The Secret to Beautiful Renders 

At 6:33 I said "I rarely turn the dispersion value higher than 0.2". Which is technically true, however I meant to say 0.02. I'm an idiot.

You can make the render a lot better by placing that toilet paper the right way.

Also, important: though much more detailed than renders, sometimes real life looks flat and boring, dont exagerate filters, if your goal is to make it realistic. If your goal is more on the artistic side, go for it.

us new blender user are lucky to have people like you.. making sure we don’t mistakes that older users made

I’d sat in a Visual Effects Society meeting in Beverly Hills with John Dykstra, John Knoll, and Dennis Muren, watching them on a panel ripping into faking anamorphic lens flares all over the place. That was almost 15 years ago now and it still sticks with me.

Great overview! 🙂 One thing that has been consistent all the years I have worked with art direction for both photographed and 3D rendered images, is that CGI artists tend to exaggerate the very details that photographers want to remove, in shooting the image and post production. A wide lens can usually not have a visibly shallow depth of focus, chromatic aberration is removed in post production, etc. Remember that all commercial photos you see are retouched to some extent. If you want a rendered image to look realistic, you have to make it look like a realistic photograph. Understanding of photography both from an artistic and a technical perspective is crucial - and the one skill that is hardest to find in a CGI artis - as far as I have learned.

Oh my gawd; the comparison at the end was shocking. From fairly unrealistic to hyper realistic. Great video!

Loved the lighting tip. Didn't know something like ies textures existed till now. Thanks man. This was an amazing set of tips. Awesome video ✌🏻

Bokah or bokeeeh if you're fancy 🤣🤣🤣 Great video 🙌🏻👏🏻

All excellent advice. Also, loved the brief cameo of Hyacinth Bucket!

This is the first really helpful blender tutorial that I have seen in a while (I haven't played with camera settings much and you described them in a way that is very easy to understand). Thankyou!

Concerning indoor lighting through windows. You should just use the "Light Path" Node to substitute your glass shader for a completely transparent one for everything except the camera. This way your windows will still look like glass, but will let through all incoming light. This way caustics don't matter and you get less noise in general. A tip for the Sign-Spherical-Mask: You can also use a Math->Power Node instead of the Colorramp. Set it to 2 gives you a nice smooth result and the more you increase it the "smoother" it gets.

U have high knowledge of 3d in general and thats what I love about you, I knew almost all this tips and tricks now but it took some time to learn all this from experience, but you just made it into whole 1 video, thats really great. Ur videos are really high quality for 3d in general, filled with tons of new things to learn, thank you. 🖤

These are some great tips! There's lots I didn't know or really never messed with, specifically the anamorphic lens flares, compositing, and the color modes, so I'm glad you pointed them out! Awesome video!

Thank you, this was an exceptionally good Render Tips video. You've changed how i look at a few things here, thanks

This is literally the best tutorial ive seen so far, its exactly what i needed thank you so much

Great video mate. Lots of good tips!

Excellent essential sum up of neat visual appeal tricks :) Thanks a bunch !

Such a great tutorial! I've learned a lot from this.

Wow. Instant subscribed. Just the info i needed. Keep updating this list please

As usually, your videos are eye opening and super helpful!

Many thanks, mate. So much useful information!

Just what I needed for my render, lets go!

Wow, thank you so much 😍😍

Excellent video, had more super useful nuggets than anticipated when I browsed onto this video. Many thanks! *Subscribe button clicked*

thank you for yet another great video!

Wow this video is incredible

Well done. Thanks for the knowledge download.

Something I found gives a "natural" feel despite being very subtle, is to switch the camera to panoramic equisolid fisheye, but type in a more normal focal length (for whetever reason the thingy won't let you reach higher values unless you manually type the number there in fisheye mode). It's not for all types of shots though and won't work with Eevee.

Brilliant tutorial. Keep up the good work

So many great tips!

Thanks for the video.

This is a really in-depth and helpful video! Easy subscribe

This is excellent thank you!

The last part about shading tree is the thing I am missing.I've already know basics but you are on a hell different level.I am astonished by your skills!

For a newcomer to blender like me, this is fkn gold, thanks a ton man!!♡♡

Fantastic video. Good tips.

This was amazing!! Thank you!

Best video for fast and beauty renders, Grand Mercy! Only one your video - boost me like a scene compositor, wonderfull job bro)

this is actually helpful! thanks

Too good. Very well explained

Thank you for this great video. I learned a lot here.

this video is literally gold

Very handy. I'm definitly going to try to make some signs today using your tips.

13:19 is just what I needed!

awesome, awesome, Thanks

Thank you this is very helpful for new users starting out in renting.

Very good information, thank you.

Thank you so much...I really needed a refresher course on some of these topics...and a complete schooling on items like Bokeh and Chromatic Aberration that I know next to nothing about.

Thank you!

THANK YOU SO MUCH MY FRIEND

Excellent content and explanation 👍🏼

I LOVE the EXIT sign bit, it should be it's own tutorial.

Great video! Thanks!

Hahaha your Hyacinth Bucket reference got me! It lasted barely a second but I fully appreciate that joke :P I'm from the states but used to catch some old BBC shows late at night on PBS with my great grandmother. Keeping up Appearances was one of our favorites!

Thanks , you are good at explaining thing clearly

Thank you for that!

Great video!!!!

you sir are amazing

Very nice tutorial. Thank you.

Thank You very much. Very much helpful😀

love your content la always. That tilling material is crazy though I would be curious to see that node.

Thank you

The sign tips are realy helpfull

useful video

Never thought I would see a Keeping Up Appearances reference in a blender video

Very good and helpful video! I thing about the visuals, maybe crop down to "window" thing of blender and the extra space you get can be used for the promo line, and like that we can see the whole interface, even if it doesn't cover much, I thin it would look prettier. :D

nice!

so much alpha in this video! Very much appreciated 🙂

This is cramming my brain like a starving man at a buffet. I'll have to watch this again...and again.

I've never heard many of these, like ies and black body... Thank you

Very good tips. Optix never produced better results than open denoiser though for me. Hair particles and details are washed out at low samples (10-60) while the open denoiser creates insanely good effects and preserves texture details.

Could you do a short quick tutorial (like the bedroom) on the bathroom you have used in this video Really loved this piece of work

MVP

Loved this video as with most of your content! Invaluable for people using Blender for the first couple of years. However, as a Mac user I was left hanging about how to get the “best” option when it came to the section of denoising. That’s the bit I cannot find advice for best practice.

Muito bom, faltou falar do Ambient Occlusion

Actually the Open Image denoiser produces better result, especially with the newly added Prefilter mode set to None or Accurate. The None mode is faster than Accurate mode and more details than "Fast" mode, but may leave some artifact and noise in if the "denoising normal" and "denoising albedo" passes have noise. The Accurate mode solves that problem by prefiltering the two passes but takes a few more seconds to process. "Fast" mode is faster but it has less quality. So I would generally use None mode in viewport and Accurate mode in final render. The OptiX denoiser is not as good as Open Image. This is important to know.

3:44 - it's nitpicking, but film camera uses 35mm vertically, not horizontally (except for VistaVision, which would apply for your example, but it was quite rare). This applies especially to anamorphic lenses.

I’m only 6 minutes into this video and I just want to say thank you

Best ting for photo realism ... imo ... Photographer addon and ACES workflow. Use correct intensity values for lights and camera and boom. all perfect.

Thank you for the insights. In 1 year of using blender and with the help of many tutorials i know most if not all of what you said... yet, *sigh* the hyper realistic 'natural' render is still out of reach 😢 😭

The way I remember focal length is by visualizing a long telescope. Telescopes see far and to do that you make focal length long.

some nice examples you come around. very helpfull explained not just JADA JADA JADA :) Great The stuff you tell about RTX motion blur, is that a setting or is that Default or how do you use that ?

that deep cut bucket woman reference. ;)

"let's add some volumetrics" he says with his 2 3090s

I've seen somewhere that some archviz studios prefer to use a small focal length (14-20mm) to make the building look more grand.

i like to use real gobos references from stage lights, to have nice shape beam lights in volumetrics. i'm doing this on stage lighting, so why not in Blender ^^

fill 'em

What is the song near 9:20 Edit: nvm got it. Coffeehouse by Large (Incase anyone else happened to want to know too)

Is there a reason you don't use Blender's NVM denoiser? And what about denoising in the Compositor? I've often found for simple denoising it works better, and increases render times by removing an often annoyingly slow denoise pass in the render,.

What are the best ways to make volumetrics in a indoor scene? Im trying to get a god ray effect.

Nividia makes great products. If only I could actually buy them anywhere.

3.0 OUT TODAY

Yeah I learned pretty early on that a point light was rarely ever the way to go for realistic lighting

I think the word you're looking for in the last part is "surface imperfections"

optix stopped working on my gtx1070, but it was way better than the other denoiser

how to i see the render as the background in the compositer,i have node wrangler

Send to me your 3090s and go to get the render farm you deserve. Precious man!

10:00 - 13:17 How can i do it but in LuxCore?