Blender Guru walks us through how a modern CGI workflow would work for a scene everyone knows – the elevator scene in the Shining.

He breaks down all the tools and rendering tricks he uses as well as points out 3 key elements that most VFX artists get wrong and makes CGI workflows look bad: grain, focus, and levels.

He shows why CGI has gained so much traction. The cost for the practical effect version of the elevator scene would likely now run around $50,000-$100,000. The CGI version? $14,000-$20,000.

He needed about 6 days to re-build the CGI version of the scene and 4 days of rendering. He does a fantastic job showing off how modern workflows work.

Tools he used:

• fSpy: https://fspy.io/
• Blender: https://blender.org
• Poliigon: https://www.poliigon.com/?utm_campaig…
• Poliigon Addon: https://www.poliigon.com/blender?utm_…
• Surface Imperfections: https://www.poliigon.com/textures/sur…
• Flip Fluid Addon: https://blendermarket.com/products/fl…