Videotutorials

VFX Compositing Workflow with Blender and COLMAP

Bart ·
A 3D sphere casting a diffuse shadow on a reflective surface, with a scenic background and a geometric shape in the foreground.

Learn how to create a perfectly aligned Blender scene with real-world footage.

Polyfjord recently shared how to use COLMAP for simple photogrammetry + camera motion reconstruction from footage – he now applies this technique to a VFX project.

In this tutorial we’ll be taking a look at a surprisingly powerful VFX compositing workflow/hack in Blender 4.5! We’ll be doing a projection based in-camera VFX technique that uses no geometry other than an infinite cyclorama backdrop to project the video texture on. It’s a fun, quick and dirty compositing setup, which in many cases it can be fast, powerful and easy to experiment with!

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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