Tutorial: Making a Procedural Trail Simulation in Blender 4.4 @Polyfjord

Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In this Blender tutorial, we'll be making a procedural trail effect using Geometry Nodes in Blender 4.4! We'll be animating an object using our mouse cursor and capturing the movement in real-time using auto-keying!

Link to the project file here: patreon.com/posts/128112747

Here's the tutorial from Blender Path that was a big inspiration (highly recommended watch!): youtu.be/Ir1qGy5ycdA

Tutorial: Making a Procedural Trail Simulation in Blender 4.4

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$Extracting Beauty From the Mandelbrot Set using Blender (Tutorial) Rendering Real-time fractals in Blender, and using it to create The Cloak of Mandelbrot! 💫 AD: Get 5% off your Rokoko mocap gear with the code RKK_POLYFJORD: https://glnk.io/3vn51/polyfjord In this video I finally get to share a new way I have been rendering and animating Mandelbrot fractals in Blender 5.0. I have wanted a workflow where you can explore the Mandelbrot set in real-time, and its finally possible using the new Repeat Zone nodes! The result of this video is a custom Mandelbrot shader that is built on a Blender 5.0 demo file made by @Specoolar and with an OSL variand inspired by a script by @CGMatter. I also explore a workflow when using this mandelbrot shader to create a fractal transition of an invisible cloak - The Cloak of Mandelbrot, which you can see at the very end of the video. Thanks for watching! Download my Mandelbrot Shader here (free download): https://www.patreon.com/posts/146056099/ Intro music from Epidemic Sounds (affiliate link): https://share.epidemicsound.com/m6whxf Outro music from YouTube Audio Library: 🎵 The New Order Follow me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polyfjord/ Check out my Patreon for advanced project files: https://www.patreon.com/polyfjord Check out my 2nd channel for Deep Dive videos: https://www.youtube.com/@Polyfjord2 00:00 Opening Cinematic 01:32 Exploring the new Repeat Zone nodes in Blender 5.0 03:13 The problem with discrete iteration values 05:36 Bypassing discrete values using my improved Mandelbrot Shader 08:27 Customizing the Mandelbrot Shader 12:49 Introduction of the Cloak of Mandelbrot project 13:17 AD: Rokoko motion capture workflow 14:48 Creating the cloth simulation 18:24 Animating the fractal transition of the cloak 23:43 Compositing and render tips 28:11 Final result: The Cloak of Mandelbrot$

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Tutorial: Making a Procedural Trail Simulation in Blender 4.4