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Creating An Animated Fish Swarm In Blender Using Particles: The Complete Workflow, Compositing

Creating An Animated Fish Swarm In Blender Using Particles: The Complete Workflow, Compositing

on Apr 5th 2012 with 6 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Blender
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Animated Fish Swarm In Blender

In the second part of the Animated Fish Swarm In Blender tutorial, Frederik Steinmetz shows you how to take advantage of instance rendering in Cycles. He will reveal an effective way to composite a Blender rendering on top of a Cycles rendering, without having to make a copy of the entire scene, or temporarily store your render results in EXR files. However you’ll still be able to take advantage of Blender’s motion blur as well as halo spotlight effects.

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  • Rômulo Jordão

    Really Nice Tutorial, i learn some fill tricks combining blender internal with cycles. Thanks!
    I enjoy your tutorials, you could make one good about eyebrows and eyeslash, particles for a good realistic hair stiil not exist in a tutorial.
    :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/blenderWorks tarik bagriyanik
  • scarecrow

    Frederik, this is a truly amazing tutorial.

    Only issue I’ve had is getting the lighting to come through … half way in the tutorial, I noticed you were making the node setup in blender render but I realized that at the end, you said we should do the nodes in cycles. Is that why the lighting isn’t coming through? My node setup is exactly the same as yours otherwise.

    Thanks!

    • http://www.blenderdiplom.com Frederik
      Author

      It doesn’t make any real different where the nodes are, as long as you are in that scene, when you press render.
      The nodes shouldn’t have anything to do with the lighting effect. It is very important to set the halo step to something more than 1. Not sure if that was your question.

  • Joe

    How does changing the material of the fish to black, shade-less make them not take forever to render in Blender Render? “If we were to render this it would take a pretty long time.” Is a step missing? Even if we change their shade to black it still takes forever to render.

    • Joe

      D’oh! Instance rendering in the render panel.. got it.