How Backrooms Are Made: Full 3ds Max tutorial

Welcome, brave souls. You've stumbled upon the threshold to the Backrooms - a realm that exists just beyond the confines of reality, lurking in the shadows of our unconscious minds. In this 3ds Max tutorial, we uncover how to create our very own Backrooms, step by step. We begin our journey by creating all of the architectural geometry, and progress to materials and lighting. Toward the end of the tutorial, we use the CamTrackAR app to capture our smart phone's movement, and export the animated camera back into 3ds Max. This app is perfect for camera tracking, especially for the hand-held camcorder effect that we want for exploring our backroom. Lastly, we cover some simple post-processing effects using Premiere Pro, to make our animation look real, creepy, and immersive.

My main inspiration for this tutorial was Kane Pixels Backrooms videos. Check out his awesome channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/@UC8X4WT5_lUXqMjeN8bGFk9w

Link to download FStorm for 3ds Max:
https://fstormrender.com/

0:00 What we will make
0:49 Initial Setup
1:36 Check out Kane Pixels!!
1:50 3D Model the ROOM
6:09 Check Backrooms References
6:24 Create the creepy ceiling
8:23 Interior Walls
10:34 Floor trim for more realism
14:00 Ceiling Material
17:58 Floor Material
21:02 Wall Material
22:39 Leonardo.ai for AI Textures
25:55 FIRST RENDER
27:00 Camera Effects
29:00 CamTrackAR
29:40 Import Tracked Camera
31:20 Link Cameras
33:20 Post Production
36:12 Outro
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