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

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

on Mar 6th 2012 with 5 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Blender
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 2 Hours

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Animated Fish Swarm In Blender

In this new two part tutorial from Frederik Steinmetz, you’ll learn how to create a truly unique fish swarm animation using Blender. Frederik will guide you through the entire process of Modeling, Texturing, Rigging and Animating a realistic school of mackerels. You’ll then learn how to create a spiraling, tornado like effect for the swarm using particles.

In part two (coming soon) Frederik will follow up by taking you through the rendering and compositing stages, using both Blender’s internal rendering engine and the Cycles engine. Click through to get started!

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  • haqzaf

    Hi, Frederik Steinmetz

    Many thanks,useful tutorial.In one sitting you demonstrated complete workflow about modeling,uv unwrapping, texturing,rigging,particle system,vortex,etc in one sitting.
    My progrss and render in cycles at the end of tutorial where you created three fish to offset animation for random effect in vortex swarm.
    My progress after 214 samples out of 3000 of Cycles Render.
    http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=gallery%3Ahaqzaf%2F9410305#/d4s15ov

  • http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/blender/creating-an-animated-fish-swarm-in-blender-using-particles-the-complete-workflow/ muslim

    hi man?
    how are you?
    thanks for thes tutorial
    thank man

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

    here is my first part animation:
    http://youtu.be/EKV1K9E7ogM

  • kit

    very useful introduction to boids swarms, thanks!

  • scarecrow

    This is wonderful. Starting to see some amazing uses for the particles system! Thanks!!!

    Looking forward to part 2 of this tutorial