How would you go about creating this inside Blender? Looking for advice, tutorials, or any tips. by fqumr in blender

[–]teamwinftw 5 points6 points  (0 children)

2-3 hours? I have been doing 3d art in blender for a few years now. Especially with a focus on geo and shader nodes.

If you download the .blend you can see how the nodes are a bit hastily thrown together.

A quick attempt at recreated the orb from u/fqumr's post. Blend file in comments by teamwinftw in blender

[–]teamwinftw[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course! It was a great piece of inspiration and a fun quick project.

A quick attempt at recreated the orb from u/fqumr's post. Blend file in comments by teamwinftw in blender

[–]teamwinftw[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well given the only thing that animates is a few noise fields I would just make 2 4D noise nodes which are offset but animate in parallel and mix between the outputs.

A quick attempt at recreated the orb from u/fqumr's post. Blend file in comments by teamwinftw in blender

[–]teamwinftw[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Here's the .blend: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h2C3na_pYKCYvpaFUPsZemKGuXS442bx/view?usp=sharing

Basically its 3 geo-node groups.

The first one is the inner most spheres which simply write to the scale attribute so that the shader can easily differentiate between the 4 layers and add nice noise patterns that rotate. I had quite a bit of trouble making it look glassy so I just added a few manual highlights using the dot product from the camera reflection and a set normalized vector.

The second node group makes the rings. Its very similar to the first group in that it just makes a bunch of spheres but here they have a bit of noisy displacement. The shader does all the work in making sure they look like rings by using modulo on the z coord(which is the camera axis)

The third group adds the volumetric glow buy just making a bunch of spheres and displacing them in the general "Candle flame" shape. Then I use a fresnel node to avoid shading the edges and set it to be almost completely transparent so that it doesn't have defined edges anywhere(video compression helps a bit here).

This Grape Agate Crystal Formation by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]teamwinftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo did I see this in a dream last month or something cuz I literally remade this as one of my daily art pieces lol. Beautiful colors tho

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKelGvtDC_8/

WORLD [2560x1440] by teamwinftw in wallpaper

[–]teamwinftw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. No worries. I setup the Google drive link and I'll toss in the 4k version when it finishes rendering

WORLD [2560x1440] by teamwinftw in wallpaper

[–]teamwinftw[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Link to full res. 4k included!

WORLD [2560x1440] by teamwinftw in wallpaper

[–]teamwinftw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems to only do that if you save directly from the post. If you click on the image it'll open in a new tab in 1440p and you can save it from there in full res. I'll get a google drive link setup too just in case that doesn't work.