Procedural Dissolving Effect (Blender Tutorial)

[@yovhal1980]

U r a life saver! I saw this on reddit, and was really desperate to know how to make it. But I didn't find any particular tutorial for it. And now my favourite youtuber uploads a video.

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

*-Goosey 3D-* Duck 3D is honestly the inly tutorial channel i can actually watch and understand :)

[@kashifxahmed2087]

yup me too :)

[@23bobjr]

not watched ian hubert then i take it?

[@tremwar]

Fun tip: when your color ramp is feeling cramped and you are fine tuning, just stretch it out... Mouse over the side edge and try it

[@fadhil4008]

The problem with Alpha Blend is that, well a lot! Based on my experience, one of the problems is if you use DOF in your camera, the object with "Alpha Blend" material will also get blurred out. No matter how you place the focus point, the camera will never focus on it. One of the solutions is to use "Alpha Haze" I guess if you want to get the camera to focus on it

[@rudrasharma7721]

Around 3 months ago I need this but I learnt it by my self and now after watching this tutorial i realized to become a blenderer i need to experience by myself..

[@animationsanimations2177]

Your videos are the beast blender totorials on yt :)

[@ericoftheotherworld1525]

Bro, this is so cool, It's so crazy that people can figure this stuff out and make these, mind blowing foreals.

[@RTJ3DCosplay]

oh i have the perfect project for this .... a succubus apprearing from hell fire, reverse the distortion boom awesome effect lol

[@QuakeesDogwater]

OMGGG THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED I've been searching for a tutorial for the past few daysssss Anddd now I foundd ittt :)

[@Broadsmile1987]

If you're dealing with a very narrow range in a color ramp like on the video, before passing a value to it, first subtract from it the first swatch position, then divide it by the actual range (distance between 1st and last swatches). For example, in the emission color ramp you have first swatch on 0.079 and last on 0.111, so you can first subtract 0.079, then divide by 0.111-0.079 = 0.032. This way you will have over 31 times more space to work with! If you still want to have some freedom to move the first swatch to the left and the last to the right, you can just drag the subtract value to the left, instead of dragging the first swatch to left, and drag the divide value to the right instead of dragging the last swatch to right. Or you can just give yourself some margin - here you could just multiply the value by 0.15 before passing it to the color ramp - still 6,66 times more space to work with. Compare this i.imgur.com/opdmbxe.png and this i.imgur.com/0VWajtc.png

[@sustainablehokioi4245]

OMG I have already done a trial and I am going to use this effect in so many projects in different colors but I am making one right now with my favorite Altcoin I love Signum which will have a No ICO red burn out, NO pre-mine red burn out and finally a white burn in with a fairly distributed coin. Its so hard to find really good tutorials and thank you.

[@brickthinking]

LOVE this! It's perfect for a video I'm working on. I'll be sure to share when I'm done. Thanks for putting the tutorial together 🙏🏻

[@invisyarcticfreak]

this may be three years old but this was exactly what i was looking for, thanks mate

[@searchingforhyperion5941]

Great tutorial, I've been following you throughout the lock down here in England. Your tutorials are always concise and easy to render on my old mac mini. I've been creating music videos and incorporating some of your ideas into them, kept me sane this year. Thanks

[@kings-letter]

Holy shit youre nearly at 0.5 mil subs now! Grats! Been following your channel for ages!

[@linden1763]

Loved this, so simple yet such a nice result. To spice it up a little I added an empty to control the effect. Then in the Texture coordinate node, add this node as the coordinate "object". Last convert the noise texture to 4D rather than 3D, and add a Geometry input node, and drag the position into the W coordinate of the noise texture. Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it gave me a nice effect as you drag the empty across the object

[@jon_patterson]

To animate this over time just go to the Material tab on the right then twirl down the triangles until you find the Mapping node. Click the dot on the right edge of the X, Y, or Z property you want to animate. In your timeline, move the playhead to a new frame then change the X, Y, or Z property to look however you want the effect to change over time.

[@mancuevas0074]

Thank You Ducky 3D. It has been a while you don't do Typography Design, please never stop teaching in us.

[@jayantchopra]

You're fantastic!!!!! Learnt half of the blender from your videos while creating such awesome projects. A big thanks to you!!!

[@priyeshraut]

Your tutorials are always helpful for beginners! Thank you for your efforts and keep that up🥺🤩!

[@sugar_ltd]

I've always loved the simplicity of your node setup.

[@wyatthermens2866]

I never knew something could be so complex yet so simple till I started blender

[@MrRainbowCalendar]

You are making a huge progress!! 💯👏👏

[@thearianatosado]

This might be a really dumb question. But I've managed to do everything in this tutorial except animate it. It's just still in the viewport when I play it back. :( Would love to know how to get it animated.

[@magiczipper7938]

Go to the first fame you want the animation to start at. Then, in the material node, hover over the aspect you want to change, like x location, and press “I” to set a key frame. Then go the point in the timeline you want it to end, then go back to material node editor, change the aspect you wanted to change (move x location) and press “I” to Insert key frame. Now go back to the scene, and press play.

[@HCGJohn]

Nice video, thank you! But how can I animate this?

[@henrique-3d]

MAAAAAAAN, I love nodes!!

[@stickamata8213]

Im subbing now because your give alot more tutorials now! Keep up the good work 👍

[@blackswan6386]

EPIC for my Motion Graphics Stuff, you are awesome in timing !

[@Pulse2AM]

So cool and so easy, I like that!

[@siebenunddreissig]

Thanks so much, i realy do appreciate your work. Love the explanation and the relaxed style of it. Im into blender now for about one week and used amazing stuff for useless things such as animated lock screen for my cell phone. I guess today being able to utilize blender and to express one self might be compared to painting a really nice picture. Perhaps its even worthier than that. Thanks for providing these kind of possibilities.

[@oopswrongchannel4154]

How can you change the direction of the gradient, for instance, if I wanted to have the effect happen from the bottom and go to the top of the monkey?

[@卂几-q6k]

u are close to 250k , congrats bro!

[@TheDucky3D]

Thank you

[@tomsoyer4358]

Great tutorial. Thank you very much for sharing this. This effect makes a lot of ideas how to use it.

[@sureyeah3574]

YAYYY!! another vid from Mr Duck

[@llinglling]

Hello! Just wondering if there's a way to have this Dissolving effect together with another material? (I want to add this effect on a pre-existing model with it's own material) THANKS!

[@Unleashed75]

Looks so close to the other guys test animation, is it worth mentioning you put your own "Spin" on it? You have raycast, godray effect that even when it's dissolved, it's still casting a shadow

[@fasijakareem5743]

Great tutorial and really love your work!!

[@Octopoda555]

It would be nice if you displayed the shortcuts you’re using, it’s hard to follow you along sometimes!

[@harshsaxena3824]

sir how set the key I animate this

[@RichSounds-YT]

Press i

[@isaya3613]

I know I am kind of late to this tutorial but I am new to blender and I was wondering: How do you keyframe the effect on the material? or animate in the shading window

[@carlosrecheverria]

In Shading > Mapping > Location X > place the "distortion" to the right > Right-click add keyframe. Go to Layout, move the "play" slider to the end, go back to Shading, modify it to place the "distortion" to the left. What I haven't figured out is why in render view it's all black. I'm also very new.

[@LogicPhilosophy]

@@carlosrecheverria This was helpful. You a legend.

[@weedniac]

thanks a lot bro

[@60CAL]

What about Me 😢

[@AveSaturnia]

Great video. It was concise and easy to follow. I tried it on Susie, and it worked great. However, I then attempted to do so on a 3D model that I made from an SVG of a logo consisting of a word, but then nothing happened. It's worth mentioning that I did turn the loops into a mesh. The model is clean. I only had the outside lines with nothing in them, filled the space within, and then extruded it into a 3D shape. The "normals" are all facing the right way. My only inkling is that perhaps there are vertices that aren't connected, but there are at least 1,000 of them, and I am not about to merge them one by one. If anyone knows what's going on, I would be grateful if you could shed some light on this. Thank you.

[@dzk973]

great tutorials sir, but i never seen any Blender user make "Digital Look" dissolve style yet, hope youll be the first!

[@archaja]

Great! Such a nice effect! But I´ve some problems to solve. I would like not to dissolve the object, but to grow it and hide something that is IN the object. But I´m not able to get rid of the transparentcy. Even if I disconnect the transparent BSDF the inner object is still visible.

[@HeavenComet]

Very helpful tutorial, gonna make my little thing so much better. thx so much!!!

[@SardiPax]

Hmm, I've done something similar for cycles although I didn't use noise into a vector input. I'm curious about how image data is interpolated into vector data.

[@v.valclodi8311]

this is what im looking for. Thanks :-)

[@alengalstyan6124]

I liked this tutorial, I tried it, and I got it, it's very easy and beautiful

[@dannybouchard4140]

Ducky, at 3:13, when I connect the gradient texture to the color ramp, my object is half transparent and half opaque. Using the color ramp sliders doesn't change anything. I double checked my nodes and they are exactly like yours. Am in eevee, using 2.92. Thanks for shedding some light in this mate.

[@prinxe9466]

slider values

[@R4NBOOKA]

im sure you figured it out already, but to some who will gonna check replies for answers: change alpha blend to alpha clip

[@stormwaveart2698]

can you share some rendering setting for that kind of effect it will be greatful .

[@kevin-ov2cg]

How can I now render this animation with all the "animated" stuff? Because I only can see the animation in the shading tab when I change the location of the x axis. I am new at Blender and don't know how to do that. Pls help, thank you😁

[@astronexus7969]

How do I animate the disintegration? I can slide the x axis, but I do not know how to animate it. It’s there a way, and how do I do it?

[@itsriverdavis]

Hoover over mapping coordinate with the cursor press i + click to add key frame

[@astronexus7969]

@@itsriverdavis thx

[@LushPop]

just what I was looking for, thank you good sir

[@aymbot31]

@Ducky 3D can you explain how to do the animation?

[@edslayersgaming7983]

Great video man, really needed this going for that csgo prize pot the more things i learn the better, thanks a lot man

[@varunartz9309]

Your are awesome artist ..And honest about - from where the inspiration ❤️ good work

[@RichSounds-YT]

Can you save the group of nodes as a preset?

[@rasdasa]

Excellent tut, thank you.

[@shreyankamanana9979]

Can u make a tutorial on how to make this animation

[@preetishmohan3283]

but, how to render it ? means the time frame how to set it in such a way that it shows the light and other stuff.ur thumbnail I can notice that there is a blue light in the background pls make a video on how to render this project

[@humaidmohideen2466]

U can just a a light plane then set it to light blue put it above the camera but a bit behind the monkey put a plane and extruded the 2 vertecies and put a bevel to make it look nice and then just set up the camera and insert key frames and make an animation.

[@preetishmohan3283]

@@humaidmohideen2466 how to insert keyframes from where as in the layout tab in which tab is the option to move the effect ?

[@gotx0012]

@@preetishmohan3283 same probleme

[@ejkakozarova8278]

Helloo ^^ it is a great tutorial, i just have one question - i need my object to not be transparent, to not be able to see whats inside, to not be able to see the "inside walls", coz i have a ico sphere with extruded walls and bigger size of subdivision ... do you think you might have some suggestion on what to do? Thank you so much

[@juliusfucik4011]

Is there a way to use the gradient texture as the source intensity for a particle system? I would like to make a more literal burning of a paper as an exercise. Instead of the paper disappearing it should first go brown, than black and then burst into flames before desintegration. Also, love your tutorials. Algorithm comment too.

[@TheDucky3D]

I’ll look into that

[@travmason]

Was thinking exactly the same thing. Something along the lines of using the co-ordinates to specify where the particle system generates from. But I'm a noob and have no idea how to do that lol.

[@senior_pilot3999]

Thank you very much, thats a really good tutorial!

[@Frostic-]

Question, how do i have it do what you did at the start? (Pressing the start button animates the effect onto the object)

[@nasirahmed5053]

I don’t have alpha blend option

[@mhrehaan]

hai bro i dident understand how to animate it . plz help me i did hole thing but i dont know how to make it animate . plz help mee

[@TheFuzzypuddle]

I completed this tut, and suzanne looks great. Could there be a scale issue on other models? idk. I saved the shader nodes and applied them to another model in a new project. This is where the problem occurred. The transparency part worked fine (top color ramp). The line of firery disintegration displayed gradient colors (bottom color ramp), and I could move it as desired (mapping). However, I could not replicate the detail, which I assume comes from the noise texture node. The disintegration line was straight with no variation like 4:32 instead of how it should look at 5:25. I played with the scale, roughness, detail, and distortion with little effect. Help me obi wan kenobi. You are my only hope.

[@amalel3946]

I followed the video step by step, till now everything is perfect. but I don't know how to render it while the fire is moving from one side to other.

[@johnnyenglish1847]

at 4:08 , emission strength isn't showing up for me. does anybody else have the same problem and could anyone fix it?

[@PaboBabo]

it's blender 2,93 function.. i also not sure how to do this in blender 2,90..

[@kinesta]

Amazing effect!

[@b3db3d]

Amazing tutorial ! 😘

[@jagadeesh4869]

If you don't mind asking can you make videos explaining exactly what that node is doing and etc...

[@TheDucky3D]

I’ll be making a full course just for that very soon

[@hengrinaphavanly8077]

How do we render it after we have finished the shading?

[@secretartist406]

We have a great community I like CG matter and leaned a lot from you too

[@Shakespeare1612]

How can I start and end this effect on Keyframes? I would like for a laser beam to hit the side of my objects, and then for that too look like the cause of the disintegration.

[@minechannel6096]

I’d like to ask one question! If the object has a multiple materials, how can I make those appear like you did on Suzanne? Such as juice bottle has a label on it

[@hevinnelson2741]

bake the textures into one single texture

[@Mirowoolf]

Ducky, thank you for video! 🤝🏻

[@phamhuyrcg_7056]

hi Ducky, can you explain at 3:04, I followed you, and used the ctrl T command but it didn't work as expected on the video. Thank you

[@lightmanleaf3761]

How to do the same effect if the object have more than one color? Assign the same material (but with different base colour in the Principal pdsf) to those faces in edit mode?

[@Anakele20]

Thank you very much. I will put this to good use

[@hubbcap18]

I would like to do this but with a specific text and am having trouble after I convert the text to a mesh.

[@natebuckwell1383]

Whenever I add a colour ramp node to the emission slot of the principle, the slider disappears! Any advice on how to fix that? The instance I'm trying to fix happens around the 4 minute mark

[@morrioghan]

I did it, but mine it's not totally transparent, it has like some shadow showing a little bit of the object that it was supposed to disappear, how can I fix this? I'm using Eevee.

[@shodan2002]

I got a problem how do i apply a texture to it sure i can make a white square disappear but lets say i wanted a brick texture on it if i put a texture on the cube the effect is gone because there is another material on top of it do i somehow combine them in the shader editor idk

[@inflame_metal]

great tutorial, thank you!

[@Cebolitos]

Hi @Duck3D, thanks for the tutorial!!! is it possible to make it work on Particle System (talking about Hairs). Also, I had some (transparency) trouble when I positioned the camera looking from the side, it is possible to see trough the mesh in some angles. How could I fix it ? Thanks in advance!!!

[@goldenpanda1134]

is there a way to make it were its dissolving from both sides?

[@vivaansuri1000]

Pls make a video on how to make low poly explosion in blender

[@nicolasarkin]

great video, but how do you dissolve something as if it was solid instead of just the skin?

[@become7009]

How can I recreate similar effect without using a material? I Have multiple objects with same material but I need them reveal separately...

[@AK56fire]

Please make tutorials of animation nodes.

[@ramananvignesh8258]

While using this method for text, half of the text is disappearing so what should I do for that.

[@joeblandd6425]

Hey, absolutely love your videos. Would there be any chance of a video about the cube effect seen at the start of Genshin Impact where your sibling is taken away? I've seen it used a lot in games, but I feel certain there's a way to do it without hand placing all the cubes and changing their size manually

[@Nobody-xp6ip]

Basically the Loki E05 effect

[@shieldproject2695]

Holly cow, thanks a lot dude

[@therealrebelsquadron]

Great effect. But how do you actually animate it?

[@editenvy]

Can you give us a tutorial on how we can animate this effect like you showed in the preview at the starting of this video?

[@MoonisHavn]

Well done.

[@blackswan6386]

when i want to make a cricle shape Mesh and start from middle, slowly growing to outside in order of a cricled shape, it dosent work well. i tried using empty or / and scale but it dosent work, can you give some tips or even help ? from Duck to Swan, you know ^^

[@artisticomx2066]

Im new and Im would like to know how it was animated, can you share the process?

[@grandmastalin7796]

Yeah imao I like how everything is set EXCEPT the animation tutorial Looks like another thing is unavailable for me to learn

[@siebenunddreissig]

It works just like it does using the timeline in layout window. So set up your frames, use keys in case you want the object move/morph. Then jump to the frame where you want your animation to start. Youre in the shading window. Set up the integration /desintegration depending on letting the thing appear or disappear, right click in the bar with and select insert key. Then jump to the frame where you want your animation to be finished, select the value, right click and place another key. Your done.

[@grandmastalin7796]

@@siebenunddreissig Thanks for the tip Never knew animation could resolve just by pressing first and last part 👍👍👌👌👌

[@teamkhaleesi3956]

How do I add this a model that has existing textures? It doesn't show the effect for me.

[@roger2451]

This is awesome