Stylized Particle Animation - video tutorial

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#1

Hey guys! Although this was already featured on BlenderNation I thought I’d post my tutorial here too. I never know how well I present stuff in my video tutorials so I’d appreciate some feedback on it.

This tutorial will show you how to create animations like this:
http://peerlessproductions.com/animation/stills/ParticleSymmetry.jpg and http://peerlessproductions.com/tuts/ParticleTutorial/particleRender.jpg

And it will cover:

  • Emitters
  • the Particle Effect
  • Particle settings
  • basic animation
  • Halo Materials
  • Keyframing the material settings

Click here to download the tutorial:
http://peerlessproductions.com/tuts/ParticleTutorial/ParticleTut.jpg
Quicktime format, 10 mb, 14 minutes.

Thanks for watching! Suggestions, comments, and crits welcome. Hope it proves useful to some of you.

–Colin

#2

Great great great tutorial!

I have not achieved such beautiful results as you did… :slight_smile:
This may help me in another project I have, where I would use also the time IPO to freeze the particle animation at some stage.

#3

really a good tutorial, thanks

#4

nice tut, and even nicer animations!

#5

You can make some realy cool/ psychadelic stuff with that. http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f66/maddog720/desktop2.png

#6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsvTqXs3Wk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VNkLDgAhYc

Those are my results! thanks for that tut, man.

#7

Could you make a pdf or html version of it?

#8

another vote for pdf/html version.

#9

Great tut and very easy to follow

Here is my results
http://www.f-forge.com?d=m8uTLQxgcIW1PrVnylRZ
its the .blend file the .movwas to big to upload/download (148mb)

enjoy :slight_smile:

#10

use divx it will help a lot

#11

those are some very cool results!
my result

#12

Thanks, Colin. it was a year ago since i learnt the stuff you taught us and now I’m coming back to re-learn it again. yay. forgot it. Thanks so much for the effort. thanks

#13

@_@ , wow … that is amazing
thanks :slight_smile:
can you post a blend ?

#14

I was just thinking that a Divx verson would be good. Becasue I could not get it to run in quicktime
I had to use VLC. I also vote for a pdf verson or at least a printable html version