Wild Tricks for Greenscreen in Blender
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a favorite among practical Blender guides from a hugely productive solo artist.
What it is
Ian Hubert shows quick, unconventional tricks for greenscreen compositing in Blender, as a follow-up to his motion tracking video.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2020 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec slavik81 · 2022-10 · on “Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course”
Ian Hubert's Lazy Tutorials would be an excellent supplementary series once you know some of the basics. They're not a general guide to Blender, but they're great resources. He has his own style of working and he's shockingly productive with it. Lazy Tutorials: [LINK] My favourite guides of his are not in the Lazy Tutorials playlist, though. Perhaps they were not lazy enough: Blender Motion Tracking: Room Transformation - [LINK] Wild Tricks for Greenscreen in Blender - [this video]
Strong rec DonHopkins · 2026-03 · on “The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying”
I love Ian Hubert's demos of green screening in Blender. [this video] His Blender Conference talk about photogrammetry / camera projection / projection mapping was fantastic: World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert [LINK]
Recommends strogonoff · 2020-10 · on “Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code”
Hands down, Blender. See Ian Hubert’s channel[0] for samples of what can be achieved with Blender by a tiny team. His examples tend to be specific to VFX, but Blender is quite general-purpose as far as motion design goes with an NLE, support for the familiar “expressions” paradigm, and so on. [0] [this video]