CG Boost | Animated Lightning in Blender (Tutorial) @cgboost | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
In this video, @MartinKlekner shows how to create a 3D lightning using a simple Grease Pencil workflow and how to composite it into your scenes. Learn how to make the waves in our course.
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LINKS
⇨ Free Introduction to Compositing: youtu.be/bIZrTXtyQkY
⇨ SlowMo Guys Lightning video by Joey Carlino: youtu.be/qQKhIK4pvYo
⇨ Lightning tutorial using Geometry Nodes: youtu.be/r_J8i1eChBs

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Getting reference
01:54 - Drawing the lightning with Grease Pencil
05:47 - Animating the lightning
07:00 - Adding Thickness and Opacity modifier
09:13 - Rendering out layers
11:29 - Making the Lightning visible & Grease Pencil effects
12:48 - Compositing
14:40 - Driving exposure and Drivers
15:45 - Adding Glow with Ellipse mask
17:30 - Gradually blurring the Lightning

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GPU: GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
RAM: 64 GB

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