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Effects Compilation by Nion

Tim Formica [Room335] · January 8, 2011

There isn’t any sound with these but I thought they were interesting enough to publish

Author Tim Formica [Room335]
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32 responses

  1. CoyHot
    8 January 2011 at 13:31

    Nice demonstration of what can be done for VFX shots using Blender !

    Thanks a lot Victor !

    Reply
  2. Scott
    8 January 2011 at 14:10

    Ain’t those by Daniel Widmann aka Nion?

    Reply
  3. RNS
    8 January 2011 at 14:33

    Nice video! is there a tutorial in the work for a book? update us!

    Reply
  4. Mitch
    8 January 2011 at 14:42

    Very impressive. The fire looked great!

    Reply
  5. tungerz
    8 January 2011 at 14:58

    Agreed with scott,
    http://www.youtube.com/user/NionsChannel

    Reply
  6. AnyMation
    8 January 2011 at 15:19

    Wow, Blender is now REALLY becoming kick-ass competitive!

    Reply
  7. Reynante Martinez
    8 January 2011 at 15:35

    Seriously, I kept cussing while watching those vids. I almost had my jaw dropped on the ground. Those demos are really really amazing. Impressive what Blender could do in the right hands. :)

    -Reyn

    Reply
  8. TLOZ
    8 January 2011 at 15:56

    Well, whoever did this, I’d really like to see some tutorials right now…
    Guess it’s time for the blenderguru once again ;)

    Reply
  9. W
    8 January 2011 at 16:18

    Wow. Impressed. I wasn’t expecting the quality to be so consistent on all examples.

    Reply
  10. Chris
    8 January 2011 at 16:26

    wow they are impressive, thats why i need a new rig…

    Reply
  11. ghoughpteaubteau
    8 January 2011 at 17:10

    @TLOZ
    Everyone knows. The poor guy gets inundated with constant and never ending requests for tutorials and most of the time, those requests are spelled incorrectly.

    Of course, that would be fine, if he didn’t have a tried and proven format that was a million times better than the brain-dead step by steps everyone keeps asking him for.

    It’s a series of videos demonstrating experiments and explaining the mechanics and ideas behind them. 4-5 in a show.

    Also it’s definitely Daniel Widmann. Not cool blender nation.

    Reply
  12. Alberto
    8 January 2011 at 17:18

    Very impressive!!!

    Reply
  13. Z
    8 January 2011 at 17:21

    How do you DO this stuff? Looks complicated to set up!

    Reply
  14. Heke
    8 January 2011 at 17:41

    Blender and it’s users just keep constantly amazing me, despite the fact that I’ve been following the community for almost two years. Keep it up!

    @TLOZ: Nion has some tutorials on his website at http://www.project-nion.net
    It could be worth a shot.

    Reply
  15. Tim Formica [Room335]
    8 January 2011 at 18:07

    A bit of confusion on my part. I had seen this on Facebook and didn’t realize it was a link. Sorry for the confusion and as usual, you the readers keep me straight. Thanks.

    Reply
  16. Nion
    8 January 2011 at 18:33

    Wow. I didn’t expect to see my vids here on BlenderNation. Thanks a lot for posting them here. I really appreciate that.

    Some tutorials will probably follow. But I have to focus on other stuff currently. Don’t expect anything soon (really this could take a while…).

    Reply
  17. Anemotion
    8 January 2011 at 21:24

    Very impressive ! I like the liquid, fire and twirling smoke effects a lot.

    Reply
  18. nathan
    8 January 2011 at 21:31

    Lol, have we found an absolute master of blender particle systems?
    Tell us, how many hours of particle sim does one need to go through to achieve stuff like that?
    … very inspiring

    Reply
  19. filipc
    8 January 2011 at 22:10

    Compilation 1, second 55 looks promising for making an oil burner simulation.
    Imagine a modlating burner, showing what it does on your domotics touch screen.

    Reply
  20. Papasmurf
    9 January 2011 at 10:23

    Beautiful, elegant, complete, and awesome eye-candy! Good job. Have a cookie.

    Reply
  21. ROUBAL
    9 January 2011 at 11:27

    Amazing ! Wonderful examples ! I wish I’ll switch to 2.5x this year !

    Reply
  22. Georgie
    9 January 2011 at 14:34

    Most impressive. :)

    Reply
  23. edi
    9 January 2011 at 14:36

    really beautiful…thanks for that :)

    Reply
  24. Yadovit
    9 January 2011 at 17:11

    ?????????!

    Reply
  25. praz
    9 January 2011 at 18:24

    WOah
    very nice ,and sweet FX!!!
    i wish i can do the same -__-

    Reply
  26. uriel
    10 January 2011 at 03:58

    very appreciated demo ! combustion effects are great !
    maybe need some infos like baking/rendering times and pc specs to evaluate it !
    bye

    Reply
  27. samuel
    10 January 2011 at 15:57

    Are these all done with built-in blender 2.5x? or were there some scripts, or mods or hacks? I wonder this because of the demonstration of blending two different colors of smoke together, and the particle fire simulation.

    Reply
  28. Scott
    10 January 2011 at 18:07

    Samuel: It’s all built-in Blender 2.5x, no scripts, no hacks, no mods.

    Blending of two different colors of smoke can be achieved by mapping colors to the heat.

    The particle fire is no simulation but rather a cool trick to fake the looks of fire.

    Reply
  29. Nion
    10 January 2011 at 20:33

    Because of the never ending questions I get about this two videos, I decided to add some annotations to them. I know they can’t replace a good tutorial, but you can’t expect me to answer every one of your questions with a tutorial either.

    Reply
  30. pixnlove
    10 January 2011 at 22:12

    This is worth a good paid DVD tutorial.
    Do it and I invest.

    Reply
  31. Moolah
    11 January 2011 at 00:10

    Daniel, thanks a lot! These tips in comments are precious! People, don’t need to answer lazies – it’s a waste of time. It’s not hard to search basic tutorials on BlenderArtists to find how to handle particles and force fields.
    The hardest part – ideas how to implement such amazing effects without special scripts and etc.
    So I think, Nion – you did this very well and no need to spend a lot of time to explain all your tricks in tutorials :)
    For those who just starting using particle systems I recommend to visit this site:
    http://www.pkblender.it/ParticleSystem/Html/particle_type.htm
    There are also great tips about SoftBody – things that I couldn’t get to understand before. Thanks to Antonio Gessi!

    Reply
  32. Whimsy Collective
    26 January 2011 at 02:57

    Tim Formica [Room335] are you able to change the link (URL) of this article to say … “by Nion” as it’s not my work. I follow this youtube channel. So, I simply found it and shared it in Facebook; that’s all. I just realized this after Googling my name and I saw that it’s in Blendernation ‘O.O`

    @Nion great work! Lastly; the annotations, kudos to you. I’m really appreciative of that.

    If you have Facebook and part of the Blender Knowledge Base group here’s where I posted link.

    http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_156761471038293&view=permalink&id=157512887629818

    Kindest regards to all

    Reply

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