Procedural Fish Animation in Blender 3.0 Geometrynodes!

[@CartesianCaramel]

If you want the file for this project (fish model included) it is up for download on my Gumroad page: bbbn19.gumroad.com/l/udlwo

[@jeanrenaudviers]

Many thanks

[@mohitkhirdekar2703]

Things to know before starting tutorial The origin should be in the mouth of fish Apply location, rotation and scale

[@GroovingGeckoMusic]

Very nice! Some questions: Did you model the fish, including the texture (meaning who owns it)? What can we do with it, are we allowed to use it commercially (for example to sell video renders of it as stock footage, not the model itself)?

[@coleorloff]

This is mathematical magic. These techniques and tutorials are next-level.

[@tolgayldz1898]

I've never thought about getting the time difference and the conseuqent displacement vector between different noise textures to determine the velocity, damn this will be quite useful in any procedural animation!

[@CartesianCaramel]

It is very useful. I may make a tutorial on how to make this work on instanced spaceships in a fleet.

[@artemylebedev9707]

I hope there will be animation nodes with all this stuff bundled.

[@dreamsprayanimation]

This is so amazingly powerful. I and many others would be willing to pay a lot of money for a full course on procedural animation using the new scene time node and vector math geometry nodes.

[@mykalesalad]

This is the first time I've seen anyone do complicated animation with geometry nodes and you've pulled it off very nicely, thanks for the video!

[@diostudio7198]

This is the purest procedural I've ever seen

[@endrebaklund7497]

If anyone has problems with the rotation/direction it's moving, make sure the fish is facing the X direction at default. Great tutorial!

[@kretoskim8555]

😭Thank you soo much!!!!!! I was like I have evrything right, startted messing around with the node values to see what was wrong. It seems it works when the model is oriented in X-direction. Thanks again!!

[@nathanielvirgo]

I found I had to do this *and* make sure the "X" button was pushed in the Align Rotation to Vector node, since it seems like it defaults to Z now

[@MichaelHickman3D]

This animation is so well done, you are the greatest Bbbn19, keep up the good work. You are doing wonders for the blender community.

[@WW_Studios]

Legend has it that the fish still swims! Another great tutorial! Keep it up :D

[@CartesianCaramel]

Technically it can swim forever

[@djbenima]

It's awesome ! Really showing how powerful geonod is !

[@sistemafuturo]

Wild. Geometry Nodes changes everything and I'm loving it

[@raghvendrapratapsingh690]

My God !!! You're a genius. This is awesome !

[@greenjc12]

Gotta appreciate how he never breaks from his calm tutorial voice even while the fish is thrashing and spinning crazily

[@dexter7294]

Holy smokes, never thought of this method. You are awesome

[@digital_well]

Your youtube channel is a hidden Mine. Keep up the great work.

[@alexandermoyle9034]

if u want the fish to float/glide between movement, u can duplicate the multiplication and sine, input a lower value and the multiply the two sines, seems to work.

[@Difreo]

The movement looks very fish like. Amazing use of nodes

[@justinjames3883]

the timing of this is quite remarkable, thank you i must go change things now

[@decoy3641]

I don't even use blender, I just enjoy watching the process, and the detailed explanation that goes with it! Thanks for uploading!

[@salarycat]

Thanks Ben, that's really good.

[@unboring7057]

This is brilliant, thanks so much! I'm so happy to have just discovered your channel, you are a brilliant artist and a gifted teacher. Thank you thank you!

[@yossy3Dcraft]

Thanks for the explanation. It's amazing how much you can do with geometry nodes to make them look really alive!

[@PanewsONE]

obviously this is amazing although I wish some of the parts were explained a little bit more as it's really hard to follow along if you're not really advanced with this stuff

[@KaizenTutorials]

Amazing stuff! Your knowledge of Geometry Nodes and Blender is really great. How long have you been at it? (seen you around r/blender for quite a while)

[@FilmSpook]

You're a Great Teacher, infinite thanks, my Friend. 😊

[@PastorRossCochrane]

Thanks for this amazing tutorial. You communicate so well and explain everything. I used this to create an Autostereogram animation video.

[@edyzartz]

Wow. This is mind blowing.

[@lesterlauritzen]

Such a great technique. Next challenge, procedural school of fish.

[@hyprreal]

Okay, I'm gonna have to give this a try - thanks!

[@s0lci70]

absolutely incredible!!

[@aditya95sriram]

That is quite a cool effect, I didn't understand all of it, but cool nonetheless :)

[@shameful_dismay]

Just love the tutorial, presentation, everything. Good work!

[@pzez2781]

That's neat utilization of Geo-Node! Keep up the out of the blue tutorials!

[@yamyuzon9779]

Couldn't agree more!

[@zboy303]

I am in awe.

[@tomvonlanthen5513]

Wow very elegant! I never tought about approximating a derivative like that :)

[@dominiusmaverick1854]

Bro came across your channel from Southern Shotty and it's amazing! Keep up the great work :D

[@MindblowQuotes]

Oh my goodness! This is insane! Thanks

[@meetvekariya8305]

Thank you so much for making this amazing tutorial 😍😍

[@dumpsky]

gorgeous!

[@vstreet7583]

Just BRILLIANT! Thank you. Dg

[@ThadeousM]

Enjoyed this one bro, made me dig a lil deeper into Eulers and accidently learned about vector triples and quaternion rotations on the side😃😃 Looking forward to the next

[@KIFDRAKON]

Good night. It turns out very funny. Even if you don't use a fish, it's also very interesting movements. But here's the question of how to set up the camera so that it follows the object. The fact that the first angle is a general plan is good. New t then change to a tracking camera is also interesting.

[@kunemann]

What kind of witch craft is this at 3:45...? How do you snap the Frames to the selected Nodes?

[@qubitx64]

Finding the direction is like magic to me 🤣

[@orangebananaaaa]

It's pretty cool tech, but the downside is that fish stretches. It would need proper rigging or wrap deformer, or othet counter measures to negate the stretching. Still it's cool and useful in some areas though.

[@thegoblinjohnny7268]

All that good stuff 😂 thank you for this tutorial!

[@Jeffie433]

This is absolutely fantastic! I have two questions as a noob: 1) Is there a way to limit how much the object stretches "lengthwise"? 2) Is there a way to scale the noise on a specific axis (reduce how much it moves up and down?)

[@GB-qg8ch]

I am also looking a solution for the FIRST QUESTION. For the latter I add a vectorMathNode set to multiply between the vectorMathNode of the scale and the setPositionNode. In this new vectorMathNode set to multiply the second input slot(that is free) controls respectively the X, Y, Z axis where the fish moves(offset), so I put, for instance, 10 in X, 0.2 in Y, 2 in Z, so the fish moves(offset) mainly on X axis. I hope this could help..I am learning GN..PLEASE AN ANSWER FOR 1) QUESTION!!

[@blenderpete]

Extraordinary 👍

[@kretoskim8555]

Amazing Tutorial!!! Thank you!!!!💯

[@uxzavr]

HOLY! this is really freakin beautifull! Thank you for the tutorial, you are breathtaking!

[@emilsvfx]

wow. tnx , man probably the best geonode tut fot me.

[@planefusionart]

genius. love it! thanks

[@AnittaDeady]

WOW You're actually a genius?????????

[@stefanguiton]

Excellent work!

[@qimiaoangel4268]

It is very amazing work.Thank you!

[@liliyaya2274]

Wow! It is very amazing tutorial. Thank you!

[@ronioclarenzo6137]

Awesome video, dude! Thanks a lot!

[@a_art_man]

You are so Underrated ! Just watched Polyfjord tutorial with Robotics hands … in this case your tutorial has to get at least 2 Mio views 😎👍🏻👍🏻

[@fahroedin3947]

woow cool... finaly I found the channel which I wanted.. thanks for your content

[@krissosful]

Fantastic tutorial, great fish animation🙂👏👏Keep going!!

[@cryogi5641]

very cool! Well explained Geometry magic! but ... fish move because they move their tail fin in respect to their body to propel themselves. they 'wave' their tails. It's subtle but important for the believability :)

[@lukayz1363]

This is so cool

[@CGJackB]

Awesome tutorial! BTW I was the 1K like 😁

[@DoctorMadness]

Beautiful work, excellent tutorial. Excited to see more from you. Subbed.

[@oootoob]

To make it more realistic you would need to add a random speed variable, or better still to make it speed up only on turns

[@LazyLou2]

hey awesome tutorial, would love to see a tutorial on how to make this a loop with geo nodes! Subbed ! 🙌

[@dmitrylevitsky6643]

You are a madman...

[@neilmarshall5087]

Marvelous stuff.... Especially from a person who refuses to learn that Ctrl-J frames the selected nodes..... lol

[@IridiumZero]

Bro this is sorcery

[@olgwoodart4996]

Thank you. Pretty awesome.

[@ignisfasciniora2715]

So good!!!

[@SpaceeFrog]

beautiful

[@sdados3725]

Mind blowing… thanks for sharing

[@nenghuo]

love this! very inspiring！

[@HuntsForge]

That is magic!

[@fmtdamian]

nice

[@sonpozs1259]

¡Thank you!

[@musilicks]

Now, I must know, how can I do this, but have the driver (for the path the fish follows) be a custom curve?

[@TulioG]

Pretty cool.

[@CElectriX]

So cool! Thank you so much for sharing. 🤩👍

[@touchstone1682]

very cool ! instant subscribe!

[@saras5291]

Hey, loved the tutorial, amazing! Keep up! As i was playing with the resaults i stumbled upon a problem, and I would be grateful if you could help me out a bit. This tutorial is built upon the 1D noise and on the fact that it has a W socket, what we can delay and use. This 1D noise uses a random float. But. What if I don't want to use a random float? What if I have a specific float in my mind? (I try to use music to control the motion. But if I get the music by: value -> bake sound to f curve, then the music's W is pre defined as it is baked to the frames, thus I cannot delay it in a nice gradient matter and can't use it for directional change) So what I desperately need is to somehow "hack", rewrite, download extensions for the noise texture. So I can insert a specific float instead of a random one.I tried to dive into the blender source code to take a look at how is the noise texture node is written, but I failed to find it and understand it. Do you have any tip how could I solve this? 🤔 Or any other way? I'm happy to any ideas! Cheers!

[@animatau-lady]

rez

[@KabeeshS]

gods have spoken.

[@MPG7555]

SO HELPFUL!!! MOOOOOREEEEE

[@alexandermoyle9034]

great!

[@junjiezw]

Amazing!!

[@protovu]

Excellent tutorial, thank you. Question: Your fluency is incredible, and I would never expect as such for myself. This is in part because the work I do is effectively linear in its storyline. So my question is, if you wanted the fish, as you have it, to follow a script ( swim in a pattern, break the pattern to chase a food item, eat, then swim off to some other linear task..... ) am I right in thinking that Geonodes is not applicable? One would best animate the old fashioned ways?

[@dodongdelacruz4619]

Amazing

[@sirkarmart]

Will try to do this in Houdini!

[@dwibasukirahmat3796]

it's crazy

[@predesign5109]

Thank you !!!

[@jorgealcoverhernandez8819]

Awesome

[@tutorialestutoriales8394]

Good tutorial!

[@clayanderson3567]

Really nice ! That's a really nice trick ! And in fact you use it twice, once for the rotation, but the effect at 3:35 also works because the head is "in advance in time" compared to the tail ;) I guess if you wanted it to loop, you would have to make a node group taking an offset as input (the 0.1 offset you add at 4:10, the top one has an offset of 0), and outputing the noise (basically replacing everything up to the noise texture), the implementation of this node would be something along the lines of kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4e3fZaAgbx4gKM ;)

[@kristianmollermunar]

awesome!!

[@Tarang3D]

Incredible work, and I'm grateful for this tutorial. I'm interested in exploring the possibility of creating a loop for the fish animation. If anyone has any insights on achieving this, it would be a great help.

[@mantomalice1706]

thanks.. so many new thing learned.. im new on geo node, so im trying to create horde of squid thing like in matrix 3, i use the procedural (fish) as an instance (still on the same mesh/geonode) i dont know how can i randomize other than rotation and scale on the instance on point node... i get that could use multiple "fish" on the geonode but i wish there a way i havent find out yet... short question is probably how to randomize each instance before distributing it on point... (other than the rotation and scale off course).. thanks in advance

[@Drakmour666]

Is it possible to apply same for human behavior? Not to make idle or simple body movements of some body parts during key frames of main animation? For example for a sleeping person to move chest with breathing or moving hands while sleeping? Something simple just to show that body is not static without the need to animate each little move of each part.

[@danil9843]

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