Simon Thommes

Wow, this has been quite the month (and a half)! I'm finally done with all 30 #nodevember prompts! Each is made from a sphere primitive with a procedural shader in Blender. Thanks to everyone for the amazing support and overwhelmingly positive feedback! :) #nodevember2019 #b3d

SINGULARITY, the painterly space adventure and newest open movie by Blender Studio is now released! Watch in on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=l5OZu-… #b3d #OpenMovie #BlenderStudio #singularity

Today is the day! Join our livestream as we celebrate the online premiere of SINGULARITY! Together, we’ll go behind the scenes of this painterly space adventure and finally release it for the whole world to see. youtube.com/watch?v=T6rIuM…

@IRCSS Yes, and then there's also the Endpoint Selection node

Extermly simple but very useful geometry node tips. If you have unconnected cruves in one geo and you want to get the tips of each spline, use points of curve to mark points that are on open end.

With the release of @Blender 5.0, comes our new character Storm, powered by a new facial rigging system, together with CloudRig! Get it now on studio.blender.org/blog/storm-has… and start animating! #b3d #blenderstudio #facialrigging #cloudrig #animation #3dcharacter

Big! 🙌

Out NOW! Watch @OKGo latest animated video, co-produced with Blender Studio, featuring the incredible work of @willanderson_ and @lucas_zanotto. This is an open movie! Download the files and discover how to create your own live procedural animations. youtube.com/watch?v=fwzbIU… #b3d

Announcing an upcoming collaboration with @lucas_zanotto, @willanderson_ and @okgo: Blender Studio will produce an animated videoclip! Coming early September. Read more at studio.blender.org/blog/announcin… #b3d #videoclip #animation3d

DOGWALK, Blender Studio’s open project made with @blender and @godotengine, has been released! Play the game for free on Steam and Itch.io and access production assets, documentation and the source of the game by signing up on studio.blender.org #b3d

We actually made a game! 🐕‍🦺☃️ Play it! It's free on Steam and Itch! And get the source files on our website to mess around with them yourself! @BlenderStudio_ youtu.be/gPENs56vfYk?si… #b3d #GODOT #dog

@manujarvinen Hm,that shouldn't be necessary. In theory you should just be able to make the tool node-group an asset, put it in your library and then it should pop up in the menu. I showed that here: youtu.be/Y8Udi1AkdGY?si… If something there doesn't work anymore then that might be a bug.

Okay, my current work-method with it: - open node_tools-example_zoo.blend - save as new file - append everything you want to fracture into it - now the fracturing works as intended

Hi @simonthommes ! Is there somewhere the latest version of the Fracture Tool? I always struggle for a long time to get it actually working well with latest Blenders somehow... #b3d

Jacques and me will be giving a workshop on Geometry Nodes in 4 weeks at EPC in Breda, NL Tickets for the event are on sale via the link below See you there! 👋

@ScalesSimon This is a bit out of context, not sure I get what you mean. You could generate points dynamically based on proximity and use a for-each zone. That's really not how it was inteded to be used though, the idea was to have something controllable, so some changes might be required.

@simonthommes Hey there, how did you go about creating the impact fracture node setup? Can it be combined with a rigid body object using a proximity node?

@mdivietro2 Hm, judging by the image I'm not sure. Could you create a bug report here and tag me in the description? Then I can have a look projects.blender.org/studio/blender…

Hey, @simonthommes would you happen to know why my transparancy isn't working on custom brush strokes? I copied the node group and inserted my own file into the image format.

@KM4desiigns If it's just emissie fire like here, you can render it in front of a black background and then set the blend mode of that footage to add

@simonthommes Hello, would you know any advice for rendering fire in cycles, but with transparency and for it to be rendered in animation? Being an animation, the fire is not saved, only the object. Thanks

Make it B'rn! I released my 100% procedural, volumetric, animated fire shader for Blender! Get it here for free :) gum.co/BRNbl #b3d #procedural

@soyposmoderno Thanks for the support, I hope it proves to be useful :) For intersections, we def discussed it. For the most part this gave solid enough results that would hide them. Then a lot was designing a forgiving pattern. And the rest we made sure that we had manual control for fixes.

Thanks for the write-up, Simon! Just renewed my subscription to be able to read it :) I don't think I've read anything related to the shards colliding with each other to avoid intersections among the pieces. Is this something that the team discussed during the making of the piece?

Check out this detailed write-up of the tech we developed for procedural shattered character fracturing, modeling and rigging on project Gold! #b3d

@MKlekner Thanks!

@Zelgadis47 @BlenderStudio_ It's compatible with Blender 4.2 and up

@BlenderStudio_ Is that from the new updated version? Just asking because I haven’t looked much into it and I‘m still on a lower version

Learn how to use the Brushstroke Tools extension to build painterly scenes in Blender with a highly flexible and convenient workflow. 🖌️ #b3d #BlenderStudio #brushtrokes #workshop #addon studio.blender.org/training/styli…

I’m developing a new animation sustem for #blender3d . Draw trajectories on the screen and trace the speed as a graph, and go. Works for armatures + objects, soon public. Early access for my tipeee subscribers, if you wanna support and test it now! 🙏🙏 en.tipeee.com/dedouze/news/2…

Check out this introduction to our free Brushstrokes Tools Blender extension I worked on for @BlenderStudio youtu.be/fKd-ViC1ZjA Have fun brushing! :) And make sure to tag your work with it with #b3d #brushstrokes so we can find it 🙌