25 Blender Particle Simulations (4K Video)

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Hello, everyone! After three months of working on this project, it’s finally complete. This video shows 25 different particle simulations which were made exclusively with Blender. It is important to note, that I did not make any simulations involving hair particles, since they tend to behave differently. I also didn’t make any simulations involving fluid particles due to their instability.

For a short explanation of how each simulation was made and the number of the simulation, turn on captions. Pause the video if the captions are too quick.

Here are a few details:
-Frame rate: 60 fps (In some of the simulations, the frame rate was 30 fps due to their small length)
-Software used for the simulation: Blender (exclusively)
-Software used for compositing: Blender and After Effects
-External plugins used: CubeSurfer addon by Jean Francois (PyroEvil)
-Render engine: Cycles (exclusively)
-Longest render time: 5 days
-Largest sample count: 2000 samples

Computer specs:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3770 @ 3,40 GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 650 Ti
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro

Here is a preview of one of the simulations:

4-particles.jpg2300×2058 537 KB

Here is the final product:

Thank you!

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By the way, I have a WIP thread of this project: https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?412217

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Hi,

I don’t know so much about particle simulation but your work is very interesting and the result is beautiful.

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Hey, looks really beautiful.

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If the fireworks look half as good as this on new year I would be happy.

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Your preview image is horrible. Made me not watch. But hey. I’ll give it a chance. Wow. Awesome simulations. Really nice. Change the preview image so more people can see this.

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Thank you, everyone for your replies! And thank you, bigbad for the criticism. I didn’t like that image either. :stuck_out_tongue:

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That is truly brilliant - thanks for allowing us to see it!

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I absolutely love #20! So beautiful!! Great work, and I’m sure patience! May I ask… how much memory was dedicated when rendering out those 4+ million particles?

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Thank you! It was about 3 gigabytes, but if we include the size of all of the simulations, it would be over 15 gigabytes.

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If you could output those as h.265 video to support HDR displays, I am sure they would look absolutely stunning (even more so).