Blender Beginner Particles Tutorial

Particles are useful for making cool stuff. If you don't have access to the point cloud conversion yet, make sure to download at least Blender 3.3. Otherwise you won't have motion blur.

Original tutorial by Sophie Noel, Instagram @xmasophie

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00:00 Intro
00:26 Simulation Setup
02:59 Particle Movement
07:36 Final Sim
10:35 Shaping and Layering
14:52 The Cool Material
22:10 Bonus Stuff

[Ryfryrice]

@11:45 - Here's a quick Point Cloud work around if you don't have the option to select from Object->Convert. Select all vertices in edit mode using "A", then hit "X" to delete, selecting the "Only Edges & Faces" option. This will leave you with the points and can continue from there. Great tutorial btw, really enjoyed it.

[virgilhawkins]

For everyone in 3.3 wondering where the Convert to Points Cloud option is, it's been turned into the "Mesh to Points" geometry node.

[jonhtte]

Bro, I love how you explain things!
Nice balance of going in depth/clarifying certain aspects you encounter during the process that others often leave uncommented in their tutorials.

[TheDrumtracks]

Your structures in your tutorials are insanely good. Especially in this one! It does make following the tutorial super easy.

[sophienoel]

Hey ! Glad you loved my tutorial ! A little credit would be much appreciated :D
Amazing to see different approach with different tools

Cheers

[mfarhank]

This was a pure masterclass! hats off man. At the end of the video I just stood up and gave it an applause. Bravo!

[WaterShowsProd]

Love the motion graphics demonstrations at the end. Very cool stuff, as usual. Explaining some complicated features in an easy to understand way.

[harringtonday]

Compiling my top 20 go-to YouTube TUTs - you're def way up in there BD! - Many thanks for your education:) There's a buzz I get when someone like yourself explains something in way that even I can understand, I love learning and understanding how things work. Short cuts/add-ons are great if you know your stuff, ie when in a production environment - can save time. But if you're learning I say, don't get too distracted with all the unnecessary add-ons - instead do the spade work in blender vanilla and understand how to get there/problem solving etc. In the long run you will save more energy and time than any add-on can provide.

[phantom_snper]

This was an incredible tutorial and even though I haven't done much research, I feel like I gained such a good understanding of basic force fields as well as the geometry node editor and the different values for particles too, thank you so much!

[Vipelez]

Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and strengthen the blender community!

[AArmstrongC]

watched this video 4months ago... now I used this steps for a job, thanks!

[SamMorseBrown]

Such a cool result!!
Love your stuff man. :)

[antonshakhovnin]

Great tutorial, thank you!
That HSC interpolation trick sure will be useful
Can you use particle attributes like age, lifespan, velocity, etc in shaders with this workflow?
For example to make fast particles more bright and old ones less saturated?

[naasofficial]

love the tutorials man, learned alot from you in my last few months of learning blender. the sand hour glass tutorial opened up so many ideas.

[DownTownDK.]

damn this renders hella fast. Thanks for the tutorial

[GaryParris]

Another Excellent Tutorial, and demonstration of your skills, thanks you for producing such great content

[ShiroiAkumaSama]

You do have very nice refreshing ideas and your explanations are on point and easy to follow, super entertaining!

[mak_attakks]

Really impressed by your explanations, and the quality of your work. You've got a good eye as an artist and your teaching style is perfect!

[scottlee]

Awesome!

More Houdini to Blender tutorials if possible!

Or a "Houdini to Blender" Series?

[deezlife]

hey bro thanks for the tutorial! This is exactly what I was looking for. Was looking for something to create particle explosions inside transparent geometric shapes and this is exactly what I needed! Kudos.