In this video, we will be creating a Digital Matte Painting called "The Forgotten Cottage". Once we have arranged our workspace we can then load in our footage. If you want to download the same video I used, you can find the download here.
We can then render out a single frame that will be used as a reference. Using your Image Editor of choice, we can load the reference and begin arranging images, shadows, highlights and more. You can find the Images I used here and here.
When we are happy with how everything looks, we can delete the reference image and then export our Matte Image as a PNG.
Then back in Blender we can get o with the good stuff!, The Compositing.
Adding assets to our footage (no matter if that is an image or video), it is not that complicated. We can just use a mix and the job is done. That would be the case if the original video was not moving but it is in fact moving. So we need to add a translate node along with a Track Input Node.
This can be done much easier if you *Warning - Shameless Self Promoting* have the Darkfall VFX Nodes Add-on enabled. For those of you who don't know, the VFX Nodes Add-on is a free blender Add-on I have been developing and you can download the script here.
If you have the Add-on you can easily add the Patch Node (among others) and speed up your workflow. we will also be using the Gradient Node and the Vignette Node too.
I hope you find this video helpful and as always thanks for reading!.
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