The Keys to Realistic Blender Ice Landscapes Explained in 6 Minutes

[@SouthernShotty]

I'd like to see more landscape tutorials, it's something I struggle to find info on

[@KevBinge]

I’ll do some more, thanks!

[@detroiter4eva]

You got to be kidding us. Haha

[@toapyandfriends]

And playing with blender over the last seven months I realized that it's seriously the most genius conglomeration of perfect logically organized software that I've ever encountered... imagine if Windows 10 had capabilities more like blender like a Quick Favorites menu or something

[@KevBinge]

Yeah, that would be really cool haha!

[@toapyandfriends]

@@KevBinge 🤣

[@CameronKiesser]

This was the longest 6 minute, I mean 5 minute 53 second video ever. Didn't feel rushed nor too slow but it felt kinda long and I find that super fascinating. Great work and it's on my bucket list now.

[@KevBinge]

That’s awesome! I experimented with this one and crossed my fingers lol! Good luck and let me know if you hit any snags along the way.

[@SuperIceteapeach]

haha yeah it felt like 30 :D

[@7309TEO]

i cant wrap my mind around it as well, like what makes it seem long but its just a 5 min video :D

[@lekoee6078]

I followed this tutorial and its crazy how photorealistic it looks. I showed this someone and he thought it was an Image. You got a new sub!

[@KevBinge]

Very cool! That makes me want to do more of these. Welcome to the channel! Thanks.

[@lekoee6078]

@@KevBinge Thank you :)

[@anzaklaynimation]

For those who can't afford Davinci, you can do that in blender compositer. You can do all sorts of color grading, editing the different render layers, adding mist or fog in the scene using compositer. The only downside is that it is a bit difficult to do in blender.

[@KevBinge]

You’re correct. Thanks. I did use the free version of Resolve/Fusion in this video though.

[@Mocorn]

You make some really cool stuff my man. Almost every single video sparks my imagination and creativity. Thanks for that :)

[@KevBinge]

That’s great to hear!! I’m happy to help 😁. Thanks!

[@massart09]

you are so talented . never boring to watching your videos.

[@KevBinge]

Thank you so much!!

[@-erikros-]

Great! 5 minutes seems to be the golden mark right now! keep on keeping on!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks Erik! It seems to be the limit for attention anyway lol!

[@Just3DThings]

Really good tips in here! Thanks Kev!😀

[@KevBinge]

Thanks buddy!

[@baldwinnigatovf8095]

Thank you very much. this will come in handy on my current short film project.

[@KevBinge]

Awesome.

[@DanB]

nice, informative and fun.. perfect!

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!!

[@cgichecklist6005]

That's a beautiful tutorial Kev.. thanks for sharing buddy.🙂

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! I always love it when you give the feedback cause your work is lit! Have a great new year!

[@Quetzalcoatl0]

Really cool. One suggestion i would give you is to never put fake black bars on a video. Just render it at the aspect ratio you want. Give some love to ultra wide users ^_^.

[@KevBinge]

Ahh, thanks for the head’s up! I’d hadn’t thought about those with really good monitors!

[@glenn_r_frank_author]

Very cool. Why did I never know about the LANDSCAPE plugin! UGGH! been doing things the hard way.

[@KevBinge]

It’s all good Glenn! I find new things all the time too haha! Thanks!

[@SuperIceteapeach]

Damn this video felt like 30 mins but it were only 5! so much stuff packed going straight to the point... awesome!!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!! I really liked this one.

[@mrCetus]

Amazing as always! 👏👏👏

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!!

[@houseofjpg]

Let's go more landscapes!!!

[@KevBinge]

I have some more coming, thanks!

[@mallickpriyanshu]

Would love to see more of these ❤️

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!! I can do more!

[@justin7649]

lol, I appreciated the rapid mouse movements. I do that all the time and my wife hates it when I'm explaining things. I love it.

[@KevBinge]

Hahaha! Thanks!! I should get a better way of doing that come to think of it.

[@justin7649]

@@KevBinge Haha, don't change a thing, my friend.

[@ZayxSt]

damn this was very simple and fast, thats all I needed, thank you

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😁

[@KlaudiusL]

Great video! Thank you 👍

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, and thanks!

[@elon_ma]

Dude thank you so much! I hope you have a great year!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks, and I hope you have a great year as well!

[@IntrovertBliss]

This was truly helpful. Thank you!!

[@KevBinge]

I’m glad! Thanks!

[@AFLAutoBlendz3DCarCreations]

Looks great. I will have a go at this. Thanks for the video

[@KevBinge]

Awesome! Go for it!

[@Heisenburg17]

damn I'll get my workstation soon and will rock in blender all day

[@KevBinge]

Go for it Stan!! 🤘🤘

[@maxsaltin1001]

this looked so good

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!!

[@domin6168]

Thanks kev, it will come in handy for sure haha

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome Jakis!

[@CabrioDriving]

Could you make more advanced version of it with geometry nodes and ice moving/rotating in water? Also, some sharp glacier peeks, icebergs breaking and falling into water, respecting gravity acceleration, as camera moves closer? :)

[@KevBinge]

Yeah, not in Blender though, that’s a tall order.

[@soulid]

big thanks for this video

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@madlookzvfx]

Thank you!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@DashenBoi]

How come I didn't know about this.. I'm literally making a vfx music video with a plane crashing into the north pole and I need it done by Christmas. I used a premade landscape model because I'm such a noob that I didn't even know how to make mountains. Well I'm too lazy to re-do everything so I'm gonna implement this knowledge into next time I make a project like this.

[@KevBinge]

Awesome!! KZbin hates my channel lol. I’m glad you were at least able to use pre-made. Have a great holiday!

[@DashenBoi]

@@KevBinge You too! Yk I can give you some KZbin algorithm tips if you want

[@savsculpts]

Great Video 🔥❗️

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!!

[@CGcelestial]

This is incredible wooo

[@OnkAnCa64]

great , thanks

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, thanks!

[@dilipvfx]

Nice tutorial...Thanks

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@element1111]

Thanks. Informative.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome Dreadnought! Thanks!

[@3laws292]

Happy new year. Yes, we need more penguins, please.

[@KevBinge]

Yes, many more penguins! Happy New Year!

[@3d_hive295]

Thank you !!!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome😀

[@erictrottier3958]

Thank you

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome Eric!

[@smilgu]

Super! Thanks a lot! :)

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome Vidas!

[@vmartme]

Thanks!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome.

[@fixigun7024]

Bro !! I just discovered addons with your video XD. Possibilities are just so big !

[@KevBinge]

Oh yeah, there are some great addons!

[@yourpersonaldatadealer2239]

Amazing

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!

[@trulgn]

1:45 how do you get that other menu "Don't press anything here" what then how do I get menu to show ??? I'm stuck at the very start HELP ME please I'm using blender 3.0.0

[@pzez2781]

nice one!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks pzez!

[@toapyandfriends]

😀"I don't know you!"...😆...🤣🤣🤣

[@KevBinge]

😁😁

[@MahckMedia]

Crazy Good!👍👍

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!

[@waterdragonstudios7167]

That was cool.

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!

[@TheFalseDragon]

i dont understand how did you delete the bottom because i cant, its connect to the landscape

[@neozoid7009]

Awesome

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!!

[@IndieUSA]

This is awesome! Just curious, how long did it take to render out the drone-ish shot at 5:30?

[@KevBinge]

A couple of hours if I remember correctly.

[@IndieUSA]

@@KevBinge Thank you!

[@Shadevisualss]

2:15 why i cant delete it ?

[@dreamsandrealms4581]

Very nice :)

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!

[@indrakomara6966]

cool...thanks

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@russelp9666]

Well man, are u considering to make a more comprehensive blender course? Like making a CGI short movie. Would like to buy it

[@KevBinge]

I’d love to Russel. Right now I have Patreon but I do have plans this year to do a course or at least a short film and content. That’s if I don’t get slammed in production again haha! Thanks, and have a Happy New Year!!

[@russelp9666]

@@KevBinge Thanks man! Absolitely will join ur patreon and my wallet is ready for ur course! Happy new year!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks Russel! I’ll be hitting up the Patreon even more this year as there is such a backlog of ideas I have that I couldn’t do yet.

[@russelp9666]

@@KevBinge Really thanks!

[@stefanvennekens]

Hello, love your work. at 4.16 you mention a driver to animate the water bump, can you elaborate on that please. Br, happy blending!

[@KevBinge]

Sure! If you type “#frame” (no quotes) into the W field of the noise, it creates a driver that animates over time. Does that help?

[@stefanvennekens]

@@KevBinge thanks

[@bishalscreation]

Outstanding 👏👏👏🙌. May i know you pc specs pls. 🙌

[@KevBinge]

I believe this one was on a i7, 16GB of Ram, and a gtx1070.

[@sashapaul6547]

how do i get the "additional noise menu" to reappear after clicking on the landscape?

[@Alexb-Art]

where can i get the exact same HDRI? If on Polyhaven, can I get the name please?

[@cyborgmetropolis7652]

Great work! Better model Greenland before it melts!

[@KevBinge]

That’s the plan 😁

[@mahabbat1960]

Well it's very realistic!!! Want to try it) now!) interesting how it will looks in eevee and can i get some result using this tutorial)

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! You can certainly use EEVEE and really tweak it. The look might be slightly different but go for it!

[@mahabbat1960]

@@KevBinge thank you for the answer, i will try)

[@KevBinge]

Awesome, let me know 🤞

[@HEYPictures-legacy]

Niice thanks!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, and thanks!

[@CabrioDriving]

Hi. Awesome effect. Looks like real. Could you provide project file for download in video description? Would be awesome to have something working and be able to experiment with it.

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! I do have this up on Patreon along with most files (almost all) from every video I’d ever done.

[@arjungowda6452]

Thank Y❤️U

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome Arjun!

[@Land-Shark]

FYI: Ice cubes are really just penguin dookies. Just like there are squirrels running on hamster wheels in your car's engine bays, there are peguins doing their business in your freezer so that you can have a chilled beverage on demand. I spent the first 35 years of my life in Alaska, and you nailed the look! :)

[@KevBinge]

Thanks so much Land Shark! I appreciate it. I’d love to go to Alaska. There is such an amazing wilderness there. Funny story... on the engineering panel of the set of Star Trek TNG, there is was a hamster wheel in main engineering. It was too small for the cameras to pick up, but I’ve seen it close up lol.

[@Land-Shark]

@@KevBinge That's awesome! I'm an OG Trekkie, and even attended the first Alaska Star Trek Convention in the winter of 1974 when I was 8-years old, which was about 25 people gathering at the TV station that aired Star Trek. Walter Koenig was supposed to be the guest star but the weather was too bad for the planes to land (not all commercial jets were equipped with the proper radar needed to land in bad weather back in those days), so he didn't make it. We were bummed out, but we watched a couple of Star Trek episodes and chatted about all things Trek for a couple of hours. I'd love to see some of the sets and props from all of the various Trek series. Cool stuff! :)

[@KevBinge]

That’s really cool! I think they started using FLIR after that but I’m not sure that helps land... I’ll have to ask my pilot friend about that haha! I’d have loved to go to a ST convention just for the fun of it. It’s a great world Gene created. I wonder how much they’ve picked up with later generations. Being behind a paywall doesn’t help, but I liked Picard for the most part... Nothing beats the original with a real crazy dialog between Bones and “the green-blooded Vulkan.” Hahahaha!!

[@Land-Shark]

@@KevBinge I enjoyed the Picard series, and have really liked the Discovery series, too. Good story arcs, likeable characters and REALLY good fx! :) Someone who annoys you when you're trying to remain calm is a Spock-blocker. :)

[@KevBinge]

Haha! Spock-blocker! I’m slowly moving through Discovery now and enjoying it. It took me a bit to realize where it sits on the timeline because everything looks so futuristic comparatively to even Enterprise. I was shocked haha. Picard has the Borg and I really like that storyline. They are a great threat with very high stakes. I’d love to see a series (Maybe Picard) go into their origins a bit without ruining it. Kind of like you never really want to know where the xenomorphs come from in Alien. I find that this far in they’d just ruin it, but if the writers had free-reign, they could come up with something horrifically cool and deep, maybe 🤞

[@ragibrahman9594]

quick question: when i render a scene in blender and bring it into premier pro the video glitches, why and how do i avoid the glitch?

[@UsernameGeri]

Great tutorial, but @3:58 is that supposed to be a troll? xD Like, what am I supposed to "dial in" with the frigging _subsurface radius_ lmao? I'm sure >99% of people don't even know what it does.

[@KevBinge]

You caught it 😀. Thanks!

[@theholynumber4508]

@@KevBinge wait so i shouldn't mess with those settings..? just spent like 15 mins trying to "dial it in" haha

[@KwasiMedia]

Nice

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!

[@KwasiMedia]

@@KevBinge definitely welcome...🙏🏾💪🏾

[@GraceBahatiMurekezi]

how do you cut the bottom

[@Mr3DArtist]

Woh

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! 😀

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

ice ice baby

[@KevBinge]

I rock the mic like a vandal! Lol

[@alexpetre3445]

Really nice tutorial, i tried to do the same but only with the 3d model to make a nice ant nest but it seems impossibile do you think you could help me with that?

[@KevBinge]

Try using a setting that looks more like a volcano. There’s one that looks like a pointy mountain in there. That might help.

[@jsvvj6753]

i have one dobt , what is the difference between making the blender background in eeve and cycle ? pls reply me sir?

[@KevBinge]

Cycles is a path tracer, while EEVEE is a rasterizer. Two different renderers, and different looks.

[@joebrogan7858]

whenever i try to delete the faces i do exactly what you do. But there are still alot of things that are still there no matter what mode i have it on what do i do

[@KevBinge]

Are you by any chance accidentally duplicating faces when you’re in edit mode? If you do that you “could” be getting duplicate faces without knowing it.

[@vito6397]

Great video! How did you do the ocean? I just can't seem to get mine right

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! The ocean is just a plane with a slight roughness and noise bump that Is stretched a bit on one axis.

[@vito6397]

@@KevBinge Ohh, so you didn't use the ocean modifier? Interesting

[@KevBinge]

Yeah, for this I'd kept it very simple. If I'd used the ocean modifier it would have introduced other things I didn't want to deal with like moving ice, light waves displacing around the icebergs, etc...

[@prodbymxrxn]

I’m honestly frustrated with the deleting part why did you do that so fast 😩😩😩😩

[@3IRDDY]

why didn't my ocean animate? did I do something wrong... lMFAO help. I swear I followed the video hehe

[@robbinblo]

Is the end clip cgi or real?

[@KevBinge]

CG

[@robbinblo]

@@KevBinge Looks insane. Well done!

[@how2pick4name]

You just took a picture of that ice wall at the end of the flat earth, didn't you? :D ;)

[@KevBinge]

I wish lol!! Happy New Year!

[@how2pick4name]

@@KevBinge Happy new year!

[@jkartz92]

depth with water would be more real

[@KevBinge]

Yeah, there are far more things to get this where I’d want it. I’d addressed that in the video.

[@fabioroncal8763]

Noce content, just a little less jokes and more tutorial would be much appreciated

[@KevBinge]

That’s what I do on Patreon for like an hour lol.

[@how2pick4name]

@@KevBinge Don't listen to him. It's one of the reasons I watch and I'm sure I'm not the only one. lol

[@fabioroncal8763]

@@how2pick4name so watch a stand up comedy show instead, not a blender tutorial ;) cheers

[@how2pick4name]

@@fabioroncal8763 🤦

[@mikebert]

everybody gangsta until after effects comes in

[@KevBinge]

Lol

[@martinmeberni5034]

why you talking so fast... my brain hurts...

[@gcasqueiro]

Amazing as always! 👏👏👏

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!!

[@polygon4ik646]

during watching this video i presset alt+tab more than in my entire life

[@Snehjfsjjdjddjd]

what hdri were you using in the video?

[@giovannimontagnana6262]

just found your channel. Super cool stuffs. Smashed the subscribe button immediately

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!! I should probably make more videos lol.

[@giovannimontagnana6262]

@@KevBinge for sure :) we are looking forward to watch them

[@KevBinge]

@giovannimontagnana6262 Thanks Giovanni 😀

[@YouInVR]

Yes, please do more of arctic ice environments. As realistic as possible.

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! I may 😀