Blender Tutorial I Ink Drop in Cycles 

This is amazing! One of the best Blender tutos seen in a long time. Thank you very much indeed for the idea and clear explanation.

Thank you very much, I just switched from maya (using it almost 10 years) to blender recently, and your whole channel has been an enormous help making this transition as less painful as possible. Even fun at some times. I really love how on point your tuts are, no unnecessary word spoken, straight to what is important. A style i try to hold up for my tuts as well. Some people might forget that when you're new to a software you are probably watching a ton of videos per day, and every sentence about how tasty your tea is, you're drinking right now while recording, is a waste of my time and focus. ;) Oh, sorry, I'm drifting away from the topic, to cut a long story short: excellent tuts, and thank you very much!

Just want to echo what Jose said in his comment i.e. great tutorial! I appreciate you explaining what each setting does rather than just saying "set this to 0.1" as it means I'm learning and not just watching. Great effect too! Thanks for sharing.

For a two year old tutorial, I've learned much. I appreciate it.

The most incredible thing about this tutorial is not deleting the default cube!

Looks so pretty!

Great tutorial! If you're a beginner looking in the comments for why you can't use the smoke cache, save the project. He does tell you to save it eventually but if the smoke cache is greyed out save the blender project to get access.

One of the best Blender tutorials I've seen. Thank you for making this!

Best tutorial about smoke in blender that I ever seen. Thanks.

Man, I always end up coming back to use this video for reference. You do such a great job explaining everything at a decent pace. Cheers mate!

This has done a world of good for me, just for the purpose of understanding volume shaders; let alone smoke. Thanks for your wonderful tutorial.

Thank you so much! I have been searching for over an hour on why my smoke was not the colour it should be.

Thank you!. I learned more about Blander in this tutorial than any other. I fell like I understand the work flow so much better. thank you!

Thank you for a good tutorial. You did a great job explaining the steps even though I'm not 100% sure I got all the information. Will definitely rewatch and do this again.

Good tutorial. Got it to work properly second time around and the result was very good.

eres un genio de las texturas y las sombras, este tipo de animaciones son las que me conmueven dentro de Blender, gracias por tu trabajo y tus enseñanzas, un saludo desde el norte de España amigo

Thank you so much i Always wanted to find a realistic ink drop tutorial and this is the first

I'm new in Blender. Is this still doable in 2.90 version? Or steps changed?

Great tutorial! Checked out the Cycles Encyclopedia samples last night and bought a copy from blender.org. Hands down the best material for Cycles that I've come across ever! The examples are very clear, the flow of the book is well organized.....everything I want/need to know about Cycles (which is everything :) ) is here! Thank you for pointing me to this material, a complete game-changer on all accounts!

Elegant and simple, great tutorial thank you. Using the described domain and flow settings it didn't work for me on an earlier version of Blender (nothing appears when you multiply the density factor in the render viewport), but upgrading to the version you used here worked....for some reason.

Great, great, tutorial. Just FYI though (and you brought this point up later, but) OpenVDB won't be available (at 4:41) until the project has been saved. Thank you! Oh another thing: I followed your instructions to the t but I didn't have a "preview" of my inkdrop. I wonder what's different. Yes, running 2.77(a). Thanks again.

ALways love to see this effect!

great tutorial, detailed and clear but not too long! thanks!

Hey, amazing tutorial. I'm trying this for fun but the output is very pixelated, is there something I'm missing? I've followed the tutorial completely :)

amazing! i can follow this pretty well even though i'm using 2.91

Thanks for making such a great tutorial! I was able to get pretty fantastic results. One thing I did notice is that ink drop I made is kinda "blocky" and has clear angles and faces. Any advice on how to fix this?

excellent tutorial. Thank you for explaining in such depth. I am having a problem: I cannot see the smoke sim in my 3d viewport after baking. I only see the animated icosphere. have I missed something?

thanks for this man....now i know why i only see a box when rendering smoke

I need to make an ink physic simulation. Thank you very much for your tutorial. Why you don't apply the scale of your domain and flow icosphere ? Is there a connection to the step size of Volumes ?

very very good learnt stacks, great video

Very cool tutorial👍

Its a great tutorial, especially .blend and text version. Thank u.

i like your workflow and the way you explain, i also like your voice!

This looks absolutely amazing. Thanks a ton for the tutorial :D

Great Tutorial! I was wondering how would I go about making the ink react to audio ?

I could not find the volume sampling in Blender 2.79b. Any idea where it is?

Idk why but I love your voice

This is an awesome tutorial, but how do I get it to render two different color inks in the same area. I can get them to collide, but when I go to rendered view, the ink colors are the same.

It's wonderful! Thanks for sharing. Great tutorial and very useful for my artistic projects.

Wonderfully explained. Thank you for your efforts.

Das vergesse ich zwar alles in ca. 103 Sekunden :) aber vielen Dank trotzdem!

GREAT tutorial! Thank you.

Thanks! How to make a mesh from smoke simulation, similar as fliud? Will you do updated particle trail tutorial?

Learned a lot...thanks!

Question: When rendering 24 fps, I'm getting 4 good frames, followed by the 5th, which is a duplicate of the 4th frame. This repeats throughout the 150 frames. Should I raise the Smoke > Domain > Divisions to 512, or do you recommend another solution?

I need help, whenever I click on Domain at 0:54 my cube goes all black and not transparent unless I click none again.

Nice tutorial, I learned a lot. But I'd really like to know what render settings you used for the examples at the start of the film. I've tried getting some nice quality images from this but it's taking a lifetime to render out even a single frame, and the results are still noisy.

Love the tutorial.. I Have been trying to do a mix of Ink colors with this.. but have not had any luck can anyone help point me to the diction o where i can find how to make the composite I have Done many attempts, and did google searches

Very handy. Thanks.

Good easy explanation. Thanks....

Hi. i was wondering in blender if you could make the background transparent instead of white in blender . to export the clip into another clip with the graphic in front

It wont let me press anything in the Smoke cache help please! (EDIT) Ok i had to save BEFORE you could even touch that menu,

amazing tutorial but im having trouble with the nodes I guess...even when I follow step by step when I start applying the nodes for example when I apply the Multiply node and put 50 as the value it completely disappears.

Beautiful. Thank you.

Hi, I am new to blender and I am learning slowly the overwhelming amount of data that Blender has to offer. I was wondering.... I want to create a personal logo utilizing this ink drop effect, only I wanted to take it a step further.. what I would like to accomplish is the ink drop colliding into a transparent object, and once it collides into the object my logo shows up which is my name. basically the ink drop reveals the logo once it collides with it... can you help me accomplish this effect? Best , John

Hi, i've got a little problem rendering it with 2.78c. Using the same settings my rendered smoke looks like dieced/separated in squares/rectangles in some areas. How do i fix it?

How Long did it take you to render the Videos!

Nice one!! Loved the results! Tho, wouldn't it look a little more like ink if you used a fluid sim? Cause when ink gets diluted in water it gets a little more transparent whilst the smoke looks more like solid diffuse..

Great as always.

I tried making this and it looks great! But one question, what are you rendering this on? I am trying to render it with 150 samples on an alienware desktop that is quite powerful, but it looks like its going to take several days to render the entire animation.

Thanks, I really like this tutorial!

really good stuff !

Thank you very much!!! great job

Great tutorial!! I was wondering Blendersink drop simulation would be a really cool way to generate form, by form I mean a solid mesh. So I was wondering is it possible to mesh an ink drop simulation??

What are your specs? Because my pc can barely handle moving between frames after baking. AMD FX 8350 ,gtx 1080

Is there another way to do this so I can use different colored smoke. This method limits you to only one ink drop but I'd like to have several with different colors.

Great tutorial! Does anyone know how to add an obstacle properly? When I did it any shadow cast by the ink leaves a blocky shadow.

Awesome tutorial. Thank you for posting it. I do have a question though. The "smoke" when you zoom in looks very pixelated. Like it's made from small particles rather than a uniform ink/paint cloud. I tried rendering a single frame in 4K resolution and it's still visible. Is there anything I can do to get a perfectly smooth cloud even in just one frame?

Is it possible to transform the Ink Drop into a Text (converted to a mesh object) inside the Domain Box? If so, how would you go about that?

hi man, thx for this cool tut. I start to learn from it but as soon as I convert the cube to domain ,blender gets very slow can't do anything. what is the problem? p.s:I'm running it on mint 18.1kde .g759 laptop .cpu 4700 HQ .gpu 770m ram 16 Gib

Great Video! Thank you very much. I tried to combine two ink drops with different colors, but this didn't work, unfortunately. And in addition I want to add some rotating flow (Is this the right word? I'm not an native English speaker.) Grettings

hi. fist of all i must appreciate you for this incredible tut. i tried to follow this tut step by step but i have faced with some big problems. first is i can not use blender 2.77 and later ver because when i want to use mask in uv/image editor blender will be closed suddenly and i don't know why. i need this feature for my works. second is when i installed blender 2.77 for learning this tut blender doesn't show anything in render mode not cpu and nor gpu which 2.76 works with cpu. in addition, my vga is GTX 750 ti with 640 cuda core and 128bit . what is these problems?

Amazing. Many thanks.

Help i cant change the stuff your changing in smoke cache

thanks cool tut

Hey, is a good graphics processor needed to render this properly??? I only have my Intel processor doing all the rendering and idk if i'm just following the tutorial wrong or if it's just that my cpu doesn't shade properly.

Can you make same thing with Fluid Sim? Or is there any way to convert Smoke to mesh? Thank you for tut, beforehand

This tutorial is awesome! I got really nice result but I dont know how to get such a high res rendering, like you have. Its so pixelated and grainy, though I increased the resolution. Do you also have a tutorial on rendering this animation?

Thanks for this tutorial - great stuff. I am wondering what I can do to improve performance on playback. Even when the smoke is (supposedly) cached, changing frames on the timeline is glacially slow - like 10 seconds or more. This doesn't seem like it should be the case as my system is pretty powerful.... Any suggestions would be appreciated ;)

Any idea where "Smoke high resolution" panel is on 2.82?

Any I deas on how to make the physics of the drop look more realistic. With just the turbulance it looks a little weird.

Just to let anyone who is using version 2.76 or lower; I've encountered an issue around 10:40 where the smoke simply wouldn't appear at all. However, after upgrading to 2.77a, it is now working and I can see (faintly) my smoke. Also, as a suggestion, try to choose a color like orange or a R value of 1 and a G value of 0.75ish for the best gradients for the Volume Absorption node. Otherwise, if you choose a solid green, or a red, you will only get a solid color.

amazing! Thank you!

How can you resume a bake if you stop it half way through. I thought that going to the end and press "Update to frame", would continou yet it doesnt. I find that part alway so vague with Blender baking. Render looks really nice! great stuff!

Great love it!! Can you please tell me the render settings for this animation ???

so this takes 10 gigabites from your computer ?

Great tutorial, thank you. What would we do without that Color-Ramp node??????? LOL ;-)

very smart, dude, can you teach us how we make action figure like a clip of Major Lazer - Light it Up song

Thank you!

could you do an excellent tutorial about water shader, so far i have not see a person who do a good quality water shader

How can i slow down the smoke and make the smoke moves for 16 seconds?

Any tips on how to achieve multiple colors in one simulation?

thank you, this was amazing!

I can't seem to get it to work when I change the framerate to 60. I want a more slow mo drop. Any idea why?

Hi BlenderDiplom, How did you achieve an effect @ 0:15? I've tried many times but cannot force the ink to drift away from the domain...

What if i wanted to do two drops and have them each different colors? How would I do that?

Amazing tutorial, but I want to learn a second step...do you know how to morph the ink drop to a mesh? I meant to a logo or a text.

Whenever I apply attribute, everything becomes white. Smoke is not visible, please help

Thank You very mach! So easy and useful! Simple magic! But I can't save smoke cash in Blender (v 2.78). Every time when I close Blender and open it again, saved cash disappears.

tank you so much for th awesome tutorial ,would you please tel me why my smoke looked jagged when i try to render image with 800 samples ?