Swirly motion graphics effect with Geometry Nodes - Blender 2.93 tutorial

[@dinesha6754]

ngl the music and the ending part with the disc golf is peaceful, we can relax after finishing frustrating render

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thanks a lot, that's so true! I kept having some weird issues with that render in the beginning, so I can definitely relate :D

[@JiinPolanco]

Totally Agreed

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Edit: In blender 3.0 and above the whole Geometry Nodes system has been refactored to use the new Fields system, so this tutorial is unfortunately a bit outdated now. I will make new tutorials, though :) Let's see what you guys think of this new format with the text boxes! I do realise that I leave a lot of explaining for the texts, and that it might be a bit jarring to pause all the time if you want to get all the info.. Then again, I managed to fit a reasonably complex effect with a lot of additional info in a

[@boudewyn]

I really like it, and I think it's a really clever idea (although more time consuming for you I guess, so thank you). Keeps the flow going for a first watch and also allows for a deeper dive, so good.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

@@boudewyn Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, that was the idea, to not interrupt the flow too much by rambling about everything, while still making it possible to get the info if a viewer wants to. Let's see if other people agree :)

[@xBreeze12]

@@SketchesForHumanity I really like it as well :) I often rewatch tutorials and being able to read the in-depth notes the first time and afterwards be able to rewatch without needing to skip any long explanations is really nice. I also memorize written things way better so these notes really help with my understanding of blender! Also the disc golf part was very relaxing. I enjoy the harmony between the tutorials that require focus and the relaxing content afterwards.

[@stevepratt2728]

The text boxes are next level...

[@alcoolwarriors]

I love the idea, it's an elegant and simple way to make a tutorial "multilevel", advanced users can simply ignore the info boxes, while beginners can pause and read!

[@Lucas-hh4oh]

Came for the tutorial, stayed for the disc golfing in the dark on snowy Finland. It's so calming, isn't it?

[@SketchesForHumanity]

It really is!

[@JoacimSvedlund]

You never cease to exceed my expectations for how genuine one can be. Great tutorial and i love the very unexpected winter night disc golf

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thank you so much, Joacim!

[@spencer5028]

I'm in Southeast Asia, really miss the four seasons and even winter. Can't wait to get back home next year.

[@lightofheaven2930]

That ending was so soothing and nice. Made me smile. Video is great as well obviously. Keep it up man

[@choodane1844]

was expecting 20 minutes of tight blender geonodes tutorial. And now i'm sitting here with cool procedural lines and watch you play disk golf with peaceful music... Best tutorial ever :D

[@OfflineOffie]

I loved the ending! It's really unique and i didn't expect it! It feels like a Vlog

[@iPavReg]

Wow, that was beautiful! Both the tutorial and snowy night golfing! I had no idea such sport existed!

[@SketchesForHumanity]

You'll have to go try it out, it's super fun and accessible :) You only really need 1 basic midrange disc to get started..

[@shivendrasinghpawar6282]

such a beautiful place to live, really loved it

[@alaslipknot]

this is one of the most original tech/tutorial channels ever, the disc-golf part was something that i NEVER expected, and i love it!

[@SamMorell]

While I'm a "newbie" at Blender . . . always love your tutorials and always look forward to your philosophical insights on life accompanied with your most fitting background music. 3D creation and poet combined to teach motion graphics and convey inspirational messages which I hope all your viewers appreciate and find valuable.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thank you so much for the comment, Sam! I really appreciate it

[@mertcanurcan]

Came for the geo-nodes tutorial, stayed for the disc golf, now dreaming about disc golf + grill + vodka on snow. Thanks for the tutorial and showing an interesting cultural event. Peace!

[@andreasqueitsch9814]

I really love this tutorial, including the text boxes for further information. It’s incredibly how you come up with these things. I never knew something like Disc Golf exists.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

You should try disc golf sometime, it's so fun! And cheap to get into, just buy one $10 disc and you're set up :D

[@captainjasons]

When you putted to minus one on the course at 17:45, I clapped. :) The text boxes are helpful, and I took the time to pause and read your breakdowns. Great demonstration of the Geometry Nodes and how best to approach affecting the paths versus the vertices.

[@JiinPolanco]

The ending part is where the "For Humanity" comes on the name of the channel... Love the Tutorial with the Tips, and Definitely love the Disk Golf part...

[@morganebichard-breaud2439]

Congratulations to this fantastic tutorial. It’s very educational, easy to follow. I’m very impressed. I’m an absolute fan. Thanks again

[@adityaghozali538]

wow, this is so smooth. thank you for the tutorial

[@yankeshi5983]

nice tutorial,playing light frisbee at night is so relax and peaceful.

[@Rocketcityninja]

Not even half way thru the video and my mind is blown. I can follow along just barely well enough and you're teaching a master class! Great job! I think some of these techniques could really help me figure out how to do this vortex motion graphic I am working on though. Thank you very much!

[@timothyspitzer2760]

You're not only a geonode master, you're a pretty good Frisbee player. Frisbee has kind of lost it's drive in the USA. I can definitely see the correlations to Blender and 3D in general. Very philosophical. I enjoyed and learned from it very much. Thank yyou

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thanks for the comment, Timothy! Interesting that you think frisbee has lost its drive in US, from what I've seen disc golf is bigger than ever over there. Of course it's even more widespread in Finland, at least relative to the population size. But yeah, it's a nice physical and mental exercise, for sure!

[@CatalinPascaru]

Awesome video on geometry nodes, but really appreciate the disc golf! Never even thought that this is a thing, tbh.

[@joonamyllarniemi4293]

This text box system works really well, making it possible to learn more without extending length of the tutorial. I would move those boxes a little bit higher from the bottom part of the video because KZbin video timeline goes on top of it when pausing the video making it harder to read the texts. Thank you for informatic and well done tutorial. Kiitos!

[@totochandelier]

with the last build of blender 2.93, If you don't have any reaction of the distance (and thus , of the sphere scale) variable to the movements of the falloff, first create an attribute fill node with the z position of the falloff, then do the math with the z value of the initial plane. Took me long time to work around ;

[@vvautsi]

As soon as I heard your accent I a had a hunch you were a fin! :D Great tutorial man and enjoyed the ending. Very chill. Kaikkea hyvää !

[@linomatheus7418]

please keep up this format and also the ending bit with the disk golf.

[@totochandelier]

so talented, and technically adept. Enjoy Finland, it is a wonderful country where I had the opportunity to appreciate the way of life and the great intelligence that reigns there!

[@opti12]

Thanks for the nice effect! The disc golf was beautiful too. You have unique things, love to see it

[@sevfx]

I usually work with houdini and just wanted to see blenders take on proceduralism. What i didn't expect was that awesome secret ending. Subscription earned for math and vibes, even if i dont even use blender xD

[@angekmiguel86]

Hello. I subscribed to your channel on 04/22/2021 at 1:45 am, from Argentina, your tutorials are great, thanks for sharing us !!!! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@irql2]

Very cool to see this type of proceduralism that you typically only see in Houdini. I know Houdini has 30 year head start, but its nice to see Blender getting in to this area too. With the amount of money being thrown at Blender lately, I have to imagine a lot of cool stuff is in store for us in the near future.

[@sciart1512]

Thank you for the great tutorial! I think the speed is just right, and it is convenient to follow it. And golf in winter Oulu looks amazing! Miss this cozy town. Kiitos paljon hyvästä tuulestani!

[@Fleck2011]

Super nice! I like your whole format! :)

[@BoasKristjansson]

After using Rhino and Grasshopper for a bit and finding it very frustrating this looks really promising for procedural designs. Amazing breakdown. Thanks!

[@chidi21]

This is simply incredible. You deserve to have a lot more subscribers! Insane stuff!!! Respect!

[@spikerama]

Very good mate. Love your tutorials and loved that ending with the chilly disk golf session. Thanks for sharing.

[@appidydafoo]

Awesome, loved the illuminated disc golf ending also

[@davidfrazier4358]

Watched you play the whole round mate! Too cool. Thanks for all you do.

[@joshhugo323]

Loved the night golf

[@noelhutz]

So happy that I found your channel! Geometry nodes are so interesting but overwhelming to me and this really helped me to understand them better!

[@fabbrobbaf]

Simply magic! Great tutorial! Thanks a lot

[@daedra6577]

charming place to live

[@jmcllinux]

.Really nice tutorial.. compact and clear!!! This geometry nodes are amazing!!! Thank you very much for the tutorial. Impressive the golf disc!!!!🤣🤣 Never have seen that!!.. Think we can make something like that in the sunny Spain!!!🤣🤣 I supposse in summer you will be able to play without light during all the night!!!.👍👍💕 Thank you!!!

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thanks for the comment! Yeah, summer midnight rounds are the absolute best in Finland. Except if the place has a lot of mosquitoes.. You guys do have some courses in Spain also, but a lot less than we do in Finland. Somehow it's become a bit of a national sport around here, I guess because we have so much cheap and unused forest space for nice courses.

[@jmcllinux]

@@SketchesForHumanity 👍🤣

[@-erikros-]

Great tutorial! I learned a lot and my mind is blown. Can't believe your disc throwing skills though! super fun! Great Flying sauser

[@djC653]

loving this. 1 suggestion: maybe stick the text boxes in the top/middle area of screen. The issue is when I pause the controls of the player is in the way. Plus maybe I won't forget they are there if in a different place. I was 3-4minutes in before I remembered the text.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Hm, that's true about the controls. Thanks for pointing it out! I'll at least try to leave some space at the bottom next time :)

[@UdjinUdjin]

Wow!!! I need time to carefully follow steps you did! But I definitely have to, looks amazing! Thanks a lot for sharing us such a great experience!

[@faganwilcox2443]

Loving your geonodes tutorials

[@nerukas86]

I was waiting for your beautiful gamma corrected hair to show up. Thank you for amazing tutorials.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Haha, thank you so much!

[@perryberry923]

i enjoyed the disk golf :)

[@jonb4540]

Also a piano player and blender fan, just subscribed and looking forward to more stuff. Greetings from London!

[@jace2279]

Btw would be amazing to see the texturimg process too, I tried to figure it out myself but being really new to this whole process I get stuck quite easily haha

[@swandarkart2752]

+1

[@abhishek-farswan]

+1

[@rewis3d]

This is brilliant! Hope to see more Geometry Nodes tutorials!

[@wambman]

That disc golf segment was as amazing as the tutorial part. Finland looks so nice, I will definitely visit when things settle down. I love your insight on how bad throws can bring up intense emotions. I notice that in myself as well, especially when playing with friends. Next time, I will focus on my breathing. Could you also tell me where you got that disc?

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thank you for the comment! Yes, you should definitely come visit Finland sometime. If you like disc golf, there's a ton of courses everywhere as well :) The two discs I used were Latitude's Compass and Mercy, just regular stock discs from a local store. I put Viking Disc LED stickers on the bottom of them, and also taped them in place since they tend to detach in treehits otherwise.

[@wambman]

@@SketchesForHumanity thanks for the info. The LED stickers are hard to find here in Belgium, I guess there isn’t that big a market for midnight Frolf :-P by the way, I like the format with the text boxes. I feel like your channel is ‘high information’ and this format is in line with that.

[@jasonlapp4559]

DUDE OMFG! Killer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@iam.2022]

Beautiful work, thank you for the tutorial!

[@NewQuinnProductions]

Your content is so unique and wonderful. A real inspiration.

[@Pascalsalaun]

Jolie travail, merci pour tout. bon courage....

[@flwi]

U.F.O.s in Finland🛸 I mean - the language sounds a bit extraterrestrial tbh ;-) Thanks for this great tutorial! That's a really powerful and intuitive way of creating stuff based on math. And non-destructive.

[@bigboss9150]

Really appreciate your videos, man. Keep up the great work!

[@blenderpete]

Absolutely incredible. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge 👍🙋‍♂️

[@ryanwilson1040]

For disk golf, It would be crazy to see the disk have lasers on it. Seeing it fly through the sky in the dark would be awesome. Especially on that camera in 4k (probably be an unbalanced nightmare to use but would look sweet)

[@SketchesForHumanity]

That's a fun idea! Imagine a foggy morning with laser discs...

[@rodolflum3444]

nice game !! disc golf go go go

[@JacobW_MTB]

You are very underrated. Keep up the good work!

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thank you!

[@mostlycolin]

Amazing video man, nice work.

[@artao5]

The POWER of geometry nodes. Wow. ... For me, it's a totally new way to think that is taking some time to wrap my mind around. Sadly, I'm still on Win 7 (well ... not "sadly." I very much LOVE Win 7) so I can no longer run 2.93 updates :( .. also ... DISC GOLF!! WOOT!! ... ~17:30 ... NICE PUTT!!

[@_evildoer]

Ok Ive never seen this in a GN tutorial before. I had no idea you could have several of them in the same modifier stack and they will read the info from previous node trees. Very cool.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Yeah I was thrilled when I saw that update, knew straight away I had to make a video about it! :)

[@KriGeta]

is it possible to make aura's, beam attacks with the help of geometry nodes?

[@siberiancggeek5152]

Hey! Why is the second tutorial about geometry nodes incomplete? Again, the part about creating materials is missing. I would like to repeat such tutorials to complete beauty. Let's say I don't know Blender enough yet. So I can't figure out how to make the lines glow and different colors. Maybe you can add the second part to this tutorial and tell us how to create the same textures as yours?Thank you for your hard work. Your tutorials are great!

[@tekbasket]

You need to put your materials on the sphere. If instead of using point instance for a single object you use a collection and then style each sphere in a collection with a different shader you can get the same effect he has here very easily. Hope this helps you!!

[@shmelkoy]

Hey! I really enjoy your tutorials! information is constructive and straight to the point. Loved additional text boxes, great way to add up info for noobs (like me hehe) to learn basic stuff in detail. The "after tutorial time" is my favorite to be honest. I love learning new blender tricks but sometimes it could be quite daunting to go through even a 20 min video, but with your videos I know there is going to be a "treat" at the end, motivates me to do more. I like some philosophy or to see whatever you do in your regular life and that... that connects me to you on a personal level. Like, you are not just a random blender tutorial guy, you got essence! Gives me such great desire to know more about you, what you do, what is your name, what are your plans for the future, how do you figure blender out? Anyway, thanks again for your videos! They are pure gold.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thank you so much for this comment, Aleksandra! I really appreciate you taking the time to give this positive feedback :) This is exactly what's been my plan, to try to also provide something else than pure blender in these videos, to hopefully make people interested in other things I've got going on. My "big picture" goal actually has nothing to do with blender, and this whole channel started out as a behind the scenes channel for my "main project", which is the Songs For Humanity project/channel. Songs For Humanity is about using music, animation/video and philosophy to try to increase people's sense of global unitedness, positivity and mindfulness, and to get excited about the future instead of all this fear that we see nowadays. As I say, even if the ship is going down, I want to go down singing beautiful songs instead of screaming :) Well, as it turns out, there's absolutely no search visibility for a project like that, so I figured I'll first gather an audience with some other types of videos, and try to include some philosophy in there also to hint at these greater aspirations, and to then hopefully get back at the big picture project at some point. And as you can see, blender tutorials turned out to be the best way for me to do that. You can check out the Songs For Humanity channel if you want, but be aware that there's now only a few quite old videos.. I'm of course learning a lot about making engaging content with all these other videos :) But yeah, stay tuned for a lot of other things besides blender tutorials! It looks like I'll get a dedicated small studio space later this year, which means it'll be easier for me to make music/videos. I'm very excited about that, and the growing audience I'm getting here at KZbin! And again, thanks for the encouraging comment :)

[@shmelkoy]

@@SketchesForHumanity I. Love. This. Concept! This is so fascinating and inspiring, thank you for taking your time to type all of that! Perhaps I could pitch in and help out with your channel growth somehow, I had a few ideas like a logo animation of your channel ;)

[@SketchesForHumanity]

It's awesome that you want to help, I'm honored! :) I don't have any specific needs at the moment, but of course I'll happily check out anything made for me, and use it if it's suitable. Probably the best thing you can do right now to advance the original cause of Songs For Humanity is to do something nice for someone! Positivity creates more positivity

[@KITCINDIA]

You should make more videos, your videos are really good👍👍👍

[@PetrSmrtka]

Thanks man, absolutely stunning tutorial - as always.

[@totochandelier]

always beautiful stuff 🙏🙏

[@atefezare5623]

Very creative and informative. Thanks for the effort 👍👍

[@stefanguiton]

excellent tutorial! Love these

[@imgtsmnlom]

Fantastic walk through of the new features, very much enjoyed your explanations! Tiny note: Poission was a french mathematician, so his name is pronounced Pwason and not like poison (that unhealthy thing). Cheers!

[@faganwilcox2443]

Love these videos so much. You giving me super powers

[@vachix]

Thanks, great video! Btw. I was baking a bread when I watched your video. It was so interesting that I totally forgot about the bread :)

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thanks for the comment! I hope the bread didn't end up burned :D Awesome that you're baking your own bread, btw! It's one of those skills that would be good to have for everyone, but most people still don't, including myself..

[@gossher]

Miss U!

[@CGPython]

Thank you for this excellent tutorial!

[@FifthOfNovember_Original]

No ny se viimein löyty. Oon vuosikausia miettiny, että miten voi olla mahdollista, että Blender-maailmasta ei vieläkään löydy yhtään kunnollista suomalaista aihekanavaa, ja tässä se nyt viimein on! Dude's tutorials are on point, very insightful and very easy to follow. If I could make one suggestion: invest in a nice pop filter or de-click the spoken audio afterwards. I can hear some clicks in the audio, that is otherwise perfect!

[@abrahambagas1607]

fell in love with your tutorial instantly. really like the method of not spoon feeding us. anyway, I kind of lost at texturing. Like the intro ( 0:08 ) it have 2 material if I'm not wrong, how do you achieve that?

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thank you for the feedback! Yeah, the 0:08 effect was done by separating the points before instancing ("point separate" node) with another random mask attribute (just a random 0-1 float), and then adding two instancing nodes with two different spheres, one with the emissive material and the other with a regular green material. Another simple way of making the same thing would be to just copy the whole setup onto another plane and choosing a different sphere for those instances. Hope this helps!

[@Ben-vk5ty]

@@SketchesForHumanity Can you help me find out my problem? I can’t show the two textures after doing so. This is my geonodes. reurl.cc/dVj6eV And rand3 is a random attribute float which put in first geonodes.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

@@Ben-vk5ty Difficult to say, from this screenshot everything seems ok to me. I suspect it's something to do with the mask attribute. Can you share the file in the SFH Discord server? I could take a look :) discord.gg/CRQcs7wt

[@gb1365]

@@SketchesForHumanity can you possibly explain this process in a bit more detail, this is the first time I have opened blender since 2.8 and I am so out of it. Also I was going to join the discord so I can ask for help there but the link expired. You gave me back my drive to make stuff in blender, thank you for that.

[@mjmuftah271]

Thank u for tut ❤❤ just amazing 👏 ❤❤

[@aviaxing2240]

Thanks for your tutorial and nice snow. I want to play too. This game looks fun.

[@SketchesForHumanity]

You should try! It's super easy and cheap to get into, you only need a basic midrange disc to get started :) And most courses are free to play, at least in Finland.

[@aviaxing2240]

@@SketchesForHumanity I will look up, never heard ppl around me played.

[@changes405]

thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!! can create some really wacky shiiii now :)

[@qubitx64]

This is beautiful.

[@marco_movie]

Hi. I like the idea of the texts added for further clarification but if I pause the video to read, I can't get rid of the scroll bar and other thins that KZbin superimposes. Perhaps you could consider placing the texts on the upper half of the screen? Thanks!

[@tcheadriano]

Awesome tut!!!

[@xdanic3]

I'm trying to learn GN now that they're gonna change them, (for good), but I wanna learn this soon to be replaced system cause it probably will make me better with the new one (The current one is "Hard mode"?). Even if this example on the video is more complex it helped me make a simple linear falloff effector, I didn't think about separating the coordinates of the input object and that was exactly what I needed.

[@Elyakim_binenstock]

can u show how u did the matariels for this swirly effect please

[@MladenMihajlovic]

Amazing effect!

[@bigboss9150]

I'm stuck on the second step. I have an issue with the screw modifier. It won't apply the same way it does with you. It's almost as if it doesn't have any effect. I'm adding it, like you are, right after putting in the point distribute node and nothing happens. Do you have any suggestions?

[@ibrahem891]

came here as i did have the same problem

[@connortheandroidsentbycybe3755]

me too

[@egretfx]

I love your work man' really awesome:)

[@lumbagomason]

Take care my distant friend. ♥

[@agselmedg2730]

I loved the tutorial, but i think it would have been nice if you included how to make the swirls different colors. For example in the result you showed in the beginning of the video there was some swirls that were green and some had blue emission on them

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Thanks for the feedback! The different colors were made by having one more random float (0-1) in the first geonode group, and then adding a point separate node using that random float as a mask, and then feeding both outputs into different point instance nodes. Those instance nodes can then have different sphere objects with different materials. Another way to do it is to just copy the whole setup and changing the seed of the point distribution, and also changing the instance object to one with a different material. Hope that helps!

[@lakvfx]

Awesome, keep up the good work

[@jozafax]

Great video!

[@JanSandahl]

The disco golf render wasn't too bad. A bit noisy. Eevee or Cycles?

[@SketchesForHumanity]

Cycles, since I wanted to get that realistic lighting around the baskets. Took forever to animate the player, though!

[@lakvfx]

Please make a environment tutorial in blender with sky

[@danieltedrow3169]

@Sketches For Humanity do you plan on redoing this tutorial? i was trying to do it but i cant get it to work in blender 4.0

[@XiagraBalls]

That Disc Golf bit was filmed at midday near Helsinki. 😄