Tutorial: Making a Sci-Fi Octopus in Blender
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Published 2024-03-28
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Referenced tutorials:
Rigging robotic arms: • Tutorial: How to Create Robotic Arms ...
Procedural bubble texture: • Chill Saturday Blender stream (Keyfra...
Caustics/god rays: • Discovering Fake Caustics in Blender
Procedural arm animation: • Tutorial: Animating Robotic Arms in B...
Assets used:
Parent to nearest bone addon: github.com/g3ntile/parentToNearestBone
Textures: AmbientCG metal: ambientcg.com/view?id=Metal046B
Textures: AmbientCG plaster: ambientcg.com/view?id=PaintedPlaster017
Textures: AmbientCG pattern: ambientcg.com/view?id=SheetMetal002
Software used:
www.blender.org/download
Timestamps:
00:00 What we'll be creating
00:27 Creating the armature for one arm
01:56 Modeling the tentacle suction cups
05:47 Duplicating the arms
07:03 Parenting the link objects to the armature
08:28 AD: Skillshare
09:37 Modeling the head
10:30 Modeling the eyes
12:21 Attaching the head to the arms (part 1)
12:57 Modeling tubes using curves
13:44 Modeling bracket clamps for the tubes
15:49 Attaching the head to the arms (part 2)
16:42 Duplicating the bracket clamps
18:10 Drawing more tubes
19:36 Adding disc shapes for the head
21:23 Modeling energy storage devices
22:53 Modeling vents to the cage
23:38 Modeling spikes to the tentacle arms
24:52 Parenting all objects to the armature
25:25 Giving it a more dynamic pose
26:09 Adding volumetric lighting
27:51 Adding some simple materials
28:59 Adding and tweaking textures
31:30 Adding a subsurface scattering shader
31:56 Adding compositor glare
32:26 Material tweaking
34:36 Giving the octopus a tail
35:58 Further material tweaking
37:29 Fake caustics/god ray setup
38:32 Procedural noise animation
39:58 Final result
40:45 Thanks for watching
All Comments (21)
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I love watching blender tutorials in the same way as regular youtube videos, just sit and watch tutorial. It feels like watching blender gameplay
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He indeed reaches that freedom of creativity of blender.
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I find octopi and squid to be the coolest creatures ever! They may not be the prettiest, but they are so fascinating.
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The rigging is so tantalizing
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The small small details and tips in between is what keeps me watching. Appreciate your contwnt helps me a lot. Specially this tip 13:20 been working on and off blender for about 2 yrs and didnt even knew this existed.
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its been 9 mins since this released but i can say ABSOLUTE BANGER VIDEO i will watch now BUT I JUST KNOW ITS GONNA BE AMAZING LIKE ALWAYS PLZ KEEP DOING THE HIGH QUALITY CONTENT
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"I dont know if you can put an air conditioner under water" —polyfjord, 2024
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12:37 “the bevel treatment” lol Love your work, it’s always so satisfying to watch a master forge a masterpiece. You inspired me to download blender but my potato laptop can’t handle it very well
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Been watching your tutorials for a while now, recreating the spider and the octo man, I learned so much from you. You are a genius and thank you for your videos! This came out not even an hour ago and im jumping straight on it!
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I really appreciate these long form tutorials, it really allows you to dive into all the details. Keep up the good work!
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You've really outdone yourself here. Amazing tutorial and even cooler final render. Bravo.
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I really appreciate you pushing the limits and making such kind of long form content. I've learnt a lot from you over the years. Thank you!
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Sculpting exsist Polyfjord: " I will Ignore that "
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Polyfjord uploaded!!!! I just finished the mechanical spider tutorial thingy and i've loved these types of tutorials. Thank you so much
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Your whole approach just screams "art(ist)(ry)" and I absolutely love it. These are not blender tutorials; these are art tutorials that happen to use Blender. Beautiful work!
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I really like this format, it was fun watching , and damn those caustic, i didnt knew it was that easy
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Completely Mesmerised !! Amazing!! Thank You !!!
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From a cube to octopus in blender ( i am not a blender enthusiast) , but yh watching your content give a thing of pleasure and relax . Coz its so cool ❤❤
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You are a true artist. Love your tutorials.
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The level effort seems nothing in front of the the level of complexity, you've been an inspiration for me since I was 13 in 2020 and now I can proudly call myself a 3d artist but in front of I am nothing.
