Particle Logo for Blender Underground

I’ve been toying with Blender’s particle system and this is what I came up with. It makes use of dupliverts and xsort, and a wind effector.

UPDATE: I added another version of the effect…

For this version I used a more complex height map for the mesh, with a stipple pattern to keep certain elements on screen longer.

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11 Responses

  1. Kemeros says

    Nice!

    That’s a really cool effect. If you ever use it in your videos, you might want to make it go faster… it’s a bit long for a logo… else awesome stuff you got there :D

    Kemeros

    February 28th, 2008 at 11:14 pm

  2. Apollos says

    Thanks Kemeros!

    Yep, it’s too long for a splash screen. When I get something I really like I might shorten it up.

    February 29th, 2008 at 1:54 am

  3. caricc says

    I think it too cool. It will really good if you do shorten it a bit. But hey, you’re the artist. Make it as you wish.

    caricc

    February 29th, 2008 at 4:58 am

  4. Kemeros says

    The second one is even better imo. It’s clearer and has a nice feel to it. I presume you can do this with any background image?

    And for the speed… you can always just speed up the sequence like when you fast forward a movie…. That way you don’t need to go play in a bunch of settings…

    This logo makes me think of some game studio logo.. can’t remember which though… but it’s awesome too…

    Kemeros

    February 29th, 2008 at 9:49 am

  5. DaveC says

    Number one: Excellent
    Number two: Excellenter
    Brilliant effect and a cool logo to boot. Nice one, Apollos.

    February 29th, 2008 at 10:12 am

  6. Paco says

    Oh! That’s way cool Appolos!

    February 29th, 2008 at 11:00 am

  7. Apollos says

    @Kemeros, I like the second one too, and yep, you can use any gray scale (ish) image for displacement.

    @Dave, thanks! I’ve been having fun with the system. Some of these techniques are not obvious at first. In these cases, I used a displace modifier then sorted the vertices with Xsort. The particle system reads the order of the vertices when generating particles.

    @caricc, thank you much, and I agree with you and Kemeros, it’s a bit long, but I was more interested in getting the effect right than with timing. If I ever use it in a splash screen or something, it’ll need to be less than 10 seconds.

    @Paco, glad you like it! I posted a couple more experiments in my Youtube channel.

    8)

    February 29th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

  8. penix1 says

    That is sweeeeet! I would also recommend this right before logging off of you tutorials. I still love your intro but think your exit needs to be this nifty… 8)

    February 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  9. Apollos says

    penix, it’s not a bad idea! I was also thinking it could serve as a splash for the shorter focused video tuts if I get around to doing them. :D

    March 1st, 2008 at 2:12 pm

  10. Nipper1960 says

    Just joined Underground today and am downloading all the blender basics tuts. I think the effect you created here is really great. Have you done a tutorial on this effect and if not will you?
    I’m still at the beginner stage and am looking for any help and tuts I can get my little paws on.

    Keep up the great work, I know everyone appreciates it.

    June 17th, 2008 at 11:43 am

  11. Apollos says

    Hi Nipper, and welcome to Blender Underground 8)

    Thanks! I haven’t done a tutorial on this, but I might in the future. It was made with the old particle system (< 2.46) but I suspect it’s more than possible to create the effect in the new one. I just haven’t learned how to use it yet. :wink:

    June 23rd, 2008 at 7:27 pm

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