How to Make Cinematic Energy Blasts in Blender - Iridesium

[@edwardwestbury]

Not only your visual fix but your sound design too is insane

[@thxt_guy_mike7305]

I like your tutorials and stuff but can you turn on your keys or something cuz you move fast and it makes it hard to understand hpw you get some stuff like shortcuts and etc

[@detroiter4eva]

Yap, he moves too fast. I'm going to try to understand this tutorial. He lost me on one of his tutorials. And I really wanted to learn what he was teaching. But he was unclear on a few things.

[@creativestudio4873]

@@detroiter4eva just slow the video down in the video settings

[@kendarr]

These are a bit more advanced then begginers tutorials, but as a rule of thumb on smoke Sim, just press every button and drag all sliders to see what they do

[@helloitsokyrago]

The texture will look more beautiful if you connect a color ramp node between BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and EMISSION and then a WAVE TEXTUREnode between BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and COLOR RAMP and then customize everything like adding colors in color ramp i would prefer black , red , cyan and white colors respectively . And at ease instead of linear , customize the size of wave texture , detail etc.

[@theidiotking]

Can you recreate this for blender 2.9? I'm having a bunch of problems with it and it would be really great if you did that

[@chrismalcheski9232]

It all breaks down for me on the smoke system. Go to flow control, change mesh to particle system, no particle systems list. Blank selection box. I can specifically assign the particle system to the smoke domain but then all the particles generate from the domain bounds.

[@AnsonSavage]

I love the direction of your tutorials, with explosions and shockwaves and all that! This is exactly what I need to be learning right now. Keep up the great work!

[@happycakess]

"Alright now I am turning the initial velocity up" Turns down to 0.2

[@PseudOnik]

Hello, are there any ideas for implementing the effect of a smooth absorption of particles?

[@YarHarFD]

I consider myself an intermediate user and this was very easy to follow. A bit unorganized but everything was good nonetheless. I made up for the Aftereffects by making a more complex material for the smoke domain and in the compositor.

[@kendarr]

You're the demographic of this video, me too

[@KingKong19100]

Great tutorials, though I wish you'd show how to do stuff in only Blender and then the After FX stuff afterwards. Like, I wanna know how to color the blasts in Blender since I don't have After FX. Y'know? But I love your channel.

[@Sandra-hc4vo]

don't have after effects either, but nice tutorial nonetheless.

[@ciaranpmryan]

I also use After Effects, but I’m sure in Blender you can just bring it into the compositor and add or screen an RGB node over the top of that render and then add a Glare node and a vector blur node afterwards.

[@inventorbrothers7053]

Use bloom for the glow, it's a part of the eevee 2.8 update I think, but I know it's in the current version whether that's it or not.

[@Luka1180]

@@ciaranpmryan You should be able to make the 3D smoke simulation have a glow and different colors right there in the 3D space too. I know this is possible, but not how. Prolly some nodes thing. I think this is how they did spell blasts in Harry potter, for example. Making simulations combining fluids and particles and coloring them and having the glow right in the VFX software. Maybe in Houdini or The Foundry. I always feel like the physics and appearance of the kind of "smoke" those movies and other he Hollywood movies with magic effects like them look way different though. How do they make it look so not like smoke???

[@helloitsokyrago]

Yes there is option , Add COLOR RAMP node between BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and EMISSION Then add WAVE texture between BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and COLOR RAMP And then as usual add colors to color ramp , i would suggest you BLACK RED CYAN WHITE And then adjust some settings in wave texture like size , distortion etc.

[@mugenanimations2343]

It sucks that I can't use this with a transparent background. I want to be able place over an animation.

[@DerekElliott]

Just found your channel -- super sweet stuff

[@kendarr]

Right? Jesus it's awesome, yours is too

[@HardcoreMontages]

Would have been nice to see how to colour it within Blender.

[@helloitsokyrago]

Yes there is option , Add COLOR RAMP node between BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and EMISSION Then add WAVE texture between BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and COLOR RAMP And then as usual add colors to color ramp , i would suggest you BLACK RED CYAN WHITE And then adjust some settings in wave texture like size , distortion etc.

[@helloitsokyrago]

Well people r complaining about the speed , but it dont look like beginner friendly tutorial

[@spectrum1448]

For the ppl complaining about pacing. This is a video. You can rewind. You won't get anywhere with your attitude. Thanks for the free explanation btw

[@johnathanrichardson]

also theres an option to play at 3/4, 1/2 and 1/4 speed as well

[@ruud195]

@@johnathanrichardson And internet :P

[@SpositoProductions]

Thank you for your inspiring tutorial. I am ready for an awesome hyperspace jump^^

[@chikaBurton]

Very nice tutorial, except for the part about doing coloring in After Effects, so I'll try to recreate that colored stuff by using Compositor...

[@helloitsokyrago]

Yes there is option , Add COLOR RAMP node between BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and EMISSION Then add WAVE texture between BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and COLOR RAMP And then as usual add colors to color ramp , i would suggest you BLACK RED CYAN WHITE And then adjust some settings in wave texture like size , distortion etc.

[@4stoneblasters619]

I like the visuals, but where did you get the sound effects???

[@schmeggels258]

jesus stop taking speed...

[@jrsmoots]

Gorgeous results!

[@ejbarnola]

Would like to see this video redone with Blender 2.82 as many of the menus have changed.

[@LawrenceRayCreative]

I really like this tutorial but it is a bit outdated, would you mind making an up to date one?

[@cubdukat]

Do you have a version of this you did in Blender 2.8? I tried some of this in 2.8, but I couldn't seem to get the same results. I'm just getting into Blender, and I'm still trying to figure out where everything is...

[@kendarr]

2.8 is a major release and If you are using the 2.82 it comes with manta flow another smoke sim engine you need to bake it to see the results of it, look for tutorials on that

[@inventorbrothers7053]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you!

[@PppZzzz-e5l]

How many images would be there if i want to create a sprite sheet out of it

[@StevenCookFX]

I am unable to follow this tutorial. Its too fast and you cannot see things as he uses a lot of hot keys. :/ Looks great but not helpful if you can't see what keys are being used.

[@NJTV12]

could you gimme complete tutorial? I still do not understand what should I do after baking

[@kendarr]

Light the scene and render se if that helps

[@ghostbusterz]

Why don't you have to re-bake the smoke after changing the divisions of the domain? Once I've baked I have to clear the data before I can change it.

[@georgew4036]

Awesome tutorial!

[@TotatoC]

damn, i love that intro

[@canalmultikill7211]

can you make this tutorial for 2.8? pleaseeee

[@josiahgil]

This is sort of like the thanos portal, could you a tutorial of that?

[@pallavi68]

hi I am very inspired by your tutorials ..can you make the tutorial on shockwave

[@HaoChen-i2k]

nice video

[@3dmstudio1]

i dont get it from 5:14 to :16... can you plz tell how did you get the smoke from particals?

[@mrx3547]

he did it at 4:55 by changing the option in the smoke emitter called ( flow source ) from mesh to particle system

[@matka5130]

WTF dat intro blowed me :) Subbed

[@boxcarz]

XD

[@gizmo6506]

That's so cool

[@rishabhrawat7856]

Blender looked completely different 2 years ago...

[@huntthebay1636]

I'm rendering this in 2.8 and when I go to render it comes out extremely low quality and blurry looking, does anyone know how to fix this?

[@Cyanidedan]

Do you guys have the denoiser on the compositor?

[@world3dar236]

thank's very much

[@adebirkful]

Unfortunately too old for Blender 3.0. For every second of tutorial, you spend five (or more) trying to find where Blender 3.0 moved the settings to or why your emitter doesn't behave the way his does.

[@oopster74]

I don’t want the “dots” to disappear in my scenario. How do I just let them continue, like a Big Bang?

[@Xaminn]

Definitely a late response for this, but are you referring to the particles' Lifetime? Click on the selected particle system you want to extend > Emission > either change the End time or extend the Lifetime of your particles. Hope this is what you were looking for

[@helloitsokyrago]

Change lifetime of particles and then better you add a sphere and then in render settings choose render as object and then add your sphere so particles will be visible and then you can change size

[@the_devil_1230]

good video keep it up

[@talonstride]

Are you able to freeze the explosion for a static render?

[@PoggersFloppa]

render 1 frame of it wherever u want

[@vazak11]

Useful!

[@MrDaveWhitney]

For anyone who's successfully completed this tutorial, could you post the .blend file somewhere? I'd like to study it. I have been unable to recreate the final result - I've gotten thru all the basics, but it's not rendering correctly - the smoke domain is itself rendering and obscuring most of the smoke _and_ the crumpled icosphere is otherwise still visible as well.

[@inventorbrothers7053]

I think if you hit ctr+h it removes the object selected from rendering.

[@MrSkyTown]

Does it take long to render, what are your specs

[@carlosmiguelpaulinojr6090]

hi Mr. Adams, im getting this odd rhombus shape in the background of my render did that happen for you??

[@aecii_3d]

good good good! Thanks! wait, after effects? aw come on! :3 Good information though. Now to figure out how to do it without after effects.

[@vanteal]

Yea, It seems After Effects is the key element to make most everything actually look good..

[@animation_station]

aecii 3d Or use a color ramp (very useful for a lot of things)

[@blimeyitsRichard]

nice... thanks 👍

[@cchristophrr]

Why are my emitted particles so large compared to yours?

[@DaToTao]

Good tutorial bro, but try to do it a little slower next time please.

[@Luka1180]

I'd rather do the color and glow in Blender too.

[@jaih12]

How do you incorporate this into a video, do you render it against a green background for a green screen and key it out?

[@Iridesium]

I just rendered it out with a black background. Then in AE set the layer blending mode to add or screen. If you want to remove the background you could just do a luma key (key out the dark parts).

[@jaih12]

Iridesium do you do any work with natron? Also side note, your videos would be 10x if you slowed them down a bit and explained the parameters, and the why behind what you’re doing. The view isn’t going anywhere, we came to learn and a 30 minute video is no deal breaker. We’re here because we fans already. I watched so many tutorials, and one of the largest factors in how much usability people can garner from them, come from the why explanation... it’s so important in being able to apply the learning to work beyond the tutorial. But natron... have you taken a look at it?

[@Iridesium]

I do plan to do tutorials on other software. This includes software like Natron. However, we aren't quite there yet. Were working though. So, hopefully soon.

[@jaih12]

Iridesium thanks for your time.

[@wynton921]

can this be exported as a USDZ?

[@vainsekai8435]

Effect bana doge to main payment de sakta hun please reply me

[@vainsekai8435]

Hii sir main ek effect banana chahta hun aap bana dode kiya

[@friexino6580]

I cant even follow up

[@rken100]

Cool

[@KatDiedAgain]

Rendering! Let's hope this works!

[@parthtawar5559]

Sir which version you are using

[@parthtawar5559]

In Blender

[@meganfox2577]

How to make Transformer in blender tutorial

[@dbillett1]

Unless you are an expert on blender good luck following this guy. If you are an expert, you probably don't need this tutorial. He moves way, WAY too fast with not nearly enough explanation of what he is doing. He doesn't have the outliner on so its impossible to know on what item he is making settings on. I couldn't get the smoke to work right, assuming it had something to do with under the smoke physics tab, smoke-flow-particle system, there was no particle system to select for some reason. This 12 minute "tutorial" took me over 2 hours to get through and result was not nearly as nice as his. Disapointing to say the least.

[@vincev4630]

slow down the video speed and use your eyes. Not every FREE tutorial has to wipe our bums

[@tidy5156]

He's right. It's more a 'how to' for people giving hints what to do rather than teaching new abilities. For people who are more at the start he did the introduction where he broke down the main steps. So you can get yourself some knowledge about particles etc before you start on sonething this sophisticated

[@Huff4]

@Ross Barefoot thank you :) didn't think about that... such an easy solution!

[@KatDiedAgain]

Holy SHIT A little too fast to follow, sadly, but this is incredible and will definitely take me further in my Blender adventures.

[@KatDiedAgain]

I started to follow it, actually.

[@mastercovodich]

i hate how blender changed everything, i can't follow this awesome tutorial just because it is made in 2018. please make one for 2020. i can make quicksmoke, and in smoke domain there is no setting let me set the source to the particle system anymore. damn.

[@mcrksman]

Set it on the emitter, not the domain

[@fuumax7969]

lmao my blender crashed trying to render the smoke

[@chinoplays3260]

How do u do subdivide smoth

[@thxt_guy_mike7305]

yh same here

[@chinoplays3260]

Thxt_Guy_Mike you have to press w

[@thxt_guy_mike7305]

thanks bro

[@schmeggels258]

@@chinoplays3260 yes but in edit mode..

[@duardo8807]

Sound effects download?

[@KatDiedAgain]

Make your own

[@quick_impact_23]

How do I CGI this?

[@szymonszewcjr]

can you give .blend files?

[@Iridesium]

We should have a website up pretty soon here and you will be able to download all the blend files there. I might try to upload them somewhere else in the meanwhile but there is no way to download the blend files at this time. Once they are available I will let you know. Thanks!

[@AChannelNuclearrambo]

@@Iridesium Let me know as well sir, if you would not mind. Thanks!

[@schmeggels258]

as a blender noob ia had to watch it 20 times but i get it now !!

[@zeen6012]

bra do you do sound design

[@Iridesium]

Yes ;)

[@zeen6012]

bro when is the tutorial coming..............

[@Iridesium]

Iridesium is growing behind the scenes! I plan to have other tutorials done on other topics and other software. At the moment though, it's just Blender ;)

[@Dipankar_Rabha]

My smoke not so thick like yours

[@ingensvidcz5390]

For a blender beginner totally useless. Extremely fast, without any description. Had to slow down even to 0.25 sometimes to actually follow the procedure.

[@bmbiz]

Obviously this isn't mean for beginners. Come back when you're intermediate.

[@kaifarik9171]

Common sense is its not for beginners if hes not using any "key press" Follow for the entire tutorial lmao...

[@antonconradie6029]

"in blender" also what the fuck did you just call the cache....

[@samuelshunk749]

Ok just way to fast.

[@MixfantGaming]

I don't usually comment on video tutorials - I take what I get. But you were quite misleading with your title, and what you actually delivered. Very unfortunate. The title states "How to Make Cinematic Energy Blasts in Blender". This is WRONG. You showed us how to essentially make expanding smoke. That's it. For the Cinematic Energy aspects, you mention at the end of the video to use After Effects. I specifically wanted to see how to do this in Blender, and ONLY Blender. Some of us are learning, and we don't even have access to After Effects. In the future, please be more specific with your titles. And if you ARE going to mention at some point that you need something like After Effects to finish the final product - you should state that upfront.

[@SteelShadowAnimations]

Hey, if you see this comment I will tell you how to get the end result the he got. while having the domain selected go to change the setting from smoke to fire and then open a new window if the shader editor open. After that press shift A and insert in a value node and set the value between 20-40 try 20 first. Connect that to the blackbody intesity on the principled volume node. You can then change the color of the explosion by changing the blackbody tint on the principled volume node. Hope this helped and by the way my channel does the tutorials all in blender if you like to subscribe or check it out. I also used blender 2.81 for this and you may want to upgrade to blender to 2.8 at least if have not already it makes things a lot easier.

[@chosenideahandle]

​@@SteelShadowAnimations which video on your channel? I'm not seeing it.

[@SteelShadowAnimations]

@@chosenideahandle Its title is Blender 2.8/2.81 How to Make Fire in Cycles

[@duvaul4821]

Nice video if u know how to handle blender properly....literally worthless for newbies.

[@kendarr]

It ain't a begginers tut