Harry Potter Style Dark Mark - Control Clouds in Blender

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2 жыл бұрын

Harry Potter was a phenomenon and so were the visual effects. One really stood out to me as a crazy and larger than life effect, the dark mark clouds one. The other green one was cool too but this one really got me, so I tried to do something similar in Blender. These are the results.
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@adrianthompson2839 2 жыл бұрын

not bad, i made the real one and thats not a million miles away from how i did it, it was in maya at the time, i also added uv's, randomised them a bit in big chunks, then u rand a low frequency noise map over that and used that to push the emission into the skull, so it looked like clouds forming the head, then it was just balancing the noise emission and dissipation, the background clouds are just one big cloud copied and stanped in different rotations and scale. anyway nice work

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

I’m floored! That’s so awesome. That shot stood out to me for years now as one of the coolest in the series. Thanks so much for commenting and especially sharing your technique. Great work Adrian! It’s nice to be able to say that to the original artist.

@adrianthompson2839 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge no problem man, keep up the good work :)

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Adrian, you too!

@CrixYT 2 жыл бұрын

So wholesome :)

@afirocks100 2 жыл бұрын

You did a great job man!! Such an unforgettable scene

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your pro/nonsense pill-packed content a lot. And the cherry on top is your action, hollywood-style, heroic, enthusiastic voice-over which makes even selecting options in a property panel extremely exciting ;)

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I was hoping that stuff came through.

@Just3DThings 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome as always kev, I really thought it would be done in houdini when I saw it on Twitter, can't belive you pulled this out in blender 😆

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy! I wanted to see if I could do it with Blender 😀. I was surprised at how easy it was to set up.

@jacquelinelmiller 2 жыл бұрын

How cool! Really amazing work - thanks for sharing!!

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome Jackie, thanks!

@movietime7838 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, cool stuff. I love all vfx of harry potter😍. Especially the impact liquid from one scene that voldemort vs harry fighting in graveyard

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that effect is awesome. That’s next :)

@WilkoVFX 2 жыл бұрын

Really great video!

@dzenekrinadhir9438 2 жыл бұрын

what a nice tutorials , i am very amazed watching you videos , keep going

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@scottlee38 2 жыл бұрын

Really cool! Another sign that Blender is Evolving!

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Blender is capable for sure and getting better daily.

@AhmedNassef 2 жыл бұрын

I'd been working my own butterfly-shaped cloud for some time now when I found your video.. Lol just in time..this has been really helpful.. Thanks!

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool!!!

@BonnieTheBunny20 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this is for some sort of nightmare before Christmas thing

@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890 2 жыл бұрын

i actually needed this

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!

@aravinth-xk6tn Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@Digital_Creation_Y.C. Ай бұрын

Amazing tutorial! thank you for sharing

@KevBinge Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@arjungowda6452 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😀

@houssamalucad753 2 жыл бұрын

This is very enjoyable to watch, and I learned a thing or two. I only tried fluid simulation with blender, I need to try smoke too!

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Smoke is fun!

@houssamalucad753 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge indeed, keep it up!

@VisualistAyush07 2 жыл бұрын

Great video 👍

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@uzbtv2927 2 жыл бұрын

wooow, Awsome bro

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@totochandelier 2 жыл бұрын

great !!

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@CG_Animates 2 жыл бұрын

That's epic

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@learnonline7014 2 жыл бұрын

great bro u always lit

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This one was fun.

@Kholaslittlespot1 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Way more simple than I expected. Thanks! I've been trying this with a Deer Skull from Blenderkit but it lacks definition and doesn't look crisp and skull-like. So far I've followed all your settings. Any thoughts?

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

I’d try making the skull around 1 meter (Blender unit) and making the resolution around 238 to 256 if you can. Also, make sure you are using Cycles, and that the principles volume shader has a higher density. See if that helps?

@josueR_3d 2 жыл бұрын

Good work, when you have your faces selected you can just press P on the keyboard to separate it into a separate part. It'll show a dialogue box to separate by Selection, Material or loose parts.

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That’s a great shortcut!!

@peatral 2 жыл бұрын

Also beforehand you can just press L to select everything that is connected (so if the jaw is seperate from the rest you can just hover over the jaw, press L to select the jaw and than P, Loose Parts to separate it).

@AndromedaBeta 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Castlevania SOTN feelings on it.👏👍❤

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I can see that. I liked that series, and loved the games dating back to NES.

@esenunukogbon 6 ай бұрын

Hello, thank you so much for your tutorial, it’s been extremely helpful. I have an issue that I hope you can help with After adding the clouds and adding noise to the domain, the smoke disappeared and I can’t figure out how to clear the cache. And tips on reducing render time will be appreciated. I’d really appreciate a response Thank you.

@veggiechip 2 жыл бұрын

WOOW

@pile333 2 жыл бұрын

Nice. Now try that with flames also. 😄

@Erindale 2 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly good result! I'm always shocked when people manage to wrangle Blender into VFX stuff

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Erin! It’s always great when really smart people wrangle awesome comments 😁. This one was fun!

@Kholaslittlespot1 2 жыл бұрын

Wrangle those nodes, baby

@cgichecklist6005 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kev nice work like always👍. Can u teach us how to make destruction in Houdini and bring it to blender ?? ☺️☺️

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

I’m working on it. I prefer bringing that stuff into Clarisse as it handles the massive data output better though, to be honest.

@ABMultimediaDesigner 2 жыл бұрын

I actually did something like this for my unofficial Bond titles for NTTD where a Skull pops out of the cloud and goes into the nose cavity. I think I did okay but could have been slightly better

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome, and it’s always the case. We are never really done with our work or satisfied with it haha!!

@leonelsantos6517 2 жыл бұрын

Naice man.

@ManoharOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

wow, just amazing. could you control caustics like that?

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You probably can although I hadn’t tried specifically.

@gabrieleperoni7646 Жыл бұрын

Hi! First of all excellent job, I've waited for so long for this tutorial. How much did it take for you to render this project? Did you use blender for rendering?

@KevBinge Жыл бұрын

Thanks! This took about 20 seconds a frame in Cycles. I usually don’t push much more than that for KZfaq tutorials, but the higher you set the sampling, the better it looks, but takes forever in Cycles as it’s not fast with volumes.

@mylocreative7931 6 ай бұрын

Hello, I recently subcribed to your patreon and downloaded the blend file. I've noticed that my ckouds look a little weird in comparison to the ones you show, the clouds have parts where they are choppy and blocky, any help?

@KevBinge 6 ай бұрын

Sure! Hit me up on Patreon and I’d be very happy to help! If it’s a big thing, I’ll redo the file when I get back to my computer in Blender 4.0.

@domin6168 2 жыл бұрын

I will say it looks interesting. I see that Blender has the potential to create simulations such as, for example: in Houdini, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Blender will succeed ;D

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

It definitely has potential.

@3dman563 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge have you tried ue4

@LostSound 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Kev quick question, I kind of get what it does but what does the “# frame” bit mean at 4:18? To slightly animate 0.001 in size per frame?

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it makes the noise move over time in a VERY small increment.

@LostSound 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge thanks Kev!

@violentpixelation5486 2 жыл бұрын

What the heck!? Lately I've been thinking about doing smoke in Blender and then your video was recommended to me. Thank you for reading my mind and sorry for all the other stuff you may have seen in there. Yes... as you know CG artists brains are whacky territory. Greetings from "Lebenin360" (the drone footage guy). This here is my second channel. ;)

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!! Dude, that’s the BEST name for a channel too!! I hope all is well!!

@violentpixelation5486 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge Yes 😃. All is well. Since I'm watching Blendernest, I see you're doing well too. 🤙💯

@maamangalaxerox3645 2 жыл бұрын

Op bro nice

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@drinnerd8532 2 жыл бұрын

CTRL +?! Does that allow you to do like, some kind of variable selection method or something?! Never heard of that!

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it expands a selection of connected components like polys, edges, or points when you are in edit mode. - subtracts from that selection.

@smepable 2 жыл бұрын

Ver,y nice. The Skull could have added a noise Distortion to blend in with the surrounding Clouds a bit more.

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I’d have had it all move with each other in an actual sim for real in Houdini.

@ragibrahman9594 2 жыл бұрын

do you have to pay a monthly subscription for Houdini or an annual subscription to use it? Also, really love your videos. just subscribed.

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! There is a tier where if you are under $100K/annually you can subscribe for $269 a year. There’s also a free Apprentice version that you can learn in forever AND render with. It adds a small watermark but it’s not obtrusive.

@ragibrahman9594 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge thanks i will try learning Houdini. but it will take me a lot of time to learn how the nodes work in Houdini.

@jeffersonsam5316 2 жыл бұрын

Sicklkkkkkkkk

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@jeffersonsam5316 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome

@akshatandeffect4268 Жыл бұрын

can u make death eater moving smoke tutorial

@KevBinge Жыл бұрын

I could but probably not in Blender.

@bryce99999 2 жыл бұрын

understanding the rant at 3:12 made me feel smart

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Haha! Making the rant made me feel smart, for like a minute, until my next problem made me feel dumb again lol.

@vishisht8688 2 жыл бұрын

So does using Point Clouds in Blender 3.1 does anything to help to do this?!

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

It may. If not yet, it will in he future.

@Land-Shark 2 жыл бұрын

Adolescent GMO Samurai Cloud Turtles has a nice franchise-worthy ring to it. And it's TOTALLY doesn't violate any TM's or IP rights! :) ((their names are: Newton; Einstein; Hawking; and Tyson, and they all love to eat Hot Pockets the most, so there's that sweet sponsor $ for discrete product placements , and a cameo opportunity for Jim Gaffigan who plays their wise, long-suffering mouse cloud mentor named, Master Chip Wood)) That is a very cool skull effect, too! I think I'm going to try and adapt it to use as the final scene in an animation I'm working on that involves a rocket that's launched into the sun-gone-wrong to extinguish it. I've got the rocket flame/smoke and motion test done, and just have to detail out the Launch Control Tower with greeblies and textures, and add proper textures to the rocket. The sun is shaped like the coof virus and it will explode. :)

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

I love the way you think lol! Definitely post your animation when it’s finished. I’d love to see it! Thanks!

@swampwaffle74 2 жыл бұрын

There is a better and less computational way. So if you add a volume and then use the mesh to volume modifier on that volume. You have a volume that moves in real time with the mesh. Then you can add a volume displace then boom bada bop and we got a cool skull.

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I did actually try that but VDBs don’t advect in Blender in a way I’d like yet.

@melobit6137 2 жыл бұрын

it seem i don't have length node for some reason

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

It’s inside the vector math node.

@IssuesVFX 2 жыл бұрын

exactly why embergen is a big hit, could have got this effect within a hour with embergen. blender needs to make everything gpu accelerated

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Yes and no. This is not film or broadcast quality, far from it, but Embergen still has a way to go toward final-frame. It’s awesome though for what it can do at the moment.

@PONDON10 2 жыл бұрын

Can an ipad do that ?

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

I’d definitely try it. 😁

@ravitejakolacina1600 2 жыл бұрын

bro how to adjust the pivot at jaw point. I am try to keyframe the rotation like at 0:37 but it moves weird

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

There is a menu item in the top right area of the screen that has an option called “origin.” If you select that you can move the pivot. I have a video on it but can’t find it at the moment.

@ravitejakolacina1600 Жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge can I get the link for the skull pls?

@ravitejakolacina1600 Жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge I couldn't find a skull anywhere like yours

@ravitejakolacina1600 Жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge i found the skull but when I seperate the jaw from the skull and parent the jaw to the skull and try two rotate it but it won't rotate

@ravitejakolacina1600 Жыл бұрын

The entire problem with my jaw is the pivot point

@phantomstudios1498 2 жыл бұрын

Does this work with eevee?

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

“Sort of” but it looks WAY better in Cycles.

@phantomstudios1498 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge is there one specifically in eevee

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

@@phantomstudios1498 The issue is that the shader and the light doesn't work as well in the clouds in EEVEE. EEVEE is a hack in a way, and it looks great for some things like nebulas, but it lacks the depth at the moment. I knew the devs are improving EEVEE so it may gain parity. That said, this could be tweaked to look good in EEVEE as well. This video was made for Cycles.

@phantomstudios1498 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge I understand. Can I get your opinion on something though? Can I still make an animation LOOK really good in eevee? Without having to spend months on how it is visually?

@henrique21890 2 жыл бұрын

Can you recreate the Celestials from Marvel's Eternals?

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

I need to watch it first lol. 😀

@henrique21890 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge the scenes with them are really scary because of scale.

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll watch it, thanks.

@henrique21890 2 жыл бұрын

@@KevBinge You're Welcome! 🇧🇷

@iceseic 2 жыл бұрын

Use ctrl + b for render preview

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@rededwards3479 2 жыл бұрын

Great video...Now SHOW a FIGHTER JEt Flying into the SKULLS mouth...I used Vue Infinite to create the effect. Thanks

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Vue is great. We’d used that for years.

@andreysobolievas7174 2 жыл бұрын

КРУТО!!!!!!!!!

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@hexogramd8430 2 жыл бұрын

Lol you laugh like Peter Griffin

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll take that 😀😀. Thanks!

@proghostzgamecreed6555 2 жыл бұрын

Is it me or the final render does look like General Grievous?

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, yeah, it does lol!!

@kalfakanti 2 жыл бұрын

i never dare until i get powerful PC

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it helps for sure!

@raphraph9884 2 жыл бұрын

And now add the snake 😂

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Aww yeah!

@PeefVFX 4 ай бұрын

ngl if u show only 10% of the process there's no point uploading

@KevBinge 4 ай бұрын

A small legion of comments here would disagree, but idgaf… YT is free, I’m done with the handouts.

@leonelsantos6517 2 жыл бұрын

Naice man.

@KevBinge 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!