smooth fluid

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-09-17T06:10:40+00:00

For this animation I used a fluid simulation without gravity and a spherical obstacle. Then I used a smooth modifier to get rid of all the wired artifacts of the fluid sim

you can download the blend file here

smooth fluid

metaball fluid

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-09-16T06:21:33+00:00

For this animation I used a paticleset using fluid particles and metaballs as particle objects

you can download the blend file here

metaball fluid

broken metaballs

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-09-15T06:01:38+00:00

For this animation I used the cell fracture addon on a mesh created from a bunch of metaballs.

To add a bit more drama, I created a soundtrack based on the "inception braam" sample I made using my volca bass

you can download the blend file here

broken metaballs

many boxes

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-09-12T06:26:55+00:00

For this animation I played with an array modifier and a displacement modifier

you can download the blend file here

many boxes

zen garden

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-08-08T09:59:03+00:00

For this animation I played with the displacement output of the material node in cycles

you can download the blend file here

zen garden

fiber grow

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-07-08T04:25:50+00:00

for this animation I played with the fiber-mesh addon. The leafs are generated using a particle system.

you can download the blend file here

fiber grow

blender 2.71 cycles fire test

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-05-27T05:57:04+00:00

this is a first test of the fire capabilities in the new blender 2.71 testbuild.

you can download the blend file here

here are the material nodes I used for the flames and the smoke.

cube on fire

light bounce

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-05-19T06:22:11+00:00

for this animation I used the rigid body physics simulation of blender. The only lightsource is the icosphere that bounces through the peg board

you can download the blend file here

light bounce

lots of particles

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-04-18T07:59:29+00:00

for this animation I used 150000 particles and the molecular addon by Jean-Francois Gallant

you can download the blend file here

lots of particles

volumetric material test

Nikolaus Gradwohl2014-02-28T04:50:49+00:00

I used the new volume output of a cycles material node coming in blender 2.7 for this material

you can download the blend file here

volumentric material