Creating a flock of birds in Blender in ~1 minute

Music by: Rafael Krux
Patreon: / louisdumont
Twitter: / louisdumont
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[@Dantti]

You're the real MVP for making both short and long tutorials. Kudos to you!

[@mpjstuff]

Have to play this back at quarter speed to catch all the settings.

[@brandosbucket]

Birds add realism to anything.

[@cr0uchingtiger]

oh this is gonna take me so much longer than a minute :P

[@g-bone5354]

You do some great contributions to this community, thank you so very much

[@MichaelNatale1267]

I appreciated your instruction on making and rigging the birds but wanted to use boids to make the flock. A month later I've come back to utilize your method of attaching them to a displacing icosphere, because the flight was just too random no matter what boid setting I used. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@yrussq]

Love the icosphere trick!

[@syam.k.yenubari]

That's unique approach..

[@FilmSpook]

Many Thanks, again, Louis!! 🙏🏾

[@MrShizzr]

nice and on-point! : ) Hope to see more of these short tutorials 🙌

[@mrtrollcapmaster7442]

Thank you for the tutorial! Keep up with the great work!

[@jvlivehig5971]

Nice presentation! Differentiates from the other two-minute tutorials out there. Like them too, but this is different.

[@jeffg4686]

Love the format for the tutorial.

[@mug4621]

bro I love u

[@nicodela6854]

This is very cool !

[@foruk3853]

Wonderful!

[@sortakalpuyu]

creativity

[@MissSaiko]

my jaw dropped! thanks :)

[@bolli24]

Really great video. I would suggest using shape keys that way you don't have use a rig.

[@mz3063]

Alright you Rascal, you have a new Subscriber!

[@estate0007]

I will try this one first, but very nice service to have a fallback option, just in case 👍

[@athmos5869]

I WAS WAITING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS ON KZbin THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY DREAMS COME TRUE ! I LOVE WHAT YOU DOING KEEP GOING MAN YOU SAVED MY LIFE WTF ITS ALL CAPS LOCK SORRY I WONT REWRITE I HAVE NO TIME LEFT ON THIS PLANET UGUGU AZGUUURRRR CHANDEEEE JUPA

[@noelmorenilla1047]

My like was the number 100!

[@Romachka_the_bubi]

Hey, thank you for your tutorial that took me more than a minute to reproduce, it works quite well but i can't manage to make the icosphere (the mesh not the birds) disapear at the end, any tips?

[@RaselerKaj]

Cool stuff , wants more 😍

[@DoGGuY]

im having birds overlapping, is there by any chance a setting ive missed? I'd suggest making slightly longer tutorials where you show all the settings you press clearly, cause i had to rewind and play back at 0.25x multiple times throughout the tutorial which made it take longer than whats necessary. And i dont mean to explain every single little thing you press, but just make it slightly slower pased to the point where its JUST long enough. Others than that, i think its pretty great :)

[@abdelkarimkeraressi1418]

you can do with morph .. blendshape to win more time :P .

[@tcheadriano]

Cool!!!

[@pzez2781]

real cooll

[@dukevera4216]

This looks great, but as there is no step-by-step I'm not able to follow this tutorial :(

[@harald_schubert]

WOW 😳

[@attoinh351]

Hi, why I enable the Show Emitter but the eco sphere still keeps appear?

[@larsfeed]

My particle system does not keep collections together meaning the amature and the mesh of my birds are spawned seperately. Is there a work around for that?

[@larsfeed]

In other words, my amatures with the animation and the rigid mesh object of the bird are places seperately in the cloud

[@adamkeene2942]

@@larsfeed Hey, i just ran into the same problem. I went into the particle system>Render>collection>use count and delete the armatures from the list. Now if I could just get the icosphere to be transparent. No clue at this point.

[@BecauseWeAre]

@@adamkeene2942 Having the same problem here with the icosphere not being transparent

[@BecauseWeAre]

@@adamkeene2942 Nevermind i found it, go to render or viewport display under the physics tab, then you have a box that says "show emitter", you have to uncheck that to hide the icosphere

[@HeartOfGoldDaily]

My bird sizes keep changing, how could I fix it

[@soyuna_IA]

OLIS, SOLO SE CONVIERTN EN PARTICULAS LOS HUESOS DEL AVE EN MI CASO, SIN MATERIAL, ALGUIEN SABE XQ?

[@curtissteen2953]

I freaking love this technique and I use it often. But sometimes, one or more of my birds will disappear and/or reappear randomly, and I can’t figure out why. The frame start/end are correct, the lifetime start/end are also correct. Can anyone relate?

[@ianschultze4636]

yes I understood this

[@MultiArtartart]

epik

[@vivvygipe9605]

Well hot damn

[@franciscodelafruitas9424]

Would love you to update this one with nodes =D

[@ldm]

Good idea, this would be considerably easier with geo nodes.

[@ramonsanchez2512]

i've got it. How do i append to a another project from frame 500 till end ? Must do i move the keyframes of the four birds ? Is that the right way?

[@nikz000]

Awesome but be careful of duplicates

[@jomargalicia]

Can I download??

[@elfone110]

The birds are just falling down. Could you tell me what I did wrong?

[@elfone110]

Okay, I got it. Physics: None. Thanks for your advice.

[@fabioroncal8763]

you missing the sarcastic sense of humor of lazy tutorials style...

[@itsziquetv]

Because he is different

[@shakaama]

NOPE

[@aapu_tv]

it is a very bad tutorial high speed please slow and axplan proper tutorial

[@1so.d383]

nah it's all right like this

[@mustanggox]

nah this is perfect speed. slow down the video if you need to 👍🏾