Making Bird Swarms (and Easy Controllable Crowds!)
Added 2021-01-11 04:16:19 +0000 UTCHello! This is in that zone between a tutorial and a breakdown. A Tutdown, if you will.
Covers some ground the tier 7 folks have seen, but hopefully not too boring.
Also- this started up as a breakdown for various bird particle systems, but I ended up getting super excited about controlling the BOIDS with force fields, so it gets a bit off the rails towards the end.
Here's the raw (unanimated) pigeon, if you want it. It's in FBX form, so just go file>import>FBX. Right click, save as Here.
Comments
finally, someone that i can watch and learn from and not be bored out of my mind. thanks dude! these videos are gold... or bitcoin or whatever is worth a lot these days.
2021-02-13 03:21:45 +0000 UTCThank you Ian
iain
2021-02-05 22:20:34 +0000 UTCi am searching for how to create moths, the tutorial someone can help me?
2021-02-04 14:30:32 +0000 UTCthis is the pride and joy Blender, the hilarious testing - exciting, innovative, and hysterical. keep the gold coming, Ian!
2021-02-04 00:05:22 +0000 UTCSo good. Thank you for showing this.
2021-01-28 10:27:08 +0000 UTC"Boids" does sound like "Birds" when spoken with an accent
German Bauer
2021-01-16 23:18:34 +0000 UTCIce skating pigeons, and DC mobs! :)
2021-01-15 00:40:52 +0000 UTCman me too.
Ian Hubert
2021-01-14 03:49:45 +0000 UTCIt's RIDICULOUS! Completely rips the rug out from how I estimate render times (and the amount I toggle between rendered/material view :P). Glad the 3080's working for you!
Ian Hubert
2021-01-14 03:49:37 +0000 UTCThis tut was pure magic. Also, I went from a 1080 to the 3080(got mine right at release!!) and it's just crazy powerful.
Tyler Adams
2021-01-14 01:54:45 +0000 UTCI just want to be a pigeon
2021-01-13 19:32:57 +0000 UTCIan, Wonderful as usual. Where did you get your 3090? I've been looking for weeks and can't find one anywhere that's not way over retail.
Jeff Betz
2021-01-13 03:39:10 +0000 UTCSO cool! I didnโt know I needed this, but I thought of a great way to use this for one of my projects.
Carson Reader
2021-01-12 03:39:12 +0000 UTComg. zombie hoard please :)
2021-01-12 01:55:45 +0000 UTCAhaha, I do like it! Dang that's a lot of pigeon animation, hahaha
Ian Hubert
2021-01-12 00:23:38 +0000 UTCOh the fun to be had with those crowds... ๐
Shawn Hawkinson
2021-01-11 21:54:52 +0000 UTCLove your videos. Saw this thought you might like it>>>https://vimeo.com/450850232
2021-01-11 21:04:34 +0000 UTCDude, I am absolutely blown away by how far you push the limits in Blender, and I still think you've barely scratched the surface of your potential. BRAVO!!
2021-01-11 19:34:48 +0000 UTCThis is fun! I don't even notice that the people crowd isn't animated from a distance, that's nuts how well that works.
Jan van den Hemel
2021-01-11 18:36:14 +0000 UTCAmazing as always! Love it!
2021-01-11 12:59:41 +0000 UTCspectacular!
2021-01-11 09:42:46 +0000 UTCBoids are awesome ! I think follow the leader is meant to be used in combination with goal: your particles will still try to reach the goal, but they will pick "leader particles" and follow them to that goal, not clump together ! You seem to really like working with shape keys so you might be interested by a cool new addon for shape keys animation: https://rainboxlab.org/tools/duska/ It makes life a whole lot easier !
2021-01-11 08:25:29 +0000 UTCYesss, the sexy voice! Stop the filtering!
2021-01-11 08:01:09 +0000 UTCThis is sooo entertaining - and dare I say so timely (in form of people, anyway)
German Bauer
2021-01-11 07:19:35 +0000 UTCIt IS fun! Blender is the best game, and you are a pro.
Paul and Anna Spooner
2021-01-11 06:06:38 +0000 UTCI want more videos without even a clear goal and just him messing around and being funny. Never change
Evan Barron
2021-01-11 06:04:32 +0000 UTC"... that's a pretty quick head-bob..." *chuckles* "this might be INSANE"
Kai Christensen
2021-01-11 05:43:40 +0000 UTCCongrats on the 3090! It really is a ridiculously cool piece of tech, and if ANYONE will take full advantage of it, you will. As always, excited for the future!
Kai Christensen
2021-01-11 05:39:40 +0000 UTCIt's from here, last summer (the tier 7 folks, though :/ ) I made them with the orbit option with a drone- worked surprisingly well!
Ian Hubert
2021-01-11 05:12:21 +0000 UTCIan from where do you have the People pack? please and Thanks
2021-01-11 05:07:41 +0000 UTCWho's Phil?? If there's a bird render challenge, I want to see it!
Ian Hubert
2021-01-11 05:04:24 +0000 UTCOh gotcha! This is seriously so helpful:D And thatโs so exciting! Looking forward to it man๐๐ป
Greg Beaudry
2021-01-11 05:01:35 +0000 UTCis this based off the render challenge phil made
2021-01-11 04:57:53 +0000 UTCAwesome!
2021-01-11 04:54:23 +0000 UTCTotally!! At the end of the video I talk about force fields- you could animate the one person, then parent a forcefield to them to repel people within a nearby radius :D And I have to talk to the sound team- maybe a month?? Probably more, honestly
Ian Hubert
2021-01-11 04:50:27 +0000 UTCThis is amazing man! Is there a way where you could have someone pushing there way through the crowd?! Also, sooooo excited for your new episode of dynamo! Any idea for a release date yet?:)
Greg Beaudry
2021-01-11 04:48:02 +0000 UTCAlso every time you say BOIDS I think of the Moths Lazy tut, "OH YES" and I die:)
Benjamin Lacey
2021-01-11 04:40:46 +0000 UTCI haven't finished the vid yet, so maybe you dress this, but I think the reason the pigeons are 1 unit up when you spawn them it the "Height" value right under the banking and pitch in the misc tab
Benjamin Lacey
2021-01-11 04:40:15 +0000 UTCAhaha, Hi Fadli!
Ian Hubert
2021-01-11 04:20:17 +0000 UTC
