Beginners Guide to the Particle System in Blender 3D

In this video we take a look at the emission settings in our particle system in Blender!

In this video I show you the power of the baking cache in the particle system.

Velocity might be a confusing subject but in this video I describe how it works in Blender!

Rotation is also a hard subject to comprehend when it comes to particles. It can be confusing but in this video you will learn how it works in Blender.

In this video I describe how the physics option work and how to use them to get the results you want in Blender!

In this video we take a look at the render setting the particle system and I talk about how to use them!

In this video I show you how the display tab works in the particle system.

In this video you will learn about field weights and the force field settings and how it effects your particle system in Blender!

Vertex groups allow you to control different aspects of the particle system. In this video I show you some practical ways to implement that.

The texture panel is another way to influence how the particles behave, the size and much more.

In this video I show you have to collision object for your particle system in Blender!

Keyed particles is one of the coolest things you can do in with the particle system. It allows you to morph the particles into different shapes.

In this video I show you how to have particles follow a curve in Blender!

In this video we will take a brief overview of hair dynamics and how they work in Blender.  After that we will create an animation of hair simulating and colliding with objects!

Now that we have a basic understanding of hair dynamics we finish out this tutorial by setting up materials, lighting and rendering!

Boids physics allow you to create flocks of birds, schools of fish and other things very easily. In this overview we will learn the basics of how it all works in Blender!

Now we get onto the actual settings in the boid physics. I will describe in detail how all the settings and values work. And how they change the simulation in Blender!

Fighting boids are very cool and you can create some really interesting animations using it. In this video we will learn all about battling boid particles.

The misc tab includes banking, pitch and height. In this video we will discuss them.

The boid brain is where you can add rules for the particles to follow. In this video we discuss all the rules and how they work in the boid physics system.

The boid force field lets you have a bit more control over the movement of the particles. In this video we will learn all about it.

In this short tutorial we will learn how to model a fish and use it to create a school of fish animation. We will use the boids physics to get the particles to move around.

Now that we have the particle modeled we can now move onto the particle system settings in Blender!

Finally we get to the lighting and world settings. In this video we will add lighting and create a nice volumetric world.

In this video we create the particle system for our grass and mess around with the settings to get it just right in Blender!

In this video I show you how vertex groups work and how can you use them to save memory in Blender!

In this video we learn about the shape of the hair and how you can change the size and diameter for the final render.

Now onto the material for the grass.  For this we use a pretty simple setup with the hair info node in Blender's Node Editor!

Finally we set up the lighting and world settings for our grass and then render out an image using both Eevee and Cycles.

In this video we take a look at the fluid particles and I give a brief overview of what they are and how to use them in Blender!

In this video we start making an animation using the fluid particles we learn about in the last video!

After we bake the scene we jump into the materials and lighting and I show you a trick on how to get a gradient effect using a particle info node in Blender!

In this video we sequence the animation using the Video Sequence Editor in Blender!

For the start of this tutorial we will be learning how to create low poly fire using the particle system in Blender 2.9!

Next up is the fire material.  We will be using a Particle Info node to change the color as the particle rises. 

The last step is to set up a couple of logs to indicate where the fire is coming from.  After that we set up the render settings and render out an animation!

This video is how to sequence the rendered images into a movie file which you can then upload to Youtube or wherever you want.

In this video I give a brief overview of the particle edit mode in Blender and we discuss how the options work!

In this video we start stylizing the hair and combing it into the way we want. Stylizing hair can be very tricky in Blender and it takes time and effort to get right so make sure to go slow when you do this section.

In this video we learn how to add highlights to the hair and position them correctly on the head.

In this video we make our hair a little bit more realistic by adding some children kinks to it in Blender!

In this video we create the hair material using the newly added Principled Hair Shader in Cycles.

Finally we set up the lighting and render out an image for our hair in Blender 2.9!

Now it's time for the Mantaflow Simulation! In this video we will be learning about the simulation and how it all works!

Finally the last step is to set up the smoke material and render out an animation!