Tutorial: Stylized waterfall in Blender

[@FlamingFoxProd]

Here's a tip if you want the waterfall to loop! At 13:40 or so, you see him keyframe the X location. Instead, do the X *rotation.* On your first frame, set the rotation to 0, and on your last frame, set it to -360. It should loop perfectly! Keep in mind you'll need to make the animation pretty long if you want it to move more slowly.

[@___Goose]

im curious if you got the top and bottom part of the water to loop too.

[@QWERTYCommander]

For making a looping waterfall, I made a seamless tileable texture using this tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqiwqJ6LeMpmgbc (you plug the Mapping node from this tutorial into the Scale node, and ignore the "pi times 2" value he says and just put whatever works best). It might loop too frequently, but you can make it less noticeable by messing with the values.

[@flyingjudgement]

@@QWERTYCommander Thanks all that math adding up, is quiet expensive for a game.

[@しらゆき-m2g]

Don't ever stop making these AMAZING helpful tutorials

[@NeneMissy]

Serious request: can you do -anime mountains 🏔 -anime hillsides -anime rocks -and anything else you come up with

[@KristofDedene]

shallow Water and oceans are first on the agenda and rocks and mountains will follow later!

[@NeneMissy]

Kristof Dedene is you do any painting can you add that to the videos.. like tips for brushes and techniques in Ps or whateverprogram.. ESPECIALLY if you paint in blender

[@ethankarlinsey7267]

I love the look of the rocks in this scene, and I'd love to see how they were made

[@RyoMassaki]

@@ethankarlinsey7267 You model a stylized rock and then you apply a stylized hand-painted texture - come on man, this isn't rocket science, you don't need a tutorial for that. You have eyes to see - you see how these rocks look like, now try it yourself.

[@Pickygamingz]

@@RyoMassaki Its much easier when following a tutorial, doing it yourself can be much harder and you can learn much more from watching a tutorial and having a guide, even if its just doing the same thing you said in your comment, I bet with a videos tips and tricks it will look alot better

[@Hashirama_Sinju]

The scene looks gorgeous, I love Gibli style and I love your tutorials, first the gibli's grass and now water I am so thankful and looking forward for more of your tutorials.

[@horacioiaboni]

Great tutorial!! For the base waves: if you connect the Soft Light color output to the volume input of material output, you will get a nice an animated fog.

[@Marcsine]

This effect looks great as always!

[@thedevil9442]

you keep blowing my mind, man. great work.

[@JayBacay]

I was just done with the grass and theres another one? thank you sir!

[@skepsys_d]

That was seriously awesome and rather easy to get, Thank you for sharing this.

[@duran3d]

This is great, thanks for posing. But I would add that a tutorial for the rest of the scenery (grounds, rocks...) would also be appreciated.

[@nacht5033]

This guy always amaze me

[@AshleyAlyse]

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing your blender wisdom!

[@BitterNor1]

great tutorial, I was almost finished when Blender decided to crash without any reason. Awesome 2 hours of work down the drain. Make sure to save so this doesn't happen to you :( Thanks for the tutorial. I will try again when i don't feel like strangling my pc. 🥲😅

[@prthikkarthikeyan3013]

will be sure to use this technique!

[@RobZombii]

Dude, your ghibli-style tutorials are a life-saver! Subcribed!

[@solanumespe]

Thank you!! Best tutorial!

[@janthummler3548]

Wow this looks great, thank you very much. To think procedural materials can be animated so smooth, I did not experiment much with animation so far, but now I am motivated ^^

[@zuul8721]

Looks amazing

[@flareside259]

Absolutely love the look of this. Only downside ive found out is resizing the water planes at all breaks the look of it.

[@aashay]

I'm amazed by such different techniques used by Blender artists and you are definitely in a league of your own. So glad I found this. Looking forward to learning a lot from this channel 🙏 Maybe some detailed Scene creation like Derrek Elliott 💥😊

[@ylk4612]

Thank you so much for this amazing video!!

[@mmartin4291]

Thank you so much man ! its very easy to follow and the result is prety cool !

[@CheerleaderTW5566]

Amazing!

[@Novia5555]

Man, this is so great. I'm always looking for a decent of NPR like this :')

[@Rarirama]

Awesome stuff, thank you!

[@DevinDaNewt]

Keep it up I've been looking for tutorials like this for so long!!!

[@ainur387]

it's amazing tutorial. I want more anime style!

[@Harindu101]

I absolutely love your videos, bro! They are amazing and truly inspiring. Thank you so much for creating such great content

[@naja1690]

make sure the node where you want the keyframe to be active is selected (it as a white outline when it is). Hope it solve your problem

[@akyjagua5491]

Love the style! please more tutorials

[@TunaScroll]

Thank you for not being so shortcut heavy in your tutorials! 🙏🏼 I finished the waterfall yesterday after a few issues of getting a few numbers wrong and one of the planes backwards I was able to enjoy completing something in blender next to my wonky banana lol You’re gonna have to make a part two on how you made the rocks/grass and the first two planes transparent.

[@KristofDedene]

thx for the feedback. I think you need some basic knowledge of blender for my tutorials, but I try not to go too fast! Tomorrow I'll release a tutorial on Clouds. Rocks will also be coveredas well, but I want to fit it into a bigger tutorial about procedurally generated textures that look painted. I've already started on that one, but its going to be a bigger tutorial than I'm used to. PS love the black cat, I have one sitting beside me right now!

[@tripplejaz]

Here before your channel blows up! I’m really interested in your take on Ghibli VFX like wind, smoke, etc.

[@KristofDedene]

I am also going to do some anime vfx in the future! Not strictly ghibli, akira for instance has got some stunning fx.

[@seekertosecrets]

This will be an interesting video to try an pull off in an earlier version of Blender.

[@proplayer682]

Great work!

[@BobbyJ529]

this is some big brained stuff. nice

[@IyeViking]

I love your content, keep it up! You’re definitely going to build a reputation for great stylised Blender creations

[@fabianesneider4339]

excellent tutorial friend I hope you upload more videos like this

[@georgetherat3345]

Wow! This is beautiful. Your explanation is succinct and clear. Thank you for sharing this.

[@4yanimation68]

Great work... Love it...

[@llRagingllDemonll]

Thank you so much for this.

[@pioni8635]

Thank you for this ♥. I did try to find a tutorial for something like this a few weeks ago and could not find what I was looking for.

[@genshian]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[@sofiat338]

this was epic! thank you

[@sanjupaul850]

awesome kristof you are insane bring more video

[@CallMeVidd]

For the transparency, if I make the transparent color blue, it just turnhs black anyways It works in cycles but not in eevee edit: Found a fix by comparing the tutorial file to mine. The water material's blend mode has to be on Alpha Blend

[@thickboynextdoor]

I fucking love you 😂 I was freaking out

[@kingsridge]

Great tutorial, man. Subbed!

[@jerieldeguzman5297]

Really awesome stuff man, keep up the great tutorials!

[@Inv_ity]

Loved the tutorial! Thank you so much :)

[@jujuboohoo]

Many thanks for this. Not sure yet why I needed it but I needed it. lol Subbed.

[@ROH-qn8ny]

I love so mach this style and texture! You are amazing, thank you for tutorial

[@ijojoi7226]

Huge and very creative

[@vpangraphics781]

This is the future of 2D animation. Wow

[@robestey5628]

Cool. Thank you. I have subscribed.

[@anda_]

Could you possibly do a tutorial on the rocks and moss you have too? I'm still learning Blender and would love to be able to replicate the whole scene for myself!

[@IyeViking]

I'm pretty sure the rocks are hand painted! I'd recommend getting a drawing tablet, you can use that to draw within blender, photoshop, etc. You can get fairly cheap ones :) If you decide to get one, you should try to find some painting study videos

[@Hello-wn2dr]

iye_Viking Pretty sure they're made using either nodes or some very funky textures

[@Justathereptile]

Do you plan on doing a tutorial for rocks and cliffs done in a stylized way? I've been wanting to learn that for a while.

[@KristofDedene]

Rocks and mountains are on the agenda. I dont think you can do rocks without handpainting the textures so it will probably be a photoshop/blender tutorial.

[@Justathereptile]

@@KristofDedene Okay

[@Skye-tj2uv]

cool tut !

[@thinginthenorth]

That is so awesome... thanks for this!

[@IMMaSterGAMER]

love dis tutorial.💛

[@Palestine-first]

great love it thanks

[@aidoluthfia.82]

love it man, keep up the great works

[@Squashygaming09]

Yes I love ghibli style blender tutorials

[@ahmedsalih2308]

Well done!

[@Duuy]

uuhh i think i ve found something special here^^ subbed!

[@panjiasmoro7965]

this is amazing.. great work man

[@hardcotton157]

THIS IS AMAZING

[@igmart194]

Awesome work. Thank you.

[@mahesh0806]

Awesome! Thanks for the tutorial :D

[@laxmanrawat748]

Terrific 😱😱😱

[@damonwang0323]

Great work ~~~ thank you !!

[@2DFiji]

My god, the hero I was gonna ask if we can get a water tutorial

[@KristofDedene]

Next tutorial is going to be about the caustics and I also want to do one about large bodies of water like an ocean, so I'm not done with water yet :)

[@Hashirama_Sinju]

@@KristofDedene did you approach making gibli's looking trees. This scene would be so perfect with animated grass. Thanks again

[@2DFiji]

@@KristofDedene Oh hell yes! Can't wait to see them I swear it's like you're making a 3D workflow for Studio Ghibli

[@Jeffie433]

@@KristofDedene I am very much ready for an ocean tutorial from you! I'm working on a studio ghibli style scene overlooking an ocean and I'm struggling to get a good style with nice water sparkle effects and caustics.

[@KristofDedene]

@@Jeffie433 very soon! :)

[@nickfai9301]

Thanks. I just got this project a few hours ago. May I know how to make a longer animation of the water?

[@ujjwal2415]

You Are Legend 🙌

[@Riley_Christian]

Amazing work. Earned yourself a sub!

[@entangledstudio8123]

just keep uploading video like dis on blender about gibli style and anime style....really your videos helps alot.

[@ginescap]

really nice done, thanks

[@jacopodiprima4513]

Thanks this is soooo good, mabye a tree trunk video next??

[@KristofDedene]

Trees and foliage are on the agenda!

[@ClubAnimacion3D]

👏👏👏 great! Muy bueno!

[@MrRemi1802]

Brilliant!

[@dee6561]

Awesome!

[@akiradaichi3780]

PERFECT!! REALLY GOOD,. Now if u want to add rocks in the way of the waterfall, you could make another texture in the material for the water with an diferent effect, i used an musgrave, then i added an vertex color node to control the fac of the mix shader between the 2 textures, then used the "col" of the waterfall plane, then painted the part i want the water to be diffent on the water plane with the vertex paint (with various subdvisions for better result) and it's an really good result you should try! ;)

[@KristofDedene]

Cool, I definitely want to revisit water in the future. So much different styles and references to try out. thx for the tip!

[@juliend2637]

Hey man, your art is amazing. One question: how do you do to find how to do this? Just playing with the tool? Reading docs? Anything else? Thanks for answering :)

[@m.s.henderson5990]

Hey Kristof, love your videos. Do you have any suggestions on how to make rain over a house?

[@soukyokusen3785]

これすげえな good job!

[@threciamiemangubat10]

how do you make those rocks and grasses? can you have tutorial from the beginning especially that rocks and grass with waterfalls, please?

[@NarekManukyan]

thank you sooo much!

[@chunksie3851]

You make absolutely fantastic content. In the future, can you please enable screencast keys in case you use a command we aren't familiar with?

[@KristofDedene]

Will do!

[@chunksie3851]

@@KristofDedene Also as a quick follow-up, regarding the actual tutorial. How would one go about making something like a riverbend out of this? Basically I would just want the voronoi texture to look like it's bending around a corner. I first just used a duplicate plane going a different direction, and it sort of worked. But is there a way to do it within the same plane/object?

[@PowersVideo3D]

Maybe explain why you're making each choice. "Change the texture to quadratic sphere" ... because? But overall amazing work!

[@Soturi_the_paladin]

You know I always go into these videos thinking its gonna be harder than it is. Then its so horribly obvious i feel stupid lol.

[@hopelightandpath2549]

Man.... I really like all yours! Why dont you make a class for people ?

[@illustratewithtomomi4151]

How did you not mess up the texture in 6:56? When I move an loop edge the texture also moves with it.

[@Kobenpalembang]

awesome... but helppp.... when i try render... blender is close (because grass) T.T

[@rizallah2134]

How u made the rock, grass and all stuff. Can u make a tutorial for this?

[@runningcoyote9972]

sick

[@HouseJambo]

Can this be taken into Unity?

[@DanielBell-w2i]

at 2:58 he said he is "selecting the texture" and then changes the scale but it only changes one of the two planes. i can't seem to make it do that. anyone advise?

[@danielserna5222]

Bro i´m you fan. Thank u

[@shareddreams]

Fantastic! And how are you getting interpolation mode in the timeline window without going to the dope sheet?

[@KristofDedene]

rightclick on the keyframe

[@jesudoss7795]

Thank you sir

[@T61APL89]

for some reason switching material settings blend mode from opaque to alpha blend doesn't work? ive like triple checked and followed step by step but i cant seem to get my water to be transparent like u've shown. ive followed exactly up to the point where you switch the blend mode from opaque to alpha blend and yet the bg still remains black?

[@oakleaves3605]

I started learning this now that long ago, but I think i have every blender guide pattern: Smashing your mouse buttons and keyboard like they owe you money I'm scared for mines