Grow Venom Tendrils Over Any Object with Ivy-Gen - Blender Quick Tutorial

Learn how I created a Venom inspired goopy tendril effect for my VFX project in 5 minutes.
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Venom model: Himanshu Pandey

[@busyVea]

Emotional turmoil is right lol I think I've cried more over blender projects than all my ex's combined. So cool!

[@zevac]

i love how the intro was badass af and then instantly became calm in a split second

[@zevac]

@hjf4a2 you need some help, bud

[@Mahindra_XUV7X0]

@@zevac that user deleted his comment, i am curious what did that hj4a2 wrote, do you remember?

[@SNFX__]

KZbin recommended me after i search many time to make Venom great tutorial!

[@Graphicalninja]

Thanks!

[@cr0uchingtiger]

Here's how all ivy generators work: You add the ivy, it looks like a tiny blob You change the settings randomly just to play around, you get a tiny blob You change the gravity from 0.1 to 1, you get a tiny blob gravity from 1 to 100, you get a tiny blob Adhesion from 0.5 to 500, you get a tiny blob Primary weight from 0.5 to 2, you get a tiny blob Spam all the settings, you get a tiny blob

[@Glam3DD]

Great Tutorial! Everything clear with a successful result.

[@Markoholtze]

now thats pretty cool

[@saivardhan5774]

I think you should put 'venom" in title of video title because I am positive that most people use that keyword to search for such tutorial Also this is amazing

[@Graphicalninja]

That’s a great point, thank you :)

[@unicornhuntercg]

@@Graphicalninja include symbiote effect too

[@scottlee38]

Awesome venom effect! Wish there were more of these!

[@kingdesignerr]

Subbed 👍🏼

[@ScientObject40]

Ok, that was amazing, you definitely have a new sub!

[@m_tth_w9647]

Use some noise, pointiness, musgrave, voronoi and subsurface to varied the roughness, colour etc to make it look more interesting

[@PrintSarmad]

how

[@m_tth_w9647]

​@@PrintSarmadplug em into colour ramps and those into subsurface, normal etc

[@WelshDrag]

This was is so helpful. I am a noob but with blender. But this was so helpful. I am like thinking to my self does it animate when connecting too armiture... I shall try this out :D

[@Graphicalninja]

Glad it was helpful - you’d have to use a surface deform or mesh deform modifier to skin it to something

[@thestormingbot1946]

Thankyou bro i need this soo much and it's soo much help to my work too☺😁

[@MDksa123]

more tutorials like this please

[@ukmonk]

Thank you! nice tutorial!

[@Taki7o7]

Very nice Video. I love to play around with Ivy & this was really helpful. Many many thanks ♥

[@SonnyNguyen]

This is epic bro! Very easy to make and effective effect!

[@nayority5439]

Nice

[@sudipto30]

cool stuff

[@niklastsalkos]

sick

[@lukdra]

tx video gracias video suscribo

[@NISHITEDITS]

Simple but powerful!!!

[@joegideon8461]

Great tutorial, well done

[@biancaglaser]

nice!

[@tcheadriano]

Really cool!!! Thanks!

[@zboy303]

Great stuff.

[@ngv9]

This is helpful, thanks!

[@Bernandez4139]

Cool easy effect explained in a reasonable amount of time. L&S'd!

[@violettracey]

Thanks!

[@Fleischkopf]

nice and short. thanks ;)

[@HyperdriveSoundsystem]

MUCHO GRACIOS SENIOR RITA

[@armalik11]

Hey thanks for a brilliant yet easy tut. however cant seem to have them grow down instead of up. would appreciate your help :)plzzzz

[@Neuromindart]

I'm also trying to figure this out.

[@lukdra]

wau gracias

[@BawonoSA173]

Life saver, that's who you are But Question: is that Ivy add-on was already a built in for 3.0 version?

[@Graphicalninja]

Ivy-Gen is built in, you might have to enable it in preferences

[@BawonoSA173]

@@Graphicalninja got it And by the way, is the ivy passive? Because I tried moving the obstacle object, the branching/tethering doesn't follow the object

[@Graphicalninja]

@@BawonoSA173 you could parent it to the object, but no it won’t automatically stick. So anything with an animated rig that deforms wouldn’t work. The problem is they are curve objects and I haven’t found a way in blender to skin them to an object that deforms. Maybe geometry nodes 🤨

[@BawonoSA173]

@@Graphicalninja I saw someone actually make the geo-node for that exact purpose: kzbin.info/www/bejne/inKwimZ8m6p3bMk But it's using seperate object to instance the vines, and I'm still wondering how to replace that with sticky thing geometry, because I saw the guy also make the Carnage tether geonode as well, but didn't elaborate: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppK0h2yHhN18qtE

[@BawonoSA173]

@@Graphicalninja BTW can shrink-wrap mod be used for the vines to make it really stick?

[@EphalYT]

I couldnt find the ivy tool 😢

[@webmasterdevon9070]

My plugin says to update it when I add a new ivy, but nothing happens when I click the update option. How do I fix this?

[@Galactic_Gmg]

couldnt figure out the curve part

[@AA-hg7xq]

Nicely done! Can one duplicate this to add new source? Seed?

[@Graphicalninja]

Since it’s ivy-gen, you’d have to generate a new ivy and apply the same settings. There is a random seed in ivy gen, and an update ivy button in the 3D viewport, so you could iterate that way

[@talk1143]

Can you please tell me how I can use this in character animation? It just places itself on a single frame and doesn't move according to the animation

[@Graphicalninja]

Check out my venom morph tool video, I describe how to apply the effect to a static object and then attach it to an animated object using mesh deform modifier

[@Zaqariyah]

00:26 - "right-click>smooth" is for wimps? 😄

[@Graphicalninja]

Maximum effort! Jk, I may have had a brain fart and forgotten it was there lol

[@akuamceachron90]

Great video. Can a crack/surface crack texture be applied to this method? I ask because I’m trying to find a way to animate surface cracks in a similar way.

[@Graphicalninja]

You could use this as a Boolean to subtract from a ground object potentially 🧐 might have to do a volume remesh which gets heavy

[@emr3d]

Ok but can u make it cover the whole thing?

[@Graphicalninja]

Yes I was able to totally cover a face with them, I just kept moving the source around and making more until they were everywhere. But I also duplicated the face, put the venom material on it, and wiped it on after the tendrils for more coverage

[@gminerr]

how can you then attach the ivy to a character lets say they are moving, the ivy doesnt move with the character, what do implement for it to move with the characters movements? that have been rigged.

[@Graphicalninja]

Look into surface deform or mesh deform modifiers

[@JosuRibeiro]

That looks good but my question is, how do you animate the leaves?! Forget about the whole "venom tendrils" thing, I want to animate ivy growth, but following what you're doing will essentially erase the leaves... what do I do lol

[@Graphicalninja]

That would be a different tutorial lol, but there are ivy geo nodes projects by other creators that look cool. It would be another layer of instancing curves for stems and instancing leaves, then somehow linking leaf growth to the rest of the system. Once you learn the techniques you can do all kinds of procedural stuff reusing the same principles :)

[@JosuRibeiro]

@@Graphicalninja I've seen other videos but nothing came close to the look I wanted. In fact yours was the closest thing to it. I appreciate your feedback tho, I'll keep that project in the corner as I keep learning Blender and eventually I'll get back to it.

[@Graphicalninja]

@@JosuRibeiro I am currently working on a new growth system that allows branching, check out my latest KZbin short. It’ll come out as a tutorial, but I can’t say when lol ;)

[@StrayVertex]

Super neat. Here, have a sub! ;)

[@Graphicalninja]

Thanks for the sub!

[@itsonlyus4584]

Hey @Graphical Ninja, Quick Question. How do I get the Ivy to attatch to the surface of my subject ?

[@MagicCookie2747]

hey, youve gotta move the 3d curser to the point you want the ivy to spawn

[@samaradel4]

How do I apply it to a text that appears to me in the ivy tool? It must be an object, not a text😔

[@Graphicalninja]

You can convert text to mesh 👍

[@atlanteum]

So far, I have been unable to find any examples that apply Ivy-Gen to a deforming or animated object. If you could help a complete Blender Noob... do you know if that can be done, or does the tool work only on static meshes?

[@Graphicalninja]

You should look into the surface deform and mesh deform modifiers 👌

[@kido5489]

👍

[@terrible_create]

спс

[@hsyncnbayraktar]

is this works with animated models?

[@Nonaxnj]

how do i make it move with the model? like a spider man model

[@Graphicalninja]

I like where you’re going with this lol. Yes there is a way to skin the tendrils to a rigged mesh that I just discovered. You’d have to duplicate your Spider-Man mesh and put a displace modifier on it to push the faces outward, making sure it envelopes the tendrils completely. Then you can apply a mesh deform modifier to the tendrils and use the displaced mesh as the source. It’s not perfect but it works!

[@Nonaxnj]

@@Graphicalninja crashed my blender lol

[@Graphicalninja]

@@Nonaxnj it’ll get heavy with a lot of polygons or curve points. You’ll want to make sure your deform object isn’t subdivided much and maybe simplify the ivy curves as well if it’s still too heavy.

[@designforever-p6v]

Bro...which application used to this....

[@skulwandadoesblender]

It's called Blender, completely free if you want to try it.

[@nayority5439]

What is the name of this app🙏🙏🙏

[@Graphicalninja]

Blender

[@bloodinthedust]

how can i make it cover the entire object

[@Graphicalninja]

Not so easy with this one, but check out my venom morph video I have a procedural system that makes it possible

[@ShxpxRok]

after a while the ivy started branching off of the object and then the tool stopped working all together mmm

[@Graphicalninja]

I also made this effect with geometry nodes in another video, more robust system

[@RidiculouslyHarshCommenter]

Why i cant animate it?

[@itsonlyus4584]

Nevermind my boa, I figured it out 👍

[@Graphicalninja]

Good to hear! I missed your earlier comment, but I’m curious how you solved it. I was able stick it to a rigged mesh using a mesh deform modifier

[@itsonlyus4584]

@@Graphicalninja It was actually pretty simple. It turns out when I was applying the Ivy Gen, I didn’t have the head selected, lol

[@NourOsama-vt7zq]

How to link the ivy generator in an animated object

[@Graphicalninja]

Try the surface deform modifier

[@fareed006]

can you do grow grass on skin ?

[@SpookySquid14]

Could I export this to use it for a game, or would that not work?

[@Graphicalninja]

Not sure if you could get it exported with animation, but you could try exporting an alembic. Or convert to geo and export fbx but that would be static

[@TheFuzzypuddle]

please and thank you.

[@darknemessis6880]

How do I do this in Maya?

[@Graphicalninja]

I’m not sure, 🤨 I’m more familiar with 3ds max which also has an ivy plugin. But I’m sure it’s possible

[@sujikapuangngern4361]

help me pls, I don't have ivy addon in preferences

[@Graphicalninja]

Are you filtering for ‘All’ addons?

[@sujikapuangngern4361]

@@Graphicalninja oh, thank you so much.

[@Omkar3324]

can you for real quick share the material setup for this?

[@Graphicalninja]

I want to do a follow-up tutorial with the material setup yes

[@shaydertv7447]

Non d applica stpl

[@boberzragadik]

tutoril pls

[@МихаилЩёголев-щ9я]

-RAM

[@nikitaelizarov7444]

2000 late. If it's not geonodes, you don't deserve clicks. These are the new rules.

[@lifetube2214]

Nice

[@mrCetus]

This is helpful, thanks!