Metaballism: Metaballs as Swiss Army Knife

"Metaballism: Metaballs as Swiss Army Knife" by Alexander Mitzkus
Blender Conference 2017

[lapidations]

Omg it's actually metaballs? I always read meatballs

[NeonDripKitty]

Note to self: make sure unit scale is set to 1 when trying to use metaballs, they don't work as expected at 0.01 unit scale.

[Meteotrance]

ah finaly somebody take care about those wonderfull tool, that existe for more than 3 decades in other software like lightwave, but the anime " Golgo 13 " was probably the first movie that used this technic in 1983 for the skull modeling in the opening sequence.

[KAOZTAINMENT]

Damn, i love the Metaball Chicken <3

[CADDIA]

nice for start sculpting or sketching idea

[Adrienaline-Rushed-Art]

i just used metaballs for the first time and i can see it being a game changer! imagine making a rigged clay-face with this stuff. Might take a bunch of patience, but it'd be seriously fruitful considering how much life the movement of metaballs brings. I wish there were like... a mesh modifier? Where it becomes a mesh when you need it to be a mesh but when you disable it you can tweak movement using the metaballs. Idk how possible that would be, but man I would prefer making all characters using metaballs now

[NoBody-ehbw]

The meat'a'ball joke is fun but this is an amazing presentation that has given me so many ideas. I'm late to the party but I have to give huge props to Alexander.

[Holobrine]

I want a plugin to automatically skin a rig with metaballs. (no autocorrect, not meatballs!)

[ldeen]

So cool! Before this I'd next thought much on metaballs!

[insertanynameyouwant]

I like how the Blender theme was changed after More Advanced Usage slide

[debajyotimajumder]

i lost my .... when i saw this advanced rigging!!! got to learn rigging!!

[Pythontheking]

I need a tutorial for the chicken! I love it!

[lowtestguy]

New drinking game. Take a shot every time he says "meat a' ball" Other than that, some pretty cool stuff.

[Nuttoz]

I wonder How to use " Interactive mirror " on Metaball

.. Fake Flood so Amazing!!!

[eisbombenterror]

Reminds me the assassination scene in Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country...

[tyennille]

Ive always wanted to try to utilize MetaBall more but disnt know how

[abvmoose]

This is really cool, it reminds me a bit of a plugin that was available for 3ds Max 2 called MetaReyes.

[josephbrandenburg]

I love me some spaghetti and meat-a-balls!

[jamil]

Does Autodesk Maya have something like that? Argh! Blender is Getting Better and Better!

[FelipeTorrents]

Loved both talks about this! The third one should be called "going meta-balls deep"