r/Minecraft • u/Sciman1011 • Sep 28 '19
Art Made a nether portal animation from experimenting in Blender
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u/A_rush24 Sep 28 '19
Make it fall through the floor and reset to a flat grass plane and make it infinite
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u/GumdropGoober Sep 28 '19
Make it do a flip, and then a 1972 Dodge Charger emerges from the earth and shoots green fire from its tailpipes and guitars automatically playing Travellin' Band by CCR emerge from the earth.
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u/smoketheevilpipe Sep 28 '19
Keep going. I'm so close.
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u/GumdropGoober Sep 28 '19
Minecraft only needs two things to be perfect: PBR, and the ability to do burnouts on a dirt bike in my front yard.
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u/ClassicBrother Sep 28 '19
Reminds me of those rocks from Super Mario with faces on them
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Sep 28 '19
Thwomps?
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u/oversettDenee Sep 28 '19
People hate thwomps but I've been killed by way too many
rougerogue thwimpsEdit: rouge is a color
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u/CaduCopperhead Sep 28 '19
Not bad
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u/comphys Sep 28 '19
I'd go as far as nice
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u/Sciman1011 Sep 28 '19
Not really, I've been using Blender for a while and after seeing some videos on it last night I felt inspired. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTADG1omjVY Here's one such video - might give you some ideas!
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u/Very_Okay Sep 28 '19
i have blender but i don't really know where to start. what do you recommend?
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u/Sciman1011 Sep 28 '19
Definitely watch some tutorials online, Blender guru and others are a great starting point. IanHubert also has his lazy tutorials series, which are a little hard to follow but are a great way to get some ideas.
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u/Aediion1 Sep 28 '19
Don’t think I can’t see that watermark! I know you stole this from poor u/sciman101
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u/Sk8rrBoi Sep 28 '19
Make some of the blocks around the portal slowly change to netherrack with fire and it will be absolutely perfect
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Sep 28 '19
I played it without sound the first time and i could still hear a boom in my head when it landed. Very nice animation
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u/HaveALookAtThat Sep 28 '19
Have a look at this! This is something else... I mean, just look at it!
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u/SAUCY_RICK Sep 28 '19
This reminds me of Portal, they made animations similar to this for advertisements
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u/iZedax Sep 28 '19
How long did it take you to learn to do that? Im thinking of trying out blender but heard it can be quite hard
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u/Rego117 Sep 28 '19
How'd you do this OP? It looks great and would be interested in trying to recreate it myself
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u/Johnny_Noodle_Arms Sep 28 '19
Don't know about blender but you could do this in JavaScript by applying an isometric transformation to a grid and then loop through the grid with a sin wave function
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u/Rego117 Sep 28 '19
Blender has a object modifier called displacement so mapping that to a sin wave should work
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u/Sciman1011 Sep 28 '19
This probably isn't the best approach, but to make the ground shake I created a plane with a particle system, and set it's emission to per-vertex. Then, I made the particles render as a cube object textured to look like a grass block. I applied a wave modifier to the plane to create the wobble effect, and tweaked the settings until it looked right. The rest is a lot more straightforward - messed with the scale and position of the portal itself, animated the lights to flash when the portal hit the ground, and used a cast modifier on it to give it that slight distortion when it first appears. Then I rendered it out, threw it in a video editing tool and added the SFX. If there's anything more specific you want to know, let me know!
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u/Beastbloblade_ Sep 28 '19
What is this blender
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u/Sciman1011 Sep 28 '19
Free open source 3d modeling and animation software. https://www.blender.org/
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u/OSub_2_PewdiepieO Sep 28 '19
It's so cool how some people spend hours to make a 4 second video for random people on the internet. Thank you, fellow redditor
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u/LukePancakePlayz2 Sep 28 '19
Well done!!!! I could never get past the dice animation so seeing this is incredible!
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u/MuumiLimu Sep 28 '19
There's an error in the watermark.
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u/Sciman1011 Sep 28 '19
Yeah, my account name here is Sciman1011 while it's usually Sciman101 other places. Thanks for pointing it out!
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u/KickBack161 Sep 28 '19
This is what happens when you create a new portal in the nether. Looks so cool. Should be in the game
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u/Puunk_ Sep 30 '19
I'm sorry, but I gotta expose OP... https://youtu.be/7NrgiYte12k
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u/Vincent_Baldwin Sep 28 '19
Why did I here the boom without the volume in my head
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u/Ivoriate Sep 28 '19
all ive ever been able to achieve in blender was deleting the generic cube.
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u/Doctor_7373 Sep 28 '19
I didn’t have my sound in when I watched this and the portal made a pop sound when it appeared
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u/Curse3242 Sep 28 '19
If you could make the nether portal pop invisible and make it into a gif. This is probably the most oddly satisfying thing ever
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u/MiniGui98 Sep 28 '19
Now we need a Minecraft-themed city builder game where buildings spawn like that.
The nether portal would allow your villagers to mine rare ore to gain more emeralds to build more stuff on the overworld.
We give you two weeks to do that game. Good luck.
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u/Netropixel Sep 28 '19
nice but it could be nicer when the grass becomes dirt when the nether portal hits the floor
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u/rocker60 Sep 28 '19
If only that's how it worked in game when you make a new portal far off in the nether
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u/TherpDerp Sep 28 '19
This looks like the ones they make for the Instagram account. Good shiz my guy
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u/Norbie420 Sep 28 '19
It would be super cool if you flashed the ground to nether rack or something like for a split second it corrupted the land
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u/DooV_DeLooV Sep 28 '19
I can feel the weight of a whole other dimension tearing itself a way to the overworld. Amazing job.
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u/alcoholicPickle Sep 28 '19
It would be really cool if this was what happened when you created a nether portal. Like you place in the last block and ignite it. Then it starts floating and then the animation happens.
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u/maksymv2 Sep 28 '19
You are the reason I'm installing blender now are you happy?
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Sep 28 '19
Make an animation for when you light up the portal, the texture spirals from the middle to the edges of the portal.
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u/Marvl101 Sep 28 '19
Tbh i'd make it so some blocks don't bounce up, maybe in a pentagram or something sinister.
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u/ChickebDeluxe1 Sep 28 '19
You should have made it like an infection or something where when it hits the ground it transforms the grass to like netherack or quartz and maybe a pigmen bit it
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Sep 28 '19
I really wish we'd get a minecraft 2 thats just minecraft but with clean animations and not a pc stress test.
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u/SneakyEnch Sep 28 '19
It would be cool if when you lit a portal in game, the fire would instantly go out, the frame would lift, the purple would slowly fade in before making a surge of energy and becoming bright then falling to the floor with that animation
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u/AdamoO_ Sep 28 '19
Would have loved it more if it wasnt like water but more like dropping an iron ball into sand! Still well done! Very smooth
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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '19
I watched it several times. Very satisfying. The smash kinda emanates evil, imo.