Questions tagged [effects]
questions related to the creation of specific visual effects within the compositor or just in general blender usage
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Tip for create shine effect
i am beginner in blender. I started modelling hard surface (roulette with slot machine reel). Now I want to add light effect (like light spirals, jet fires, ...) in cycles. I dont know create this ...
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Smoke Generation “Unpaired” from Object / Broken Quick Effect Smoke
So I am trying to use blenders quick effect smoke but I am stopped every time I try because the smoke gen isn't sticking with the object I am using. I have tried following tutorials, but this doesn't ...
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How Can I create this Slime dripping down effect?
I want to create this cool looking Slime Effect in Blender with a Mesh:
I researched a bit for an answer, but I could not find something useful.
To be clear I want to use a basic Mesh like a Cube or ...
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Challenge - How to stretch an object through a plane
I would like to create this effect (white face image), but with a map (country map).
As if my map where pushed from behind a white grainy plastic film.
I searched some tutorial on Youtube, but could't ...
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Blender 2.8 One God Ray Effect
I am setting up lighting for a scene and I want one light to have a god ray effect, however, when I use the volume scatter on the scene it works for ALL lights. How do I isolate a spot light source ...
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Volumetric church window effect [duplicate]
I would like to use the attached texture as colored window glass.
I found the following tutorial for this, but I can't follow it pretty early on ("Assign a material and add the following nodes&...
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Paper shredding effect
I am trying to create a scene where a paper gets shredded up when it hits the bottom of an escalator. Still at the 'learning Blender' phase where I have to use tutorials for almost everything, and I'm ...
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Any chance to achieve soapy glass effect?
Well, I can't even image how to start doing it, ideas? Procedurally or not it doesn't really matter until I can modify it enough. Thanks!
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How to animate small fire flames
I am just starting with blender. So, sorry if my question seems dumb.
I saw some videos on quick animations and I am amazed with it.
However, fire animation seems not to work when I scale the domain ...
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Problem rendering quick effect fluid animation
Please, try this:
Start Blender, select the cube, add quick effect (type: liquid).
Press space bar to run the animation. Up to here, it is ok for me. Now comes the problem.
Change to the render view ...
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I can't see or operate the smoke in my scene, why? (Simulate a smoke machine) blender 2.90
I can't visualize the smoke correctly, I have performed all the steps and seen some tutorials and the other question here; both as a quick effect and manually generating a domain, after having ...
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Animate size of each letter in text with effector
I'm fairly new to Blender so this might be a really simple question. I want to animate each letter in a text with an effector (different shapes and patterns) in a similar way to these references:
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Blender Grease pencils glow effect in any specific layer or region
Is there an option to limit the effects like BLUR and GLOW to a specific part of a compound scene (when multiple elements in one view)? whenever I tried applying that it applied to the whole scene. Is ...
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Tips for anime style swift movement and teleportion effects for blender 2.9
I'm trying to figure out how to do anime style swift movements or teleportation like effects but what I do have is either laggy as all hell or effects the background and other objects. I would rather ...
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How to switch fluid domains during animation?
I started learning fluids and domains, and i got amazed at this effect on https://youtu.be/8hpqwfZah08
At 0:36
How can i switch fluid domains during animation? Like Exclude a cube, and them the fluid ...
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How was Regency logo effect done? [duplicate]
I'm trying to create a similar effect to this. And I found a nice tutorial with something similar. However, I wasn't able to add a text there. So it looks like the material setup is not using any ...
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Zoom into picture frame
I am not sure how to describe this effect. but..
I want to show a video with a picture frame in it. I want the blender camera to zoom in on the picture frame and eventually just be showing the video ...
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Quick Smoke doesn't work in Render
So no matter what I've tried until now (digging through developer forums, watching tutorials, etc.) doesn't fix my issue, where when rendering my animation in Cycles or Eevee neither the smoke nor the ...
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How do I scale my flames' height?
So my problem is as follows: I have candles set up in a way, that they have a wick in the middle. I want to emitt fire out of these wicks with the "Quick Smoke"-Effect at Object>Quick ...
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Trying to Make Zero-G Manipulatable Liquid
I’m basically trying to find a way to control a fluid simulation, or something that looks like fluid, in a way that would allow me to have the fluid follow one point, but still allow it to deform ...
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Grease Pencil VFX Failing to Render
so, I have a bit of an issue with my grease pencil visual effects rendering.
I created a simple grease pencil animation that utilizes both the Shadow and Rim Light Visual Effects, but for some reason ...
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Blender Eevee how to render Bloom effect when using transparent background
I need to render Bloom effect while using a transparent background, I need to save PNG sequence with RGBA, when I do this, the Bloom effect is being removed by the transparency since it falls outside ...
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In video editing, the effect is not rendering
I am editing a compilation of video clips and audio. I added the effect 'color dodge' to a specific clip, in the preview everything is working fine and showing all visuals and audio. Later on, when I ...
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Creating a “magic goggles” effect
I would like to create a scene in which some simple objects make a simple scene, normally lighted, and with a transparent lens object looking through which some of the objects have an emitter material ...
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How to make video game style dialogue boxes (Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door style) for animated shorts (NOT games)?
I'm making an animated short heavily inspired by the look of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and I'd like to convey the dialogue through animated dialogue boxes where the text appears from left ...
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Sticker glue algorithm
I've found this really cool video: Bureau Klaus Alman - Plastic Dreams, and among many other amazing scenes there's one where a strip of sticker gets torn off the surface of a plastic bottle, and as ...
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Particle Flow along a Curve with Turbulence
I'd like to replicate the effect in the follwing the picture:
I did create a curve with a particle flow on it already but I don't know how to make this kind of eruption effect.
Scene Download
Would ...
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Sun eruption effect around a letter
I want to create a particle effect around a letter or a Symbol that's supposed to look like a sun eruption. I mean these fiery waves that are randomly generated.
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How to make the Doctor Strange reality bend?
I've got this idea, to try and recreate the Doctor Strange reality bending effect. With that I mean the one where the floor peels back and twirls on itself.
I thought it would be relatively easy to do,...
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Is it possible to make this look more magical and see through?
I'd like this purple shadow-thing to look more magical. I created an image in photoshop and added it to a plane as a texture, but it doesn't look quite like I want it to. Is it possible to achieve ...
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Can you keyframe effects in grease pencil? If so how?
Im creating a fire animation in blender grease pencil. I added glow and transparency effects. In certain parts of my animation it would make sense for glow and transparency to get stronger/weaker. Is ...
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I can't make the outer glow for the moon
I made this moon and I'm trying to give it an outer glow and also I would like to have emission, but the texture to be visible. Can you guys help me? I'm attaching the render and some stock photos for ...
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Setup for more “splashy” fluid 2.8
I'm making a simulation of object dropping into the water. In previous version of Blender it gives nice, big effect of splashing and air bubbles around an object. However, using mantaflow surface of ...
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Which effect to use so my texture doesn't look so flat? (Cigar)
I am trying to make a realistic cigar texture, but my texture just doesn't seem right. What am I missing, what to do so the texture doesn't look this flat? Any bumps or something? Thank you, btw this ...
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How to make video react to emission objects in post?
I wanna do some vfx with explosions and stuff and i was wondering how i would go about making things like faces and bodies (moving objects that cant be projection mapped) light up in response to light ...
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Metaball-style merge effect on two modelled and realistically textured human heads possible?
I would like to create a complex animation in which two rigged objects - human head models in this case - merge together as they float next to each other with a similar effect that metaballs have on ...
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Matching walking from video to tracked scene?
I am doing a cgi background in blender to someone walking on a treadmill... I am trying to move the cgi background to match the guys walk. How would I go about this? I already tracked the scene but do ...
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How do you create an electric aura in blender? [duplicate]
Im trying to figure out how to create an electric aura of a simple shape (cube). Would anyone know how i could easily do this?
Here is an example of what i'm talking about:
With sonic you can see ...
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When using the quick smoke effect the bake option is not showing [duplicate]
I used Eevee. I only changed the Border Collision and Vorticity (followed YouTube tutorial).
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QuickSmoke effect don't work in preview
I am dealing with a problem in bender 2.83, when i apply the quicksmoke effect it doesn't appear in the preview
I recorded that for you so you can see all the details
the recording: https://youtu.be/...
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Helmet glass part makes hair not show for character [duplicate]
I've been following a course on creating a character with Blender 2.8 and have got to a point where I should make the helmet glass part look like glass. After applying the filters to do that, the hair ...
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highlighter effect in blender on images
I would like to make vox videos like highlighter effect on images and planes. Like when the animation is started some lines are highlighted from left to right like highlighting the line.
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How to make a circle slowly appear in the shape of a circle in a clockwise direction?
I am making a doctor strange portal in blender 2.82, I want the portal to slowly animate in, in the shape of a circle, such that the portal appears slowly in a clockwise direction, just the way Dr ...
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Video editing transform strip offset and crop in Preview window
Is there a gizmo that lets me transform a strip position and crop directly in the Preview window?
This would be much easier than using the side pane menus.
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Glowing Eyes On Model Texture for export into ohter Programms
i find some cool Tutorial to how i can make cool glowing eyes on my little Model but they all for Rendering. Is is possible to have Glowing eyes on my Model Texture standalone ? So that i can import ...
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How do I give a completely black object a glow effect?
I am trying to give an all-black object a glow effect. Is this achievable? I have seen how to create glow effects using emission and world bloom, however, this obviously has no effect on a black ...
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Highlight objects with light in animation
I'm making an animation of a surgery and I want to highlight specific steps of the surgery in this animation. Is there a way in blender 2.8 to highlight objects with light so that other structures are ...
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Make complex shape without modeling
I want to make an object like this:
But it is way too hard for me to model. It dosen't have to be the exact same, just the same look.
Is there a trick to modeling it, or some kind of generated ...
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Fresnel gradient shader?
I've tried my hardest to try and replicate this style, but can't for the life of me get anywhere near it. Is anyone able to get close to this style?
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How to properly get a smoke/fire effect in Blender 2.8?
So there is a well known tutorial on Youtube by the BlenderGuru that I watched because I want to try and get into blender and CGI. I know that the tutorial is for modeling a donut, but an issue Im ...
