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Big improvement on backgrounds
🕑 Added 2023-01-12 03:22:07 +0000 UTCI was working nonstop on this since December 28 and the effort is paying off so much that I can't even believe it.
I've converted almost all my Photoshop pipeline to DaVinci Fusion nodes, as you can see above. I had to learn a lot of things about color spaces and some DaVinci-specific things to achieve similar results to what I had with Photoshop.
But why did I pass all this trouble if I already had Photoshop doing alright? Because I need to make this project as easy as possible to maintain from the ground up, and this node system provided on DaVinci resolve is the best answer I've found to mass-produce backgrounds with the least effort possible. When I was using photoshop, I needed to manually open a chain of 12 different photoshop files - each one with its own tweaks and mask effects - and update them one by one to apply a change or correction I made in a simple blender pass. I had no trouble doing this when I had one or two backgrounds to tweak, but things became overwhelming too fast when the project took only one more baby step in complexity as I had more backgrounds on queue to handle, so I had to make a jump to this new tool to have a better grip on things.
And boy, oh boy. Not only I managed to achieve the same look I had on photoshop but also gained WAY more control over how the colors and line art behave on screen, and the result is just beautiful.
I've chosen only two backgrounds to make this before and after comparisons, but now that the setup is done, these changes were applied to ALL backgrounds ever made automatically with just a click. While photoshop takes only one rendered frame at a time, these compositor nodes take an entire folder to handle at once! This system will save me multiple weeks of photoshop editing and even open up room for more creativity and cool background variations.
I also learned how to build my own tools inside DaVinci Resolve to take the most out of every rendered scene, and now I can totally change the look and mood of any background by using some simple sliders.
I can now change the intensity of the sun's direct light. Notice how it glows if it burns too hot on the floor
I can also change the temperature of the environment while keeping the colors looking good.
And I can also make these beautiful lighting effects that were a real pain in photoshop with absolutely no effort on DaVinci Resolve.
That's all I have to report until now. Thank you so much for reading!
I'll make another post showing more when I figure out how to compose mirror reflections and glass objects in these scenes. I'm almost nailing it.
All these changes will be present on the next development build on January 30, along with more interface-related features.
