Procedural Motion Graphics with Geometry Nodes! (Blender 2.92 tutorial)
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2021
- In this tutorial I'll go through how to use the new Geometry Nodes to make a simple procedural motion graphics effect. Please note that Geometry nodes are still under rapid developement, and depending on when you watch this video, some of the content might be outdated. Hope you enjoy! :)
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I love the beautiful philosophy at the end!! thank you for this wonderful tutorial
Thanks for the comment and the feedback! :)
Definitely appreciated that outro. I stopped what I was doing to just listen, very nice
Totally seconding you line,
I just want to listen that part again and again and again , till my thought ignites the non bias clarity of art and its form :)
Thank you :)😇
Note: at the time of releasing this video, Geometry Nodes are still under rapid developement and are not even close to being finished yet. So depending on when you watch this video some of the content might be outdated. But if you're watching this in the beginning of 2021 this video will give you a good starting point for Geometry Nodes :) Hope you enjoy!
Edit: In blender 3.0 and above the whole Geometry Nodes system has been refactored to use the new Fields system, so this tutorial is unfortunately a bit outdated now. I will make new tutorials, though :)
That was a fantastic ending to the video and touched upon many ideas that I struggle to navigate with. Thank you for sharing
please neeed !!!! 1 year ? did you uploaded this ? please
Great tutorial, and especially the ending! I wasn't expecting that little fun talk from you.
Very useful tutorial - thank you!
I joined your channel for your discgolf instruction, but I stayed with you as a guy with a math degree. Who knew it would all work so well!
Thanks for sharing your insights. I've enjoyed all aspects of it.
Thanks, nicely explained. This is probably a next big milestone in Blender evolution, let's not miss this.
Nice, I've been needing these without even realizing!
That was a lucid intro to procedural geometry. You truly rock man and you are kind of special too. May your tribe increase for people like you are part of a dwindling tribe.
i love the surprise thought tinkering segment at the end. tutorial was sick too thanks
This is genuinely an interesting and helpful video. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
Super helpful tutorial, and the discussion at the end was so interesting! Definitely subscribing!
excellent tutorial exposed in an atmosphere of serenity ,THANKS
First time I watch one of your videos and I was about to close it when you said "I hope you found this tutorial useful"(which I did, ty), lucky that I didn't, those last 5-6 minutes turned out to be amazing!
Cool tutorial and some Bach at the end. Well done!
First time watching your channel and i really liked everything about the video 👍🙌 keep it up!
Cool, nice.
Also just noticed the (CCO) on your music, even cooler!! I may try using a song in a video someday.
You are the master of teaching geo nodes. You explained it very well and easy. You explained the concepts and basics too like the difference between vertices and point. I've watched many tuts that contain wrong info or some confusions. Thanks for that. I also love ur spirit as you love music, wisdom, and beautiful things like that. God bless,
Man, you make the best videos. I appreciate your amalgamation of CG, sketching, music, and philosophy. Indeed, they are inseparable anyway.
Thank you so much, Terence! It means a lot :)
@@SketchesForHumanity I just finished playing around with geometry nodes after following along with you. This is loads of fun. I'm really into node-based stuff. I'm gonna go look at your other node-based blender videos.
thank you for the thinkful ideas about the beauty, came here for the tutorial, leave with something more precious.
bless you mate , it was so much needed
Wow. I really appreciated your excellent demo of geometry nodes. I’m really excited about the procedural aspect.
Your talk on the Buddhist concept that humans attach values of good or bad and how can there be appreciation for beauty; perhaps our ability to perceive beauty is not based on good or bad.
Great tutorial from a great channel. Subbed and looking foward to more!
I always love your tuts, very pro!
Bro the tutorial was so good. You earned my heart and a sub+bell
I never would have found out you can just type in a vertex group as an attribute on my own, mind blown at the devs genius and at you for actually reading the docs lolol
Solid tutorial man! Thanks a million! I had to subscribe with a thumb up.
Great tutorial on cutting edge Blender stuff!!
Really great tutorial! I was surprised with the amazing discussion at the end! It is interesting to think that a same piece of art can be "ugly" and beautiful to a same person. There are many pieces of music I didn't find beautiful after a first audition, but after some, I kind of fell in love. I'm really fond of classical music and this musical universe told me it is not only beauty that matters in art. I started liking it because of beauty, I think related to historical memories in my subconscious mind. But later I began enjoying pretty avant garde classical music, many of them not because they are beautiful, but because I feel they add something. There are many human feelings that arts can express and beauty is one of them. These are my thoughts. :)
I was already sold after the fist minute or two on subscribing to your channel. The last thoughtful part was a nice surprise thanks!
I like your manner.
I am a noob so it is good to have a gentle voice to listen to, it keeps me focused on the tasks and makes the endless rewinding I need to do at this stage more pleasant.
I have a goal of learning Blender well enough to be able to use it for projects I have been brewing on for years. I become impatient as there is so much to absorb. I look for tutorials to unlock secrets and show me potentials that I had not yet imagined.
This tutorial inspired me to ask about water effects (the empty displacing the geometry looked promising). I seek a way to produce a satisfying large slow ocean wave. I understand that I can produce a plane with the ocean modifier affecting it but I seek more.
I'd like to produce the splash of water spray(particles?) against the hull of a boat as it passes through the waves. Something that is essentially an interaction between the particles(instances) of "water' that could be riding the surface of the ocean-modified plane and when a collision between the boat hull and these watery bits happens a spray of broken up particles happens and they bounce off the hull to then rejoin the layer that was riding the ocean wave, perhaps colliding there too and making more noisy ripples. Maybe those interactions have a life span to avoid needing to do a ton of simulation solving.
I ask a lot.
But it seems to me that, placed on top of an ocean animation of a large "tiled" but randomized sea with shaders to make it look "oceany" I could get a local area to use the local topography of the water to affect a layer that would behave like a water simulation...but without needing to bake and re-bake a water sim ( which I am gathering would grossly complicate the desired result, be way too big and involve outrageous computing time).
I have seen water "ripple" effect applied to a surface with a kind of painting tool to get ripples in a reflective water plane to mimic smooth waters being rippled but I seek large waves aggressively bashing against a boat hull and splashes which themselves interact with the rippling large waved ocean. Foam, splashes, particles colliding etc. I want to know how to approach even trying to get this effect and make it convincing.
If creating a fluid sim inside some rectangular volume is my only way I'd be surprised.
indeed kudos to all part of B... very much appreciated details...
This video was SO SO SO helpful. Subscribed to the channel right away.
Thanks for the video! Great job. I really hope you do some more videos on geometry nodes. For me, your way of explanation is perfect.
You're doing a fabulous job mate!! thank you so much for your giving and teaching. I also am a musician and play piano. I love your piece at the end! your channel is a rare gem. Liked and subbed.
Thank you so much for the tutorial, and above all a really THANK you for the fantastic explanation at the end of the vídeo. I didn't watch the Soul animation yet, but I´ll.
I did not expect the 'Thought Tinkering' Section at the end! What a 'beautiful' way to end a tutorial. In fact you made 'Just a tutorial on RUclips' a much more valuable Lesson! Thank you for that! Subscribing for more!! :)
Fantastic tutorial!! Thanks so much!
It was easy to understand and gave me a better understanding of the structure of Geometry Nodes！
Your videos are fantastic and highly useful; thank you so much.
Thank you very much for this tutorial.
Well explained, very useful. Thankyou!
Great tutorial. The GN feature is looking good. Still some workflow and UI work needed, but Blenders development is so fast, it is probably updated already.
As a beginner of geometry nodes, it's awesome!
Incredible and the ending IS amazing. Not at ALL what I was expecting but exactly what I needed. As the saying goes, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." We're preprogrammed to notice the eyes of our mother. Look, how does the flower resemble... eyes? Certainly the allergy sufferer has a different point of ...view. I know good tutorial when I see it! Just my point of view, my observation, this one here is certainly a thing of beauty. Cheers, you got my subscription!
The almighty power at my fingertips!!! Thank you Blender hackers! Also, great presentation!
Thankyou very much and thank you for your thoughts in the end. Makes me think I should end a video or two with some lessons about life.
the best geometry tutorial
This is fantastic
The thoughts about objective beauty at the end was a surprise; love it! Your question had me thinking about the related questions - what is the nature of truth and does atomic truth exist? I think these questions all flow in to the ultimate questions: what is the meaning and purpose in all things? In my life and my time here? Thanks for the tut and book recommendation. I never leave comments but this was quite inspiring!
Yeah, those pesky ultimate questions always come up when thinking about these things.. Maybe we'll some day be able to answer some of them definitively, but until then, well, logic only gets you so far. At some point one either needs to resort to somewhat superstitious ideas, or accept that there's no certainty about anything. Which is not inherently a bad thing, but it does set some pretty substantial boundaries :) At least humanity still has a lot to discover!
Thank you for the nice comment, Ed. It's always awesome to see that people enjoy the philosophical parts also!
Veri finnish äksent👌 loving it! Great tutorial👊
Great tutorial! Thanks
Why haven't I found this channel all this while? To teach such a valuable thing for free. Thanks
Very nice tutorial. Keep it up.
beautiful! thanks :)
From Canarias Island => Very good explication about Geometry Nodes !!
Love this tutorial
What a nice, unexpected treat the outro was!
As a neuroscientist, I tend to think of beauty in terms of evolutionary biology. Originally a straightforward, necessary mechanism: evolution makes the flower stand out from the background, which makes it recognizable by the bee. But as brains grew larger and more complex, so did the concept of beauty. In particular, in addition to being attracted to stimuli critical for survival (a good-looking mate or a ripe fruit), we gained the ability to "like" other things, such as Jazz music and abstract art. The same ancient neuronal circuits are triggered, but their activity can be dissociated from goal-oriented behavior. It makes sense, in this context, that the more a "beautiful" thing is distant from basic necessities, the more its appreciation is dictated by culture (knowledge, trends, social interactions). The act of perceiving and appreciating beauty is accomplished by highjacking those brain circuits, feeding them with inputs that do not increase our chances of survival, but produce the same "high". Thus, we like things just because we can, and it's a nice feeling. Along the same lines, it seems to me that the absolute-vs-relative nature of beauty is not a binary question. I would say that beauty becomes more and more relative and subjective as the beautiful thing gets farther and farther from immediate, primordial needs.
On the other hand, the physicist Lee Smolin (The Life of the Cosmos, 1997) suggests that there is a special type of beauty, which may be universal, in the sense that it is necessary for interesting things to happen in the universe, such as the formation of a galaxy or the organization of certain plants (look up "broccoli romaneschi"). If I remember correctly, he argued that this type of beauty is encountered when things are characterized by complexity at different scales or orders of magnitude. I found the idea a bit ill-defined but charming, especially since he gave as a prime example the beauty of the intricate and detailed superposition of roofs over the houses of Verona, which happens to be the city I live in.
Thanks for such an interesting comment, Giuseppe! A very solid take on beauty. Somehow I hadn't thought of the "biologically originated circuits but increasingly widening cultural inputs" thing, which does make a lot of sense. I still wouldn't be ready to completely ditch the idea of objective, universal beauty, but it certainly has less solid arguments.. :)
I enjoyed the tutorial. But I really really enjoy you talk about art and beauty 🙏 I'm gonna share it!!
Thank you very much, Victor!
@@SketchesForHumanity I'll share the video but I would like to know your name if it's possible?
@@victorvdr9 Oh yeah, my name is Aleksi Tuomela :)
thanks for the tutorial, and for final words! I'll get the Deutsch book.
great tutorial ,thanx .basically they are going to replace animation nodes with this , & i can tell that Jacques Luke is the one behind Geometry nodes
That Aria, from Goldberg Variations, was enough for me to subscribe.
love it!
Great, thanks for share! I wish see more for geometry nodes!
works nice, thank you
Dude is back after a long time
Let's hope I can push myself to make the next one a bit quicker :D
@@SketchesForHumanity don't worry about the time you spent making a video, spent whatever time you need to do it.
I discover you channel 2 weeks ago, thanks for the way you make your videos, The "Thought and Tinkering" is really great man.
One little observation (here an obsessive sound engineer) about the sound of your voice, you could use a Izotope RX Mouth De-Click just to reduce it a little bit that sound of your mouth when you are talking. Thanks for share your knowledge and thoughts
@@SketchesForHumanity 🥰
Thanks for the comment, John, and for the encouraging words about the upload schedule :) You're right, it's not a good idea to push it too hard, or else the videos will feel forced!
Also, thanks for the tip about RX Mouth de-click. I didn't know there's tools like that in the RX suite, I looked it up and now I'm looking at my bank account :D It's a shame it's so pricey, but maybe some day.. I could've certainly done a lot with just some free de-clickers, though, it was more that I was in a bit of a hurry to get this video out so I overlooked it :)
Génial, merci beaucoup pour votre vidéo, je viens enfin de comprendre la fonction attribute à la fois pour le module Geometry Nodes et Shading,
Merci milles fois, cela va me permettre de progresser
Passez une excellente journée,
Objective beauty... Not sure about that, but this is useful and great tutorial
Thanks for an excellent and enjoyable tutorial and your comments around art and beauty also interesting. Seems to me that art is simply experience and each artwork is a sort of experiential bundle. One that can take the viewer most anywhere. Duchamp said that taste is the enemy of art and I’d add that it certainly is the enemy of the experience of it. Our experience of life is the same. When we make good and bad of what we experience in the world, that good and bad takes its place. Our preferences take the place of what is happening all around us. We no longer live in the world but rather live in our mind limited by our tastes. By working to open and suspend ourselves in the uncertain we come alive.
the artist is the expert of the senses.
Made in noice Tutorial
brilliant. thx
You save the default cube, you are a modern hero.
Very nice video
Hi, many thanks for the tutorial.
"the beauty is a wordless question in between the finished and the absolute"
Like it being a rediscovered part of ourselves as we realign our dephts while allowing our senses to follow it and finally maybe to merge it...maybe like a pleasant or not little death and birth a the time...or maybe just to be...nothing, and whole...
I don't know and I am grateful for it.
nice tutorial :]
Thank you 🙏🏼
Came for the tutorial, stayed for the thought tinkering.
Edit: I think superficial beauty comes from what our individual brains experience as aestetically pleasing while the true beauty is connected to emotions and stronger than the superficial beauty. A simple example is how easy a "beautiful" girl can get ugly just by having an bad character.
What we connect with a wonderful memory or experience will always be beautiful, no matter what it is. The run down bar at the corner of this one street is ugly to probably a lot of people but not for a couple that met there the first time.
So when someone listens to Jazz and likes it, it's half the brain that is just liking it and half an experience that someone made. Maybe they met their significant other at a jazz concert. Or when someone doesnt like it, it could be that the brain is liking it but for example the person had to listen to it all the time that now they don't like it anymore. Or maybe someone just doesn't like it in the first place. I had this experience with the song Hello by Adele. I liked this song but I had to listen to it everyday for like 10 times in the office that I began to hate it.
Just my two cents.
Learnt everything
Thank you God bless you
que buen trabajo! saludos desde México
thanks for share!
Really similar to grasshopper for rhino... I love it
Awesom explain.full thanks
Thank you.
Here's a list of things that you can do in 2.93 that will make this tutorial easier
8:22 You don't have to do this part any more. The Attribute Randomize node now has a dropdown menu that let's you select add.
11:30 They have the Attribute Proximity node now but I have no idea how to use
Who knows this channel is making blender videos according to name of channel❤️
Yeah, when I started out this wasn't supposed to be a "blender channel" :) but those videos seemed to pull in viewers, so I decided to keep making them for now. Plus, they're fun to make :) You can check out my "Songs for Humanity" channel (currently very small) to see what I'm working towards!
keep it up 👍
The spark of life is the divine gift of choice (living is the verb for freedom). Art is a side-effect of human choice :)
The idea of it needing to be "useful" is irrelevant. But we like art, so for us humans, it is at once a bonus and the seminal precursor to the next thing in our evolution. We stand on the shoulders of those who made art before us. Art is a force multiplier for life :)
Art is engineering, it's programming, it's entrepreneurship, it's painting, it's public speaking, it's organizing, it's relating, it's cooking, it's farming, it's everything.
Interesting. I agree that trying to see the usefulness of art shouldn't be important. What's important is the humans' inner reactions to art. And like you said, anything can be art when it comes to it. Maybe it's more of a mindset than anything?
Then again, lately I've listened to some interesting takes on free will, by Sam Harris and some of his guests on the Making Sense podcast. There's a lot of very knowledgeable people nowadays who're convinced that there is no such thing as free will. Some say that our whole consciousness is just a byproduct of sorts, and that our actions are not in fact controlled by our "will", like we are used to thinking. But these things obviously approach metaphysical and philosophical territories, and since consciousness isn't very well understood yet, I don't think anyone should be 100% sure about anything regarding it.
You know, if my personal subjective experience is that I have free will and can choose to do / not do things, does it matter if I "really" have free will? I don't know.
@@SketchesForHumanity I think (speculate) that sentience and self-awareness is what gives us agency. Agency is just another word describing free will.
Yeah Sam Harris is good. I also like Dave Rubin (politically). I think "overcooked" intellectualism creates it's own deceptions and often fools people into thinking everything including the observably manifest is just a social (abstract) construct. People end up asserting that the observable is non-existent. To use software dev parlace, it can lead to philosophical "spaghetti code" that is buggy, and creates a lot of problems. When you do a stack trace on the logic, you find a lot of undefined and de-referenced variables (loaded terms) that cause reality leaks. People get creative with etymology and corrupt the language itself. A classical example of this is how varying derivatives of Leninism permeates the academic "intelligentsia" (I use the term ironically). People who indulge in too much of that stuff believe themselves to be intellectually superior and it leads to a sort of exceptionalism that flies in the face of objective reality and nature (natural law of cause/effect). there's always a bunch of overconfident people who get a bit silly and think they can rule others because they are part of a higher intellectual caste, and everything is some social construct, there is no objective reality, nothing means anything, and nobody truly exists (as a sentient being). It's nihilism. More grounded humility is needed. We don't need novel etymology to manifest and impose "new" (but old) caste systems. Thats what we see with identity politics and so-called critical thoery (or as i like to call it, "cynical theory").
I like this guy, he has a YT channel called "New Discourses" ruclips.net/video/VdsSIWh_VkQ/видео.html I was just listening to this podcast today.
The world has so many talented thinkers. Now with the internet, we can find them more easily. We do not need to coalesce in clumps around the prominent ones. If we stop looking to see where others are looking, we will find the overlooked. I have no heros. Everyone has equal standing until they prove otherwise.
Thanks a lot :)
I think that quality is an atttibute that gives any piece of artwork the status of art per se. If its beautiful or even repulsive can be subjective, but you have to be able to see the quality through the whole piece.
"I came here for the copper
and I found gold."
"Gold" is something you appreciate as it's a rare metal/material on our planet. However it could be considered trash on a planet with mountains made of gold just like rock we have here 😁
I like the tutorial. I'd recommend drinking more water in the hours before recording to avoid mouth noises.
Thanks! I actually now have the RX8 mouth denoise plugin which takes care of the mouth noises really well :) I agree that they were a bit annoying in this video..
Really good video, as all the others 😊
Towards the flowers reasoning, i would like to propose the possibility of their beauty being an evolutionary adaptation from us, more in concordance with your line of thought.
This would be explained due to the conditions in which flowers thrive, which i think they are "usually in specific conditions of humidity and soil composition", meaning the soil is fertile and there may be water nearby.
Also, many flowers preceed fruits, so it would not be rare for us to like its bright colors if it means in the future there will be food avaliable.
Thanks for the comment!
The fruit thing is true, I hadn't thought of that. And many berries/veggies too, now that I think about it. Many seed-dropping edible plants even benefit from us eating them and spreading the seeds.
nice tutorial yo.
thank you
You can now scale the instanced object in object mode, but you have to hit CTRL+A and apply the scale to see the changes on the point distribution.
thanks
I love your sweater
He saved the default Cube 🤩
Art is also a type of communication, it doesn´t matter if it is good or bad, in either way it provides a message for the consumer.
谢谢！
I think beauty is part of our evoluted phycology. As these things give us meaning and context. A sunrise is a reason to get out of bed. Yet a bee doesnt see a flower like we do, it sees it's own beauty within the light spectrum. And a flower has an evolutionary advantage to appeal to both bees and humans. If you see a field of poppies and it just looked like ugly weeds then they may not be around for long. But we gain pleasure in the maths of this also, like symmetry and balance. Like the notes of music that sound good aren't just random notes, they are mathematical ratios of the root note. The earliest instrument found was a 40,000 year old flute. And this flute was basically a pentatonic scale. Which would suggest that at the dawn of civilization we weren't inventing the convention of beauty within music. And some religions outlaw pictorial art, why do that if beauty is learnt? The only reason I can think of doing that is to paint a sunset that is more beautiful is an offense to a creator. It is an interesting discussion to have. But I think holding an underlying value within the beauty of things holds a strong evolutionary advantage.