HOW TO Make Anime Lightning Beam In Blender! Easy VFX Tutorial! — Transcript

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1. 0:00in today's video I'm going to be showing
2. 0:01you guys how to make bfx lightning beam
3. 0:05in blender so without further Ado let's
4. 0:08get straight into the video so first
5. 0:10thing you're going to want to do once
6. 0:11you're in a new blender file is just go
7. 0:14ahead and press a and delete everything
8. 0:16so starting from scratch add a mesh
9. 0:21plane and go to the top
10. 0:24view now what you're going to want to do
11. 0:26is simply press tab to go into edit mode
12. 0:29press a
13. 0:31s y z once you do this simply pull up
14. 0:36the verticy just like this and delete
15. 0:39the two top
16. 0:40vertices from here press a and
17. 0:45scale and subdivide a couple times to
18. 0:48give some detail to your line so just to
19. 0:51add more vertices because later these
20. 0:55vertices are going to be the ones that
21. 0:57give the lightning bolt it's lightning
22. 0:59like shape so we can sub that little bit
23. 1:01more and that should be good for now the
24. 1:03next thing you want to do is select your
25. 1:05line press tab a and extrude it just a
26. 1:09little bit on the Y AIS from here go
27. 1:12ahead and press add and add an empty I'm
28. 1:15just going to do a plain
29. 1:17axis and move this off to the side now
30. 1:20move up your timeline right here and
31. 1:22switch it from a timeline to graph
32. 1:24editor from here select your plain axis
33. 1:28and open this sidebar right here
34. 1:30and make sure that your timeline is at
35. 1:33one or at zero and right click on the
36. 1:37z-axis and press insert single key frame
37. 1:41now go over here in the bottom right
38. 1:46press modifiers add modifier
39. 1:49generator and change the influence to
40. 1:53about3 somewhere around here we can
41. 1:55change this later once you do that click
42. 1:58back on your mesh and go into the
43. 2:00modifiers tab from the modifiers tab
44. 2:03press add modifier and add a
45. 2:05displacement
46. 2:07modifier so once you make this
47. 2:09displacement
48. 2:10modifier add a new
49. 2:12texture and change the coordinates from
50. 2:15local two objects next thing you want to
51. 2:18do is change the strength of this to
52. 2:21about
53. 2:223.1 and keep the mid level where it's at
54. 2:26select the empty as your object and now
55. 2:29go into to the texture Tab and so what
56. 2:32you're going to want to do is change the
57. 2:33type to clouds and increase the size to
58. 2:38two keep the depth at one now you're
59. 2:42going to want to add another
60. 2:43displacement modifier however this time
61. 2:46we're going to use different settings so
62. 2:49just like before add your coordinate to
63. 2:52be
64. 2:53object s your object to be the
65. 2:56empty keep your strength at one and now
66. 2:59in the clouds setting change your size
67. 3:02to be
68. 3:050.5 and there you go okay so once you
69. 3:09add these displacement modifiers go up
70. 3:12here where it says object mode and
71. 3:14switch to the weight paint mode and so
72. 3:16now what you want to do is go to the
73. 3:18z-axis so you're looking at from the
74. 3:19bird's eye perspective and technically I
75. 3:23should have done this step earlier but
76. 3:25you can do it whenever as long as you
77. 3:27make sure you do it so select the
78. 3:30gradient brush mode and just drag your
79. 3:35cursor towards the middle on both sides
80. 3:38and then go up to this section where it
81. 3:39says weights and select invert now you
82. 3:42can switch back to object mode and in
83. 3:45these two displacement
84. 3:47modifiers select the vertex group as
85. 3:49Group which is the group that you just
86. 3:51created basically what you just did was
87. 3:54you made it so that these sides don't
88. 3:57move too much so if you want to go ahead
89. 4:00and press space to play the animation so
90. 4:02far and as you can see it's still a
91. 4:04little bit off right but the sides are
92. 4:08staying still that way it makes it look
93. 4:10like the electricity is going out and
94. 4:13then going a little bit crazy in the
95. 4:14center and then stabilizing again if you
96. 4:16wanted to act how it acts in the middle
97. 4:18the whole time you could simply remove
98. 4:20your vertex groups and let it go up next
99. 4:24you're going to add a subdivision
100. 4:25surface I'm going to put my levels to
101. 4:28about three and
102. 4:31then go ahead and add another
103. 4:34displacement modifier press
104. 4:38new object select your
105. 4:42empty and do clouds and for this one I'm
106. 4:45going to put the size
107. 4:48to3 and put the depth to two and then go
108. 4:52back here to the modifiers Tab and I'm
109. 4:55going to change the strength to0 2 and
110. 4:58for this one I'm actually not going to
111. 5:01set a Vertex group okay so now we're
112. 5:03done with the whole rigging part so the
113. 5:06next thing we're going to do is add
114. 5:08colors so this part is pretty simple if
115. 5:11you guys don't know how to color in
116. 5:12blender check out my video in the top
117. 5:14corner right now but all you need to do
118. 5:17is go over here to the materials Tab and
119. 5:19I'm also going to change my setting to
120. 5:22viewport shading add a new
121. 5:28material and I'm going to change the
122. 5:30surface to
123. 5:32emission and I'm going to make the color
124. 5:34like a light
125. 5:36blue put the strength up to about
126. 5:3910 and then go over here to the rendered
127. 5:42properties and turn on Bloom so Bloom
128. 5:45really sells it the blue makes it look a
129. 5:47lot nicer um I'm also going to change
130. 5:50the world to be pitch black and so now
131. 5:54if we go over here to the Viewpoint
132. 5:56shading the bloom pops a lot more in the
133. 5:59black so I can just tweak with the color
134. 6:01a little bit um this is just a tip for
135. 6:04you guys lighter colors bloom a lot more
136. 6:07so if I were to put like a really dark
137. 6:09blue it's still glowing but doesn't glow
138. 6:11as much as this light blue would I'm
139. 6:14actually going to change it to the
140. 6:16purple so like a light
141. 6:19purple and yeah that looks good so the
142. 6:22next thing I'm going to do is this is
143. 6:24only one stream right now so I'm
144. 6:27actually going to duplicate it and make
145. 6:28it look a little bit better so to do so
146. 6:30go over here into the x
147. 6:32view and press shift d to duplicate
148. 6:37rotate to the side and you're also going
149. 6:40to want to duplicate the
150. 6:42empty uh where is
151. 6:45it so I couldn't I couldn't see it just
152. 6:48now cuz um I had the frames all the way
153. 6:50like 66 but if you reset it now you can
154. 6:53see our empties so I'm just going to
155. 6:55every time you duplicate it move it down
156. 6:58a little bit just so so what that does
157. 7:00is kind of randomizes the electricity
158. 7:03bolts so now we have this other one so
159. 7:06select your second plane and make sure
160. 7:09that you switch of the objects to
161. 7:11instead of empty empty one so
162. 7:14technically empty2 so now when we play
163. 7:18you can see there's another lightning
164. 7:20Bol and so you can just repeat this
165. 7:22process for as many lightning balls as
166. 7:24you'd like another thing um as you guys
167. 7:27can tell this thing is is moving very
168. 7:29very fast fast so if you want to slow
169. 7:31that down a bit you can just go over
170. 7:33here select your empty and scroll down
171. 7:36here and change your influence so also
172. 7:38make sure that you check this button
173. 7:39next to influence and so as you can see
174. 7:42when you turn your influence down all
175. 7:44the way to zero it stops moving but if
176. 7:45you just take it up to be slow it'll
177. 7:47move slower and if you move it really
178. 7:48fast it'll move super fast so I still
179. 7:51keep it around three and make sure you
180. 7:53do so make sure you do the same for both
181. 7:55of the empties so check this one and now
182. 7:58our lightning bolts are moving a lot
183. 7:59more slowly a lot more fluid movement so
184. 8:03I'm just going to duplicate it a few
185. 8:04more times all right and here is our
186. 8:06final product as you guys can see
187. 8:09there's a lot of room to play around
188. 8:11with it so I can make a whole background
189. 8:13for this I can make like a I can make
190. 8:15particles that surround it I can make
191. 8:17this into some sort of animation move
192. 8:19like attack but there's a lot of
193. 8:21opportunities with this like I always
194. 8:23say all you need to do is just play
195. 8:24around with it but that's all for
196. 8:26today's video I hope you guys enjoyed
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205. 8:44next time
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