advanced destruction effects in blender

[@LenzGraphics]

Dude, that’s so sick!

[@MrLaszloKovac]

I must say, I know how hard and time consuming is to make a frigging donut so I can only image the knowledge, passion and hard work behind this project. Very, very impressive!

[@Ronny_van_Gerwen]

You finished the donut. I take my hat of for you Sir

[@jazzer1960]

With sprinkles.

[@Muffll.]

I coundt motivate myselfe to do the donut. i did a wooden chest, and failed even that...

[@Ronny_van_Gerwen]

@@Muffll. I work with other 3d design programs, and I couldn’t get myself to finish a single thing

[@AntBoyification]

lol. you can do this Donut in 10 minutes

[@TomMartinek]

Having done some large destruction shots in my day, I can honestly say "Good job!"

[@sakalarts4861]

woah you are from ILM and you worked on Iron Man, Mission impossible, Transformer and many more !! you are a legend sir !!

[@チーズ犬と猫94]

Ain’t no way

[@jimmysgameclips]

This is nuts, I've never seen destruction FX close to this good in Blender before

[@AlbinThorburn]

Aaaaw thanks!!!

[@InfraredVisuals]

Fantastic breakdown of the project. The final shot turned out really well.

[@MrTheRich]

Aw maaan you destroyed Rembrandt's house that I worked so long on to create. Haha, thanks for using my model in your great project, it was great to see it in the thumbnail! Although I would have preferred some credit, as specified in the attribution license when you downloaded it.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Cheers man thank you for posting it for free! Totally my bad for not giving you credit, it's a bad habit of mine. When making these big scenes I use a ton of different assets from all over the place, that's no excuse but I hope you understand :)

[@MrAkurvaeletbe]

@@AlbinThorburn you can and should still give credit in the description of the video...It's not really a question... if you download models that asks for giving credit you just do it.

[@AlbinThorburn]

@@MrAkurvaeletbe You're totally right my friend

[@Jeracraft]

I want this in Minecraft, just so I can destroy my cities in style 🤷‍♂

[@kxppamo5943]

Whatcha doin here Jera 😂

[@AlphaOmegaXIII]

Fair enough, but leave Graymane alone!

[@k0958]

try playing teardown

[@_generapiese_5700]

teardown : Come with me, and youll be, in a world of pure imagination

[@yeetbro3659]

teardown and minecraft aint the same tho but yes teardown is a good alternative if you have no 3d experience.@@_generapiese_5700

[@SlowpoxyRoblox]

Your tutorials are the best

[@juhada]

I wonder what the process would of been like if you would of done a large-to-small iteration of the shot using previz. As in: 1. block in the environment. 2. block in the camera motion 3. block in the largest pieces of enviro sections that you can get away with using keyframe anim 4. do rough simulation, further refining the keyframed large env sections 5. only do detail destruction on hero (close to camera) parts of the shot. This of course requires a ton of planning and probably tons of viewport renders, but mybe is less taxing on CPU usage (In theory). Nice work.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Dude that would have worked a thousand times better. 😅 Thank you man

[@focusedstudent464]

@@AlbinThorburn which cpu do you use ?

[@rajendrameena150]

This is a fantastic advice that should spread over the all animation world.

[@nothingimageworks]

Hey man. I’m a VFX artist from Sweden too, I’d love to collaborate since I use Blender too, I’m learning Houdini. I’m a well versed Nuke compositor so if you ever need some compwork done you can hit me up 🤙

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

Pretty trivial do to in Houdini. It also handles large scenes far better than blender.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Even easier to do irl, less render times also

[@Therealnotanifox]

@@AlbinThorburn looks more realistic too!

[@landgrenwilliam]

Sick!!!

[@4DSmith]

I was wondering how did you re-create a house model that can be fractured using knife project? I would be great if you could point out some direction 😄😄

[@Black13Kira]

Always look forward to see someone who doing Fx on Blender. The result is really great!

[@hayse4961]

Always making banger content brother, keep up the great work!

[@DECODEDVFX]

That's a lot of geometry.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Eyyyy big fan of your vids!

[@DECODEDVFX]

@@AlbinThorburn Thanks dude!

[@dude3d]

This is amazing, you are achieving Houdini level results from blender. Please bring more like this, it’s really a fantastic job my friend! I wish you luck 🫡

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thanks for the support man! I really appreciate it :)

[@alexandrearaujo4256]

Greetings from Brasil. Excelent work, very interesting and inspiring. You gave me a lot of inspiration and motivation. keep up with these good ideas. Very well done.

[@craigbaker6382]

Yes! Awesome. Very inspiring. Thanks for the breakdown. Out of curiosity HOW beefy is your computer so I can predict how sluggish my own will become?

[@azynkron]

RAM is more important than CPU (or GPU these days). Clock cycles obviously determine how long it will take to render, but the amount of RAM you have determines WHAT you can render. So, TL;DR, if you are on a budget, increase the memory in your box has a much higher impact than CPU. Now, Cycles supports GPU rendering, but remember that it's limited to how much memory you have on the card and you can quickly run out. In particular if you are using subdivision modifiers. If that happens you have to fall back to CPU rendering which is slower but is only limited to how much memory you have in your machine. Edit: As an example, I was playing around with the experimental adaptive subdivision modifier with 8K displacement maps and I topped out at around 45 Gigabyte for the meshes.

[@aeedits8815]

interesting workflow, blenders physics system has become really good and is beginning to look more and more like houdini

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you! Glad you found it interesting:)

[@misha6568]

Dear blogger video creator, It doesn't eat advanced level Before you teach and teach someone, it would be nice for you to learn something, I want you to go for an internship in one of the film production studios, so that you understand what it is advanced level VFX

[@katomiccomics202]

How do I achieve the ground destruction like yours, it looks different from your other ground destruction tutorial and I can't figure it out. Thanks.

[@JIOStudio]

i also prefer to used hitfilm pro

[@bunksoup8137]

Really nice breakdown of the fracture and physics workflow, however I think your colour grade (possibly your render too) is a bit too dark, and you’re losing so much of that beautiful destruction detail you worked so hard for. That’s my only nitpick. Great work, great video!

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you! Yeah man I agree with you the final grade turned out a little dark, especially when you watch it on a phone... I wouldn't say that's nitpicking, the final grade is super important! Cheers mate, thanks for the feedback.

[@EmvyBeats]

I always find it near impossible to keep a realistic animation speed when i'm working in 1-10 fps. Really the main reason i shy away from complex things. That & long render times together are an impatient man's nightmare, condolences to everyone who is currently waiting.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Right?! There's a reason I always render on like 8 samples per frame haha...

[@jamesonvparker]

How large was your VDB file when doing this?

[@mclefferson]

Wow this is one of the most complete overviews of how to create a vfx shot like this I’ve found. I instantly subscribed! Thank you for sharing

[@TeardownDestructionClips]

Great work, I love destruction.

[@stripesfilmszm]

You just don't know how much I dreamt of doing this in blender,I ended up learning Houdini just so I could achieve such distraction scenes..it really turned out awesome bro ,loved it

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thanks man! That pretty much the whole point of this channel, inspiring blender users :) especially the young ones just starting out

[@hillfortherstudios2757]

Really interesting video! I learned a lot. Congratulations on finishing such a great sequence. How long would you estimate that it took you?

[@moosterbeast6000]

crazy impressive bro, the amount of work you put into that little scene is wild, huge respect

[@LouSan]

thank you for these breakdowns, great work man!!

[@leiregyp5814]

whats your computer specs

[@Clydefoxy]

anyone else watch these VFX breakdown videos just for the final result?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Haha, I do all the time!

[@3D_Unleashed]

Thats just incredible! All of this with blender huge respect!

[@sixxyspwd4150]

så jäkla bra

[@dejan923]

This is extremely cool. only nitpick is the audio, the crumbling should get louder as the camera get's closer to it and more muted the further it is. and the audio shouldn't fade before the video does

[@VeloFX]

It's crazy how all of this is done without geometry nodes. Really nice

[@cptairwolf]

I wouldn't call this "advanced" destruction in Blender. This is pretty much as basic as destruction gets. The more advanced stuff takes in to account the material properties (wood splinters, glass shatters, concrete crumbles with dust... you get the idea).

[@joelandrewgibson4820]

I used to hate only getting praise comments because it never let me actually improve. Hopefully you feel the same. Here are two simpler things that would level this up in a major way: Glass shattering audio when the lantern falls, for some reason, I expected it to be there, but never actually heard it. lol Also, the tiling on the ground texture was pretty obvious. Aside from that, it was awesome!

[@ThisUsernameSystemF-ckingSucks]

Oh true, I notice that tiling. Also I'd imagine the noise of the Earth crumbling would drown out a bit of glass.

[@person_on_the_internet_]

1:33 he has to sheit his way through it

[@knowisdom-cq9yq]

Damn man❤❤

[@FunnyAmprsar]

Great work man, also it's nice how you turned your head to right when showing the final result, kinda makes me feel like you're actually with me. Great Job.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Haha yeah it was actually not on purpose 😆 i had my script on a screen next to me do I was like "ok is there anything more to say?" 😂

[@FunnyAmprsar]

​@@AlbinThorburn wot? That felt purposeful haha. But I'd say keep trying things like these.

[@sottozen]

I am speechless! Awesome work!

[@pieminator6969]

For a free software which "Isn't industry standard" that's pretty impressive.

[@Gabirell]

Hi! Great Work! I only feel the roads look too “clean”, and I’ve missed “windy” audio effects. By the way: I swear I can see the dust!!!!😅

[@pepperandsage2295]

very cool

[@dailybusiness8162]

Very nice! Just the tiling texture on the ground is a bit too visible to me. And way more dramatic destruction noise. But Im not a VFX artist by far, so big respect for the work and thanks for sharing 👍

[@animatorFan74]

Well done... that was really good. Looks like something from a game cinematic or cut scene. Really great job here. The touch of the fire lamps exploding was a good idea :)

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you!! Yeah it was really nice to add something that could light up the scene dynamically!

[@animatorFan74]

@@AlbinThorburn yeh awesome.... you do good videos. Thanks for making these as inspiration for our own Blender projects. :)

[@frankkismann680]

This is just... beautiful, I'm without words 😮

[@DusanPavlicek78]

Cool video but the singing in the background is extremely distracting. I can't focus on what you're saying :)

[@seanlepley1474]

Hey bro, you now what they say..."if youre not cheating your not trying" lol...kidding aside, fantastic channel 👍

[@hunterfivestars4601]

Wow i wish i could even run blender above 10 fps doing simple stuff :(. Ya my laptop so garbage i can no longer run steam, epic games and even roblox. The only game i been able to play is minecraft but if i even want 30 fps i need sodium.

[@nedimmrsic4650]

Would it be difficult to make roofs break into smaller pieces..? u know.. realism.. btw, thats an awesome project

[@mozquito76]

This is a really hard bread and in fact of the matter this is not simply done by playing 10 hours with blender... That needs more hours of experience - respect kid

[@Sparrow.31]

I'm still waiting to see a game with an incredible destruction, we are in 2023 and no other game did better than Battlefield 1 form 2016 :(

[@kaleidophon]

"I don't have time, skill or processig power in order to do this, so I'm going to have to shit my way through it." - Plan!

[@AZG99]

This is exactly why I’m sticking to traditional 2D… this looks confusing as hell

[@80Jay71]

Jaha. Ingen medeltidsvecka mer alltså.... (Snyggt jobbat!)

[@lucaberg8789]

You can very clearly see the tiling in the ground texture, which is a bummer. But other than that, this is very Good 👍

[@milanhilferink4051]

this is insane but if i had to be critical,, the long road youre following is clearly a image texture repeated 20 times, but youonly notice it in the long shot, also I dont think burning oil would look orange, id say it would look a lot more yellow with maybe a little bit of blue/purple, but i have no idea how to create that

[@ZoofyZoof]

I don't like the way the stone and everything just happens to crumble apart like it's made of sand or something

[@zachstudios567]

Ah the 2012 la earthquake scene..I remember trying to recreate that in different games and stuff since I was just so fascinated with that scene

[@Dhieen]

how do you do the knife project? how do you select your grid in object mode and your building in edit mode at the same time? its impossible :o

[@anzaklaynimation]

You are a great artist. But your eyes are strongly being affected by screen work. You should use eye protection glasses.

[@EmirShark]

can you combine two of your tutorials make a plane crashs a building or a bunch of them apartments maybe ?

[@doekewartena5729]

It's impressive what you did, but I feel like you rushed the end when it comes to the lighting.

[@birseyleryap]

very good job brother but flame burning timing and camera movement kinda not matching naturally

[@maybuchacho2426]

Can you make Tutorial for hose distractions please 🙏🏻

[@Adapto3]

Today you can do it at home. 10 years later you will be able to do this at smartphone. Copy paste times.

[@pitched7401]

Impressive that you did that without an addon like RBD lab

[@kendarr]

How many? how many times did our beloved blender crashed? xD

[@sealishproductions]

Your thumbnail design reminds me of something🤔

[@TallyHD]

THIS IS NEXT LEVEL, HOLY

[@jakethesnake630]

This is black magic to me so well done. Very impressive

[@lidialitviak8591]

can u do like real time like in red faction guerilla game piece by piece whit a hammer inteed of cinematic preplaned destruction?

[@RMD_RMD_]

Me an intellectual: Why does he not just skip to the end of this project like i did? I took me like 8 seconds.

[@eduardovazquez7735]

F***ING Crazy Dude.... Amazing!!

[@TheEdutainmentLinerCommunity]

Did everything fall into the backrooms or something?

[@TechMasterTutorials-dy4qr]

i made a medieval palladin sword scene and it took me days, i can't imagine what it took you to do this

[@ChaseThePinballWizard]

anybody else though the thumbnail was dragonlord's house?

[@SaiyedR]

You can use this kind of art in some mid budget movies.👍👍

[@h-unte-r_]

each material has its own type of deformation and destruction.

[@Damian_h]

i dont use Blender but i can tell u know your stuff brother great scene.

[@Ivankologie]

It's superb, but god I hate when I forgot to clamp direct lights and it does this little strong and quick weird white refractions. This used to drive me crazy 🙄

[@AlbinThorburn]

Haha yeah :)

[@handlenottaken]

dude just make a destructible city or smth in gmod with how good this is.

[@vjcodec]

viewport optimisation is 30% of a project sometime!

[@giuseppegalli9009]

❤❤❤❤❤ ❤ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Top … Good job…. Incredibile 🙇🏼🙇🏼👍💪🙌

[@kusplastu6728]

6:11 the house on the right side is clipping into the ground lol

[@raoul3444]

very cool ! But , there are no Light in the Houses !

[@ali-awada]

WOWWW!!!

[@AMP4K]

holy shit bro this is EPIC ggood work 10/10

[@sb-di3of]

disliked for the road texture tiling too much

[@SnowyRaptor64]

vad trevligt att se att sverge också är med i blender gänget

[@Funrollercoaster606]

This man needs to be hired to make a end of the world movie.

[@qbukhari]

This is a clear example how much time consuming and frustrating a project can be when you try to do a production level project. It's a waste of time......

[@AlbinThorburn]

Lmao I wouldn't say it's a "waste of time"...

[@Ponlets]

there are no links in the description :

[@kylsters]

someone give this lad a job on the new avatar game

[@sebastianpatrickp]

Damn this so so freaking good man!! Keep it up 🔥

[@development4185]

How long did the project take?