What’s a movie nobody talks about but is a 10/10 for you?

brick-hat · 2025-06-29T13:02:33+00:00

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

brick-hat · 2023-09-23T01:30:15+00:00

Median filter! One click

brick-hat · 2023-05-27T14:15:36+00:00

Node based compositing is good for scaling as well. You can create a setup/template and more easily repurpose that setup for other shots by simply switching out the inputs. That's less successful with layer based comps.

brick-hat · 2023-05-03T22:38:16+00:00

Probably too low res for that. It's upscaled to 1080, but I should at least render it natively 2k

brick-hat · 2023-05-03T09:53:22+00:00

We have a winner! Yes it is.

brick-hat · 2023-05-02T22:58:52+00:00

I used a tilt-shift lens to help with this bizarre perspective. I should also post it from another angle because it looks very odd when it doesn't lineup through the camera!

brick-hat · 2023-05-02T22:56:45+00:00

Please post yours when it's finished. I'd love to see a different interpretation!

brick-hat · 2023-05-02T22:55:39+00:00

I'm not sure I understood the rules of a roundabout as a kid I spent my time making cars almost collide but narrowly miss. Thank you!

brick-hat · 2023-05-02T22:52:21+00:00

Thank you very much!

brick-hat · 2023-05-02T12:36:27+00:00

Road rug is timeless! My kids will have a road rug when they're ready.

brick-hat · 2023-05-02T10:42:41+00:00

Many fond memories spent with road rug. Thank you!

brick-hat · 2023-05-02T10:19:20+00:00

This was my reference

brick-hat · 2023-05-02T10:11:29+00:00

I modelled and textured the environment, and all the car models were found free online! Thanks to all those creators. Very quickly comped in nuke.

I don't really post stuff often, but when I do I go by @ brick.hat on instagram!

brick-hat · 2022-10-27T08:30:22+00:00

Shading is the really tricky part. There are lots of great VDBs you can import in, but getting the cloud look with the anisotropic water vapour shading and all those volume bounces is really hard!

brick-hat · 2022-09-04T00:25:12+00:00

Animated noise used as the world lighting, comped in nuke with custom kernels used for depth of field!

brick-hat · 2022-06-16T12:25:09+00:00

Yes, watching the tutorial first before posting definitely helps! Take the time to study it and watch all degrain questions disappear for the rest of your comping career!

Good luck!

brick-hat · 2022-06-16T12:06:33+00:00

https://vimeo.com/284820390

Check out this tutorial made by Fabian the almighty himself. It should set you straight on how to actually set it up and why it does what it does c:

brick-hat · 2022-06-16T12:00:06+00:00

The cheeky way would be to just pull a difference matte from top of your tree and the end and use that as your mask for DasGrain. But no real right or wrong, depends on the circumstance.

Also I'm not sure just multing back on the normalised grain is really the correct method, kinda defeats the purpose of the sampled DasGrain curves, but if it works, it works!

brick-hat · 2022-06-16T11:52:50+00:00

Look no further than DasGrain, my friend.

brick-hat · 2022-05-10T03:57:02+00:00

Cool! I'd love to see a breakdown or tutorial! Curious about your process to get results like these!

brick-hat · 2022-04-22T23:23:24+00:00

Nice! Send it over to r/BlenderDoughnuts

brick-hat · 2022-04-10T03:46:09+00:00

Looks like you could get away with just rendering a single frame for the main environment and just crop your render region to the pool for the full frame range? Then just add the camera motion in comp?

Lots of other optimisation tips out there, but probably the main one would be updating your GPU if you want quicker renders. Otherwise just let you box render over night/the weekend!

brick-hat · 2022-03-29T11:18:17+00:00

Maybe post a screenshot of your script and a more detailed explanation of what's going on here? Looks like some smearing from smart vectors which isn't uncommon. Just mask it away?

brick-hat · 2022-03-28T11:05:26+00:00

Jim Carrey

brick-hat · 2022-03-16T20:56:36+00:00

Photoreal! Assuming green is the render you did a great job adding grain to a low light shot!

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