Blender Tutorial: How to Create a Paint Splash in Blender
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Ramaswamy V
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What’s the easiest way to create a paint splash effect in Blender? You may have thought of fluid simulation, but even easier way would be to use particles, force fields, and metaballs. Garnish it with the principled shader and you’re good to go.
Blender tutorial timeline:
0:15 - Introduction
0:47 - Smoke simulation
2:33 - Particle system
4:11 - The turbulence force field
5:44 - The smoke flow force field
9:07 - Animate the flow object
11:02 - The vortex force field
12:22 - Final tweaks to the particle system
13:20 - Metaballs
15:34 - Convert metaballs to meshes
19:36 - The smooth modifier
21:00 - Sculpt the meshes
22:40 - Shaders and lighting
28:56 - Subsurface scattering
30:02 - Tone mapping
31:37 - Render!