Underwater Scene in Blender

So by now you might've heard of this thing called #TeamSeas. It's this huge campaign set up by MrBeast and Mark Rober to generate money to cleanup our oceans. And this is something I truly care about as there is way to much trash floating around and polluting our seas. Especially one of my favorite animals, the seaturtle, is a highly endangered species and it needs our help. And that's why I created this not so pristine underwater scene in Blender and show you how it's done.
In this video we'll be going over topics such as looping an animation in Blender, importing a model in Blender, setting up our ocean shader, volumetrics, light rays or god rays if you will, setting up several particle systems to create the 'floating' trash and finally compositing everything to look good.
I will be donating all the adrevenue from this video to #TeamSeas and if this turns out to not be enough, I will add some of my own money to atleast cleanup 20 pounds of trash ($20). So make sure to share this video with all your friends, the more views, the more money and I would love to be able to donate $100 or even more!
Also do make sure to subscribe as I will be keeping you posted on the money progression for this donation video!
Download the free basefile here:
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Downlaod the turtle model from Sketchfab here:
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Download the basefile
1:00 Sea Turtle
3:34 Setting up the Ocean Volume
5:42 Creating Light Shafts / God Rays
7:16 Setting up the Trash Particle Systems
11:07 Compositing
12:40 End Credits (WATCH TILL HERE FOR MAX DONATION TO TEAMSEAS)
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Credits for the Seaturtle model go to DigitalLife3D on Sketchfab.
Credits for the Soda Cans model goes to Anthony Yanez on Sketchfab.
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[@KaizenTutorials]

Share this video with your friends and don’t forget to watch till the end so I can donate as much as possible to #TeamSeas!

[@curioustime2376]

Yeah 😀

[@froggo5675]

You're doing good things man! For the Earth and its animals and also for Blender. Keep it up!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! 🙏🏻

[@shivammittal344]

Good Initiative man ...very few people get out of blender and do these these ...and you're one of them!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad you think so and thanks!

[@IvayloGogov]

Kaizen, wonderful tutorials! Keep going. #TeamSeas, is a good cause, and you have great approach spreading the cause.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! Appreciate it 🙏🏻

[@perttutuomaalamusic]

Great Work! We need more ppl like you!

[@KaizenTutorials]

I appreciate that! Thanks

[@kasualvfx4985]

One of the best tutorial

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you!

[@nigellill3222]

Great tutorial & a very worthwhile cause. As a professional diver for about 20 years I now take a bag with me on every dive just to collect rubbish in which 10 years ago I wouldn't have had to do. Clear plastic bags that fishermen buy their bait in are probably the worst as they're often mistaken by turtles for jellyfish & eat them. Take care 👍🏼🦘

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you Nigel! How cool that you are a professional diver, but all the more poignant to hear your direct experience with this problem. Especially the thing about the bags and turtles, i’ve heard about it before and it really saddens me to my core to hear these things. Thanks for watching the video, I hope it will take off so I can give as much money as possible to the cause!

[@nigellill3222]

@@KaizenTutorials I'm sure "Team Seas" will appreciate your effort raising money for them, whether it's a lot or a little every dollar helps & they'll be grateful for it. My diving is now confined to weekends & the very rare day I can get away from Graphic design. I managed to create a niche market for myself in 3d artwork & I have regular clients so it keeps me busy. 👍🏼🦘

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks, yeah I hope I can raise a lot before the deadline. And else I’ll just put in some of my own, because the cause is to important not to. But that sounds great! What niche might that be? If you’re willing to share ofcourse. I’m orignally a Graphic Designer/Art Director myself! So professional interest you might say haha

[@nigellill3222]

@@KaizenTutorials Well this might sound strange but I work with several chef's who make wedding, birthday or special occasion cakes for the more wealthy clients. I draw up a 3d render for the client according to their requirements so they have a fair representation of what the finished cake will look like. The render is first submitted to the patisserie chef & he decides if it looks realistic or to perfect. When you look at a McDonalds menu & all the pictures of the burgers are perfect but the real thing looks nothing like the picture on the menu. I have to model something the chef can make not a perfect cake. Some cakes can cost $10,000 AU & more so the chefs use me as an insurance policy against clients who would say "That cake is not what I wanted" the chef has a 3d render with the clients signature on it so there's no arguments.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Aaah that’s like doing animation, where a storyboard needs to be signed off before actually doing any animation. But yeah, that sounds pretty sweet (pun intended 😉) and fun to do! And it makes sense, considering the prices you really don’t want any unnecessary arguments. Great that you found your niche like that 👍🏻

[@skycladsquirrel]

Amazing, I'm working on a project just like this right now. Love it and keep up the great work. I was using a looped video for the caustic rays. I love your noise version. Cheers!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Cool, thanks!

[@paravverma4788]

Thanks!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you!

[@liamconway9953]

The E. A. C., dude!

[@KaizenTutorials]

You’re riding it, dude!

[@elixerofmemes7379]

Great vid

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[@gamooor1386]

Amazing tutorial and great initiative! I followed along and now my project is in render, only 12 more hours to go!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Nice work! You could save on a bunch of time rendering if you haven't optimized your render settings. I just did a video on that! Might be a bit late now though since my reply is 13 hours after your comment and you needed 12 hours to render lol

[@paravverma4788]

A Very small amount from my side - India ! Hope we all will remove the trash from the Earth !! All the best and keep doing good work !

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks a lot! Any amount is much appreciated. The world definitely needs less trash! 💪

[@hashibira2891]

❤ for our poor ocean and fauna

[@cyplot]

🐢💙

[@KaizenTutorials]

🐢🐢🖤🖤

[@curioustime2376]

Sir this is awesome 👍🏻 ,, I am eager to try it , as a child I am just giving like and share to al the team seas and fundraise video 🙃

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! Liking and watching is already enough, as it will give me ad revenue to give to #TeamSeas.

[@curioustime2376]

@@KaizenTutorials oh sir that's awesome , ur wlc and thx for ur content

[@KaizenTutorials]

Your welcome!

[@kasualvfx4985]

Hello not sure if u still respond but in the shading section of the video, how do I get 2 tabs of object mode and video mode? Also I accidentally make the object mode in shading full screen so I am unable to see the ocean and the turtle, how do I revert that? Not sure if you understand. But wonderful video.

[@KaizenTutorials]

You can make windows fullscreen by pressing CTRL+ALT+Spacebar. PRessing it again makes it small again. To get multiple windows just click on any corner of a window and drag in a new window. You can then change the window type at the top left corner. Hope that helps!

[@honkwanwu6148]

Are there any missing steps after 6:10? I followed everything but the cookie plane is still blocking all lights, are there additional steps to apply cutouts?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Make sure to change the material settings blend mode (under setting tab in the material tab) to Alpha Blend! Also make sure you are inputting the 'Color' output from the color ramp into the Alpha of the Principled BSDF and NOT the 'Alpha' output. Hope this helps!

[@honkwanwu6148]

@@KaizenTutorials Was looking everywhere, got it working thanks!

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem!

[@AlisaF]

It helped me to change the render engine from Eevee to Cycles.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Great tip!

[@ayshab5786]

Hi, great video! it's my first time using blender and I'm stuck on 3:43. What do you mean when you said go into top view?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Numpad 7! :-)

[@amoghagrawal1]

Great Tutorial! I hope your video helps you generate enough revenue for #TeamSeas. Such a noble cause 🙏🏼 I completed making the animation but when I go into camera view, I just see black. I have added the light, god rays, volume density is 0.02 but I do not what is happening in it. I used Blender 3.0 (29 Nov build) for making it. When I go out of camera mode in rendered view only and zoom out to see the volume cube, then I see all the colours and everything Also can you help as when I make all paths relative, it says that two turtle textures are missing but I cant find those two textures in the sea turtle textures

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! In regards to the turtle textures, you might need to redownload the model from Sketchfab? The textures should be in there. for me they even automatically got applied to the model when importing it into Blender. On the other problem I find it hard to pinpoint what's going wrong. Are you sure there is not some object blocking the camera or anything? If you want you can send me some screenshots to better show the issue via e-mail at [e-mail]

[@Viktor-ty5yl]

I have the same trouble with the Volume cube, I cannot see through it just like you do.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Are you in Cycles? I believe they got it fixed, but I can’t remember how!

[@paridhidhariwal5945]

Hey, great tutorials, but when I choose render as object. I'm unable to choose the cap (parictle system name) in instance object? What do I do?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! I’m not sure what’s going wrong. Feel free to send me an email at [e-mail] with some screenshots of what’s going!

[@MrTomyCJ]

Is the anisotropy trick a "hack"? Or is it actually recreating the actual physical phenomena that makes it darker at the bottom?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Basically anisotropy is the way a material changes or assumes different properties in different directions. So it makes sense that it does what it does. However I’m no science expert by any means and I don’t know if it’s a true-to-life recreation of how light fades in different directions..

[@therealcaydonrascoe]

I’m curious how when you go into shader mode your project isn’t all grainy looking, it’s a sharp crisp picture

[@KaizenTutorials]

I think it looks sharper than it is due to the compression KZbin applies on videos. But what I've got enabled is denoising in the Viewport. It's a setting under the Render Properties in Cycles.

[@therealcaydonrascoe]

@@KaizenTutorials I do to but it’s very noisy still, I may be cause I use a lot of light in my projects

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yeah could be! the more differences in light and dark, the more noise you’ll get

[@nenikamou]

Hello! Great tutorial! One thing only, for me the looping animation process is not working altough i folllowed the steps exactly the same. Has anyone had the same problem? Thank you!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! What's going wrong for you?

[@pebble1]

if i add a floor to the environment, the cookie is shown on the sand and looks horrible, any1 know how to fix?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hmm yeah you'll probably need a better caustics type cookie. Try looking for a caustics gobos/cookie, or buy the Gobos addon.

[@thornnorton5953]

I don't see any ads :(

[@KaizenTutorials]

Adblocker maybe? Not sure why else you wouldn’t see any! Thanks for watching either way though 🙏🏻

[@christopherherrera4976]

When i add the volume cube, it's not transparent as yours 3:43

[@KaizenTutorials]

Are you in Cycles? Also have you made sure to plug in the volume shader into the volume socket? Not the surface socket! Hope this helps. Also Don't forget to set the density low!

[@christopherherrera4976]

@@KaizenTutorials yep im in cycles. but i mean, when you put the cube, you dont modiffy anithyng..... it was transparent as default, how did you do that? 3:47

[@antonedvardson1167]

Why is my cookieplane not transparent? it just shows as a black and white pattern?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Have you turned on alpha blend in the material settings? It should be set to opaque by default. But you need alpha blend!

[@antonedvardson1167]

@@KaizenTutorials Oh yeah thats it. Thanks you!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

You’re welcome 🙏🏻

[@antonedvardson1167]

@@KaizenTutorials I have another question! Im adding 2d objects with greace pencil into my scene but they dont pick up the light and shadow from the god rays but instead only a flat light. Do you know why that is? Other 3d objects reacts to the light properly. I have checked "use lights" so thats not the issue.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Sounds cool! But no sorry I have 0 experience with grease pencil, so I’m not sure why this is happening… maybe there’s another tutorial on this particular subject out there?

[@mahakkhan6174]

Anostupy😂 anursiy😂

[@KaizenTutorials]

what?

[@u_ok]

Chat is this real?? 12:40

[@KaizenTutorials]

Haha, thanks!

[@hashibira2891]

❤ for our poor ocean and fauna

[@KaizenTutorials]

For sure!