Making Bird Swarms (and Easy Controllable Crowds!)

finally, someone that i can watch and learn from and not be bored out of my mind. thanks dude! these videos are gold... or bitcoin or whatever is worth a lot these days.

iain

Thank you Ian

i am searching for how to create moths, the tutorial someone can help me?

this is the pride and joy Blender, the hilarious testing - exciting, innovative, and hysterical. keep the gold coming, Ian!

So good. Thank you for showing this.

German Bauer

"Boids" does sound like "Birds" when spoken with an accent

Ice skating pigeons, and DC mobs! :)

Ian Hubert

man me too.

Ian Hubert

It's RIDICULOUS! Completely rips the rug out from how I estimate render times (and the amount I toggle between rendered/material view :P). Glad the 3080's working for you!

Tyler Adams

This tut was pure magic. Also, I went from a 1080 to the 3080(got mine right at release!!) and it's just crazy powerful.

I just want to be a pigeon

Jeff Betz

Ian, Wonderful as usual. Where did you get your 3090? I've been looking for weeks and can't find one anywhere that's not way over retail.

Carson Reader

SO cool! I didn’t know I needed this, but I thought of a great way to use this for one of my projects.

omg. zombie hoard please :)

Ian Hubert

Ahaha, I do like it! Dang that's a lot of pigeon animation, hahaha

Shawn Hawkinson

Oh the fun to be had with those crowds... 😆

Love your videos. Saw this thought you might like it>>>https://vimeo.com/450850232

Dude, I am absolutely blown away by how far you push the limits in Blender, and I still think you've barely scratched the surface of your potential. BRAVO!!

Jan van den Hemel

This is fun! I don't even notice that the people crowd isn't animated from a distance, that's nuts how well that works.

Amazing as always! Love it!

spectacular!

Boids are awesome ! I think follow the leader is meant to be used in combination with goal: your particles will still try to reach the goal, but they will pick "leader particles" and follow them to that goal, not clump together ! You seem to really like working with shape keys so you might be interested by a cool new addon for shape keys animation: https://rainboxlab.org/tools/duska/ It makes life a whole lot easier !

Yesss, the sexy voice! Stop the filtering!

German Bauer

This is sooo entertaining - and dare I say so timely (in form of people, anyway)

Paul and Anna Spooner

It IS fun! Blender is the best game, and you are a pro.

Evan Barron

I want more videos without even a clear goal and just him messing around and being funny. Never change

Kai Christensen

"... that's a pretty quick head-bob..." *chuckles* "this might be INSANE"

Kai Christensen

Congrats on the 3090! It really is a ridiculously cool piece of tech, and if ANYONE will take full advantage of it, you will. As always, excited for the future!

Ian Hubert

It's from here, last summer (the tier 7 folks, though :/ ) I made them with the orbit option with a drone- worked surprisingly well!

Ian from where do you have the People pack? please and Thanks

Ian Hubert

Who's Phil?? If there's a bird render challenge, I want to see it!

Greg Beaudry

Oh gotcha! This is seriously so helpful:D And that’s so exciting! Looking forward to it man👍🏻

is this based off the render challenge phil made

Awesome!

Ian Hubert

Totally!! At the end of the video I talk about force fields- you could animate the one person, then parent a forcefield to them to repel people within a nearby radius :D And I have to talk to the sound team- maybe a month?? Probably more, honestly

Greg Beaudry

This is amazing man! Is there a way where you could have someone pushing there way through the crowd?! Also, sooooo excited for your new episode of dynamo! Any idea for a release date yet?:)

Benjamin Lacey

Also every time you say BOIDS I think of the Moths Lazy tut, "OH YES" and I die:)

Benjamin Lacey

I haven't finished the vid yet, so maybe you dress this, but I think the reason the pigeons are 1 unit up when you spawn them it the "Height" value right under the banking and pitch in the misc tab

Ian Hubert

Ahaha, Hi Fadli!

Hi Ian!