How I Made a Godzilla VFX scene in Blender

[@RaffoVFX]

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[@huntershull-mf9ug]

Paris in Biollante

[@augustal100]

Excuse me, can you put this in sketch fab

[@RaffoVFX]

@@augustal100 ?

[@augustal100]

@@RaffoVFX putting putting your animation in sketch fab

[@cg_meleegod]

the masking technique is insane dudeeee

[@RaffoVFX]

thats very handy when post-process masking would not work :) Also is good for getting things done as much as possible directly in the 3d scene

[@Primus_075]

My heart says yes but my Laptop says No😂

[@RaffoVFX]

of course a better pc can handle larger resolutions, but every pc can do water simulations. Regardless of the pc, all simulations require patience for the waiting times of the bakes and renders btw

[@Deepakr292]

Hahhah yes same my computer say no 😂😂😂

[@CGYI-zb3ho]

bro I can handle this on my $900 laptop lol

[@bokwuchidezie7657]

​@@RaffoVFX sir true,put every pc? I doubt,I doubt....

[@RaffoVFX]

@@bokwuchidezie7657 lol if you doubt just make your own tests with the default fluid simulator of Blender (which btw is slower than flipfluids )

[@emb_music_official]

"Only 70GB of Disk space" me crying innerly when my project is 2 gb and needs an hour to load. I love this tutorial

[@RaffoVFX]

to be precise: the file itself was less than 1 gb. The cache for the simulation (which is an external folder, separated from the file itself), took 70 gb. Otherwise even I would not have been able to make this scene haha. Even a powerful pc would struggle if the file itself is carrying 70 gb of data inside!

[@BrianMartees]

I had 80 gb of cache in houdini just to simulate some particles for practice, here instead there is water, bubbles, dust etc.. What I understood now since I started learning vfx, and that I have to buy another good 1tb+ ssd only for cache xD

[@RaffoVFX]

@@BrianMarteesI saw some people making fluid simulations that took 700 gb of cache because of the high resolution…

[@JackieGladeanimation]

@@RaffoVFX When I did a Godzilla flip fluid simulation I used 530gb of space 💀. It was a pretty long video though.

[@chrisfox9492]

@@RaffoVFX So do you still need 70+ GB of Ram to render it?

[@ramyissa20]

The holdout gradient mask trick is SICK! good job my man

[@RaffoVFX]

much appreciated, yeah masking like that feels like having the freedom to erase unwanted stuff :)

[@bakacdaz]

Can't belived that Japan send Godzilla to olympic.

[@RaffoVFX]

😂

[@giveawaymonkeystar7584]

The holdout gradient mask trick is awesome. Thank you so much

[@RaffoVFX]

@@giveawaymonkeystar7584 a great thing about it is that is like making a mask that automaticly follows your object :) glad you like it, enjoy !

[@DimensionalXStudios]

I don't even know how I started watching your video, but I don't regret it. Super nice explained and also learned a few more things. Thanks!

[@RaffoVFX]

haha thats so random ! I appreciate your feedback so much, huge thanks:) Enjoy!

[@sebastianodibusti]

Oh bro this masking technique is op, thnx for this kind of tutorial 🙂🙌🏻

[@RaffoVFX]

you are welcome, yeah i love that technique!

[@dennisfassbaender]

BTW: The Addon has the Prepare-Geometry-Nodes functions that automates the process of creating proxy-models :). Great tutorial. Wie love that everybody enjoys working with the FLIP Fluids Addon! And a tip: A new set of compositing tools inside the addon will be published soon!

[@Taz_Olson]

really good, uses a lot of concepts that I use when I do water sims in houdini but in Blender which is awesome

[@RaffoVFX]

Thanks, Houdini artists are amazing

[@mr_budo]

Hi man, after watching this, I have decided to join your Patreon, I can't wait to learn all this cool stuff.

[@RaffoVFX]

@@mr_budo you are welcome, enjoy my videos:)

[@Mashoodbrohi40]

Fantastic analysis! I truly value the straightforward explanations and methods you've shared for crafting lifelike effects in Blender. I'm eager to experiment with these insights. Continue the outstanding effort!

[@RaffoVFX]

appreciated :) more crazy stuff to come in the future for sure!

[@yazankisswany]

what a great concept , such a great inspiration , thank you for sharing ^ ^

[@RaffoVFX]

much thanks, enjoy it!!

[@moeburhanimeez7354]

... I have no words... EDIT: I have the words... I am inspired... THIS IS MOVIE LEVEL OMG IT IS INSANE HOW YOU DID IT IN A FREE SOFTWARE ALL BY YOURSELF THAT IS JUST DOPE!

[@RaffoVFX]

cmon find the words haha! thanks:)

[@moeburhanimeez7354]

@@RaffoVFX Your welcome!

[@RaffoVFX]

@@moeburhanimeez7354 haha nice job xD

[@orcanimal]

Very cool and really great blend of sim

[@RaffoVFX]

its all about blending :) thank!

[@MALLETTE2]

man this tutorial giving me a lot of best friends from now on. just kidding great overview raffo good job.

[@RaffoVFX]

haha you are welcome:)

[@RayOddname]

Una bomba incredibile come sempre! So cool!!

[@RaffoVFX]

grazie mille!:)

[@HtrolRemix]

*I don't see the real-time guide on Patreon, can you upload it?* 😍😍

[@RaffoVFX]

im still working on it, will be out there soon

[@HtrolRemix]

@@RaffoVFX thank u bro 👌👌😘😘

[@zekgang]

They must hired this guy for making movies

[@ivammarchon]

I learn a lot from your videos, thanks man

[@RaffoVFX]

@@ivammarchon Happy to be an inspiration, keep learning and growing!

[@mikkoheiskanen8670]

Amazing! Hollywood level quality

[@RaffoVFX]

Thank you! I see you like dynosaurs and similar :)

[@BrianMartees]

Very cool video, thanks for sharing some techniques, of course it's a pity that this is not a full tutorial. For some reason I always have problems with simulations in blender, so I decided to start learning houdini, but since it is a complex program, and learning will clearly take a lot of time, then I will definitely not abandon blender and will continue learning in it for now)

[@cjeff99]

The software Liquigen is real-time and is now available to purchase I believe? Might be worth looking into 4:10

[@RaffoVFX]

I have Liquigen and is superior with its realtime performance, but not suitable for largescle simulations like this.

[@cjeff99]

@@RaffoVFX interesting, good to know

[@AbdulrahmanGomaa2266]

amazing work

[@RaffoVFX]

thanks!

[@AbdulrahmanGomaa2266]

@@RaffoVFX ❤❤❤

[@Foxy_568-d3w]

We need more Vfx like this

[@MatheusSaraiva-cg9hm]

What is your PC configuration?

[@MarioVicoDrums]

You mean Gojira , isn't? Lol Amazing work bro. Cheers !!!

[@RaffoVFX]

OH!

[@jack4x3]

Godzilla doesnt complain of the big ass rats in the Seine nor about it being too polluted to swim

[@RaffoVFX]

@@jack4x3 godzilla is a real man.. no wait

[@rabidxuan]

Awesome job as always my friend. A while a go I tried a hack for the white water you might want to give it a shot. I turned of the white water in Flip Fluids and created a particle grain simulation in embergen. As you know embergen is really fast at this. I then exported de alembic and with geo nodes and a white shader I added the grain sim. Not perfect but I did help with the lattice trick.

[@RaffoVFX]

Ehy i forgot to mention: a crucial point of the workflow is that we can render particles as points thanks to geometrynodes. Is also one of the main reason why FlipFluids has become much faster and performant now. Now, scattering geometries like little spheres probbaly would make it work with the lattice, but would kill performance and render times. Btw is interesting the idea to combine flipfluid and embergen, will try, thank you :)

[@Destopclover76]

Someone hire this man!

[@RaffoVFX]

appreciate this recommendation haha thanks:)🙏🏻

[@alimkotwal5876]

Awesome ❤

[@RaffoVFX]

Thanks :)

[@eztutor823]

Yo.....this is crazy awesome!!

[@RaffoVFX]

glad you like it, enjoy :)

[@ramonvalencia5719]

"Godzilla in Paris"? I'd watch that movie.

[@RaffoVFX]

hopefully some productors will steal this idea haha

[@Exy_Xyz]

THAT GODZILLA'S DANCE WAS FUNNY ASF

[@RaffoVFX]

I swear thats always the first thing I do when checking up a rigged carachter

[@Promoladka]

Bro what's your PC Specs ?

[@RyomenSukuna163]

Dude, this is like a movie, my dream is to learn this, too bad I don't know how to handle fluids

[@zofo264]

very cool

[@in3432]

Brilliant video, thank you.

[@RaffoVFX]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@alexandrearaujo4256]

Greatings from Brasil, very nice and handy video. Thank’s a lot

[@RaffoVFX]

Glad you like it! Appreciated thank you very much :)

[@jigarthakornugar]

Amazing CGi + VFX ❤❤❤❤❤

[@RaffoVFX]

still nobody complained about how exactly a massive creature like that is hiding on a small river haha

[@jigarthakornugar]

@@RaffoVFX 🤣🤣🤣

[@graphskill850]

Superb, can you reveal the system specifications thanks

[@competitivemizo]

Can i do it in my m3 pro

[@genevaspring8974]

It's awesome 👏! however, the depth of the river at this place is around 5m, so Godzilla would have some difficulties to swim...😅

[@RaffoVFX]

yes you are right! Infact I thought about it, but this had to be done :)

[@marinprs]

Insane one !

[@RaffoVFX]

thanks:) i wish I can also make Godzilla destroying buildings

[@bharatindianagamer]

Interesting

[@RaffoVFX]

thanks :)

[@bakriomar365]

This is amazing .. thanx for sharing

[@RaffoVFX]

appreciated, enjoy:)

[@AwesomOzs]

Is it an add-on or a setting that changes the color of different shapes in Solid mode that lets you differentiate between them? It looks so helpful!

[@RaffoVFX]

default functions of Blender, just explore the solid view shading options and find the "random" color function

[@КириллКорнейчук-е1т]

Good work, I like it

[@RaffoVFX]

glad you like it :)

[@dannybcreative]

Well done! Thank you for sharing.

[@vfxmasterlk]

This is awesome! ❤

[@RaffoVFX]

thank you!

[@artinspiration-w2t]

very nice

[@RaffoVFX]

Thanks

[@AlexisRivera3D]

Do you believe I was doing all the masking inside After Effects? and it looked really bad, your technique is so good! thanks

[@RaffoVFX]

Im still doing both ! major masking in Blender, additional masking for minor fixes in post production :) Thanks

[@Cokey96]

Thank you kind, good sir

[@RaffoVFX]

you are welcome, enjoy:)

[@NickShaheen]

Brilliant. Thank you!

[@RaffoVFX]

ehy thanks man!

[@faotutorial]

Grandissimo! tantissimo valore in questo video, continua così

[@RaffoVFX]

grazie molte :)

[@Vertexvoyager]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@HurairaFilms]

Love this so much information

[@RaffoVFX]

im happy to help, make great use of it!

[@HurairaFilms]

@@RaffoVFX Absolutely

[@ElnatMammadli]

Thanks for tutorials! Is there a step by step video on patreon or not yet?

[@RaffoVFX]

Im posting it this week in multiple parts!

[@blenderdiscord]

This is awesome!

[@EclipseIsMe]

Could totally see this as a scene in a godzilla movie

[@RaffoVFX]

thats a huge praise indeed ❤️

[@crypt0sFX]

Pretty cool dude!

[@RaffoVFX]

much thanks :)

[@sgmazawi]

Awesome!!! why i cant see my whitewater paricles ? i have everything on

[@RaffoVFX]

they are just too small, increase size in the relative modifier

[@prdvfx]

amazing bro .

[@skyr3ssaep]

great informative vid

[@RaffoVFX]

thanks!

[@daleanderson1727]

Magnifique!

[@RaffoVFX]

merci:)

[@SHIVAM.M.S]

Loved the Godzilla sighting at Paris Olympics 🤩 Hey where did you get that Godzilla model, any updates on that? Can I have that model for learning?

[@RaffoVFX]

I found it finally! Here we go, its free www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/animals/reptile/godzilla-2021-ccade9d1-0d1c-478d-b83a-7e4407f93068

[@forocoches6322]

There is a bit of Escherichia coli missing from the scene

[@RaffoVFX]

true that 😆

[@IRDH999]

very helpfull, thanks

[@RaffoVFX]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brycecgi]

Sick bro

[@RaffoVFX]

thanks

[@choko1628]

wow its good

[@RaffoVFX]

thanks:)

[@austin-91]

Godzilla has some good dance moves 😂

[@RaffoVFX]

he is ready for tiktok

[@rayanmagneto]

Awesome man

[@RaffoVFX]

thanks!

[@cgimadesimple]

amazing

[@RaffoVFX]

Thanks

[@thedrawhawk]

Sick!!!!

[@valenciasainz]

Godzilla will single handedly remove all the shit from Paris rivers.

[@RaffoVFX]

and then atomic breath all of it on space

[@aldb0309]

09:37 How do you invert masking area?

[@RaffoVFX]

swap the 2 shaders in the mix shaders node

[@kaleabspica8437]

its that easy or am i just convincing myself it is?

[@RandomLabGames]

what is your pc settings?

[@ChristiaanEttema]

Amazing work! Love it. Where did you find the Godzilla model?

[@RaffoVFX]

Finally found it again! Is a free model from cgtrader Here we go www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/animals/reptile/godzilla-2021-ccade9d1-0d1c-478d-b83a-7e4407f93068

[@Michael-e8y3u]

Bro make more vfx tutorials often

[@RaffoVFX]

I make regularly vfx tutorials in my patreon!

[@gojiraptor754]

what settings did you use for the simulation?

[@MolediesOflife]

hi in ur patreon with Level: STANDARD, can see tutorial?

[@RaffoVFX]

will be in tier 2,3 and 4, not in 1 . It will be published in a few days

[@RedRazorDuck]

I need to remember this masking technique, especially since in the past I used a boolean to do a similar 💀

[@RaffoVFX]

Yeah right is like making booleans but better and faster!

[@Foxy_568-d3w]

Amazing plz I make more

[@V4N190]

exactly how i remember Under Paris went

[@RaffoVFX]

@@V4N190 lol under paris!

[@ganerot147]

Latex modifier ?

[@RaffoVFX]

@@ganerot147 Latex is the english word for Lattice

[@Mionwang]

Yeah that might as well happen to France now

[@RaffoVFX]

accurate 🤣

[@kieronestrada6402]

Nice!!! Can Flip Fluids simulate dust fx?

[@RaffoVFX]

no, it has dust particles included in the fluid, but not dust itself. Embergen instead handles dust greatly! Thanks Kieron!

[@kieronestrada6402]

@@RaffoVFX nice!!! I will have some time soon, looking forward to working with Embergen and learning from the King of Blender destruction!!!

[@RaffoVFX]

@@kieronestrada6402 Let me know absolutly! Great stuff ahead:)

[@CromoPaleoShow]

Guy just casually rocking the first quantum computer

[@ElmoPlayss]

godzilla is way bigger than the Eifeltower so your size is wrong but other than that cool cinematic

[@rowdyboysp.a.p3776]

thanks bro GODZILLA model thank you

[@RaffoVFX]

@@rowdyboysp.a.p3776 you tried it? how cool is it!

[@shreyasgadhe5859]

That is almost movie level stuff

[@RaffoVFX]

thanks, for sure i can do better:)

[@xinversive]

Where you find the environment model from?

[@RaffoVFX]

@@xinversive its real

[@xinversive]

@@RaffoVFX no I mean it’s a google scan?

[@RaffoVFX]

its real

[@AnkushVerma-l2r]

ok so this is not tutorial video..he explain his animation breakdown.

[@RaffoVFX]

if it was a tutorial, I would have said that in the title.

[@PixelForgeLab]

Ma quanto sei veneto :D ? nice breakdown !

[@RaffoVFX]

haha grazie:) di dove sei?

[@PixelForgeLab]

@@RaffoVFX diciamo che sono mezzo veneto e mezzo siciliano ;)

[@Brandon-oo3if]

Since then Godzilla has a bad fever

[@RaffoVFX]

@@Brandon-oo3if and vomit too 😆

[@CGYI-zb3ho]

giv it a darkblue LUT filter. u have a blockbuster scene

[@RaffoVFX]

thought about it, but I really wanted to hav shiny colors sinche we are in summer lol, they are not coherent with the dramatic feeling of the video but whatever

[@iTube4U]

the tutorial is 10x morer awsome than the result, no offense

[@RaffoVFX]

I agree lol 🍻

[@Deepakr292]

16 gb ram rtx2060 enough this type of project then i join your patron