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My first Tutorial using a Blender 2.5 build. This is a very tricky technique, I am showing you there. It is used to generate a mask between two clipping objects. Later on I talk about how you can use that mask to create some nice glowing effects.
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39 responses to “Nion’s Blender Tutorial: Clipping Masks”
Valuable Info, Thanks!
You know your stuff
Thank you so much, I just spent 4 hours trying to do exactly this with all sorts of complicated node setups. Finally changed my google search terms and found this, it's exactly what I needed.
Sanks for the cool lesson!
Very good. Tha is exactly what I was looking for. Is it the same way in Cycles?
Thanks a lot for this Titorial , Thumb up
@snowbloxia 0 on the num block.
this is really cool and quite advanced with the compositing. I'm trying to figure out how to boolean away vertices, but boolean seems to only operate on lines and faces, not vertices. Not really interested in renders, just object manipulation. Thanks for the cool tut – I enjoyed watching.
have you tried the backdrop ?
Thank you for this tutorial!
Interesting and Useful.
I had some difficulties. Perhaps related to the warning at 05:42.
I attempted to follow your instructions.
I had some long text in a fibrous shape rather than globular monkey.
I got glow in undesired invisible areas.
I order to clean up the image 1. create a mask id node for the non plane objects (second id)..2. Blur that image to increase size 3. Multiply again the glowing areas to remove the partial defect. 4. continue to test
Did I do something wrong?
Thanks for this tutorial! I did a video based on your tutorial 🙂
@mikh3x4 sure, that's possible, too. But the boolean modifier often behaves bugy. Or has this changed in newer Blender versions? I haven't tried it in a long time…
Anyway: With this technique, complex meshes don't slow down the animation process as much as with boolean modifiers and you can have as much clipping objects as you want.
why not use boolen
Thanks for your great tutorials. I always have to sit down and try them out.
Amazing tutorial! Thank you very much, Nion! Before this I didn't got Multiply meaning properly. And of course this masks and Zmask explanation is really what I had need to know.
As german as can be, but only because you ask 🙂 And, as mentioned before, screw it. This is harder to lose than learning the techniques you generously present to us, and doing sometihng like that in a foreign language deserves due respect, as doing this for others in general. Awesome videos, subscriiiibe!
awesome!
@NionsChannel excuse me – the problem was in my Pc! now i can hear everything!
@golemkonty There is sound…
is it me that cant hear no sound? thumbs up if you have sound, thumbs down if u have not!!
Excellent !
Forget the Accent and just learn the tutorial bozos!
@onjoFilms I just love compositing. It is like doing math witch colors. Maybe it is easier for me, because I always keep in mind the numbers behind the colors.
@dodgydavec I thought I was the only one. Have you seen Sebastian's tut on Blender compositing over at cmiVFX? Over five hours and he also uses masks extensively and explains them well. But for me it is most challenging to understand when to Mix with multiply or add or alpha over plus the masking.
Thanks for the tut. Awesome.
nice technique, thanks.
@NionsChannel you have an accent but we can't understand that you're german.
Try talking faster maybe.
Very nice thanks.
@NionsChannel You still have an accent. You can just about tell it's German but yeah you can tell it's there.
@L1993H Yes, I am.
sehr hilfreich.
Danke für das Tutorial *****
thank you nion
@NionsChannel are u german?
You still have your german accent.
One matter of practicality. Tricky techniques don't need handholding. We can setup on our own. Make your life easier and skim the basic stuff.
Good tutorial, thank you!
great tutorial
Do I still have a german accent? I would really like to know…
2.5 sucks 2.49b forever