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I tried to recreate this animation with geometry nodes in Blender: Joe Ryba animation

I tried an icosphere with displacement and noise, wave and musgrave textures. The result is a displaced sphere but not something that seems to fold itself into it. Could this be done with a plane? Looking forward to your ideas! :)

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    $\begingroup$ I would suggest a collection of 2 or more meatballs and keyframe some random movement $\endgroup$
    – Allen Simpson
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    $\begingroup$ Meatballs... you know what I'm leaving it LOL. Metaballs* $\endgroup$
    – Allen Simpson
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Looking at the your reference, it is a deformation of a surface; UV's are preserved. So surface must not be created or destroyed.

This is a GN version.. I'm guessing the same could be done with Displace and Subdivision modifiers, but would be less easy to tweak.

The starting geometry, here, is a UV-mapped 1st-level Icosphere, with one level of Catmull-Clark subdivision.

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  • The lo-res icosphere is displaced in and out along its normals by animated and mapped Noise, and then subdivided.
  • The subdivided surface is then positively inflated along its own normals, clean.

The second phase can be repeated, for a more rounded effect.

To animate the noise, the lookup into the 3D noise is offset around an XY circle, once per animation period. (For a 100 frame loop, the 'Frame' input is multiplied by 2*pi/100). Changing the Z of the circle will look up from different regions of the noise texture:

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Changing the size of the circle ('Amplitude') will scan the noise more or less quickly.

Adjusting those numbers, and the parameters of the Noise node, can make the animation a lot more gloopy, less staccato, than this example, which has had to be crunched down a bit for the 2MB gif:

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Have a go and see if you get somewhere close:

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  • $\begingroup$ Dear Robin, thank you so much for your detailed answer and your blend file! I learned a lot from your thinking and approach. Thanks again! :) $\endgroup$
    – Voltago
    Commented Oct 19, 2022 at 17:38

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