Very interesting special effects tutorial

I'm amazed by how people come up with these things. It just keeps getting better.

This could be used for so many things, brings in so many ideas, thanks!

I've learned more from your tutorials than I have with any other procedural materials tutorial on KZfaq, and I've been learning to use Blender since 2007. Thank you for the great tutorials. I knew about animation before using Blender, I'd gone to college for 3D Modeling and Animation, but the software I was trained on was way out of my price range, still is, that's why I use Blender 3D. The training that I have is very old and out of date, this is before any software was using quad faces, everything was still triangular faces back when I was first learning 3D computer modeling and animation. The software was 3D Studio R-4, not to be confused with 3D Studio Max 4, this is before the Max (Windows version of the software, the 1994 old DOS version of 3D Studio).

I have banged my head against the wall trying to do this sort of effect with dynamic paint in the past, this is awesome, thanks

Love your shorts ! Best Blender shorts!

I can use this to make live wallpaper for my pc. It looks satisfying to me. Thnx for the tut man!!

Epic tutorial and a brillaint way of working thank you for your way of explaining and putting in the time to share your knowledge!

Brian, I liked and subscribed when you said the magic words, "free stuff'. Beautiful as this is if you want to change the world, swap out the random values with real world data.

your tuts are amazing i am just good enough at it to understand you completely, and i love the content

Brilliant way of using uv! Thank you for making this tutorial

Very interesting approach to achieving the effect. However, I'd like to request if you could go into explaining why you opt to go for certain kinds of math nodes (Fraction, Minimum, Logarithmic etc) and the particular values as well. It would be of great help and people like me (the kind with 0 math abilities in our brains) can wrap around these concepts more visually. Hope you can consider it. Thanks, and keep it going!

Bro straight to the point. Super thanks for all these informative tutorials!

Oh. My. Goodness. This is genius! I was trying to get a similar effect using dynamic paint, but I just couldn't animate the "splashes". Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice, couple of new tricks. Thank you.

Very smart solution, I love it!

this is great, inspiring, well done and thank you.

Very elegant solution. Great source of inspiration. I think I could achieve the same effect myself, but with a 10x more complex approach...

Very enlightening, really appreciate it

What a nice tutorial.Thanks!!!

I loved the tutorial! I noticed changing the Blend Mode to Alpha Hashed creates a particle illusion instead! I almost thought I was in Cycles seeing such a change.

OK - followed your tutorial - superb effect you created. I have not got a clue what is going on with all the maths nodes multiplying and dividing, but the end effect is brilliant. Thanks for the tutorial

I'm so glad I subscribed to this channel

Great video again!

Finally figured out two things: Blender 4 or newer auto adds the node he adds to the material output; and it has to be #frame/ the number you use, not . the number. So it would be #frame/24 or #frame/20 for the add value :) This fixed the animation for me, at least!

I love puggles. I can't get enough of puggles.

freaking brilliant

Fantastic Tutorial

Just BRILLIANT! Thank you for sharing your technique. THANK YOU! Dg

So good I just had to like and subscribe!

Thank you so much Ben 🙏🙏🙏

New subscriber!! Enjoy all your videos

Very nice!!!

Great Tutorial, as always! These tutorials are endless sources of inspiration. One question, how would one go about randomizing the location of the drops, as it appears static right now.

Awesome video

this rocks brother

Thanks, that was great. I had to do a bit of fighting with the Math Add node with the #frame entry but got there in the end. Awesome stuff! 🙂

very will! 我很喜欢你的教学，谢谢你

Amazing

Thank you sooo much, this was just what I was looking for :)

Thanx a TON for broadening my blender knowledge...everything happened perfectly but am not getting thin rings...but broad ones...where could I be going wrong?

wonderfull

nice!

GREATTT!

This could also have been a perfect example for dynamic paint (wave) simulation combined with geometry nodes ;-) .. I already tried it and it works fine - except the puddles can't have different colors :/

You're awesome

Thank You

If you could explain the math and how you came to find those values and why they work it would be very nice.

thanks for the tutorial, i just follow up and get a little bit confused about the math node, what're the effection of the minimum and logarithm nodes?

I want to learn nodes to make some kind of vertex lighting ps1 graphics looking stuff

Came back to this video, do you recall how you get the camera focus working on your intro clip?

After that April fools you played I was a bit worried Still nice tutorial

thanks sir

At 6:24 I copied the previous color ramp and didn't switch the points. Its a different effect, more like it pushes the water out after impact.

This can also be used to make a sheild being bombarded.

Please coudl ypu try doing more Doctor Strange videos and possibly Wanda. I quite enjoyed the runes video you did. Perhaps doing scarlett witch's magic?!

Are there any options for using the shader to appear to displace the geometry so it looks like a ripple (in eevee without using black magic)?

This is crazy.

When I added in my ColorRamp, my ring lines were not as crisp as your ring lines were in the viewport object. And when I added in the Minimum and Logarithm nodes, I lost almost all hint of red in my viewport object. I'm sure I did everything the way you did it. What could be my problem?

I feel like most of the time we start out in geometry nodes and end in shader nodes but you did it opposite this time lol

can this be used like a laser or magic spell hitting a shield? im trying to make it hit a ball and im getting washed out lines

Does anyone know the keyboard shortcut he uses to grab the random value for the object info ? When I try just plugging in the object info to the multiple an then connecting that to my add node it just stops my animation :/

hi there. I just got the lightning generator from your Gumroad, and I was wondering how you actually generate it as you please, because I can't quite figure this out (I am new to geo nodes).

i wish more teachers would mention why they use math nodes. i feel like I will never understand how to make these things myself

I love your shit... It is the best the easiest and the smartest!

Is this specific project file on your Gumroad?

1:33 UV map automatically connects to another node... what and how?

hey, my puddles seem to be centering in a group, I've check different boxes and/or settings, changing the seed just rearranges them in a tight knit overlapping group. I tried scaling the puddle up to no avail. how are your puddles more spread out? thanks for the tutorial.

Hey, this project is not on your gumroad. Any chance you could put it up? Thanks!

can i added to any project and how ???

At 1:33 what was the effect used that connects the UV Map and the Material Output?

got clipings when instancing the puddles in cycles, switching to eevee

Hi I'm not getting the same amount of emission that you are mines looks more flat even though I did the same things....can any one help?

does anyone know what that color ramp is connected to? is off screen at 6:28

Got it...Logarithm value was .5 instead of .999...Thanx again...

My god

I wish my computer was good enough to make this. My animation doesn't work 😥

1:33 I can’t find the orange node :(

Waaa...

what version is this bruh? ANNENOHAMINEEGET^ATAVAINA DING RING DING

any contact email?

when working in cycles, how do you stop the base circles from clipping? i get very ugly triangular artefacts from the clipping puddles