Cloud and Rain Animation in Blender for Beginners

Learn how to use volume, particles and physics to make a cute simple 3D animation in Blender for beginners

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Description

Particle systems, volume, physics simulations, and 3D animation.

This is a lot to learn when you’re just starting to learn 3D in Blender.

You can make a lot of cool things with these tools!

But first, how to use them correctly…

This is the difficult part and it can take a very long time to learn.

There are a lot of settings to understand to be able to make your animation work properly and not get weird bugs.

You can fully go in depth and follow 10-hour courses about these tools,

But, it’ll quickly become too confusing to understand for a beginner, you’ll get lost and never use them.

A simple way to start learning how to use these tools is by creating a cool project you can make in a few hours.

I created a project that I think is very good for beginners.

The steps are simple :

Use a volume to make a fluffy cloud

Use a particle system to create rain falling from the cloud

Use another particle system to create grass

Use physics to create dynamic water where the raindrops are going to create little waves

I made this 2-hour course about this project and you can follow it right now.

In this course, I teach you everything you need to know, step by step.

You’ll learn how to use volumetrics and displacements to make clouds,

Use different particle systems to make the rain and grass,

Use physics simulations to make the raindrops interact with the water,

Create the whole scene and render your 3D animation smoothly!

By the end of the course,

You’ll have learned all of these tools easily,

You’ll be able to reproduce the animation and make your own new versions of it.

See you,

Nicholas

What You Will Learn!

How to use a simple cube to create a cloud
The only 2 modifiers you need to add to create entire clouds in seconds
How to use displacement textures
What is a volume and how to use it
How to transform a cube into a volume
The difference between non-realistic clouds and realistic clouds
How to use displacement textures on volume shapes
How to create big and small displacements at the same time
How to create materials for your volume
Why you shouldn’t put low volume density to your cloud
How to use particle systems to make rain
How to create raindrops for your animation
How to make your particles look like perfect raindrops
The only setting you need to change to make your rain fall straight down in a realistic way
How to make the rain start directly from the cloud
How to edit the starting point to make it the same size as your cloud
How to make your raindrops invisible inside your cloud before falling down
The only setting you need to change in your volume material to make it look natural
How to create simple animated waves with physics
How to make your raindrops interact with the water
How to make your waves look smooth
What physics properties to add to your rain and to the water
How to make your particle system a dynamic object in your physics
How to make your raindrops disappear after hitting the water
How to adjust the scale of the waves proportionally to the size of your raindrops
How to not make your waves bounce or not at the extremity of the water
How to make bumpy grounds
How to generate displacement textures for your ground
How to create a hole to put the water in it
One add-on you need to activate to generate multiple realistic landscapes
How to create hills manually
How to use particle systems hair setting to make grass
A simple click to multiple the grass density without having more particles on your viewport
How create patches of grass on your ground
How to assign the grass only on one part of your ground
How to use weight paint and vertex groups with particle systems
Create realistic material for your ground
How to have two different materials for the ground and the grass
How to textures your clouds to make them look fluffy
How to create a water material
How to assign your water material to every raindrops
How to make realistic skies
How to put HDR images for your environment light
Where to download high quality HDR images
How to add HDRI for your scene
Where to place your sun in your scene to make your clouds not look flat
How to put HDRI + sun light and not have 2 different suns
What are caustics and why you should activate them
How to activate caustics on your different meshes
How to make your water look more realistic with caustics
How to activate caustics for your HDRI or sky
How to make your sun create caustics for your water and raindrops
What to put in the background of your scene
How to make your background have a nice and natural color
How to use HDRI to make backgrounds
How to make your background transparent
How to make your camera square or rectangular
What focal length to add to your camera to view all your scene
How to use depth of field to create a more realistic look
How to make your background and foreground have a nice blur
How to create a focus point for your camera
Where to place the focus of your camera
What render engine to use to have good looking clouds
How to make your raindrops have a little motion blur in your animation
How to render your animation without any particles problems
The only step you do not want to skip to render your animation with perfect physics
How to load all of your animation images before rendering
How to export the video of your animation
Should you export your animation in PNG or MP4
What frame rate to put for your animation
How to adjust the contrast and exposure of your scene before rendering
How to drag and drop realistic 3D models in your scene with this free add-on
How to generate infinite personalizable trees to add to your environment
How to add texture to your trees with a simple drag and drop from a free library
Learn how to create oceans

Who Should Attend!

Beginners in 3D who want to learn to create simple animations
Beginners in 3D who want to learn physics simulations
Beginner in 3D who want to improve by creating a full project