The Blog

Leonardo Verkoelen

In this episode of Royals & Rogues podcast, Leonardo Verkoelen from Blauw Films speaks to Alec Miller about the power of open-source filmmaking and IP development.

Leonardo Verkoelen

To ensure customer satisfaction in sales, decide on the ticket price based on the combination of material value and emotional reward.

Leonardo Verkoelen

The power of inspiration and the art of reflection in achieving your creative goals. Discover how nurturing your initial sparks of inspiration, persistently defining clearer goals, and dedicating time to crystallize ideas can lead to success in story development, with valuable insights for filmmakers and creators alike.

Leonardo Verkoelen

SEO helps all artists and creators to be found on the web and build domain authority. In this guide I cover what are the basic concepts of SEO one needs to know before promoting their website?

Leonardo Verkoelen

How to ensure you add most value to your clients while having a smooth service experience? If you want to have great client relationship follow these steps and apply them in your business.

Harry Rhys Williams

Learn the simple 5-steps to world-building your story. Elevate your original story to a complete and all encompassing IP by establishing your macro-narrative, micro-narrative and more.

Leonardo Verkoelen

These are the essential lessons we learned in years doing business. As a start up you will make mistakes. Follow these lessons to avoid the most common obstacles business owners face in the early years of business.

Leonardo Verkoelen

When thinking about self promotion have you considered how much noise you make?

Leonardo Verkoelen

Writing a story for a novel or a film is complicated creative workflow. There are many elements at play, but it all starts with you. These are 5 questions you can ask yourself, to make your story more valuable and loved by audiences.

Leonardo Verkoelen

An acting masterclass by Ivana Chubbuck. She is a wonderful coach most well known for her Chubbuck Technique. This acting technique says that the truth of an actor lies behind the eyes.

Leonardo Verkoelen

These 5 essential tips for all freelancers in the creative industry are unconventional but have helped tremendously with my freelance career in getting more and better clients, as well as earning more money.

Leonardo Verkoelen

What does the future of film distribution look like? These thought has been at the core of the Blauw Films philosophy.

Leonardo Verkoelen

All filmmakers use imagination to tell their stories. This blog provides great exercises and resources to train the imagination for storytelling and worldbuilding purposes.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Operation: Deli Platter

Learn how we tackled the dreamy desert landscape in Operation: Deli Platter using Cinema 4D and Chaos Corona.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Blauw Films is an open-source film and IP development studio. Learn about our journey to get to where we are as a start-up in the entertainment industry.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Operation: Deli Platter

Learn about the storytelling that influenced our design decisions for Operation: Deli Platter.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Operation: Deli Platter

Discover the behind-the-scenes of creating the Operation: Deli Platter poster. Learn about the techniques used to render a realistic banana and banana clip in Cinema 4D with Corona Renderer.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Syntactic Labyrinths

Creating a realistic render of the moon requires a fine control of brightness. To not get an over-exposed moon we make use of the ACES color space to maintain the detail of the moon in the bright areas.

Charlotte Simons

Syntactic Labyrinths

Explore the complete Costume Design process behind our Science-Fiction short film, Syntactic Labyrinths. Get a look behind the scenes of our independent 3D animation production.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Learn how we made photorealistic Yu-Gi-Oh! cards for our Tribute film Yu-Gi-Oh! Game of Shadows. This set of renders have been made in Cinema 4D and Chaos Corona. The world of Yu-Gi-Oh! created by Kazuki Takahashi is rich and filled with detail. See these custom concepts of Kame Game Store, Kaiba Corporation and Joey Wheeler's Apartment.

Leonardo Verkoelen

This breakdown covers how we redesigned the classic Poké-ball inspired by the original sketches of Ken Sujimori for Pokémon. The Poké-ball design is inspired by a practical consumer good that would be used in the Pokémon universe to catch real Pokémon. These are 3D concept renders made in Cinema 4D and Chaos Corona.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Learn how we made an establishing shot featuring a star-filled night sky, created using Corona Renderer's camera settings in Cinema 4D to achieve the perfect balance of brightness, bringing an accurate and enchanting touch to the scene. Learn how to do the best sky replacement and day for night conversion in Visual Effects and compositing.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Syntactic Labyrinths

Learn how we created photorealistic 3D renders of planet Saturn in Cinema 4D and Chaos Corona. Saturn is a gas giant that requires volume and rings to achieve a realistic result. This tutorial covers the best approaches for achieving photorealism in space renders and of making cgi planets.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Syntactic Labyrinths

Learn the techniques we used for creating photorealistic 3D renders of planet Earth in this space shuttle example. Learn how to use Earth Digital as a realistic setup for creating space renders. And learn how to best create camera imperfections in your 3D renders using custom aperture maps and the Bokeh Builder.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Sky and Cloud compositing is essential for most outdoor scenes. The Blauw Films Clouds Pack has over 600 High Quality RAW Cloud images, developed for professional cloud and sky compositing. This is a tutorial on how to tackle sky replacements. Learn how to track and seamlessly composite cloud assets inside After Affects.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Abstract Music Video with frequent collaborator skttrd for their track ‘Instant’. Take a look behind the scenes of the production of this low-budget music video, and how we achieved the abstract visuals for the progressive techno music. We used Cinema 4D and Chaos Corona to create an abstract atmosphere using reflections.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Learn Sky-replacement techniques to composite realistic clouds into your shot. In these examples we will cover how we created the windmill scene in Cinema 4D and Chaos Corona and how we use raw cloud photographs and image assets to create realistic background paintings.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Learn lighting techniques from the Old Masters. In this entry of Lighting Mastery we take a look at Caravaggio, and learn about the lighting techniques behind Clair Obscure. Level up as a cinematographer or 3D lighting artist. Want to make your scenes and renders look like Caravaggio? This tutorial breaks down how to best recreate the lighting quality of Caravaggio paintings in photorealistic 3D rendering.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Learn how we made the grungy experimental music video for King Khamen Powertools using digital noise and vintage camera lenses. In this breakdown we cover the techniques used to create dynamic and expressive music videos for Hip Hop artists.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Operation: Deli Platter

Learn how to render planet earth in 3D realistically using Earth Digital for Cinema 4D and Chaos Corona. Learn about achieving natural beauty in 3D and how to get the most realistic planet Earth shader and render.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Operation: Deli Platter

How to create a realistic night vision effect in After Effects and Cinema 4D. Learn about the different styles of night vision looks you can create. And learn how to create infra-red lighting in Cinema 4D and Chaos Corona to achieve the best night vision filter.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Discover The Graffiti Scrapbook, a hand-painted collection of over 150 real graffiti decals and assets for 3d artists and environment artists to add graffiti assets in 3d renders or concept art. Create urban environments in any 3d software to make your scenes stand out with realistic texture. These assets are high-quality and consist of a Diffuse and Alpha map. Developed by real graffiti artists, for 3D artists.

Leonardo Verkoelen

Operation: Deli Platter

How to create the best bokeh effects in your cinematic 3D renders. This is a breakdown of using custom aperture maps and camera techniques in your 3d renderer to achieve photorealism and bokeh in your scene. Understand lens properties and camera settings to achieve depth of field.