Tutorial: Twisting Crystals in Blender

Curve control! Learn how to make any shape follow a curve, and how to make it twist with a simple modifier setup. Assign procedural colors and render in Cycles with a glass material. Timestamps below.

Please let me know if you have any questions in the description, and I'll try my best to answer. Thanks for watching!

Blender is an open source 3D software that can be downloaded for free here: https://www.blender.org/download/

Project files for this tutorial is available here: https://gumroad.com/l/EkFvO

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:41 STEP 1 - Twisting the mesh
02:12 STEP 2 - Adding the curve
05:01 STEP 3 - Editing the shape
06:45 STEP 4 - Duplicating the shape
10:27 STEP 5 - Setting up the camera
14:11 STEP 6 - Adding light sources
19:18 STEP 7 - Material setup and colors
22:33 - Separating mesh
25:12 - Denoiser setup
26:12 - Exporting the video file
26:59 - FINAL RESULT

This tutorial was made in Blender v2.82 alpha
Also works in Blender v2.81 and 2.81a
(Blender v2.80 supports all steps except for the denoiser.)

Sound design in Adobe Premiere. VFX opening shot on location in Norway, composited in Adobe After Effects. Lens flare from @Video Copilot's Optical Flares.

Gear used in this video:
Camera: Sony A7SII with Sigma 24mm f1.8. Recorded externally with BlackMagic Video Assits 4K in 2160p 30fps ProRes 422.
Sound: Zoom H4N at 44.1 kHz
Workstation: RTX 2080Ti, GTX 1080, Intel CPU i7-6700K @4Ghz, 64GB ram, Win 10
Recorded with OBS Studio at 1440p 60fps

Music from Premiumbeat.com

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