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Simple Trick For Faster and Better Cloth Simulations in Blender

use this trick to get your cloth simulations exactly as you want without any hassle.

tutorial link: https://youtu.be/PW1LgcPGTPw 

the moment you enable collision in cloth physics in Blender things starts to get slow and annoying. Today we will use a very simple geometry node Fix to ease that pain.

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Advanced Spiderman Web Shooting Effect with Blender Geometry Nodes

Today we will create a Spiderman web shooting setup inside Blender Geometry Nodes. It is procedural and easy to use!

tutorial: https://youtu.be/LJjdhi6_YKc

Yes, it is a fully functional web shooter setup that you can use for your next Spiderman animation!

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Quick & Easy Clouds in Blender

Create quick and easy automated cloud volumes in Blender using a simple Geometry nodes setup.

video link: https://youtu.be/ozzBIOafZwY 


Project Files in the Attachments

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Magic Potion Bottle Necklace in Blender | Timelapse

video: https://youtu.be/eUI0OaNRUuk 

A while ago I create a magic potion bottle render timelapse. So I decided to give it another go in just a few hours. 

In this video, I create Magic Potion Bottle Necklace in Blender 3.4. Enjoy!


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Fire Simulation in Geometry Nodes Made Easy with Blender

Today, We are creating a fully procedural Fire simulation using Blender 3.5 Simulation Nodes. Starting from a few points, we add some velocity to move them up. After that, we add some curl noise to give it some noise, and then after a few calculations, we create an age attribute to drive literally everything in the simulation. So, Enjoy!


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Blender Object Tracking Tutorial

A little while ago we did a planer tracking tutorial, now it is time to do an object track.

In this video, I talk about how I made the Spider-man suit container inside a phone using object tracking in Blender.

tutorial: https://youtu.be/AcC9NcaBmB4 

You can grab the project files below.

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Dynamic Spiral Effect in Blender | Simple Geo Setup

Today we take a look at how to create a dynamic spiral effect. Then we improve it to create a portal in Blender.

It is a simple 10 minutes tutorial. You can check it out here.

https://youtu.be/vay_8AO3elU 

Grab the tutorial files below. (Blender 3.4 beta)

You can checkout How I created the following scene in Blender in this 2022-11-27 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Make a Cinematic Logo Animation in Blender and Eevee

Little while ago I did a quick tutorial on making a logo animation in Blender. Although lot of people liked it so much, some of you guys found it difficult to follow here is a more in-depth tutorial.

new video link  

Check it out. 

you can download the tutorial file and final logo animation project file from the attachments.

here is a little sneak peak at what's cooking behind the s...

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Advanced Procedural Lightning in Blender | Second Step

Here is the second step in our Procedural Lightning Effect Tutorial Series. Using all the techniques we learned in the previous tutorial, today we create much advanced version of it.

  • Learn how to create adaptive resolution for our Lightning
  • Making Connection between branches levels for smooth thickness
  • Making smooth striking effect by manipulating radius
  • Bool...

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Advanced Procedural Lightning Effects in Blender Geometry Nodes

Today we put our First Step to creating Different Types of Lightning Effects.

We start from creating a one branch that stick to two points. We going to lay the foundation for bigger effects in this tutorial. But don't take it lightly, because we going to create fully finished user friendly geo node setup that you could easily share with your fellow creators.

video tutorial link 


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Plasma Ball with Blender's Shortest Path (Geometry Nodes)

Shortest Path node has been added to Blender 3.3 recently. But I haven't gotten a chance to play with it until now.

here are my first results.


possibilities are limitless. And I am working on something new and exciting and useful at the same time using the shortest pat...

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Basic Geometry Nodes Setup for Making Underwater Hair Wave Simulation

I am currently working on a project where I need to do some underwater hair movement. like in the above image. Since the new curve system was released, achieving that effect using geometry nodes is much easier.

So in this tutorial, I show you guys the step-by-step process for creating a curve wave effect using geometry nodes.

https://youtu.be/BQv5mUcpYdI 

here I only show how to add a uniform movement ...

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Rendering Your Animations Free with Google Colab

A little while ago I posted an article regarding rendering with Google Colab. Let's take more time and explore it a little bit more with this getting started with Google Colab tutorial for Blender users. This is a decent tool to have in your arsenal.

video link: https://youtu.be/JNwVn_Yr_fA 


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Track Anything to Billboards | Blender New Planer Tracking Tutorial

Let's take a look at the new planer tracking feature in Blender 3.3 in this simple tutorial.

Here we are going to change a billboard sign to whatever we want.

check the tutorial 

Download the tutorial files below.

Demo_1 contains the coca-cola billboard replacing to arcane jinx. it got some extra compositing work on top of the billboard replacement.

All the videos used in this tuto...

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Making Predator Invisibility Armor in Blender | Prey 2022

The newest movie of the Predator franchise, PREY has impressed a lot of people. I watched it too. And during that, I immediately got the idea to add the Predator’s invisible armor suit-up effect to my Ultimate Suit Up pack.

There are a few different methods you can use to create that effect. Some are very easy, some are only possible in Cycles.

To hide anything using shaders, the easiest method is tw...

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4 Amazing Tips For Your Next Animation Project

Over a month ago I finished an animation project. A Dinosaur/Raptor Chase sequence. I only gave myself 2 weeks to finish it. Well, Not sure why I think it was enough but nonetheless I got used some cool techniques/tips during the process and it is time I share them with you guys.

video link : https://youtu.be/a30Ne3BXNJk

Tip #1 | Raptor Shading

This is more of a process ra...

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Simultaneous Cloud Rendering with Google

Recently I did an animation project in just 2 weeks. Well, It was too ambitious, but there were a lot of new tricks I used in there I thought will be worth sharing with you guys.

  • CHALLENGE : Not enough time to render the project 
  • SOLUTION : Rending simultaneously while working on the project using cloud computing

So let me tell you how I used Google Colab Cloud Computing Option to Render my A...

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Volumetric Logo Reveal Animation in Blender in 5 minutes

video link :  https://youtu.be/4ItYQW0Bp9U 





in the second one, instead of animating the rotation, I animated the location of the spotl...

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Raptor Chase Preview Render Timelapse

Before the breakdown video and other tutorials on the process of creating a Raptor chase sequence in Blender, I decided to post this video of How I Made this Render in Blender 3.2 Beta.

haven't seen the sequence yet! watch from  here 

This video shows,

  • Setting up the scenes
  • Lighting
  • Setting up Light-Groups
  • C...

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Animated Candle Scattering Setup in Blender

let's create a candle scattering setup inside blender geometry nodes | 

in this beginner friendly tutorial, we make an scattering setup for candles. But not just that.

we also make sure our flames are track to the camera. so flames will point towards the camera for any angle without breaking the illusion.

Add to that we also cover creating a wiggling flames.

video link: https://...

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I Made Evil Scarlet Witch Animation using Blender and Ae

Here is a breakdown of start to finish process of How I created the Evil Scarlet Witch animation inside Blender and After Effects.

video link: https://youtu.be/MX791xK_0sc

Here are some parts of the process,

I will add more as soon as I can.

Hulk Transformation Made easy in Blender


In today's video, I talk about how I made the Hulk transformation animation using Blender.

With the help of Character generator applications and a few Geo nodes magic, we can create decent looking transformations in Blender.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/jk2IwXEvdVk 


Attachments Info:[Textures have been overwritten. Will fix it soon! apologies for any i...

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Blender Light Groups AKA Light Mix

video link: https://youtu.be/HA6B5iYxwUI 


Today we take a look at a new feature coming to Blender 3.2, LIGHT GROUPS. 

This is a feature that cycles wanted for a while to save the headaches of renders not being flexible. here it gives you each light as a separate render pass which you can use to change the intensity, color and etc. Trust me THIS IS Huge.

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Procedural Title Animations | FREE Blender Templates

video link 

 

Procedural Title/Logo Animations with Blender Geometry Nodes. Blender 3.1/3.2 beginner-friendly tutorial with Free Templates.


2022-03-28 13:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Advance Hologram Effect Made Easy with Geometry Nodes

Video Link: https://youtu.be/PJ7BbSqq6rw 


Let's create an awesome procedural Hologram Effect using Blender 3.1 Geometry Nodes.

Attachment Details:

Tutorial: contains the hologram with the animated scene. Include Post Processing


Showcase: includes the scene used for the demo shown in the beginning of the video. Inclu...

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Advance Tearing Logo Reveal Made simple in Blender & Eevee

video link : https://youtu.be/7zUmZQ0G2lI 


in Todays video, I'll create this awesome looking animation using Blender and Eevee. 

we going to use lot of modifiers including explode and vertex weight proximity. This will be a fun video. check it out.


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Light the Bat Signal with UV Project Modifier

How Many Modifiers in Blender that YOU HAVE NEVER USED?

in this video I cover "UV project" Modifier, along with how to create simple bat signal effect using that.

check it out.

 Video Link : https://youtu.be/g7Vx0bGRwKI 


Attachments Below


Attachment | BatSignal_noDrivers :

here there is only bat-signal with volume,...

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Simple Logo Animation Using Blender & EEVEE

Video Link : https://youtu.be/Une7kZnXDLg

in this quick tutorial, I make this logo animation using Blender and Eevee,

Here I use .svg import support in blender to make a 3d logo.

but if you have  experience using Adobe Illustrator, I head there is an option  to export .obj files.  Using that you can get more clean mesh and bevel.

But that's a different topic. 

hope you enjoy ...

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Advance Suit Up animation Made Easy with Blender Geo Nodes


For start I made these two models using the following models from "Sketchfab".

Link Below.

I deleted tentacles from iron spider suit and tweaked its materials.

for the other one, I grabbed the head from one and the suit from the other. tweaked their materials too.

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Procedural Magical Shield | Blender Geo Nodes | Force Field |

Let's create a procedural Magical Shield with interactive ripples/waves effect.

This post contains some extra details and project files of the demos I shows in the beginning of the video.

here you can see our zombi cap model from previous video, with procedurally generated shield. Here I have us...

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