C - Wind Swept Fields. Blender Days of Type. Blender Tutorial

Inspired by the ‘36 Days of Type’ community project and others like it, the approach will be to use the letters of the English alphabet as a creative constraint combined with a key concept or goal to help explore interesting concepts in motion graphics.

These projects are only one way of doing things that I have found that work in this instance. Questions and comments are welcome below in the hope that we can learn together.

The Letter C.
In this project I wanted to create a simple system for the animation of wind swept fields.

Grassy fields require a different approach in that they behave almost like water. There is the individual motion of each grass or grain stem but whole areas of grass move together when a stronger gust of wind goes by. I wanted to be able to artistically direct the overall windiness of the scene as well as control those gusts of wind. It’s not perfect but it can be as complex as you want to make it and it would work well with the rigged plants of the first tutorial in this series.

Thanks for watching.

[neilmarshall]

19:50 If you want to change the settings of all the selected winds at once then hold down Alt when you adjust one.
They all change. Even when the numbers are all different.
You no longer need to delete all but one and then clone that one.
And yeah - the whole 21:40 set up drivers is now NOT NEEDED.

My new favorite 'shortcut'.

[codingwithellie]

Two years old and probably still the best tutorial for grass animation on Youtube.

[weidnermusic]

that was very useful, i spent hours with dynamic hair thing for grass trying to move tons of parameters without understanding what it does and then found this video and it saved my life. I saved so much time with this technique that i can use that time rendering my scene on cycles instead of eevee :p thanks !

[inanis_exe]

I usually avoid long tuts cuz im lazy XD but this one I enjoyed every minute, love the fact that you explain why all is done, and learned lot more than just wind effect, if you know what I mean

[milocero]

im 1.30 minutes into it and the quality its great man props for that

[getspike]

the absolute best tutorial on this subject by far! Thar hair dynamics method been cracking my brain and it looks no where near as good

[weidnermusic]

I don't know if it's possible but it would be nice for those driver empty to be limited in space vertically or to display the value as you don't really know what's the value for strenght / power when moving them up and down and where is the middle (0) and max / min.

[amjadalinava]

After countless months of searching i found this video . Thanks a lot 🙌

[adhingowda]

dude seriously thank you so much for this, i've been looking through alot of tutorials for grass animation and none of them we're this great, thank you so much ;)

[TipTut]

This is fantastic, could you please explain what's inside your plant Collection? Just a series of objects that make up a single stalk? Thankyou!

[pierrerasamoela]

awsome tutorial! exactly what I was looking for. Thank you soo much.

[FIAman]

This is exactly what i was looking for, thank you!

[FlojoArt]

Really great turorial! Thank you so much.

[ElCalvoYT]

Hi! very good, but one question where did you got the grass from?

[adictivedesign]

Hey,
at 18:00 doesnt work for me.. my flowers are still spinning wild around the Z... any solutions for the quick wild spinning?
Also my flowers arent bending.. they are "falling" stiffly

[chachaG-leyd]

My plant substitute cube is not vertical at the plane when i try to render object in the particle section 3:34

[AstaMuratti]

thank you so much for this tutorial, i am working on a similar scene now, can you please give an advice - what is the best way to fix the length of the grass, affected by the wind? i have closeups of individual thin-bladed grasses and the movement starts right at the root, it even seems they are moving inside the ground) can it be prevented? can the wind affect only top of the grass and how the strength of the wind can be linked with the parameter of 'grass stiffness'?

[sahiltandi]

when i change the render from object to collection, the plants are dont get placed upright.
even after ive changed their orignal rotation:/ need help

[Knurek]

I wonder why my plants (cubes) are under the ground and changing the location of the cube is doing nothing.😅

[cg.man_aka_kevin]

Next, how to create this in geometry nodes... :)