3 Tools I Use on My Motion Graphics in Blender Every Day!

Summary

The video teaches three motion graphics techniques - randomizing objects on a surface, creating loopable camera shake, and animating objects along curves. It briefly covers how to set up each technique in Blender, with example animations showing the final results. Additional resources are mentioned like project files and tutorials for learning more in-depth.

Takeaways

• 😀 Use Geometry Nodes to randomly distribute objects on a surface
• 😀 Control random distribution with noise textures in Geometry Nodes
• 😀 Add camera shake with Noise modifier and blend in/out for seamless loop
• 😀 Use Follow Path constraint to make objects follow a curve
• 😀 Animate curve shape to create flowing object animations
• 😀 Learn to create flowing number countdown animation on Patreon
• 😀 Free project file available to follow along with camera shake tutorial
• 😀 Full tutorial linked in description for creating flowing object animations
• 😀 Support channel on Patreon for bonus content and project files
• 😀 Apply tricks shown to make motion graphics animations more interesting

Q & A

オブジェクトのコレクションをランダムに配置する方法は何ですか？

オブジェクトのコレクションをランダムに配置するには、「インスタンスオンポイント」ノードを使用し、選択したコレクションをインスタンスにプラグインします。そして、「ピックインスタンス」を使用するか、「ランダムバリューノード」を「インスタンスインデックス」に接続してランダムに配置します。

カメラシェイクを作成しループさせる方法は何ですか？

カメラシェイクを作成しループさせるには、アニメーションタブのグラフエディターで、X、Y、Zオイラーローテーションにノイズモディファイアを追加します。それから、「フレーム範囲を制限する」を使用して、アニメーションの始まりと終わりでシェイクを滑らかにします。

オブジェクトをカーブに沿って動かすにはどうすればよいですか？

オブジェクトをカーブに沿って動かすには、「パス制約」をオブジェクトに追加し、対象のパスを選択します。この方法で、オブジェクトはカーブに沿って移動します。

オブジェクトのコレクションをテクスチャを使ってランダムに配置するにはどうすればいいですか？

テクスチャを使用してオブジェクトのコレクションをランダムに配置するには、ノイズテクスチャをインスタンスインデックスにプラグインし、マップレンジとベクトル数学ノードを使用して設定します。これにより、テクスチャがオブジェクトの配置に影響を与えます。

ランダム配置のための「ピックインスタンス」とは何ですか？

「ピックインスタンス」は、インスタンス化されたオブジェクト間で自動的に選択を行う機能です。しかし、これは配置に対する直接的な制御を提供しません。

カメラシェイクの強度とスケールを調整するにはどうすればよいですか？

カメラシェイクの強度とスケールを調整するには、ノイズモディファイアの「強度」および「スケール」パラメータを編集します。これにより、シェイクの振幅と頻度を細かく調整できます。

オブジェクトがランダムに配置されるテクスチャの影響を調整するにはどうすればよいですか？

テクスチャの影響を調整するには、「マップレンジ」ノードを使用して入力と出力の範囲を調整し、「ベクトル数学」ノードでその効果を強調または減少させます。

カメラシェイクをループさせる際の「フレーム範囲を制限する」の目的は何ですか？

「フレーム範囲を制限する」は、アニメーションの特定の部分でノイズモディファイアの効果を有効または無効にするために使用されます。これにより、アニメーションの開始と終了でシェイクを自然に見せることができます。

オブジェクトをコレクションに追加する手順は何ですか？

オブジェクトをコレクションに追加するには、オブジェクトを選択し、「M」キーを押して新しいコレクションを作成し、それに名前を付けてオブジェクトを移動します。

パトレオンで提供されているモーショングラフィックスの教材の目的は何ですか？

パトレオンで提供されているモーショングラフィックスの教材は、特定のアニメーションテクニックやモーショングラフィックスの作成方法を学びたい人向けに、より詳細なガイドとプロジェクトファイルを提供することを目的としています。

Outlines

00:00

🎥 Explaining how to randomly distribute objects on a surface in Blender

The paragraph explains how to take a collection of objects in Blender and randomly distribute them on a plane using geometry nodes. It shows two methods - using a random value node plugged into the instance index to randomly pick objects, and using a noise texture plugged into the instance index to distribute based on the texture.

05:00

🎥 Adding camera shake to an animation in Blender and looping it seamlessly

This paragraph explains how to add camera shake to an animation in Blender to make it feel more organic. It shows how to add noise modifiers to the camera rotation channels and use restrict frame ranges with blend in/out to loop the shake seamlessly over the entire timeline.

Keywords

💡Motion Graphics

A type of animated graphic design used to create engaging, dynamic visual content. This is the main focus of the video - tips and tricks for creating cool motion graphics animations.

💡Animation

The process of making an object appear to move or change over time. Animations are a key component of motion graphics.

💡Camera Shake

A motion graphics technique that adds realistic, organic camera movement to make animations more dynamic.

💡Noise

A procedural texturing method used to generate pseudo-random patterns. Used here to create camera shake animation.

💡Looping

Playing an animation continuously in a repetitive cycle. Useful for creating seamlessly looping motion graphics.

💡Geometry Nodes

A node-based procedural modeling system in Blender used to generate geometry and drive animations.

💡Instances

Duplicates of a base object transforms and animated together. Used here to create grids of duplicated objects.

💡Curves

Defines a pathway for objects to move along. Used to guide and animate multiple objects.

💡Constraints

A way to limit movement or transformations of an object. Here, used to make objects follow curve paths.

💡Keyframes

Defines specific property values at certain points in time. Used to animate object and camera properties.

Highlights

Shows how to randomize a collection of objects on a surface using Geometry Nodes

Uses a random value node with integer output plugged into instance index to randomly distribute objects

Also shows using a noise texture with mapping to control distribution based on the texture

Links to project files and tutorials on his Patreon that use these techniques

Shows how to add camera shake with noise modifiers and restrict frames to loop it seamlessly

Ramps in and out the camera shake over 30 frames so there's no jolt at the loop point

Applies camera shake to multiple rotation axes for organic, natural look

Notes the moving elements in his examples follow paths, enabling complex motions

Demonstrates making a wavy path and using Follow Path constraint to move an object along it

Animates path rotation to create more dynamic, flowing movement

Adds more objects following animated paths to build complex scenes

Links to a tutorial showing how to set up these path-based animations step-by-step

Offers project files to support learning these techniques on Patreon

Summarizes the 3 key tricks covered - random layout, camera shake, path animation

Notes Patreon has more resources to learn these motion graphics techniques

Transcripts

hey so I make Motion Graphics and

there's always like a billion little

things that make them cool I picked out

three tricks that I'm using quite a bit

that make my animations look really cool

so first I'm going to show you how to

take a collection of objects and

randomize them on a Surface so you can

have some control over where they go

then I'm going to teach you how to

create camera shake and not only that

but actually Loop the camera Shake

animation so you can add it to your

looping animations and on the last one

I'm going to show you a really cool

trick that these two animations have in

common let's get into it all right so go

ahead and start with a collection of

objects it can be literally anything if

you don't have anything just throw in uh

some of blender's Primitives I'm going

to start with these little puck looking

things and go ahead and highlight them

hit M add a new collection just call it

I'm going to call it pucks you can call

it whatever you want move them out of

the way and what we're going to do is

we'll just set this up from scratch I'm

going to add a plane we're going to go

over and create a new geometry nodes

workspace so we're going to get new and

let's get a

grid you know size it we'll say size of

10 vertices of 50 then we'll get a

instance on points and this is where we

get to start making this so what you can

do up here in the outliner is just pull

the entire pucks collection or whatever

collection you have and plug it straight

into instances now you'll notice we'll

go ahead and turn on separate and reset

children and you'll notice they're all

here but here is the problem that what

I'm about to show you fixes they are all

on top of each other all five objects so

you can go ahead and click on pick

instance um and it does it it kind of

picks it for you but this gives you

absolutely no control so how can you

control it we're going to control it in

two ways with Randomness and with

textures now the first one is the

easiest you can do a a random value node

and then switch this guy over to integer

and plug him right into instance index

and that will randomly place them and

and that is the quickest way to do it

and this is a way I showed it on a

three-part series I just put on patreon

where I used this process to create this

really cool countdown animation there's

a lot of really cool parts to this if

you want to learn that that is in the

description for tier 2 and tier 3

members along with a whole bunch of

other really cool Motion Graphics stuff

on my patreon so feel free to check that

out now this is the first and easiest

way to randomize a collection of objects

on something but you can also use um

textures which is super cool so what you

can do is I'm going to go and get a

noise texture I'm going to plug that

into instance index it's not going to do

anything so what we need to do here is

get a map range and do a little bit of

setup and I'm going to give this one

negative one on the men and positive one

and then you can get a vector math node

to kind of accentuate that if you set

this up to multiply so if I bring this

up you'll start to see that noise

texture actually start to affect This

Plane then I'll make maybe bring my

detail down and then this is when you

can actually start to recognize the uh

the pattern actually showing up so look

at this now we have this noise pattern

showing up in this scene it looks really

awesome if I kind of play with my uh my

uh map range here there we go you can

actually recognize the noise texture on

this in the way that it's randomizing so

it's super cool now if you want another

bit of context of like hey when can you

use this I created this animation with

the same thing had a sphere and uh had

the numbers as a collection and then I

was able to put the numbers on that

thing

randomly with this process and that I

also on this project file I created a

volume and then put instances within the

volume and then again used those numbers

to instance in there and it randomly

picked which numbers I wanted to put in

this animation um all those project

files are on patreon by the way um but

this is a very powerful trick to add to

your Motion Graphics if you need to

randomize a bunch of different objects

it's very powerful and you can make a

hundred things with it all right now

let's create some camera shap can also

Loop the camera Shake animation which is

super valuable so in the description

there's a free project file for you to

download this if you want to follow

along with what I'm doing or you can

just watch and uh remember it uh but

this is just a standard animation where

I have all of these guys as

instances and you can see the camera is

flying through all of these instances so

I want to add some camera shake to make

this more interesting so it's not just

like perfectly going in makes it feel a

little bit more organic so what I'll do

is I'll hit the back row of frame zero

and then I'll click on my camera and

right up in here I'm going to go ahead

and just add a key frame on all of them

that's all we need to do and then we can

go here to the animation uh Tab and this

will have it set up for us so we need to

be in the graph editor where you can see

the X Y and Z Oiler rotation so we can

access those key frames let's pick the X

Oiler rotation then go to the modifiers

tab right here and add in a noise and

the noise

is going to add camera Shake um but we

need to kind of hone it in so first on

our strength we'll do like. three on the

strength and then on the scale we'll do

like 10 and there we go it's a little

bit more manageable uh the strength

maybe 0. 2 and then the scale maybe 12

so now we have this but notice something

once we get to the end of the animation

I'll kind of scroll over and watch B you

can kind of tell it's not seamless we'll

go back again see that it kind of has a

jolt how do we fix that well we're just

going to ramp it in and ramp it out and

it will be completely unnoticeable so

what you'll do is click on your restrict

frame range and I know down here I have

500 frames so if I go start at frame one

end at frame

500 and then because I've done this

enough but we can visualize it here I'm

going to do my blend in see how it

Blends that animation in it doesn't just

started it actually goes from zero uh on

the noise and it goes into the noise now

for me

30 looks really good so I'll do 30 on

the in and 30 on the out and now if we

go to the end of the timeline we can see

it shaking around and then it kind of

evens out and then we go into the rest

of the animation and it does it

perfectly and you can do that on all

axes so if I take the uh y oil the

rotation added a noise and now it's

going to be doing that so again scale of

10 a strength of

say3 and maybe of course that's crazy

0.1 and then restrict frame range start

1 and 500 and then we'll just double

click on these and do 30 and now we have

a seamless camera Shake animation um

with uh you know whatever you want it to

do now this camera shakes a little bit

too much I'll make it more minimal but

that is how you do it now I mentioned

these two animations have one very

significant thing in common that is all

those objects that are moving are moving

on a curve to get them to actually move

in that way let me show you how to set

that up so if I hit shift a we can go

ahead and get in a uh we'll get an

icosphere and we'll bring uh we'll bring

the subdivisions down I just want you to

be able to see that this object is

rotating it'll dig into the geometry

once we do it but you'll get the idea so

now we have this I'm also going to hit

shift a and we're going to go ahead and

get in a path and I'm going to go ahead

and say hit S5 I want it to be much

bigger and then you can rightclick and

you have these guys right here see this

if I click that guy and hit G you can

move that around so what I can do is

take this guy go here to my

constraints add a constraint a follow

path and then you could select the path

there and then he can move so here's the

value in that you can click on this guy

and I'm going to go hey I'm going to go

and subdivide it twice and then I'm

going to select every other verticy and

I'm holding down shift so that I can

select multiple and then you can bring

it up now we have this wavy thing and

then he is going up and down how great

is this and then you could just you know

then you can just key frame that so I'll

start the key frame here and then we'll

go to the very end and I'll

go 100 which will bring him not where I

wanted him to go so let's see negative

100 so

negative and then add that key frame and

so now he's going around and this is

super cool and then you can take this a

little bit further and uh you can hit

shift d get a new one and you could say

all right well let's give it a little

bit of geometry like that and then we

can go and add a uh

solidify bring that

over and then you can bring this over

and then what I can do is Select this

path that's holding the uh this object

here and he's going around and then all

you have to do is animate the rotation

and if you want to learn all of this you

need take this animation and animate it

so it looks now you can learn that I'm

going link this tutorial in the

description if you want to learn it from

from scratch to start how to make that

that is linked in the description as

well and there's this animation as well

that I use this exact process with all

these objects on the curves there's some

really cool opportunities for animation

with this process so there you go that

is three really cool tricks that I use

in my Motion Graphics quite a bit to

make some really cool things again if

you want to learn how to create that

animation that I mentioned on patreon

that is linked in the description three

parts really cool stuff it really helps

support my work and with that being said

I will see you in the next one