Create an Easy Sci-Fi Environment For Beginners (Blender Tutorial)

In this Blender tutorial I will walk you through a simple but very cinematic looking design, enjoy.
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[@sandy_claws7467]

What I like is that these are easy to follow tutorials, short, amazing end products, and provide techniques that can be used in other projects. Its nice to be able to do the entire tutorial in one or two nights instead of having to go through some 24 part series

[@Wernimations]

Honestly , Thank you so much for these tutorials. I've just started blender a few days ago and learnt so much from your videos.

[@thekey999]

What an amazing tutorial man. Been on blender only a week and have been just trying to get through the UI and comprehension, and being able to make something like this gives me a ton of confidence to continue. Thank you so much.

[@Hindustaniviralvideo]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought it would be a hard tutorial with a lot of shading thing but it was just an easy one with almost no shading Keep up the good work man

[@PsalmLab]

Honestly the best tutorial ever! Thanks for making this! I never thought I could do anything in Blender until I following your tutorials. So thank you for making a dream in VFX come true.

[@vpreneurs]

Ok I'll be honest here. When I first watched his video, I didnt like it much because I didnt understand blender. But now that I do, I can tell you that your tutorials are absolute gold. Absolute gold I tell you. I'm going to binge watch all these tutorials and try them all hopefully. But anyway, I rate you 10/10 for such great tutorials :)

[@bobyalex3d]

Thank you Dude!! Because of you i've started understanding way more how to work with blender! I've tried several other people, but your way of explaning and simplifying things help me a lot!

[@YKUTT4]

Me: *tries this* My pc: want pixels ?

[@SawadaIce]

This is quite basic but the end result is just amazing, and i learn a lot of new tricks too, great job!

[@babusupari6910]

Thanks for creating a youtube channel i have seen lots of tutorials they just say do this that and don't show exact steps but yours is the perfect one. I have followed your tutorials and made many scenes exactly as u shown and it turned out perfect, thanks again

[@matthewcs490]

6:14 you could just go to the camera settings and set the passepartout in the viewport display to 1. Just an easier way to isolate the camera view.

[@Jacqueezy]

thanks

[@matthewcs490]

@@Jacqueezy Sure!

[@matthewcs490]

@MEMES REACT No prob!

[@MarkHewis]

Ducky 3D . You really saved me when I hit a Blender rut. Love the idea of different noise textures one for bumps and one for colouration. Nice use of cycles too.

[@medhavimonish41]

it rendered so fast here, while my pc is heating

[@pvidhyatharan6427]

At least your pc is heating. My pc just turns off 😁

[@Fafko]

Dude ur probably rendering with cycles which is pretty powerful engine meaning ur cpu has gotta be utelized to its max power in order to render. Ofc it’s gonna heat and fans are gonna come on

[@medhavimonish41]

@@Fafko this was the first time when I used blender, at that time I didn't know that my pc is not using GPU but only cpu because it's default is CPU 😬. But later I fixed it. But still it took me about 10 minutes of GPU to render 1 frame. So I rendered it in low resolution of 480x 640

[@zwatchxd9175]

@@medhavimonish41you can render cycles using google collab, my render went from 32 hours to 3 hours

[@medhavimonish41]

@@zwatchxd9175 nice , I will search how to

[@Web3DArtist]

instead of typeing F3 render region, you can just press B in object mode and it will do the same thing

[@supersidgale]

IIRC the " B " shortcut is just a box select, not a "set rendered view ". I can't even find set rendered view in 2.9 though lol Edit: It's "Ctrl B"

[@Kallyn]

Huh... I wasn’t quite sure why you were doing some things in the beginning but BOY was that final render nice

[@yoya90150]

Ducky, do you want to make a mini sci-fi movie? Whit your skills at blender, you can do whatever you want. ❤️

[@pikahcheww]

yeah

[@yesman.]

yea

[@YKUTT4]

Yes Man ur name and pfp and this comment. Wow

[@robertsontirado4478]

Hey I’m making a sci-fi with blender and practical effects please check my KZbin channel and like friends. It’s called Andreas Grey The Alluvial.

[@bonemoney4845]

This dude is inspiring so many future modelers and 3D artists. Keep it up!

[@yashgangurde1655]

The lighting looks like something from The Whisper quest in Destiny 2

[@supersidgale]

Yes! Obligatory "Eyes up guardian"

[@AzoXDesignTV]

Dude i know its not much but i just wanna say thank you so much for everything you do, im so glad i found your channel and the tutorial you offer

[@murasama3387]

i finished it with other colors that looked very good and without a chartcher but i like it so much

[@zainul7787]

I got Intel 5500 Graphics Card and a working Notebook, planning to Android Applications. I pray for you to complete you 1 Million Subscribers as soon as Possible..... Once again Thank you.....

[@bensdover2396]

every tutorial is so straight forward and simple to follow

[@theriverstyx100]

You made me love blender again and will follow all your tutorials mate thank you.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

You are really inspiring me to kick my butt into learning Blender.

[@justinholden5536]

Thank you so much have been stuck for a long time trying to find a project.. Loved doing this

[@fertriguero91]

So happy with this tutorial 😎 i did copy all the steps but idk what happened to my glass sphere 😂😂😂 will post mine in ig and tag your cool tutorial ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ktokeru2436]

Ducky,I'm Blender beginner. I tried this. It was so much fun. Thank you.

[@fahimkamalahmed3544]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial. Learned some cool things. Keeping this in my saved playlist for later reference.

[@leecaste]

can you make a complicated scene for non beginners?

[@CreativeSteve69]

I second this notion

[@kobaltmyst8074]

@@CreativeSteve69 motion*

[@keshinro...6979]

Yep

[@benromano8046]

Kobalt Myst no it’s notion

[@kobaltmyst8074]

@@benromano8046 it's really not, though.

[@samambrotv]

Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. Your video style really demystifies Blender and reminds me to stop overthinking a scene.

[@horizon6424]

I'm watching this video from Japan. This video is great!

[@cloudy0111]

This guy deserves some bucks.

[@bentheasianman]

"and we're gonna subdivide that 100 times." my computer: we're done here

[@alilikemango]

THX BRO1 LOVED THE ADVICE! MY mom was pretty impressed

[@cptray-steam]

Works in Blender 2.79, mostly. The only thing I couldn't find was Principled Volume or whatever it was, so I used Volume Scatter under the world node thing.

[@farisshaarawi7506]

Hey duck.i love your videos. And especially your loops. I hope you do more of them and keep up the good work

[@officialrhythmicthoughts]

holy shit this is so simple yet it looks so good

[@raghavgupta1118]

Ducky- this is gonna look the same in cycles and eevee *me who uses workbench*- dammit!

[@MatichekYoutube]

why is that step very important - "1:00" - apply scale? what that do in this case. Noise is very small in my case - how big is the inital plane - i did same - "S + 8" - but then noise texture is really really small. I don't know what is the problem. Edit 3: Ah, it is Strength in Displace modifier to fix height of the peaks 😁. ALSO in Displace - Coordinate had to be "UV" otherwise it doesn't look the same, idk why. Edit 4: Had to setup that "box - principle volume material to Density to 0.001" in order to get any light. EDIT 4: Mixamo importing fbx doesn't work properly on blender 3.3 - skeleton is t pose but mesh is all messed up on the floor

[@mateusborges745]

New Ducky Video = Instant Like

[@agentplush]

u need to press tab and go back to object mode again for the post to apply it works for me now.

[@casualartist4202]

yay, a genuine scifi scene! no glowing primitives and nothing!

[@startupartisan]

Big fan of your work! Please continue to do what you do!

[@germanrudecindo3382]

i'm learning a lot from your videos, will join into patreon soon. thank you!

[@RealNick3D]

I love your videos, they are the best! Keep up the good work! :)

[@dwarf9151]

Thank you man Love you.

[@ZirBeatOfficial]

Damn, akways that i see a nice thing in r/blender i search for a tutorial for it and ends being you!

[@randomuser1846]

real legends was in this live

[@calebboyer3838]

You should have seen my face when I saw the finished render.

[@성연김-d7i]

simple and cool. best tutorial for beginners

[@IndustrialPlasticsNanaimo]

Nice and simple. Will be trying this one. Thank you.

[@Ed-jd5hl]

I appreciate u man, my type of art 🔥

[@tyrushouse6766]

GO DUCKY GO !!!! YOU ROCK MAN

[@harshitrao8729]

Omg u give heart to everyone I also want one . Love from India

[@sumo9517]

This is totally wicked! Very nice.

[@srikrishna1283]

Thanks brother , looking for a sci-fi street tutorial.

[@1voyagerr]

i dont know how you get your glass to look like that, and almost warp edges, but if i make mine too transparent using the colour ramp, there is just a huge darkish area in the middle of my ball

[@pirateshadesproductions]

I saw a video to fix that. Can't remember it now, but try rendering it in cycles or use viewport cycles to see it. In eevee I think that you have to go into screen space reflections or something.... I can't remember. Oh you have to turn on refraction in um... 🤔 in the material section I think it is there.

[@raccban]

this is awesome!!! my pc sounds like a jet engine but its worth it

[@antoniodejesussandovalespi5110]

insane tutorial man

[@HerusWorld]

My laptop didn't explode from Cycles this time 😭 thank you! very cool tut

[@3d_hive295]

Beautiful tutorial thank you !

[@Mthandeki]

its gorgeous

[@DBARNZY805]

This was awesome. Thank you.

[@aniekanekarika7499]

yes

[@alexdib3915]

Great video man, thank you!

[@matthewt5730]

That was a really great video, thanks a lot. :)

[@lilianprym3286]

This is great, thank you, very helpful.

[@iCydiaHelper19]

excellent tutorial even for me as a complete beginner! thank you :)

[@Goomiludek]

awesome job!, but I made all step by step and my cube volume not working like yours, in render all is black in Cycles engine, maybe you know where it can be a problem?

[@00sathya00]

yeah same problem

[@rexwinz]

Same but I think I found the problem. You should check your material tab and make sure mountains same material. and check to cube material cube material should be default material.

[@johunhao]

I had the same problem. Apply scale before making the material and it will work. And if everything is black make density to 0.1.

[@Goomiludek]

@@johunhao I found a solution to this problem, sorry I didn't write because the video is quite old and I didn't think it would be useful to anyone. the scale of the objects is smaller at a certain point, we should see the "direction ball" of area light in a same size like of on the video, then the whole structure of the volume and the light makes sense otherwise it would have to be ten times larger, and also drawing objects in the camera increased. anyway in one sentence, instead of scaling plane 8 times at the beginning, lets scale it only 2 or something, and finally great tutorial forgot to say thanks :)

[@hubachecka]

For me, the problem was I created the cube with the volumetric the wrong way around. I had to flip the normals, so the normals are actually not inside but outside the scene. Then it worked fine.

[@jamiyana4969]

Thank you very much for your video! What key did you used to see the camera view at 2:15? Edit: I found it. It's 0 on Numpad. But it didn't work, because if you don't have numpad, you gotta enable num keys at your preference section --> input --> enable num key. (I'm working on Macbook )

[@codbros432]

there is a camera icon on the right u can use that

[@vartanpanossian7331]

Hey man, great video as always. Do you do some editing in the compositing after you finish rendering? If so could you also include it in a video?

[@supersidgale]

I know I'm not Ducky, but if he does do compositing stuff, it's probably a denoise setup. Here: 1) Go to "View render properties" (The one that looks like three or four photos on one-another). 2) Find "Denoise data" under "Passes" then "Data". Tick denoising data to be on. 3) In the compositor click "Use nodes" at the top. Add a "Denoise" node. 4) Put "Image" into "Image", "Noisy Normal" into "Normal", and "Noisy Albedo" into "Albedo" That should be it! This will denoise your final render a lot better than if you just tick the denoise option under "Render " in the engine properties. (This could be different now in 2.9 though because of the new denoise engines. It might be better to use the denoise option but with OptiX or OpenImageDenoise, but I'm not too sure yet) Edit: He says that he doesn't denoise near the end, but it's still a good thing to use for other scenes

[@icemanff23]

Thanks so much for this one appreciate it heaps

[@jaseperi]

Awesome tutorial thank you

[@georges8408]

nice tutorial.. thank you.. excellent for beginners.. One question : why you use the subdivide modifier ? if we use the subdivide (in edit mode) isn't enough ??

[@lavrnce]

Amazing video once again.. love it and thank you :D

[@nakadebandhu]

please make a tutorial for organic things like plants and trees. btw, you are awesome!

[@ogungbeolumide3105]

Bro please a video for a medium end pc on eeve

[@karlament]

thank you

[@squinklez4806]

Good tutorial. Thanks

[@kingbram8965]

holy crap this really helped thank uu

[@eazzband]

Thank u for this tutorial

[@lyrixlp8245]

Hey, in my case everything is very blury and you can't see the character and the glass ball because it is too dark

[@kirkschwarz]

Mate, it’s sounds great… but slooooow down! Call out the buttons you’re clicking, point out and name anything you’re doing. I installed it this afternoon, I’m a beginner, you’re taking through it as if I know way more than I do!

[@startupartisan]

This is amazing!

[@Hazem1golden]

It work i learn too much from this tut still study and try do alot with same way i make cave withthat tut

[@ralphmoreau2768]

excellent

[@zyn_108]

thanks for the tutorial

[@AshwinNarayananS]

Great

[@VJFREEVIDEO]

Wow nice work!!!!!♥

[@murasama3387]

can someone tell me why it makes a t-pose even if i downloaded the walking one?

[@arnavmaharshi9280]

Just awesome 👍👍👍👍👍

[@jericho4298]

What buttons are you clicking dude? Do we have to figure it out ourselves? I thought this is for beginners?

[@yellowaprium2237]

Nice!

[@pranavmohata4044]

when I tried to subdivide the sphere to 10, my computer crashed so pls try not to crash your pc while making the thing my progress is lost now :(

[@DennisRyu]

Always wonder why the default for the node wrangler is not set to object since about 90% of the time that is what is used. At least I use it mostly that way and many tutorials too.

[@kumarthecowboy]

Please make a video on intersteller type Black hole

[@tuannguyen1210]

hello Ducky. Please guide me as material for diamond cycles render . Please......

[@astronymos9458]

Thank you so much

[@leewilliamson9511]

Question: If we follow along the tutorials are we allowed to sell our own ones? Say if we adapt it etc? Just wanted to ask.

[@kovacsattila8993]

If you want some noise in your render, never do that with low sample count because that just looks horrible. First make a clear denoised image and add grain after in post. Believe me it will look much better in this way. Of course you can do it with the lazy way, but if you do with the other way your effort will pay off.