Create a Sci-fi Animation only with Geometry Nodes (Blender Tutorial)

In this Blender Geometry Nodes tutorial we will be making a cool scifi animation loop with only geometry nodes!
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[@R3DBLAZE]

It’s been 2.5 years following Ducky3d. From literally crying because I couldn’t follow the tutorials to now calling this a “basic” tutorial. Man it’s been a beautiful journey! Thank you ducky for teaching us blender❤️

[@TheDucky3D]

Congratulations dude, you have graduated

[@R3DBLAZE]

@@TheDucky3D ❤️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[@itsblkworld]

There's a lot of great 3D artist that learned from Ducky 3D and Blender Guru. Amazing!

[@R3DBLAZE]

@@itsblkworld 💯💯

[@dretex_chris]

I'm starting now hope to keep it going😅

[@tysonbanchik9049]

Pro tip: when you're following along to this tutorial hitting the "J" key will rewind the video by 10 seconds. This is extremely helpful when trying to work on little details.

[@ryanadams2213]

hero

[@violettracey]

Thank you!

[@channelname8623]

its weird so many people couldnt get a seamless loop at first but ended up all having different solutions 😂 if your loop isnt smooth, check to make sure there is no rotation changes or height changes on your camera during the animation, double check the distance its tranveling to ensure its only traveling one plane/instance length (i hid the seond plane/instance while i positioned the camera, then unhid the plane so i didnt keyframe the ground/sky being hidden, then keyframed the cameras end position). And I was getting a jump at the end until i changed my first keyframe to be on frame 1 instead of frame 0. perfect loop now.

[@toapyandfriends]

This is seriously one of the best channels

[@kimteam5344]

툴을 자유자재로 만질 수 있는 능력이 존경스럽습니다.

[@adimaralimuddin96]

blender features are geeting crazier than ever. this is just so cool!

[@TheOscarGamer_]

This one looks like it's going to be one of my favourites! Thanks for another tutorial, Ducky3D!

[@Wakasamaa]

thanks for the great tutorial ! as someone said there are some holes between the different plane animation, I followed every steps but didn't managed to make this a seemless loop it can be a great node to simulate some space race

[@nicolemitchell737]

I just have to say, this is amazing, even though you make it seem so simple. I'm very new to Blender, I've been watching several tutorials to try and learn the mechanics of different things, but this is my 2nd model I've made! The first I wasn't confident enough to stray from the tutorial, but this one I made my own tweaks with. You're great at explaining what the different settings will effect what! And I now have a bit more confidence with geometry nodes.

[@user-kw6ri3so6i]

one of the best vj loops using geometry nodes af

[@figueroaivan26z]

Just finished and completely astonished with the end result after rendering, Thank you so much @Ducky3D !!!! Making a newb feel like he can do anything

[@svensubunitnillson1568]

I'm learning tons here SirDuck! thanks a billion, now my powerpoint presentantions can get even cheesier!

[@michelangelobaroni938]

Around minute 18:15 he says that noise texture need to be the same and so I did. I didn't notice the W setting its actually the opposite! My bad I guess, but someone else might experience this. Nice tutorial btw thanks!

[@CaveMonkey72]

I usually use my noise into a Vector Scale with the Normal and run that into the Offset so any shape will distort in the direction of the normal

[@violettracey]

Thank you!

[@vsevart922]

Fantastic! Just *FANTASTIC* You have the *Best* *Tutorials* Keep it up 👍

[@Esteflozada]

You are the best!!!! ♥️

[@helloitsokyrago]

oh , this is gonna look a lot cooler in 3d render

[@pragmaticgamer7435]

In the last part of this tutorial 18:30, when I press "i" the keyframes dont show up on the timeline, does anyone know how to solve this problem?

[@soletrait]

You are the best teacher! Thank you!

[@BenLe42]

Thank Ducky, this was great

[@SpeedRacerx89]

Very cool. This may be my favorite so far!

[@PhilipDenys]

damn, this vid is full interesting with stuff i've never seen before, thank for the content ducky! i'm considering being a patreon ;)

[@uzbtv2927]

Awsome work bro

[@paulsebring5326]

For some strange reason when I go to preview the animation as soon as we set the camera key frames in place. The top plane will vanish at 90 frames in and at 113 frames the bottom plane with vanish. Although I can still see the icospheres.

[@paulsebring5326]

Ok the solution was to download version 3.2 and it shows properly. I was using 3.0 before incase anyone else runs into this issue.

[@RozzieRozborn]

@@paulsebring5326 Ayy thanks for the tip, was having the same problem!

[@NortonjawX]

The materials look awesome! Thank you.

[@JedHurricane]

Great tutorial, I'm gonna try it right now.

[@luispeset3083]

Thanks for an amazing tutorial man. I have a bit of a problem with my colouring and maybe you or any of my fellow viewers could help me. Basically, when I set the materials to metalic or to emissor, what I see in my computer has nothing to do with what I can see in the tutorial. My metals don't reflect and my emissors do not shine that way. Is all pretty plane. Only if I switch to cycles y can see the colours as they should. But then, of course it's too slow to continue working properly. Somebody has any idea what could it be? Thank you so much either way!

[@gammelbam]

Hey there :) All you need to do is to go to the "Render properties" and switch on "Bloom" and "Screen Space Reflections", then it should work

[@MathIsBestest]

@@gammelbam And ambient occlusion. Basically turn on every box possible 😂 Also thanks this helped me a frick ton

[@BreeingIan]

Amazing tutorial! Absolutely loved this one.

[@RogerWaggener]

Is there a reason you duplicated the grid instead of making the grid longer? Currently it's not actually "seamless" because rips are visible between the grid instances .

[@andcaru]

Thanks a lot, Great content!!

[@MalinaXOT]

Super! Thanks for the lesson!

[@AnalogX64]

Awesome!!! :) I'm planning on making a SynthWave track and this style of video would be perfect. Gues what I'm doing this weekend ;)

[@licnex]

I see you have accepted my challenge

[@Mikro.music.official]

I have watched the first 10 mins over and over again. someone please help me figure out why his metallic is so shiny and his points are glowing like a light. i feel like im missing something.

[@MathIsBestest]

Yeah I was trying to figure that out too. I think he has an addon for a better material preview or something because that looks more like a render than a simple preview. What's sad is the rendered view doesn't even look like that so I don't know what to do either 😅

[@hypno785]

​@@MathIsBestest @Mikro.music.official It's called "Ambient occlusion" gentlemen. It's off by default. Second tab in render properties

[@TwistedMinute]

your ambient occlusion & bloom are turned off

[@InverserPro]

Good work, thanks 👍

[@salvadormarley]

This guy must have a PHD to be able to work out all those nodes. It's not for the average user or VFX artist. It's for serious programmer types.

[@TheDucky3D]

Best compliment I’ve ever received lol

[@salvadormarley]

@@TheDucky3D My pleasure Ducky.

[@user-uo6hz8uu3t]

Lovely stuff

[@Crits-Crafts]

Are we going to ignore where the 2 instances split apart at the end of the loop due to the animation? Haha amazing tutorial though

[@qbrd2611]

Has anyone gotten this to work in Blender 3.4? When I connect the combine XYZ to the Set position, it moves the whole, flat, grid up it doesn't displace the grid at all. Anyone else? EDIT: Doh! messed scaling the vertices up. Adding a Subdivide Mesh also works. (add the subdivide mesh after the triangulate for interesting effects)

[@yukasung]

Perfect

[@SpieleSuchti894]

this animation just has one error, there are holes between the duplicated objects when they move. Homework for your viewers is to close them ;)

[@timbo7694]

can you point me to it? I know with shading you just use the texture coordinate on an empty... but here?

[@SpieleSuchti894]

@@timbo7694 oh i dont know the solution either, i didnt try to solve it

[@CoryStellmack]

@@SpieleSuchti894 Rotate the plane on Z by 180 degrees and scale by x -1

[@kumalsd]

Well that sucks. Everything was fine until the area light (fun part). It doesn't appear. Apparently the scale of the project is too big for it, but I have no idea how to scale it down. And surely if I follow the tutorial step by step with exact measurements it should work just fine. But no, the area light doesnt work. tried turning the Watts up - nothing,

[@toblapastara1103]

in blender 4.1 couldn't recreate the metal texture.

[@MiguelArconadaManteca]

Great tutorial!! However I have a problem. I’m my project it’s not completely seamless as the loop in the wire material does not seem to loop perfectly. I mean it does loop but the texture is not exactly the same in the first object and in the new instance where the animation ends. Does anyone have any clue of what to do to fix it?

[@CoryStellmack]

I'm running into the same issue, have you figured out how to fix it?

[@CoryStellmack]

Ok, I got it, on my wire texture the mapping vector was not plugged into both noise textures causing them to be different when going to the mix node

[@TwistedMinute]

you probly dont care 1 year later but where the 2 noise textures go into the mixer insead of starting at factor 0 start at 1 and end at 0

[@royalcities]

Hey dude. This one looks great! Do you know of any interesting ways to incorporate it so the material can to music? This could make a really cool music video.

[@blakecasimir]

Just bake F curves to any of the interesting parameters in the nodes.

[@redpillblupill]

@ 11:43 - mine looks NOTHING like the video - and I'm DONE for the day.

[@redpillblupill]

I FINALLY figured it out . . . for some reason ambient occlusion was OFF GRRRRRR!

[@nikolaskerameus]

great tutorial! when i play back the animation though, parts of the grid stop being visible, why is that?

[@Chriswasbush]

Hello @Ducky 3D I've been following your tutorials could you help me in the 18:25 part where the part you put something on the timeline because mine dosen't work when I set it to 0 the press I turns to yellow but it wont put on the timeline

[@rabidterryberry]

This is a year later but in case anyone else is wondering. Make sure to hover your mouse over the FAC on the Mix Color Node. It'll have a subtle highlight to let you know you're over it.

[@koffer]

Im in Blender 4 and cant see the geometry node apply to my plane.

[@koffer]

I create a new file and begin again with the tutoriak and begin to work! sometimes there is to much options in blender :(

[@brendankeogh4669]

How could you change the ground to clouds? So the camera is flying through clouds at night?

[@SetMeFree]

is there a way to make the 2nd instance mirror the first plane so I can make it a seamless loop or did I miss a step? The second plane doesn't match perfectly with the first plane's waves.

[@SetMeFree]

nvm, I just had to scale it -1 on the x axis

[@francesco-vb]

how would you make this smooth tho instead of spiky?

[@bibekbhusansahoo9412]

Bro can you tell how to export this model to be used in other softwares like unreal engine without messing the animation or geometry nodes

[@RozzieRozborn]

This is an awesome tutorial but I'm having an issue. I've gotten the camera to loop perfectly but when it gets to the 2nd half of the plane everything but the blue dots disappear. I've been trying for an hour to figure out what's causing this and I'm completely stumped

[@RozzieRozborn]

Nevermind! As said below, updating to the newest version of Blender will fix this!

[@dutchcrimesNL]

yoo idk what happened I tried downloading the free pack, couldn't find them and now the options isn't there anymore😓 Will it come back or any suggestions ?

[@hasdei6651]

Why do all the meshes except for the spheres go invisible at frame 130

[@hasdei6651]

I've went back and I have all my setting exactly the same as Ducky but it is without fail always disabling the metal and wire frame from view

[@davedwire9050]

Does anyone know how to mask Instances to points with an image texture?

[@ronaldw7950]

while the whole project looks really cool and anyone CAN stop the video every few seconds, to mimic the steps - what's the point? I have no clue what each node does, as it rarely gets an explanation - nor could I recreate this afterwards, since I have only copied the steps. Do you explain more in you paid course or does it work there the same? Because I really would like to buy your course, but not if it is like this "tutorial".

[@xxsaru]

Mi brother ..que tú hagas un canal con todos estos videos traducido al audio latino ..sería la veerga mi brother .....y sería una entrada .para más dinero para ti ...ojala lo hagas Mi brother

[@multigamer99.]

What is name of this softwere?

[@licnex]

havent you done the same exact thing but with a instances on points node

[@TheDucky3D]

Yes there is some cross over on those nodes

[@rayt5788]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👽👽

[@tarazz]

Why my materials look so flat compate to yours? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaGVc2maj66Firs

[@tarazz]

aha! because i had ambient occlusion & bloom turned off

[@zetta6656]

Cat.

[@koendekanter]

First

[@thomascarpenter5979]

I used this tutorial and made a music video out of it at kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYislY1sd8d_frc

[@ajibolafagebo3176]

Watched it and it's cool🙂 Really cool. Great work. PS: Also commented on that video too🙃

[@ClickPulse]

you could make it even more interesting by making the movement of the planes react to the f-curves of the song!

[@weads2]

Тут есть Русские?

[@7Seventythree]

can i get pinned pls? no reason

[@LBPFrost]

lol