Animated Lightning in Blender (Tutorial)

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In this video, ‪@MartinKlekner‬ shows how to create a 3D lightning using a simple Grease Pencil workflow and how to composite it into your scenes. Learn how to make the waves in our course.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Getting reference
01:54 - Drawing the lightning with Grease Pencil
05:47 - Animating the lightning
07:00 - Adding Thickness and Opacity modifier
09:13 - Rendering out layers
11:29 - Making the Lightning visible & Grease Pencil effects
12:48 - Compositing
14:40 - Driving exposure and Drivers
15:45 - Adding Glow with Ellipse mask
17:30 - Gradually blurring the Lightning
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@morecarstuff 7 ай бұрын

BRO THAT INTRO OCEAN IS EVERYTHING.

@WaterShowsProd 2 жыл бұрын

This is a really great lightning tutorial, and there are a few on KZfaq already, each with their own methods and style. I really liked your compositing breakdown as well. One thing I never knew was that you could copy keyframed factors as drivers to control the factors in other nodes. It really is astounding how much there is under the hood in Blender.

@m.motionstudio2877 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing, I'm making a short and thought of adding lightning and now there is a perfect tutorial

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@workingwithaudioandvideo6239 Жыл бұрын

I made the ocean scene first, then I made the ocean scene with lightning. Went into video editing. Adding the ocean scene first, the ocean scene with lightning second, reverse the frames, duplicated the scene without the lightning, added it after the the scene with the lightning. Worked out great. I also put an emissions on the plane above, created a spot light, the duplicated it, made that one a sun, stretched the plane more and lifted it higher in the air. Put both lights above that, and set my resolution to 1280x720 at 50 percent. Interesting effects.

@brandonjacksoon 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you for the great tutorial!

@EIendir 11 күн бұрын

I truly appreciate your precious work, mate cause of you i learned smth a new !

@redblueen 7 ай бұрын

Simplicity is sometimes the best way to go! Thanks for sharing!

@darshjoshi1641 2 жыл бұрын

You sir are a good man sharing these tutorials. Thank you.

@blenderknights 5 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etlyhNKXrL_dnqs.htmlsi=dceE7lgd5BRmA4bq

@VerifiedSam 2 жыл бұрын

Most Searched Tutorial by me..... Thank you for making this tutorial 💠🔥🔥

@3O0O 2 жыл бұрын

This is great for compositing tutorial! Good job

@anzaklaynimation 10 ай бұрын

It is just awesome.

@Cyber_Kriss 2 жыл бұрын

This course ages like a good wine !

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

@Digital_Creation_Y.C. 3 ай бұрын

Amazing!

@brunocastro4558 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifull !!

@rusticagenerica 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!!!!

@Dantti 2 жыл бұрын

Grease pencil is awesome! 💪

@cgthomas1216 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing.

@varispekka 11 ай бұрын

thank you - source files and all. you are and angel

@paydn202 2 жыл бұрын

ive only ever used after effects but im intrigued by blender now

@REDPanti 2 жыл бұрын

Great ❤️

@gvpixelstudios2020 2 жыл бұрын

Really this tutorial is more powerful then the Lighting🙌🙌💥

@erenyeager117 11 ай бұрын

I'm a Maya user learning Blender. It's quite nice ❤

@lordlem 2 жыл бұрын

For those who dont use grease pencil very much I find it a lovely way to add my signature to a model that I create. Kind of like a 2D artist. Currently I join it to part of the mesh somewhere that people can see it For characters i recommend importing a PNG of your signature and either making it a tattoo or placing it on clothing. I had one character that I put the signature in the colored part of the eye that looked pretty sick although easy to miss

@Alaz21 2 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks

@getfanmedia Жыл бұрын

great thank you for sharing a nice tutor

@HELIX1 3 ай бұрын

Super Video mein guter ❤

@YusufDemir-uy2vr 2 жыл бұрын

@Martin Klekner will you share the tutorial for Ocean. Especially for spray, I couldnt find any video about how could make spray on surface ocean. Thanks a lot your lessons make us better.

@KingLou97 2 жыл бұрын

I dont even use Blender but i still clicked on the video

@pinkywinkyedits Жыл бұрын

Me too- and I literally watched the whole video

@danielsanbsas 2 жыл бұрын

GOOD ENGLISH , AND GOOD PRONOUNCIATION

@ShagunDamadia 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial! Really loved it! But those water and waves are great too! Is there tutorial for that too? Love the environment

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, there is a whole chapter focused on ocean types in the course 🙂 academy.cgboost.com/p/master-3d-environments-in-blender

@allyouneedayn5522 Жыл бұрын

search make it easy o, ocean wave tutorial

@palpytine 2 жыл бұрын

That looks like a *lot* of hand-modelling when lightning can be procedurally generated via geometry nodes!

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

For procedural solution, see the tutorial I linked to in the video. I found my workflow simpler for this sort of one-time solution. Geonode solution gives you unlimited variations though 🙂

@praju9986 2 жыл бұрын

Really amazing 👏 I use blender alot and I love it. can u plz try clarisse ifx once it will b very helpful for most of the artist. All I wanted to say is which clarisse ifx as no limits, what if u kind of artist use clarisse

@nmaikowski8013 Жыл бұрын

i had to back track. the splinters of lighting before the initial strike go down. then the actual strike goes from the ground up. you can see it's brighter on the bottom half. Helpful detail tip

@mitek1qw 2 жыл бұрын

круто!

@thomasaull 2 жыл бұрын

It's a small detail, but for me it feels like lightning and thunder are too close together in time. Of course you can't really tell how far away the lightning is, but to be this close together the thunder would need to be a lot more brutal

@praju9986 2 жыл бұрын

What if we have high dynamic rang camera means which your eyes not able to see high rang lights which makes all the blacks blon out??

@narendra672 2 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏💯

@beol_ 2 жыл бұрын

Will you do a tutorial on the ocean wave scene? Would LOVE to learn that!!

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

It is part of the course academy.cgboost.com/p/master-3d-environments-in-blender , this video is actually part of its Weather chapter :)

@afrizal_3779 2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner how to make dust or smoke on ocean? can you give me numbers of chapter ?

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

@@afrizal_3779 Chapter 11 lesson 16 🙂

@omerrudnick8195 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial! But In my rendered viewport, the lightning is no longer white when it is in the material. Why is that?

@leonelsantos6517 2 жыл бұрын

Naice

@ahmedmosaad3701 2 жыл бұрын

could you please tell me more about your Pc because I'm going to build a new one for the blender, and what do you think about M1 Max from apple it's will help?

@quydang583 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for video. I come from Viet Nam.

@VICTOR-fj4vq Жыл бұрын

How would I manage to make an audio visualizer out of it. I have mainly used blender to make audio spectrums. I would like to make it such that the light will strike with a specific beat.

@Vertexvoyager 2 жыл бұрын

Can you make a tutorial about render layers one by one and putting them together ?

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mK-KpbeJ2d-1m40.html :-)

@onjofilms 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool, thanks for sharing. (sounds does not come at the same time of a strike though)

@Cyber_Kriss 2 жыл бұрын

If it hits next to you, yes...

@onjofilms 2 жыл бұрын

@@Cyber_Kriss If lightening hits you and you die, do you hear the sound?

@swelx9787 2 жыл бұрын

U still using the wacom intuos pro m?

@zubabeats 2 жыл бұрын

did you get the guy from Great Scott to do the voiceover one one of your videos

@ryanwood4312 2 жыл бұрын

How are you controlling where the particles are coming off the waves? Are you using the whitewater foam as a variable to do that? That is the only part I really want to know.

@Bazools 2 жыл бұрын

Same. I would really want to know how that was done. It looks awesome!

@heliux9166 2 жыл бұрын

did u find it?, i also want to know

@ryanwood4312 2 жыл бұрын

@@heliux9166 I did not. If you find it, Please let me know.

@heliux9166 Жыл бұрын

@@ryanwood4312 i guess it has something to do with spray, i too dunno

@aqryllic Жыл бұрын

Apparently, the workflow for the spray is included in the paid course.

@AKi-RiN-DA 2 жыл бұрын

It's cool and all but lightning also comes from below as well as from above. It has something to do with the electrification of the clouds and the ground or something.

@jaysboredman 2 жыл бұрын

The Action Lab on youtube explains the science behind the paths and arcs of lightning and why it tends to not take the shortest path.

@cgnovice2969 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this very valuable tutorial! However for the application you needed it for wouldn’t it be simpler to use a video with an alpha-channel? It’s far away in your shot and there’s not really any paralax. Either way thank you for a great one!

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't be able to animate the way you can animate grease pencil strokes 🙂 But, if you had a really nice looking footage of lightning, sure, that would work!

@m_tth_w9647 2 жыл бұрын

I can't find this hdri anywhere

@ripe1961 6 ай бұрын

I have a must pass in my scene how do I add that with this

@RhinoTimelaps 2 жыл бұрын

Четко

@sanant5932 2 жыл бұрын

Plz create 1 animation

@ryanfreer77 10 ай бұрын

In Blender 3.4, with proportional editing enabled, hiting Alt+S to scale a single end point scales all the other points by the same amount. Using the mouse wheel doesn't seem to adjust the radius as it does with say, vertices on a typical mesh. Maybe there's something I missed, or something I need to enable? I'm relatively new to Blender.

@cgboost 10 ай бұрын

Hi, it might be that your proportional editing influence circle is too big. Try to keep scrolling the wheel a while dong that check the values you should see in upper left corner. If they get lower, you're doing it right. If this doesen't work, please post your file in our community and we will do our best to help: community.cgboost.com/home ~ Masha

@fadepanther6224 2 жыл бұрын

So... umm.... I thought I was just going to be learning a different way to make lightning in blender. Instead I learned a great deal about compossiting and that I should, when the funds allow, start learning things from you all over at CG boost because this felt slow enough to follow without feeling rushed but also felt like it hit all the parts that I needed to know without overloading me with extra fluff.

@pianoscapes09 Жыл бұрын

so when i'm moving the keyframes of the dope sheet from the greace pencil to make my lightning appear on another frame only the main lighting appears later, the others however stay always on frame one. is there something i'm missing?

@MartinKlekner Жыл бұрын

You sure you selected all the lightning pieces and pushed their keyframes as well?

@pianoscapes09 Жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner i did it the same way as you did, i clicked on select hierarchy but nothing happens. when you clicked on it, it selected all the lightning pieces and you moved all of them.

@pianoscapes09 Жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner ok man i found thr solution, all the smaller lighting branches were set to disable selection that was the problem, thank you

@gagandeepksgowda9231 Жыл бұрын

I want this project file of tunder and ocean final work

@MartinKlekner Жыл бұрын

It is downloadable in the Master 3D Environments course 🙂

@jyzi_5976 9 ай бұрын

Where did you find the hdr?

@cgboost 9 ай бұрын

In this case it was just a sky image used as a background. If you want a 360 HDRI there are a lot of really great ones at Polyhaven : polyhaven.com/hdris

@antonyrahul 2 жыл бұрын

wow, Awesome can you create a Tropical Island with Shallow Water?

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, it's part of the Master 3D Environments course :-)

@antonyrahul 2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner in that there is an tropical island environment also included?

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

@@antonyrahul It’s not one of the main enviros but you can piece together from texhniques in chapters 8, 10 and 11 🙂

@bacon-ishguy9139 2 жыл бұрын

1000 views away from 100k

@TheUltimateEnderling Жыл бұрын

Can I just make the lightning bolt with the grease pencil like you did and save it for later use? I don't need the extra stuff, just the lightning bolt in different colors.

@cgboost Жыл бұрын

There's absolutely nothing stopping you from doing this ! Go for it!

@TheUltimateEnderling Жыл бұрын

@@cgboost Ok. Thank you!

@vjblind 2 жыл бұрын

Any tutorial for the storm sea ?

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

It is part of the course's Water Types chapter academy.cgboost.com/p/master-3d-environments-in-blender . This KZfaq video is actually part of the course's Weather chapter.

@vjblind 2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner just bought hope i can achieve this storme ;) thanks

@DragonNuts 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so confused what he does at 9:40 with the key frames in the dope sheet. Can someone explain

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

I am pushing the starting point of the lightning animation to not start at frame 0 but at later frame. I first go into the Dope Sheet at 3:46

@DragonNuts 2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner ohhh. You're awesome. Also I found a work around then I saw your comment. thank you

@abutahersakirahmad3019 2 жыл бұрын

I'm the 100 liker! How r you sir?

@Ultrabhaiz 2 жыл бұрын

Now I can make a Thor movie

@Huss.1 2 жыл бұрын

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@bolivardiaz7134 2 жыл бұрын

Hola CG boost, tienes tutoriales en español.

@cgboost 2 жыл бұрын

We have Spanish subs for the courses. ~Egon

@MrMcRobsen Жыл бұрын

what if i draw it in th wrong way, can i reverse the way the lightning is build?

@MartinKlekner Жыл бұрын

You can go to Edit mode for your Stroke, hit A to select all its points and in the Stroke menu hit Switch Direction

@franktseng2425 2 жыл бұрын

How can I use Emission as stroke material?

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

You can go to the Effects menu (specific for Grease Pencil objects) and add a Glow effect.

@franktseng2425 2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner great! Thx for tips!

@Mynkkk1717 Жыл бұрын

How to make that ocean?

@MartinKlekner Жыл бұрын

I detail that in the course www.cgboost.com/courses/master-3d-environments-in-blender , however it is too long a process to describe here... I use Ocean modifier for it.

@Illasera 2 жыл бұрын

@CG Boost ,I do not know if its relevant, Update your blender client to 3.1.2, your current version suffers from critical bugs (its only a bugfix version, nothing in your workflow will change) using "Slowmo guys" video as a reference is an excellent choice. Thoughts on the video : What a shame, I wouldn't consider G.pencil as the right tool for the right job (For lightnings), I would recommend B.curves with geometry node (Would also teach your audience some cool tricks) and you could procedurally generate it (With a python expression for randomness).

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

Well, the workflow served me well, and in the end, with individual lightning forks, I was able to combine it in various different shapes 🙂

@Illasera 2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner That's fair.

@onur.nidayi.1344 Ай бұрын

Tried this Mr.Martin and I got the animation working. But when I imported it into my composition and went to rotate lightning it turned into a mess. They all rotated on different axis and even when I tried to group the animation timing got messed up.

@HarryCOBEURE 2 жыл бұрын

i work on after effects...blender seems so complicated

@GroundHogDay2024 Жыл бұрын

7:57 ctrl + L link animation data!?

@nerv4316 2 жыл бұрын

Wait how can the file was last modified in 1 January 1970 in google drive?!

@cgboost 2 жыл бұрын

It shows the correct date for me.

@debashisatripathy Жыл бұрын

Bro The Grease Pencil ain't workin. It ain't rendering at all. I've been sitting here around 3-4 hrs Trying to find a solution online But nothing seems to be working. Each time my render comes blank.

@scheyn24 Жыл бұрын

did you find a solution?

@debashisatripathy Жыл бұрын

@@scheyn24 nah buddy

@sunbeam69 2 жыл бұрын

Me: Mom, just 2 mins, I'm watching how to make lighting. Thor: 😐😑

@mordfustang1933 2 жыл бұрын

I'm the 5 thousandth like, the ticker goes from 4.9 to 5k when I click it. All this power I hold...

@cgboost 2 жыл бұрын

With great power... haha! We're glad you like it :) ~Daniel

@ShadowBanned0 2 жыл бұрын

res

@ericobukhanich5575 2 жыл бұрын

You can also create lightning in Illustrator and import the svg into Blender

@giorgosmavidis3748 Жыл бұрын

the lightning doesnt show up in camera view

@Gullusaur Жыл бұрын

mine doesnt show up in rendered view. lmk if you have a fix!

@muhammadwildan849 Жыл бұрын

My lightning wont render if I use cycles engine 😭

@Gullusaur Жыл бұрын

same, in eevee too for me. lmk if you got a fix!

@muhammadwildan849 Жыл бұрын

@@GullusaurHmm... Mine render just fine only in eevee but not cycles. 🤔

@Gullusaur Жыл бұрын

@@muhammadwildan849 mine worked. had the main collection set to invisible lol

@muhammadwildan849 Жыл бұрын

@@Gullusaur good for you

@celestekillian8466 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes moves a little too fast through the steps especially on menus and nodes, I am either stupid or slow because I got lost trying to figure out just the basics lol i need things spelled out for me and need to be visually walked through every step and click, awesome tutorial though

@hheboi2567 2 жыл бұрын

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@julioavasquezg226 2 жыл бұрын

By chance, these courses have a Spanish translation.

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, just English...

@wmmediacom 2 жыл бұрын

The lightning is 1.21 gigawatts...

@EricWilliamsCG Ай бұрын

🌩🚗

@wdkpwr6586 2 жыл бұрын

5% of the video lightning 95% of the video Compositing

@testertester4968 2 жыл бұрын

Too complicated and not very intuitive. The whole process should be just copying and pasting.

@papasalvo 2 жыл бұрын

@YusufDemir-uy2vr 2 жыл бұрын

@Martin Klekner will you share the tutorial for Ocean. Especially for spray, I couldnt find any video about how could make spray on surface ocean. Thanks a lot your lessons make us better.

@MartinKlekner 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers! Unfortunately, that is a workflow that I spent many months exploring, so I decided it to keep in the course rather than share it for free, Im sure you understand :-) Thank you!

@YusufDemir-uy2vr 2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinKlekner I see. Of course your courses deserve more than that. I dont have any paid course for now but ıf it will be near future the first course would be yours probably. Have a great time