Tutorial: Making a Sci-Fi Octopus in Blender
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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: https://github.com/g3ntile/parentToNe...
Textures: AmbientCG metal: https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Metal046B
Textures: AmbientCG plaster: https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Painted...
Textures: AmbientCG pattern: https://ambientcg.com/view?id=SheetMe...
Software used:
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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
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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!
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