How to Make Electricity FX in Blender - Iridesium

[@brandoncpt9982]

it took me 9 months to fully learn and remake what you taught us. it was worth the journey. thank you.

[@funkypartyweasel]

Thank you for the useful reference. For 2.82 folks may find it easier to make a thin plane rather than reducing it down to a line of vertices as extruding has changed. Some of the values in various modifiers and shaders have also changed, so you may need to experiment with the numbers, but the basic ratios in the tutorial between displacement and texture instances still hold. I found myself ending up with a more coiled lightning effect rather than the jagged lightning in the video - reminiscent of the Ghostbuster's particle thrower, and a basis for further experimentation. Using different texture types yields some interesting results for example. The key take away for me was using weight painting on some of the displacement mappings on the beam, which gives lightning arcs more character.

[@aneesh1701]

I tried to follow this tutorial in blender 2.8 and failed miserably. I'm a beginner and I have made a broad sword. I want the lightning the strike the broadsword and kindof stay around like the sweeping floor example. I made the sword on my own but I'm looking for a blender 2.8 tutorial. Iridium makes the best tutorials but this one is pretty outdated since blender changed a while ago

[@funkypartyweasel]

Have a look for Tesla Coil Lightning tutorial - that can build on some of the elements here. It's also a 2.7 tutorial IIRC, but most of the features track. From that you may be able to make lightning that uses the shrinkwrap modifier to get the effect you want.

[@aneesh1701]

@@funkypartyweasel ay appreciate it, I'll check it out

[@JaredOwen]

This channel has HUGE potential. Please keep going - the subscribers and views will come!

[@animationspace8550]

It is shocking how little attention it gets

[@technoendo]

Before I compliment this tutorial I must compliment your intro. Its short, stylish, distinct, and gets me pumped up everytime I see one of your tutorials float by my subscription feed. Love your work!

[@HF_Tripp]

In my opinion this is one of the best blender channels on KZbin!

[@gnome3d750]

I agree!

[@gregoryhause00]

In my opinion too!

[@zandorius]

agreed as well, despite casually using blender for 2 years im still learning new things with these tutorials

[@man2596]

再同意不過~This channel is definitely underrated~

[@rahulmore4584]

Sad donuts noises in background 😂😂

[@TWGuardian]

Astonishing. So simple, so straightforward and so breathtakingly effective and even believable. I cannot begin to thank you for sharing this with the world.

[@doldrmaster]

Your tutorials are killing it

[@theloafdude8304]

I have been looking for this for months! Then today, I found your amazing lava tutorial, checked your channel, and there I found this!

[@cambrowning9588]

Thank you! I’ve been looking for months for a good lightning tutorial and nothing! You’re the best

[@forrestgump2114]

This is by far the best effect I could find on the internet but this is really hard to make.

[@learningsomething8904]

I have an idea - how about adding a smooth smoke simulation to the lightning strike and giving the emissive white to the high resolution smoke?!

[@helloitsokyrago]

you know wt would b more cooler ? rigged electricity ! i have used a curve as mesh and displaced it then i used armature subdivided it a few times and parent the mesh to armature and at the both ends i used inverse kinematics and parented to a new object and now i have. 2 points to control where the electricity goes

[@katmmccord7182]

I’m learning how to use blenders so thank you

[@blenderzone5446]

Thanks for sharing this tutorial!!

[@retiring7256]

Thanks for the tutorial this will help a lot of my electric animation

[@Corruptinator]

You could in theory use the same Lightning trick to recreate Kylo Ren's Lightsaber effect. The Red Lightning at 13:05 almost has the similar distortion if not using the middle offset displacement. I'd love to see that effect on a lightsaber hilt.

[@e_man6462]

Can u please redo this in the modern blender

[@advaitchougule242]

You Are Next Blender Guru

[@k3mx_]

Or CGgeek

[@onyxkane]

Now Blender Guru is not like before he just takes interviews and some more interviews and.....okay! leave it you what i am talking about

[@IssuesVFX]

looks pretty good, great tut! think it would look really good in cycles in a full scene, also would this work in eevee ?

[@luca_distortedtherapy]

Really the best way so far to make this FX. 👌🏻

[@Nitro_Zeus0]

I've done every step by both instruction & inventory-stats and all of my 3 projects never looked anything like yours.

[@Nitro_Zeus0]

@@user-dl8yo3wv1t (I'm late but what-efs) I did manage to now duplicate the project. Now my lightning looks exactly like his.

[@chess-maniac]

It's so sad that some people don't have numpads :( BUT GREAT VIDEO!

[@onyxkane]

in user preferences....in the input tab.....you can turn on the "emulate numberpad" option to use number keys on top of the keyboard as numpad keys....hope it was helpful.👍🏻

[@chess-maniac]

@@onyxkane Thanks but I recently reset my laptop so I gotta wait until it updates.

[@onyxkane]

@@chess-maniac good luck👍🏻👍🏻

[@wahahah]

2 years later, can I have a download for this? :P

[@Shdfkfkfndn]

how to make this intro?????????????????

[@equiaux]

😂

[@shadowmunky69]

use this tutorial to create some nice looking electricity lightning ... Thanks a lot .. this helped me so freakin much. Rendering right now .. will be back with the final output !!

[@Streamcatcher]

Nice, however a lot has changed in blender ever since this tutorial was made. Do you still think that after effects is the fastest way to add the glow or is eevee now equipped for that too? And are there any other things you would do different now? Thanks for sharing!

[@adnanbhuvar9165]

But, till I know , the displacement actually does not work on evee, it just uses bump, but you can add a glow node in compositor while post processing

[@anotherperson3450]

Check out Peter France's lightning tutorial. Its a new tutorial so its updated

[@KRajeshkumarphb]

There is bloom option for render in eevee

[@helloitsokyrago]

if you want to render it in cycles then add glare node in compositor and choose fog glow

[@sim2g]

Very good tutorial. Thank you.

[@Whale-of-a-time]

This is the best I've seen for Blender. However you mentioned you did the glow in After Effects - for anyone that has access to this I would just do my electricity in AE cause it has a lightning generator with adjustable forking and you get much better results in my opinion.

[@danielkrafft1346]

Blender + After Effects is so OP tbh

[@violentact1019]

Very nice method. Could benefit from smaller number of FPS, it’d look more frantic

[@aluckyshot]

Yep, millions and millions of vets rarely actually improves the scene, you should see some of my cluster f'*$!. Thanks for sharing

[@AndreyVanBuren]

Crazy intro, I like

[@JesusAmaTeMenino]

00:25 I'm looking for the name of those audio effects. Do you guys know the name of those ones or a tag so I can find similar ones? "Electricity" "lightning" and "sci-fi" didn't give me good results

[@digitalgear9]

me too did you get it ???? where i can find ???

[@digitalgear9]

bro i found it check all videos, good one mixed with bad ones kzbin.info/aero/OLAK5uy_mSHCM_Ea4EY7p-aUAjFeKbSr7ieJak4xk

[@JesusAmaTeMenino]

@@digitalgear9 Oh crap. Those are actually really good. Thx, dude

[@trelligan42]

Very nice; I'm gonna use this one a LOT. Just found and subbed. I really like your effects tutorials.

[@Witherwin]

The second one looks nice for my narberal gamma model

[@mikealbert728]

Great tutorial and technique. I bet an emission shader with bloom in EEVEE would have made a similar effect if not better a bit easier than using after effects.

[@cesarcorbacholopez8704]

Sencillamente impresionante...... Gracias por compartir un efecto tan genial. Un cordial saludo

[@sammyboy2007]

I can finaly create the Electric Plasmid from Bioshock!

[@ArtPomelo]

Great tuts you got here and i hope to see more soon!

[@adarshk3428]

Thanks man for such awesome tutorials🔥🔥

[@Virtual_brain]

Thanks for this! the result is awesome :D

[@4stoneblasters619]

where did you find the modifier when you mentioned select something called cloud anmation?

[@balee6780]

Displace modifier

[@hardikpande6970]

Please make a video to step by step model a handgun. I like your toutorials very much and you explain everything very nicely. Thank you

[@williamterranova1429]

Is there a particular reason you made the line at 2:05 by collapsing the plane on the y-axis, rather than just deleting the two vertices?

[@MrVilboux]

Very nice tutorial!

[@p.c.windhamparanormalroman4339]

Can you redo this tutorial for Blender 2.8?

[@mortbobkanciastostopy9038]

I did basically what you have said and my "beam" is bugging. I use blender 2.79. Did I do something wrong or it's all random and I simply have no luck?

[@ilyalead4blade897]

can't understand how do you do vertex weight. I'm using Blender 2.83

[@MajorCooke2]

I'm curious how you attached the two ends so it can be moved about?

[@premiero]

that was a really inspiring tutorial

[@bantuanasurimbor4373]

Your channel is amazing.

[@apocalypticdunia]

Nice Intro.

[@thenikhilray99]

Dude, any idea how to make a colorful explosion in Blender ?

[@samsei]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

[@xFruitsaladx]

Im following this step by step and not getting any result close to yours.

[@notsoclearsky]

It's been 4 months. Where are you now?

[@docteurslump5517]

This is an awesome tutorial and your channel is totally amazing overall ! 👍

[@questmullins1729]

Hello! Love the tutorial, how do you do the thing you mentioned at the end with the mesh being tied to the rigid bodies?

[@imoexpress5899]

Very difficult tutorial if youre new to blender,lol,love the way way it looks but kinda fast to follow if you dont know where everything is.

[@gregoryhause00]

Amazing tutorial! I was wondering how to change the textures through time which is used for modifiers (so coordinates can't be changed by nodes like a texture for materials) and you just made this video! I'm really happy because of it 😁 i would like to make a symbiote from "Venom" movie, so this will be usefull i think. Also you other tutorials are great! I made a tesseract and time stone with your tutorial about volumetrics (not so original, in fact you showed the renders of them, but didn't show how you made them). Keep up the good work 😉

[@4.shubhamaptekar230]

which blender virsion you used for this.

[@daveguth6621]

I love the effect that is created using this approach in Blender. Is it possible to export this as an animation to Unity? I've tried several times with no joy. I think it has to do with location, rotation, and scale not changing, but merely the dimensions of the object. Would appreciate any insight you can provide. Thanks.

[@smitshah6391]

If so, then the power of that engine is super high than we think it has. Right?

[@OscarPerez-xf6kf]

Amazing! As always ;D Good job and nice tutorial!

[@anotherdegenerate3976]

Petition to get a video oh how to texture the lighting And do that constraint thing at the end for 2.8

[@Diamonddrake]

Imagery looks great, audio takes away from it though. Because the sound doesn’t match what you’re seeing

[@ishworpathak3632]

How did you glowed the objects in after effects?

[@zetta6656]

I'mma do this for my Tesla batteries!

[@traderjoas]

can't we simply create the glow effects using the glare node in the compositor?

[@firestar2220]

Hello sir, I've been watching your videos a lot lately because I am a blender artist like yourself, and I was shocked to see how small your view count was in most of your videos, as well as how low your subscription count is. I suggest, for the advancement of your channels career, that perhaps you make your videos a bit more interesting. For example, make a video based on how to create something from a popular movie, like the surface of the moon from "First Man", or the infinity gauntlet, anything that's popular among creators and media. I look forward to watching more videos from you, and the expansion of this channel. also you have the coolest intro I've ever seen.

[@Bibaan1310]

can u make a vid like this with blender 2.92

[@Lluc3D]

Brilliant

[@richierich8085]

Excellent VFX! Thanks a lot for sharing. Edit: Please make this tutorial for EEVEE also. I think EEVEE will not be too much slower than AE.

[@smitshah6391]

So can we render this cool looking scene with blender internal render engine?

[@yajuvendra15]

May i request you to again make the tut on Blender 2.8, i am not able to follow especially animation part, i hope its not too much thanks

[@capzlock4950]

Are you using any custom addons and keybinds?

[@rizaljamaludin1288]

wow! so cool can i join with your patreon?

[@4stoneblasters619]

help, weight paint doesn't work. after I painted the weight of the plane the tip of both ends do not stay in a fixed position help

[@4stoneblasters619]

never mind I found that I needed to select GROUP for vertex group

[@ishworpathak3632]

Why are you not using blender 2.8 or 2.9?

[@holyhoodstudio]

I’ve been wondering,.. how can you get a text to appear within the electricity ?

[@georgew4036]

Suscribed and amazed by your tutorials sir

[@massivetree7937]

Cool but After FX does very nice lightening itself.

[@jessetomi]

But Blender is free

[@massivetree7937]

Its only free if you dont' donate to support its development.

[@massivetree7937]

Blender is only free if you don't donate to support its development which does cost money.

[@jessetomi]

Perhaps I used the wrong word. Blender is open source.

[@massivetree7937]

Ok, I'm not sure why that makes a difference.@@jessetomi

[@kimanirobot8241]

yo where is the display pannel? im using 2.91 btw

[@i7pu3pak]

Hi. I saw you were using OS X and Mac. What is your configuration?

[@hexshots1045]

Could anyone help me out with the constraint setup at 13:43 ?

[@mika-animations]

You should really work in the default workspace when making tutorials

[@StradexEngine]

I love you. You're saving me right now

[@andrewkemp8677]

why does it look interlaced?

[@MarCuseus]

Which totally ruins it

[@SerenityPrim3]

While the theme for this comment section seems to be glorious praise, I'm afraid I'll have to change things up with my input. There are a few occasions by the time of 4:35 alone where you make some mistakes in what you say you're doing. When you say you're adding in the first modifier, you already have a displace mod in play, and what you're actually doing is adjusting the texture in the texture tab. The other one I've seen so far is how on Displace Mod 01 you say you adjust the texture coords to object, and you do, but later foget to mention when, or why, you change it to global while the rest remain as object. i'll add more as I find or think of them, but please be more clear when doing these tutorials. If it's too much a pain to go back and redo the footage or narration, please leave something in post explaining the details forgotten, missed, or explained incorrectly. maybe in the description of the video, maybe in the comments, or maybe in the video as an afterwards. Thank you for your time and consideration, and may you have a good day.

[@IgorogI1000]

that is what i needed!

[@Rohit-ld6rr]

Bro please make a tutorial on car nitrous

[@aziel43]

This is gold !

[@ashthehedgehog5456]

please, which blender version is this?

[@blenderzone5446]

wow

[@namesurname624]

Is there a way to make it loop?

[@dr_hex9258]

That was Awesome

[@rken100]

So cool

[@matteo7359]

Can I use it in my 3d katana game

[@tjsupper5018]

How would I keyframe this? Is it possible?

[@onyxkane]

can someone help me how i can apply that displace modifier (for zigzag effect) to "CURVES" as i am willing to make some moving electricity (like you see on thor's armour in THOR RAGNAROK).......or if someone could suggest a way to achieve this please help me.

[@TaxPro2012]

I want thor's hammer and body lightning. This is more electric. Stylized sci-fi, less realistic.