How I Lie To The Audience In BLENDER

there's a lot of weird culture that only gets cultivated right here on the internet and whether that's movies or TV shows or songs or memes I just got the thing out of all of those that I think is the most absurd is the idea of a grind set my friends and I joke about it a lot because the idea of giving 100 of yourself into everything that you do is not effective and honestly just downright unhealthy so today I'm going to show you some things that I absolutely refuse to give 100 on and I get away with it every single time now some of you might be familiar with this animation and it definitely Falls in line with the stuff that I like to do whether that is complex simulations or convoluted node groups that are really hard to read now I love the complexities of blender and what you are capable of creating in that software but I also love cheating the system so let's really quickly run through this so what we're going to want to do is load up an empty scene and we're going to spawn ourselves in an icosphere now you can either be using an icosphere or a rounded Cube I'm actually going to go with a rounded Cube that is just my preference the reason that we are going for this is because we want a sphere but we want quads as our topology now I set my Arc Value to 8 because I want my simulation to appear a little bit more complex however you may not want to do that and I will get to that later but for now stick with eight so with that setup we are going to go over to our simulations Tab and we are going to put a cloth simulation on this guy we are going to change our quality steps to 10 and we are going to change our vertex Mass to something like 0.5 shear and bending values we are going to set both of these to 0.1 I say it all the time but these are kind of the base settings that I use to get kind of bouncy soft body like cloth physics we're gonna go ahead and turn our pressure on and let's start with something like one for the moment we're gonna scroll down to field weights and we are going to turn our gravity all the way off we're also going to open up our collision and we're going to change our quality to something like five to start we can change this and kind of up that number but for our base testing we don't don't need to let's go ahead and turn your distance as low as it'll go which is .001 enable self collisions and we're going to turn our friction all the way off now let's go ahead and enable Collision on this guy and this is so that he's going to interact with our other uh spheres we're going to drop in we're just going to make it maybe like three or four of these guys we don't need to do too much because we're just gonna be testing for a second so if we do something like that and then we drop ourselves in a force field with a harmonic force on it we can place it kind of in the middle of all of these guys for now let's change our strength on this to maybe something like 15 we're going to duplicate our force and we're going to change it from a harmonic Force to a turbulence Force we're going to change our flow we're just going to crank this up to 10 and our size to something maybe like one and our strength yeah we can leave it at 15 for now if we go ahead and hit play we can see that these guys are kind of interacting with each other real lightly shouldn't be too heavy but you could definitely see we're not playing in real time but you can see there we go with our basic kind of Animation going on let's go ahead and spawn ourselves in a bezier curve that doesn't really need to be anything special we're just going to flip this on the y-axis 90 degrees we're going to select our harmonic force and we're going to come down here to object constraints and we are going to choose follow path and then choose our curve now you might notice that your harmonic force is kind of like weird it's not following exactly where it should be if you hit Ctrl a you can apply all transforms and then it'll stick to this Putter and then we can adjust our offset and it'll follow our curve so if we set this all the way down at the bottom add a keyframe here then we go maybe 180 frames out we set a keyframe all the way up at the top of everything like so we can go ahead and set these guys to linear interpolation mode we're actually we're going to delete our other harmonic Force just make sure we have the correct one selected this is our turbulence so we're just going to duplicate our turbulence and set this one back to being a harmonic force and these settings here should all be the same from what they were before that way both of our forces follow along this and what we're going to do is we're going to change our harmonic Force value to something like 100. if we go ahead and click play we can see that the balls are trying their best to follow along with this path but they're also smashing into each other creating this kind of cool bouncy sort of Animation very simple very easy to do but how do we get those balls that don't have the center that the edges are just inflated your wireframes some would call that foreshadowing all right with that setup we're going to come over here and we are going to export our scene as an Olympic you guys know I love to do this we're just going to call it balls not alembic because of course we are we're gonna go into a new project file we don't need to but I like to do things kind of instance that way we have layers of project files to go back to where to come file import ABC we're going to import balls.abc and we have our entire scene here you can see that everything's playing out and we are good to go so we can go ahead and get rid of our curve and our forces so in our new scene first thing we're going to do is we're going to select one of these spheres and we are going to add a wireframe modifier to this and we're going to add just a little bit of thickness here maybe something like this and then we're going to throw a subdivision surface modifier on this and we get these kind of rounded holes we can crank this up a little bit so everything's nice and smooth and you can see this is gonna be really slow now but it still does play and still does have cloth interaction even though it is hollow it looks like all of these individual tubes are inflated and I didn't do that that would be way too hard that would be that would be absurd why would I ever do that well we could do this so so simply why would I ever do it the other way and if we turn the subdivision surface modifier off you can see that we are basically playing in real time now before we get too far into this video let's take a second to talk about this video sponsor skillshare skillshare is an online tool used to facilitate easy learning as well as exploration and discovery of new topics that you find interesting skillshare is something that I have been using for the last couple of months and that I personally am a fan of they reached out to me a couple of months ago and I was super stoked about it 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want to say the other one the other one doesn't sound good at all so yeah let's say you've got yourself a funny little character and you want to rig him you want to animate him but miximo's being funny and you're not a professional rig artist so you can't do it yourself now you could go through the trouble of downloading the miximo add-on and then replacing all of your bones and hopefully that works and then you can export it and then maybe miximo will accept it but it probably won't because blender only supports binary not ASCII which is funny let me show you a way around this so what you're gonna do is you're going to go to mixmo.com and you are going to make yourself a little account login and then we are just gonna download the basic t-posed model though we're gonna come back into blender and we are going to go ahead and import this guy and what we're gonna do is we're just gonna drag him over our character we're gonna open up our Armature for our man here and we're just gonna delete all of the mesh that is associated with that skeleton in order to click our bones we're going to go to viewport display click in front and then we're going to go into edit mode on these bones now this can be a little bit of a lengthy process but all we're going to do is realign all of his bones so that it lines up with the joints of our characters and honestly it's super easy you just you just drag the ends of the bones around until they line up with where they should be now my guy doesn't have any any finkies so we're just going to move our hand bone in and we're gonna make sure that this actually connects right there and then we're just going to delete all of these finger bones also having an uneven skeleton like doing this by hand is very dumb you should definitely duplicate and flip the bones but I'm not going to because I'm me and I'm an idiot something important to remember with miximo armatures is the top bone is actually like a hat bone goes to the top of the head so for the head you just want the one that is slightly below the top bone so if we leave edit mode we can go ahead and click on our character then shift click onto our Armature and hit Ctrl P to parent and then we're going to parent with automatic weights now if we come into pose mode and we rotate our bones around you can see we're all rigged up ready to go this guy is very happy something you may want to do is zero out your Z location that way when we export him he actually works in miximo so now just go file export as fbx file we're to uncheck bake animation that way there are no animation frames we can also delete that very first frame down there that sometimes mixmo will put in on their default armatures we're gonna open up Armature and we're going to uncheck add Leaf Bones from our export and then we're going to export our guy here and if we go ahead and drag him back into miximo bam he's there he's rigged he's good to go he's reacting he's dancing I'm so proud of our little man look how he's grown up and sure if you don't want to do all of the jankness you could go download the miximo add-on for blender and then you have more rigging options anyways and it's probably the better decision to make but what have I ever made good decisions I want to show you some really really basic things that you can do that are kind of cheatsy that can definitely improve your scenes that for whatever reason a lot of people don't think about these so let's say you've got your little man here lit from the back and you you like the look but you don't want to add another light over here to his left because it's just a little bit too harsh or something it's kind of getting rid of the effect that you're looking for something that you can do is add a bounce card and this is used so much in film and you can see it immediately there is no light below him but the light is bouncing off of the ground and reflecting onto him now odds are you run into this in every single scene that you've ever been in but actually utilizing it to your advantage there's no red light down there there's just red material something as simple as this can give you much much finer control over your scene if you're actually paying attention so while this is another very small one but I see a lot of people making this mistake and let's say that we have two guys on our scene now and we want to turn our depth of field on and we want to kind of rack Focus between the two of them so on default both of them are just out of focus right so if we go down and play a with our distance and our f-stop values we can eventually land on something that brings our front guy or our back guy in Focus but sometimes even though we've got our front guy in focus and our back guy out of focus our depth of field is not very strong and we can't find values that fine tune these and it's so frustrating it feels like we're in 3D we should be able to do anything and we can we can lie so how do we live what we're going to do is we're going to spawn in an empty and we're going to place it right on the head of this man here we're gonna come back to our camera we're gonna choose Focus object and we are going to focus on our empty now if we play with our f-stop we can go really really out of focus on that back guy and just bring this guy a little bit forward and bam we're in focus on his face so if we wanted to Rack Focus we can put a keyframe on his location then a keyframe would say like 70 move our empty back to this man down here like this and if we play that we can see that we are changing Focus if we go into material view it might be a little bit easier to see that we just have a slight rack Focus change and it's just it's so much easier so much more precise little camera tools and tricks like this are all over the place I have a full video dedicated to a very simple camera rig you can build in blender for free by the way I'll leave a link to that in the description and little tricks like that you should absolutely be utilizing if you are not already now odds are most of you have not seen this scene right here from me before I only had a few hours to do this and I was kind of rushing through everything and I needed to get a bunch of effects done really really simply but not just simply they needed to look good too and admittedly some parts of this don't look great but the one part of the scene that I am really proud of that does look really good is a complete and utter lie and that is our swinging lamp so how exactly did I make this lamp appear to be swinging I mean there's real Bend going on here so clearly these are simulated except they're not what is being simulated is these little rectangular meshes that are acting as proxies for our mesh I set these little rectangles up with a soft body simulation and then I pinned them to empties then I model our little wires that are going to be hanging down and I apply a master form modifier select my target object and make it those new initial cubes that are already simulated swaying then I animate our empties press play and we've got a swinging animation the only thing left to do is attach our actual lampshade and that was super easy the only thing that I did was make a Vertex selection on our initial wires here and then I parented our mesh to that vertex group but you can only do one so yet again I lied and I bet none of you saw it until just now but this isn't connected and it doesn't need to be connected because back in that original animation you didn't see it don't lie to yourself now if you want to know more in depthly about how to achieve this effect I actually got it from another tutorial here on YouTube so I will not be breaking it down I'm not stealing somebody else's video but I will leave it linked in the description it is a very in-depth detailed analysis of how this effect is done it's super super easy to do and you could bang it out in 15 minutes however a fun fact for you guys is creating this effect right here is what inspired this video it is also the exact same effect that I used in this video here which is a short clip from a motion piece that I did called God's Chariot which a lot of people really liked and I was super proud of and it's totally a lie these are actually just planes they're just planes that I had put curves on top of and then I put hairs on them it's a lie foreign I'm going to go over something that's probably pretty obvious to a lot of you but a lot of people still don't know this and I receive DMS and comments and emails about this every single day literally about people asking me how I create my look in blender how my photos look the way that they do and why when I finish a tutorial and I render out an image to show you guys it doesn't always look the same as when it's in a thumbnail or when I post it to my socials and that is because blender can only take things so far you need to be working in post-production if you are not already now one of the best use cases for actually showing this off is from one of my least successful videos here on YouTube where I was recreating submitted viewer art and I created this scene which I was very proud of within blender I thought that this scene looked very very good but it didn't look great and by bringing this into After Effects which is my post-production software of choice and it doesn't matter what you choose whether it is Photoshop or Lightroom or looks or if it's something on your phone anything there are ways to cheat and make your scene look better and it's how I took a scene from looking like this to looking like this and when I post this scene to something like Twitter or Instagram nobody sees that these waves weren't all done in blender nobody sees that the flashes and the glow and the blur on everything wasn't done in blender they just see the final piece of art and that's all I'm advertising it as is this is a piece that I made right if you're not saying oh this was all made in blender you're not lying that's not untruthful you went in an added post-production to make your scene look better you still did the work this is still your art and personally this looks so much better so please please please do not limit Yourself by thinking I can't make my scenes look as good as X person because you know I don't have their render engine or I'm not in their software or whatever if you are working within 3D and you are looking at 3D artists on social medias I guarantee you they do what I do they finish their render they export it and then they put it into a post-production software and they play with their colors they play with blur they play with lighting they had overlays for for lens flare and dirt they had grain they make the scene feel alive and feel real I know that this is so so obvious to some of you because you've been doing it forever and it's ingrained in your workflow but for some people that are just starting out this isn't obvious so if you see people in the comments of this video or on social media and they're talking about just starting out remind them that they are not limited to just one software they can take it anywhere obviously be kind about it be encouraging and just bring other people up nobody likes somebody that pretends that they know everything that everybody else is an idiot so my whole point with this video is not that you should genuinely go out and lie to people but hide things in your work do not stress yourself where you do not have to do not break your back for a client if you can get away with doing something that is much simpler but achieves the look you're going for when you watch breakdowns from these you know AAA movies and they go over how they did their smoke and fire and water and explosion and dust and all this stuff in one scene it's never actually in one scene they did it in in a bunch of different renders then comp them all together after the fact because trying to do them all together in one scene is nuts but the audience doesn't know that the audience doesn't know that it was all done differently you and I know that so try to remember don't break yourself for the work let the work work for you if that it could that be any more courage never mind forget I said that I hate pretending I'm a YouTuber man holy thank you guys so much for watching and thank you to my patrons who continue to support me project files that were shown in this video will be up on my patreon by the way I I'm still laughing at the thing from before I'm sorry uh thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you guys again really really soon

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Keywords: Editing, animation, #3d, #blender, #render, #b3d, #abstract, #scifiart, #surreal, #3dart, #design, #mdcommunity, #renderzone, #illustration, #adobe, #graphicdesign, #artdirection, #octanerender, #behance, #styleframe, #motiondesign, #motiongraphics, #houdini, #satifying

Id: 74umuxvAYN0

Length: 17min 52sec (1072 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2023