok)

This is so cool! I'm making my camera movements and buildings for now, and I'll be noting down the things I will learn here! Thanks so much, I will make my own horror analog films from now! 🥰🤍 Thanks for this toturial it helps!

0:47 Tech Demo/ Disney's Wish's Final Draft vs. Blumhouse's First Fully Animated Movie.

for the render engine did you use evee, workbench or Cycles?

Happy to finally see this video :)

Well you just earned a sub for your help. Please keep making this kind of content it helps in learning many things.😊😊

Thank man, now i know how to make found footage

thank you so much !

thanks for the video, this is a cool and simple way to make some horror, thanks (:

I love how your helping and teaching people, my only issue is my laptop was at 100% volume and still could not hear very much. I don't think I'm going deaf, just think you talk a little too soft.Not tryna be rude, js.

amazing. did you used cycles or eevee? thanks for the tutorial

Awesme tutorial!

How do you hit play for the shaking up and down

U > Cube project will stop the bendy textures

as someone who searched how to make a analog horror in blender and just downloaded blender for the first time i was clueless and deleted blender

love your video and how you explain,!!

I have one question, what power number should i put to for my flashlight?

That’s cool but I was so confused by the found footage cause in movie making found footage is just random clips that weren’t self made but rather found somewhere

Good tutorial, thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

hey, thats so nice to see, thanaks a lot aand its very helpfull!!! I have a question if you can do a video about blender x Minecraft (but modded). I know there are lots of stuff out there about minecraft and Blender, but its all default minecraft, is there a solution how to import like models and textures from mods into blender? For example not a regual Zombie from minecraft, instead a modded one from a mod?

Why do I press "I" and the menu like the video doesn't appear? I use version 4.1 and instead of the camera shaking vertically, my camera shakes horizontally

how do you get the snake tail tool to work like that?

You didn’t just shake the mic you shook the whole desk 😭😭💀💀💀

thanks now i can make a found footage within 10 minutes

I have a question when i make the camera animations how do i stop it for when my camera is suposed to sit still and not wobble?

Hi, I just start with your video and so far you got me hooked. I have a small critique and a possible solution that you work… maybe. I personally found the random noise movement still a tiny bit too artificial (I have watched the intro one time, so this is just the first impression). I ask myself, if it could get even better results when you bind the camera to a motion capture walk cycle (from Mixamo for example). This would give the steps of the walk a natural look and a random noise on top helps to make it less monotonous. Just a thought, but maybe a thing to test?! The rest: great video so far and you got a new subscriber. 😅 Chris

I'm so confused, like everything else is fine but my camera just isn't working,how do I make it face straight forward like yours without it resetting itself to look down when I press play:/ EDIT:NVM I FIXED IT, I'm so dumb 😭I'm new to blender so like yeah, but I fixed it 😭

You rock!

Amazing 🎉

can someone tell me how to use the cloud displace modifier? Because im confused on how he does it and the snake hook doesnt work for me that well either too

hey i've used blender for over a day already and something i can't fix is the fact that when rendering bloom, when the light object is out of the field of view the bloom instantly disappears. any idea in how can i fix this?

how do you get the yt audio library?

Fantastic Work, many thanks!! New subscriber here. Wishing you your Best Year Yet for 2024, my Bro. :)

Hey bro how do i select both objects at same time

Why not use Shakify addon instead of the noise mod?

11:18 how you add someone in Object in Shader editor?

thank u

I tried to make it with cycle and it said ran out of memory and i had to use evee

i tried doing this but when i tried to import a model into blender using Bridge, textures werent there.

Rad !

Is the I key the letter I on the key bourd cause its not working for me

your vhs camera have amazing stabilization lol

4:37 I also like to add another spot and make it smaller so it gives a more realistic flashlight effect

Can i use camera shakify instead of adding noise to the camera

omg i love that

I am on 4.1 and none of my lights work, I have a map with lights but none of them turn on

What blender version is this?

I’m sooo making lethal company found footage