HOW TO Make A Anime Tornado In Blender! I VFX Tutorial — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey guys, and welcome back to another
2. 0:01video on the Blender Builder channel.
3. 0:03So, in today's video, I'm going to be
4. 0:05showing you guys how to make VFX
5. 0:06tornadoes in Blender. So, without
6. 0:08further ado, let's get on with the
7. 0:09video. All right, so once you open up a
8. 0:11new Blender file, you can just press A,
9. 0:14delete everything. You go to add mesh
10. 0:18circle, and now go to the X viewport,
11. 0:21go into edit mode, select all, and press
12. 0:24E to extrude. Press C to extrude on the
13. 0:27Z-axis. So now what you need to do is
14. 0:29you need to make a tornado like shape.
15. 0:31So it should be smaller at the bottom.
16. 0:34Go in at the middle and at the top it
17. 0:36should be bigger than the bottom. So you
18. 0:38guys can just follow along as I go
19. 0:40through it.
20. 0:43[Music]
21. 0:50You want to select the bottom of your
22. 0:51mesh. Click up here to turn on
23. 0:53proportional editing. Press S and use
24. 0:56your mouse wheel to scroll the the size
25. 1:00of portion. Once you get to the center,
26. 1:02I recommend moving it around a little
27. 1:05bit cuz you know tornado it doesn't
28. 1:06stick just still. You have to make it
29. 1:08look like it turns a lot. So what I like
30. 1:10to do is down a little bit. And so when
31. 1:12I extrude up,
32. 1:15I go to the left a little bit or the
33. 1:16right a little bit. And then you can
34. 1:18switch the viewports different sides.
35. 1:21You can extrude again. You can rotate.
36. 1:23Just do whatever you can. Just don't
37. 1:25make it look too like don't do too much.
38. 1:28Just make it like slight adjustments.
39. 1:336 and 1/2 hours later.
40. 1:35Okay. So, once you're down to that last
41. 1:36part, what you want to do is you kind of
42. 1:38just want to straighten it up as much as
43. 1:39possible. Might be a little slanted, but
44. 1:42it doesn't really matter. And so, from
45. 1:43here, you just continue what you had
46. 1:45going on the other side. So, just
47. 1:46extrude on the Z-axis. Scale. Extrude.
48. 1:52Scale. Extrude.
49. 1:55Scale.
50. 1:57Extrude. This is the last one. Going to
51. 1:59make it big.
52. 2:01What the hell?
53. 2:03[Applause]
54. 2:05From here, I don't know what I did, but
55. 2:08for some reason, the bottom is way
56. 2:11bigger. So, what I'mma do is I'mma just
57. 2:13flip this like this
58. 2:17and move it up.
59. 2:27All right. So, right now I'm just making
60. 2:28a couple of adjustments. I think the
61. 2:31bottom might have been a little too big.
62. 2:33From here, you can go back into object
63. 2:35mode and shade smooth. And so, now you
64. 2:38have the base of your tornado. And so,
65. 2:41this this doesn't look cool. So, what
66. 2:44you want to do is you want to duplicate
67. 2:46this.
68. 2:47And now you want to scale it on the X
69. 2:49and Y axis. And so to do that, what you
70. 2:52need to do, you press S,
71. 2:54shift Z. And so what that does is it
72. 2:57excludes scaling on the Z-axis. You only
73. 3:00scale sideways. And now what you want to
74. 3:01do is you want to make a VFX out of
75. 3:03this. If you never made VFX before, you
76. 3:04can check out the video in the top right
77. 3:06corner. Shameless plug, I know. All you
78. 3:08want to do is you want to go into tab,
79. 3:09select all, subdivide at least once so
80. 3:13we can get some more detail. Now go into
81. 3:15vertex,
82. 3:17add a vertex group, assign
83. 3:21Go back to object mode. Go to the
84. 3:23modifiers tab. Add modifier. Vertex
85. 3:25weight edit. Vertex group is group. Fall
86. 3:29off is custom curve.
87. 3:32And then switch the sides.
88. 3:35After you switch the sides, add
89. 3:37influence.
90. 3:38New mask texture. Go here.
91. 3:42There's just the clouds. That gives it
92. 3:44the look we're going for. Add a mask
93. 3:47marker.
94. 3:49Select the vertex group. Go to about
95. 3:52like
96. 3:53three, four.
97. 3:55Add a smooth modifier or 30.
98. 4:00Simple D4. Keep it on twist. Change it
99. 4:02on the Z-axis
100. 4:04360. And so now we have the twist look
101. 4:08that we're going for. So right now the
102. 4:11twist doesn't look how we want it to in
103. 4:14the end. But once we're at the end, I
104. 4:17can show you guys how we're gonna make
105. 4:19it get that tornado look. And so now all
106. 4:21we're gonna want to do is we're gonna
107. 4:23just want to edit this a little bit and
108. 4:25duplicate it. And so we can have
109. 4:27different colors and we can have more
110. 4:30spots filled in. All right. So from
111. 4:32here, I'm going to take the threshold up
112. 4:34a little bit since there's going to be
113. 4:35so many duplicates of this. I'm also
114. 4:37going to add some color just so I can
115. 4:39tell the difference between these.
116. 4:40Before you go over to the materials tab,
117. 4:42go to the viewport shader just so you
118. 4:44can see the color. It's new. And go down
119. 4:47here to emission. Take it up all the way
120. 4:50and take it to some shade of blue and
121. 4:54change the emission color to 10. And
122. 4:56what I actually like to do is I change
123. 4:58the base color instead of to blue, I
124. 5:01change it to red. And so it gives this
125. 5:04kind of like weird it gives it like a
126. 5:06different kind of look. If you look over
127. 5:08here at the preview, you can see how
128. 5:10it's like changing kind of. So now
129. 5:14duplicate
130. 5:16and rotate on the Z-axis
131. 5:19and either scale up a little bit or
132. 5:20scale down a little bit. I'm going scale
133. 5:22up a little bit.
134. 5:24Change the threshold. Be a little
135. 5:26smaller. I'm going make this one just
136. 5:28plain black.
137. 5:31I'm going make this one smaller just cuz
138. 5:32it's so dark. And so you guys going to
139. 5:34see I'm just tweaking around with things
140. 5:36a little bit. Also, I'm going to add
141. 5:37some color to the tornado itself. Um,
142. 5:41I'll just make this some sort of blue.
143. 5:44[Music]
144. 6:09[Music]
145. 6:21Now, what you want to do is you're going
146. 6:23to want to duplicate all of this. So,
147. 6:25select all of it and shift D and move it
148. 6:28over to this Y- axis. And so, now the
149. 6:31reason we do this is because something
150. 6:32goes wrong over here, we can go back to
151. 6:34that. We can reset from there. So, what
152. 6:36we're going to want to do is select
153. 6:38every single one of these and just apply
154. 6:41all of the modifiers.
155. 6:43All right. So, now once you've applied
156. 6:45all the modifiers, select all them and
157. 6:47press Ctrl J, which joins them all
158. 6:49together. So, now add a modifier and add
159. 6:52the simple deform modifier. So now it
160. 6:55looks kind of weird. That's only because
161. 6:56it's not on the Z-axis. Put on the
162. 6:59Z-axis and put in angle 7.
163. 7:03And so what this does, it gives it the
164. 7:05twist effect that you're looking for. So
165. 7:08now there's a few things kind of want to
166. 7:09tweak like in the middle right here. It
167. 7:11looks a little weird. Okay, we can just
168. 7:13um up it even more. So we can go to like
169. 7:171820.
170. 7:18Yeah, there we go. That's more like it.
171. 7:20So this is like the twist we're looking
172. 7:23for. Uh I'm going to change some of the
173. 7:25colors just for looks. All right. So
174. 7:27once you like the colors that you got,
175. 7:28you can just click on this and you can
176. 7:30apply the modifier. And so now from here
177. 7:33we're going to add some small details.
178. 7:35So now what we're going to do is we're
179. 7:36going to make a particle which is going
180. 7:38to be like a water droplet. So what you
181. 7:41need to do is you need to add mesh
182. 7:44UV sphere. Move this over to the side.
183. 7:47Then you got to scale this down quite a
184. 7:50bit. scale down to about here. So once
185. 7:53you have it scaled down, go into edit
186. 7:56mode and vertices select. Make sure you
187. 7:58turn off wireframe and select the top
188. 8:01verticy like that. Now change the
189. 8:05proportional editing fall off to sharp
190. 8:09and press
191. 8:12viewport
192. 8:15and press G to move it up. Make sure you
193. 8:17um make the
194. 8:20circle smaller so you can get that
195. 8:22detail and just make it look kind of
196. 8:24like a water droplet. All right. So now
197. 8:26once you have your shape, your um water
198. 8:29droplet shape, you want to go over here
199. 8:31to render properties. And I already
200. 8:32turned it on right here, but you got to
201. 8:34turn on screen space reflections. And
202. 8:36then once you go down here, turn on
203. 8:37refraction as well. So now go back to
204. 8:40the materials, add a new material,
205. 8:42scroll all the way down, and turn on
206. 8:45transmission.
207. 8:47All right. So once you turn on
208. 8:48refractions, you need to scroll down
209. 8:50here
210. 8:51settings and turn on screen space
211. 8:53refraction. And this will make it
212. 8:56actually reflective. And so now scroll
213. 8:58back up and change the roughness down.
214. 9:00Just change it to zero. And now we have
215. 9:03a water or like a glass-like material.
216. 9:06So what you want to do is just change
217. 9:07the color of it a little bit. Uh make it
218. 9:10like a light blue. Now we're going to
219. 9:12make a particle effect using this
220. 9:14object. But uh what you need to do is
221. 9:16you need to click on the object. You
222. 9:17need to go over to this option right
223. 9:19here, the particle properties. You need
224. 9:21to add a new and change it to hair.
225. 9:25So now this looks crazy
226. 9:27because we still haven't done anything
227. 9:29yet. So what you need to scroll down and
228. 9:31you need to change render render as path
229. 9:35change that to object and then go to
230. 9:37instance and select this with the
231. 9:39eyropper tool. So now you can see
232. 9:41there's a bunch of little dots. These
233. 9:43are all the water droplets. It takes
234. 9:45except we have to do some tweaking
235. 9:47first. So we can just change this number
236. 9:50down to like 100 maybe.
237. 9:54And we can go down here to children and
238. 9:57turn on sample. So what this will do is
239. 9:59every single
240. 10:01one of these will have a child 10
241. 10:06children. It sounds kind of weird when
242. 10:08you say it like that, but it's basically
243. 10:10just like multiplying. So if there's 100
244. 10:12up here and there's 10 down here,
245. 10:13there's 1,000 little particles. So we
246. 10:16can change this down actually a little
247. 10:17bit lower, maybe like 50. And scroll
248. 10:20back down here. What you want to do is
249. 10:22increase the radius so they go out
250. 10:24further. So now you can see a bunch of
251. 10:27them just flying out. And they're not
252. 10:29very evenly dispersed. So what we can do
253. 10:32is we can change the seed to get a
254. 10:35different random option. So, just keep
255. 10:38changing the seed until you find one
256. 10:40that you like. This one right here is
257. 10:42good for me. And you can tweak around a
258. 10:44little bit more with the size and like
259. 10:47the randomness. So, I'm going to change
260. 10:49the size, make it a little bit bigger,
261. 10:50maybe
262. 10:52make it more random. So, that means the
263. 10:55sizes, none of them are going to be the
264. 10:56same. And so, now we're going to do a
265. 10:58little more fine tuning. You can go back
266. 10:59to here and go to the modifiers. And you
267. 11:03can leave these black lines, but just
268. 11:06know that they're going to be gone in
269. 11:08the render. And in my opinion, most of
270. 11:10the time it ends up looking better when
271. 11:11you remove them. So to remove them, all
272. 11:14you need to do is you need to click on
273. 11:15this. I'm going to add modifier,
274. 11:18click solidify, and change it to
275. 11:20complex. So now you can see there's a
276. 11:23bunch of like weird things sticking out.
277. 11:25I don't know what's going on. But what
278. 11:27you want to do is you want to change
279. 11:28this thickness just down to zero. All
280. 11:30right. So, I much made a bunch more
281. 11:32tweaks. And so, this is the last thing
282. 11:34I'm going to do before I think I'm
283. 11:36finished. It makes you add blue. It
284. 11:40makes things look so much better. It
285. 11:42makes them pop. Um, you can add a little
286. 11:44bit of detail. You can change the color.
287. 11:47Uh, make it a little more blue.
288. 11:50But, Bloom really, it really just
289. 11:52carries it. All right, guys. That's all
290. 11:54for the video. If you guys enjoyed this
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