Blender Tutorial: Morph Anything Into Anything

How to morph or shapeshift from one object to another? Here's how.
Extended version with Welds & Textures on Patreon:
bit.ly/extendedmorph
SDFs are also used for Fractal Machine, check it out here:
bit.ly/sdfractals
Free hand 3D model:
free3d.com/3d-model/hand-v1--...
00:00 Intro
00:15 How to blend between objects?
01:05 What is an SDF?
02:30 The SDF of the monkey
06:30 Remeshing the monkey
10:10 Finding the outside
18:50 Autoresolution
21:30 Blending two objects
23:40 Making an object grow
26:37 Final animation logic
30:30 Smoothing the surface polys
31:40 Material Mixing
34:25 Further Content

[@TechWampus]

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[@BadNormals]

For a while

[@TechWampus]

@@BadNormals Thanks lol

[@WW_Studios]

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[@ignaciosagrario]

and it was indeed, lol

[@brvxtn]

@@WW_Studios this comment is a reply to your reply

[@ZantineProvo]

YOOOO!! THE UNIVERSE ANSWERS!! This is exactly what I was looking for and it was just hand delivered. Incredible

[@StrayCreations]

It´s always so useful when you explain this level of mathematics in Blender, you´re one of the very few who can make me fully understand node setups at this level the first time I watch it. Thank you!

[@BadNormals]

I'm glad to hear that!

[@haisanberg.]

Love the visuals and great simplified explanation

[@todesdigga3891]

Wooow that's just great, it opens up so many doors to different creative uses. Never knew that the Remeshing with Volume Cube is so much better than the 'Mesh to Volume' option. Thanks so much for putting this out!

[@Starbat88]

This is such awesome content! Geometry nodes are totally new territory for me. I love how you broke it all down. So helpful! :)

[@omm12459]

i have been continuously checking your channel, whether you have uploaded this video or not. after you have uploaded that youtube post, finally the video is here, will enjoy it, thank you

[@character-creator]

You truly are a brilliant man. Absolutely amazing ! I know that you’re going to do amazing things in this life. Keep up the good work.

[@vstreet7583]

Just brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! A glimpse inside the mind of a Geo Node Master at work. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. THANK YOU! Dg

[@jtuand9289]

Questo commento te lo faccio in italiano perché mi vien dal cuore! Madonna sei un grande!!! Spiegazione perfetta, pulita e semplice anche per spiegare cose complesse! Fa ridere che dici "è semplice ora vi faccio vedere" ed è un bordello ahhaha grande!!! Felice di aver scoperto il tuo canale 🎉

[@dertobbe1176]

This is the kind of tutorial I love. You axplained so Well only in the first 3 Minutes. You got a New subscriber mate. Keep it up 👌

[@viniciusrobinson]

Thank you very much, your tutorials are always very complete and always help me

[@Z33ingpurpl3]

Amazing explanation. Good detail.

[@TallyHD]

Love your hair! Is it procedural? Can you change the amount, hair length and curl size?

[@BadNormals]

Thanks! Yes, it's the new geo nodes hair system...

[@verdiernoyama9681]

😂 I love this comment and the reply

[@toonanimationstudio]

I feel like laughing all day

[@gingerdog8203]

It makes his forehead look bigger and his scalp look smaller. It's not for his head shape

[@MaxTurrini]

Incredible that you know all these things at your very young age. I'm astonished!

[@SouthernShotty]

This is a great tutorial!

[@mrofnoctonod]

Whoah. Before I begin even watching into this tut, allow me first off to compliment you on your sick looking dreds. Sweet bro!

[@BadNormals]

Thanks man!

[@retrograpejuice]

that inside/outside trick is super useful

[@goldstick3D]

wow su tutorialid lähevad aina paremaks ja professionaalsemaks! täitsa nauding seda vaadata.

[@BadNormals]

Tänan komplimendi eest!

[@RubenLopez18]

Ooooooo, looking forward to this 👀👀

[@CaetanoSilva3D]

Awesome tutorial, this will save my skin!

[@AllExistence]

I'm fairly sure you can simply switch "background" slider to 1 in volume cube to get rid of the outside shell.

[@carlosrobertoviana9076]

Complex, difficult but professional. Congratulations.

[@3dwebsites.]

Thank you for the tutorial!

[@attimp4]

Dude... you are so smart. Sick idea

[@stuwheeler]

Nice work man. You Rule!!!

[@ghostinhell666]

This is brilliant indeed!

[@phalhappy8612]

I sometimes wonder, what make you so good at this? Can you talk about your background? Like how good you are at math and what degree you pursued and are you a Houdini artist...

[@BadNormals]

I could make a QA sometime yes, I will announce it as a community post then

[@jonsedlak1103]

@@BadNormals Math background?

[@runbobfun]

Can’t wait!

[@requiems6064]

this, this is why i subscribed

[@Lance_G]

Thank you so much! I've been trying to figure out how to make metaball objects with meshes and this does so much more!

[@fergadelics]

I got to where I needed about 2/3 of the way. When things go metaball. I can use this combining with other methods of altering meshes to make quite a bit of trouble. It’s a different kind of superglue.

[@tonyferrerorocher]

So elegant

[@anandaroopm777]

Thanks!

[@reshabgaming3728]

you are master of vfx

[@PZAXR]

Dang that's awesome, I figured out a way to do blending, but not as precise as this. XD

[@AbcD-ms7bn]

Thank you so much 🎉

[@_blender_man_]

Hey! Very nice! You did it! I remember when I was your patron for few months, I have asked you about this. Now you did it very well and professionally! Thanks! You are the best!

[@krydroidhexx8439]

Love the new hairstyle, thanks for another awesome blender tutorial 🤘

[@Sebastian-lp7lw]

legit been looking for this exact transition for a while. Wanting to use it for architecture work, go from exterior to interior.

[@danialsoozani]

wow you are inspiring!!! very very good explanations and use of shader morph as well!! the part where you said if you wanna go deeper my mind was already on 100% cpu usage :)))))

[@Anyreck]

Morphing mastery - your brain is a gold mine Mr BN! Thank you.

[@elliot4727]

legend, thanks

[@fallbrumbyg426]

Hi there! Love your work! What is your technical background? did you learn coding before art? and as a 3D artist looking to understand the tech side of things as you do, what would you recommend to study? Thank you!

[@beljse]

I LOVE YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@jackpapa]

Thank you for your teaching, but I really hope that your video will teach you about color settings

[@nurb2kea]

Very well explained. Thank you very much!! 🙂🙃

[@cianoner]

Your hair is sick man!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thats too cool

[@mohanpugaz]

Oh man. The amount ok knowledge you have is amazing... I wonder If you tried houdini. If not u must try.. You have lot more flexiblity for these kind of operations and I'm sure you will love houdini.

[@dulcamara2851]

excellent, well done, however, I may be wrong, but it seems to me that this is an overlapping of two processes that evolve independently of each other, the morph is more of an illusion due to the overlapping itself than an interaction (like an attraction by one mesh causing a deformation of the other mesh, for instance) between the two meshes, but thanks again!!

[@tomvonlanthen5513]

Ooh interesting topic :)

[@carlodovi3206]

This work is amazing and very interesting, I have followed the entire video but still I have a question: how can I assign the two different attribute to the color so I can viewport them corresponding to the Hand and Suzanne? I can't figure it out, please let me know.

[@DesignerNetanel]

Greetings Mr Travis Scott 😎

[@svivan20]

Probably the most creative tech Blender instructor out there! Amazing use of blender! BTW, I don´t get the viewer icon like you do and the SDF map don´t show on my scene with the shaded model view! Any ideas why?

[@zzeejjoorrdd]

I believe you have to update to 3.5 ^ :-)

[@Archi_Voxel]

unique tutorials and hairstyle. amazing

[@othermotionmedia]

I really just come here to admire your smarts!!!:) Really, trying to learn but the level of knowledge is distracting! So well done young man, keep doing your thing...

[@omariparris.design]

Bro's Brilliant

[@valovanonym]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

[@Baucan]

You should make a 'Morph Addon' I think many people will buy it 🙂

[@sebastianodibusti]

I was looking to see if he was selling it lol

[@anotherguycalledsmith]

You are absolutely crazy!!! ;-)

[@DommageCollateral]

SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION IS USED FOR A TECHNIQUE CALLED RAYMARCHING

[@chuchas3d]

Good :D

[@drumboarder1]

Definitely some of the hair of all time

[@casty1098]

Hi man, thanks for the great video! unfortunately every time I insert the material into the material node Blender crashes badly, I also tried to remove the blur and go straight only with the material node but unfortunately it crashes anyway, I'm with version 3.5 by any chance do you have any tips to give me? thanks!

[@mobinvaryan7196]

every time I watch one of your videos I get depression. keep it up 👍

[@savageopress1753]

What

[@brianthibault5929]

Hi! I’m brand new to Blender, but have been following and trying several tutorials. @ 32:16 I noticed in your Shader Editor window that the Use Nodes option is selected. I’m using Blender for Mac and for the life of me I can’t find this or figure out how to get this option to display so I can select it. Can you please help me? It would be so useful for me to be able to use other techniques if I could only select this option. I’m using the latest version of Blender - just downloaded it last week. Thanks in advance

[@pepperandsage2295]

i think i gave you that idea on the community tab

[@BlackGeckoStudio]

Truly great tutorial! I have one small question - when I'm selecting the monkey, my viewer node on the plane automatically turns off, so I can't see visually the result of geometry nodes. Maybe you know how to fix this. Thanks a lot in advance!

[@BlackGeckoStudio]

Okay, just saw that you pinned this geo node setup at the top😄 So the only comment that's left - thanks a lot for your work man!)

[@ValeGoG]

10/10

[@gamermanv]

This is a fantastic video! Would it be possible to bake this as a morph target, say for unreal engine?

[@WaterShowsProd]

When Morph+ was first released I drove a great distance to be able to buy the software to run on my Amiga. I'm too speechless right now to say anything else.

[@DANIELROJAS94]

How can I do when I blend two objects, how can I add a displacement to one of the two objects while they are blended?

[@nagendrancse4788]

Cool 😎✨💙🤍

[@iwasherefilms4746]

At the 14 minute mark how do you get the colored view? Mine is grey, I checked everything is set correctly so I figured it must be viewport feature but wasn't able to figure it out

[@lopsidedpolygon]

don't mind me, just gonna sit here and rot for a million years waiting for someone to use this to implement a polymorph/transfiguration spell into a proper wizard game

[@prototypega8257]

Thanks allot, i normaly Work with Unreal Engine and never tested Geometry nodes, and the first thing i noticed is that the Keymaping sucks. I can imagine that these Nodes are pretty powerfull but why cang i leftclick drag a node but not a Reroute and how you cut nodes is so much pain but would you switch to UE it would be the same.

[@arturrakovskyi3866]

oh we have new Transfiguration teacher

[@greatsol2444]

Ok. Excellent tutorial. But is there a way to make an object balloon outward into a sphere shape? The concept is very similar, but not the same. Most morphs I’ve seen have an object shrink into the end shape result. I’m looking to make a rigid body balloon outward into a sphere, kind of cartoon like.

[@joanahkirk338]

I'm guessing it's also possible to have each object use multiple materials, it would just be complicated to calculate

[@kanavsohal]

Hi for you recreating Hollywood effects video can you pls show all the nodes😅

[@prototypega8257]

Do you know how i could set the Density depending on the outside Normal per distance

[@everythingpossible945]

Would that work if the models have animation and rigs (for example Shape 1 jumps, Shape 2 Falls)???

[@RaushanKumar-yz1re]

@Badnormals Hi, i wanted to ask if the morphing models can be made of small bead like particles which morph from one shape to another. i am trying that but it not sure how to do that. Do you have an idea?

[@dreadwinter]

Very cool! Is this method of remeshing faster or slower than the Mesh to volume to mesh conversion?

[@BadNormals]

I would say a little bit slower, but that's quite hard to measure, since the mesh-volume-mesh outputs something you definitely have to smooth/polish as well, and this takes extra time.

[@dreadwinter]

@@BadNormals The Timings overlay should give an accurate measurement, i think?

[@fiveoneecho]

@@dreadwinter It's hard to measure because you will have to use some arbitrary amount of time fixing the volume remeshed mesh after using that method. He's saying volume remeshing is faster, but he isn't sure if there is a good way to measure the final smoothing and repairing steps after the volume step. Typically, that is the part that takes longer if you use a one-size-fits-all geonodes graph to do it.

[@cgdoctor8241]

Hey bro I thought maybe this tutorial of mine might be useful in modifying your "anytree" in order to generate different looking trees from the same shape

[@snyx562]

Can you do a tutorial on how to make an explosion

[@_blender_man_]

Well...I am personally still waiting for your Simulation Tutorial or maybe quick episode with skill share! Hope you are doing well...

[@NebMotion]

love your new hair, can you do a tutorial on that

[@BadNormals]

I actually think it could be cool to make geo nodes hairstyle generators for characters, I'll look into that. In real life you need a crochet hook 🙂

[@NebMotion]

@@BadNormals 100% would love to see that!

[@plasid2]

can you figure out how make river? water obstacle rock etc

[@magedatef7901]

Can this method work with fluids as well? To turn mere fluid to a shape?!

[@Javier99999]

I've messed around with this thing for hours and I plug in everything the same yet somehow this finding the outside part always comes out giving me crazy results. When I do it with the cube and Suzanne I get some huge globs on the outside, when I've done it with the one object I'm working with which is an iphone and the volume cube the cube gets cut on the inside in some strange diagonal way that does not resemble a phone at all. Working with 3.5

[@danielmigwigitonga6451]

I'm getting the same results when I do with a cube, capsule and other simple shapes. Working with blender 3.4

[@Javier99999]

@@danielmigwigitonga6451 I thought there was a glitch in 3.5 so I went down to 3.4, yeah same results. This has happened to other users, and bad normals has commented just to add more subdivision to the suzzane or the plane. But that didn't help me at all. I gave up on it, I may try again after my next project. I'll comment back. It's something within the Outside node, I beleive.

[@maellefleitz2415]

Hello, I've tried so many things to blend a music score (so a plane that had a little solidify modifier) into a leaf. However my music score is animated (softbody baked) and from the beginning SDF doesn't work on my music score sheet. I'm getting desperate to make it work, i've tried shrinkwrap but my leaf is too complex. The plane the is used to see the SDF of my shape stays totally white. (I am at 3:57min of the tuto). Please help me... I need to get this done for a final very important homework!

[@jorgebonafe]

Is there another step between the final node setup and the render? In your video the monkey looks glitchy around the eyes, but the render is perfect. Did you simply increase the resolution?

[@starder6676]

maybe one day I will understand this video

[@yohannz2298]

Amazing ! i'm trying to do it but, why i don't found any volume nodes ?

[@peaolo]

Maybe it depends on the blender version you got... I think 3.5 is the minimum.

[@zhivu-vopreki]

In Cinema 4d you can do it in 7-8 minutes.

[@fortunate3D]

fuck cinema, ass licensing issues

[@bifrostbeberast3246]

"Bounding Box needs to have a volume larger than 0"

[@Sylfa]

Very interesting, you can change the threshold on the Volume to Mesh instead of altering the SDF. And technically it's an Unsigned Distance Field at the start, or a "Distance Field" not an SDF, until you add the logic for the sign. That's why people use SDFs for this and not just distance fields, ofc. If you're interested in a high quality morph between two objects you can get much better results by using shape keys. It requires that the two objects have the same topology though, so it's not nearly as quick as this method, especially if you want to do many different morphs.

[@mixchief]

Newbie response to your notion of Shape Keys giving better results than this SDF approach: I wonder if it's possible to give Object A the same amount of polys as Object B and then Shape Key-morph between then using Geo Nodes. Sounds like a valid followup-experiment to the one presented in this video.

[@poppi3362]

how do I use UVs with this? I cant get them to unwrap, if I set them at the end of the chain