Blender Tutorial - Jellyfish

[@xynerd]

Incredibly well made tutorial. Helped a lot. Thanks!

[@bastian6173]

Man this is so cool. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this masterpiece of a tutorial. Great job!!!!

[@SardiPax]

Glad you liked it!

[@visionspidera2985]

The best Jellyfish tutorial I've seen, thanks!

[@FilmSpook]

Excellent Work, many thanks, my Friend!! :)

[@SardiPax]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@luca_distortedtherapy]

The lighting wave surface of the ocean is REALLY clever! I did enjoy this tut, really creative and inspirational. This tutorial is so well made... You cover so many details that can be useful for many other applications, in a detailed yet not boring approach. You are really great on explaining every single steps. You got a thumb up and subscribe. I wish you could give a 121 lesson, but 1st I need to upgrade my old Macbook Pro from 2013 with close to no GPU...

[@KAWoodWorks]

Thank you for this amazing piece of work taught me alot!

[@rosiemcgowan3872]

Thanks Sardi! x

[@TheAntimon13]

That was incredibly helpful. I will definitely try it out! Thank you so much.

[@nickheimers]

Amazing! Thank you.

[@cdemr]

This tutorial is super useful because it covers a lot of aspects of Blender, exactly what a 2 weeks Blender beginner like me needs. However Blender crashes whenever I try to render even a PNG with the tile size at 2px and 256 samples (20:17) Any idea on what settings could actually look good (or the closest to good) but not crash Blender? 2px 128 samples 0.900 distribution does work but it's a bit chunky.

[@SardiPax]

Hi, I would start by simplifying the scene, have less objects visible, render at a reduced resolution. Start with just 16 samples too. Check that light bounces, especially volumetric, are not set too high. It's always best to start low, and work you way up a step at a time, otherwise it can be hard to find what's causing issues. Good luck :)

[@zapfsaeule2]

Thank you so much! It helps in many ways :)

[@nenikamou]

One question, isn't there another way to make the jellyfish move slower but not render at 2000 frames if we want it to make the full circle? It seems that keeping it at 100 frames the jellyfish barely moves around. Any thoughts?

[@SardiPax]

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Clearly you can animate an object at any speed and over any set of frames. However, in terms of how 'fast' something is moving, it also relates to the frame rate at which the final movie will be played. Typically, online video is played at 25, 30 or 60 fps (frames per second), for animation there is rarely a need to go with higher framerates. So if your end animation is played at 25fps, and your overall sequence completes in 100 frames, that's just 4 seconds. If it was a complete orbit of 360 degrees, that's quite fast. For slower, smoother motion, your realistic choices are therefore to reduce the amount of motion or increase the number of frames.

[@baryafe]

5:38 cloth modifier make the mesh disappear. why?

[@DanielDangond]

When I tried this, I also though it disappeared, but hitting the focus view shortcut showed me it had just shifted down a few meters. Hope this helps whoever comes across this in the future.

[@alexanderg8466]

thnx for the tutorial

[@littlelizzzard]

Dear Sardi, I love this tutorial and would adore it if I could use in it my recent project. But there are some things I feel like might not be compatible with the newest blender version. For starters, the cloth mod acts very weird when I apply it, the tenticales do something different each time I try I apply it and they don't just float normally like in your video. Eventually I figured something out that looked like it but then when I got to the step where you put it on a path it just glitched completly, to the point where it doesn't look like a jellyfish anymore, or it will just disappear from the scene . I really wan't this to work but after the 3th try I am starting to lose hope 😥 could you perhaps make the project file for sale?

[@SardiPax]

Send me a mail to [e-mail] and I'll sort something out for you.

[@nenikamou]

In the render viewport everything seems great but then in the render animation the jellyfish looks like there is something wrong with the cloth modifier. It looks like the tentacles are stretching and sticking together , did anyone have the same issue?

[@minusv.singhs]

Can these animatiosn be keyframes and exported with the mesh to use in something like Unity?

[@SardiPax]

Although these are using physics, you can record the movement generated by physics to keyframes and therefore export that to other applications yes.

[@nottodayrender]

Thank U!

[@superchango4784]

Hi!!. cloth modifier makes the tentacles fall down. don´t now why?? I set de shape to the penning but still don´t works

[@SardiPax]

You could try setting the material to a lower weight (try silk pre-set) and also you can turn gravity down to 0

[@superchango4784]

@@SardiPax Thanks!!

[@visionspidera2985]

Can I export the animation to Unity or only the model?

[@SardiPax]

To export the animation you would need to bake the deformations to shapekeys.

[@jankystreams3337]

@@SardiPax My jellyfish won't move along the curve

[@SardiPax]

@@jankystreams3337 Make sure you selected 'Animate curve' in the modifier.

[@jankystreams3337]

@@SardiPax I did

[@jankystreams3337]

The jellyfish doesn't move but there is this little circle that does

[@Sumthinjay]

Cloth modifier doesn't rly do anything.... tentacles are still stiff... what am I doin wrong?

[@SardiPax]

It may be you need to add more vertices. Try removing the cloth modifier, then add a sub-division surface modifier and apply it. Finally add a cloth sim back.

[@KAWoodWorks]

@@SardiPax Legend. Thank you very much