Videotutorials

Creating a Magic Wand Particles Effect

Bart ·

blender-magic-wand-tutorialKernon Dillon from BlenderNewbie has published a three-part videotutorial on the creation of a magic wand particles effect.


Kernon wrote:

This video tutorial series will show you how to create a magic wand particles effect, the sort of visual effect you might see when a “magic wand” is waved. This will be similar to a “pixie” dust effect, although not so complicated.

In Part 1, we’ll take a look at how to create the sprite graphics that will be used in the particle system.

In Part 2, we’ll take a look at how to create the particle system that will be used with the sprite graphics created in Part 1.

In Part 3, we’ll take a look at combining the sprite graphics with our particle system, and then tweaking things, including a little bit of post production, to achieve our final results.

More info can be found at BlenderNewbies and you can watch them at CG Cookie.

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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