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For this animation I combined the particle cluster nodes with a iso-surface from the cubesurfer addon

you can download the blend file here

For this experiment I specified the target coordinates of some cubes by polar coordinates

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For this animation I used a pyhton script node to generated 3D coordinates for a closed curve you can download the blend file here

For this animation I created a 9x9x9 grid of cubes and animated the position of the cubes using the Animation-Nodes-Addon you can download the blend file here

For this animation I used the "Network From Particles"-Template of the Animation-Node-Addon to add splines between clusters of particles

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For this animation I used the python script node of the Animation-Node-Addon to create a list of coordinates for a bezier-curve.

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for this animation I used two cellfractured objects and transformed one into the other

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For this animation I used two animation node trees. The first one animates the shards of the cube, the second one is responsible for the sphere shards. The nodes networks might look a bit complicated but the principle behind it is simple. The cube shards get translated outward, are rotated by a random amount and then scaled to zero. At the same time the shards of the sphere make the same movements in reverse.

to achieve the washed out look I rendered the freestyle lines on a separate renderlayer - blurred the image in the compositor and then used an alpha-over node to add the lines.

For this animation I combined a volumetric material and a particle system

To achieve the light effect I placed the particle system in a box with a that only uses a "Volume Scatter"-node in the material with a Density of 0.2

Then I used a Spot-Light with a linear light falloff, by plugging the "Linear" output of a "Light Falloff"-node into the strength input of the Emission-node.

you can download the blend file here

For this experiment I used the sound visualizer nodes form the animation nodes addon I have been asked for tutorials a lot lately and so I added a view screenshots and descriptions to explain how I achieved the effect.

as usual you can download the blend file here

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the song I used for the animation is called "The Long Dawn - Part II" and can be found on soundcloud

To analyze the audio material you need a "Sound Bake" and a "Evaluate Sound" node. I also created a copy of the default cube for each bar I wanted in my animation using an "Object Instancer". The strenghts list and the object list are fed to a loop.

For this experiment I created a hexagonal tile and animated them

you can download the blend file here