Creating a CGI TORNADO in 3D! - Blender Tutorial 

For anybody that's on 2.83 pulling their hair out at getting the smoke to follow the particle system, at about 16:00: In 2.83 there is no more "smoke" option under the physics tab, as it's been moved to Fluid. Click Fluid, then set type to "Domain" for your domain box. Select 1 circle. Under the physics tab, click "Fluid", then set fluid type to "Flow". Then right below it where you see Flow Behavior, set to "Inflow". Make sure you have your Flow Source settings set the same as the video, with the Particle System selected. Repeat for second circle. Back to the domain box. First, set Time Scale to .1 (this is more optional but it looks a lot better to me after doing this). Click it, then scroll down the domain's physics properties until you find Cache. Set type to "Final". Bake 25 frames to see if anything happens. Make sure you set it back to however long your render is afterwards. This should at least get the smoke following the particles correctly. You'll probably still need to tweak a few things in the domain properties but that made it work for me.

Just a friendly reminder that you need to save between some of the steps, so you don't have to redo everything.

Me: "I want to learn that" My potato PC: "No."

In case anyone who's a newb like myself and having problems making this work using v2.82, you must have both the upper and lower circles selected together when you create the Smoke Domain from Objects>Quick Effects>Smoke menu. And make sure to change the Smoke Domain's cache option in the Physics Properties from "Modular" to "Replay" for the smoke to show. And it looks really good. Great tutorial! :)

I can not belief what you are doing for free, its amazing. You give everyone the oppotunity to make their art great.

Oh my god, I get home and I find this tornado literally sucking up all my time. THANKS!

Loving all the content creators who are doing tutorials with 2.8 right now, thank you!

couple of tips since an update (from a noob) - smoke is under fluid - type flow. set your flow behavior to inflow, not geometry. even with baking and lights and a shader, nothing would actually show up until I switched this. Also, if you go to the particle settings, under viewport display, you can change your particle size. Mine were huge by default and that was bugging me. hopefully this helps another new person who just downloaded it recently and this is the first thing they're trying :)

Wow! So much great stuff packed into a concise and well-explained tutorial. Well done!

Nice tutorial! It's funny to see how much music production and CGI in Blender have in common workflow wise. Makes understanding the whole a lot easier!

OH ! what a awesome tutorial. OMG!. You are great artist sir.

Wow! Perfect timing... I was searching for tutorials, and this popped up like 3 minutes ago.

i always wanted to see this in blender, thanks for this tutorial!!!

that final render is so freaking impressive

My favourite tutorial so far!! Thnx man!!

What a really good tutorial mate! thanks! keep it up the great job you do!

Great tutorial, amazing content for free, we really appreciate it. A tip though is to reduce the opacity or move your webcam recording at the bottom of the video when handling UI in that area.

Wow, this blew me away!

what a cool way to make a lighning effect inside blender. thank you for share, i love this idea

Incroyable merci, depuis le temps que je voulais comprendre comment gérer les forces dans blender !!

Awesome tutorial. Also the Grease pencil for lighting was incredible idea.also I'll use build tool for lightning to pop up from upside down . What an incredible tutorial gave me ton of inspiration

In my youth working quite a lot with 3D Studio and later early versions of 3D Studio Max the capabilities of current programs are just mind-blowing. Trying to create anything similar back then would have taken days and included lots of weird workarounds.

All your videos are so high quality.

One of the best tutorial, thank you soo much for the tutorial.

You are extremely talented my word. I hope I can be as skilled as you one day. Please keep it up and keep making videos!

I had waited for my new PC to render this beauty, and I'm glad I did. Hoooly shit it turned out so well! Thank you CG Geek, for this tutorial. I'm starting to learn 3D modeling and animation, and using this program along with tutorials like this make that worthwhile!

*Thanks,Steve! You will always be one of my top tutors!! ^-^*

Great tutorial. I'm going to go download this and dissect it thoroughly. I have been wanting to create a Brendan Fraser "The Mummy" style sandstorm for a while but never had much luck. I think your work here might unlock the door I've been beating down!

Dude... THAT'S AMAZING!!

really cool!!! your videos are getting better and better.

Sweet! I remember looking up a tutorial on making a tornado in blender but there was really nothing. This was years ago. I can't wait to follow along when I got time.

What can be better than this guy making blender tutorial for us

Blimey....there's no way you can criticise this tutorial. A fantastic topic and brilliantly described.

awesome after waiting a long ..thankew..i'll watch it tonight

After my 17 videos tutorials of how to use blender, I'm trying this 😍😍

A fantastic Tutorial. Thanks brother!

Thanks for this great tutorial!

Before seeing the actual tutorial and only seeing the finished result: hitting the like button faster then the tornado hitting the ground. Awesome!

Saw this on Instagram and rushed to RU-vid... thank you so much.

Great job! Really nice tutorial that covers a lot. I will say about your head covering the side panel and the controls you change that we can't see. You could open a blank window where you want you face to go, this way you'll know not to move it and your face is not in the way of anything. This is a really minor thing really. Still a really great tutorial!

That's magnificent 😍😍

Thanks so much, you are an Amazing Teacher!! 🙏🏾

Really great, an eye opener, many thamks for this. 😄

DUDE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO DO THIS!!!!!!!

Your amazing man you taught me so much in just 32 mins

Amazing well done sir.

Thats wild - thanks for sharing.

Damn this is insane. You should totally make more tutorials👌🏻👌🏻

Awesome tutorial. Thanks!

Thanks... With all changes were done to this date...Is working really nice...

CG Geek: "Bake at 350 degrees for four hours...." My PC: You got it

Awesome tutorals i've learnt alot.

going all in with 100k particles on top and bottom each, 600 frames, laptop.. just baking particles, and 350F sounds about right... looking forward for the smoke bake, if i die in the process, just know i did get this far on your tutorial..

The best tutorial forever 👍

Very talented!

#THIS is pure #EPIC Thank you so much ! ! :) !

AMAZING 🌪🌪🌪

My new favourite channel

Awesome work!!!

Técnica fantástica, parabéns!🙌

love this pretty short for this kind of tutorial.

Thank you for this Amazing Tutorial Tornado. Your video is the best in all RU-vid. Thanks Thanks Thanks

Great work, was finding it difficult to get the clound to render until i figured out i was using blender 2.83 and not 2.8. might stick with 2.8 for now as most of the videos i am watching seems to be geared towards that version. thanks again amazing work

You make very awesome tutorials

Good Work. CG Geek.

Awesome!!!!!

Stunning work men..... thanks...

wish there were more people like you

Many will find remarks on the position of yourself during the tutorial and they are right. But since this tutorial is so amazing i really have no remarks instead i will write one big THANK YOU.

really amazing stuff

i always want to make tornado....and now is right time ..thanks alot fro this amazing tutorial ...best regard keep the good stuff ...

Perfect !!!!! Excelent !!!!

Nicely described tutorial; thanx!

That was great, thanks!

Just what I needed. Thanks!

Amazing lesson ❤❤❤

I found a similar Blender tutorial like this around 7 years ago. It was a good tutorial. Can you please create a Galaxy tutorial?

Amazing. Thanks.

Another great one

I was so confused when mine was so bright but then realized you said 5 thousand and not hundred thousand for the light power!

Amazing !!!

I needed this a few months ago.

Amazing 😍

Love the suzanne shirt.

I have the same UBS-Stick :D btw awesome Tutorial, thanks :)

awesome tutorial

love this video ❤️

at 12.50 when you add normal velocity I had to make mine -10m/s for it to lift it off. Just in-case anyone has the same issue, could just be me though. Either way learning loads with this tutorial! Thanks! Edit: realised my normals were flipped! After recalculating all is well!

after seeing this it makes me want to see how to do a volcano that would be an awesome tutorial

It was really good, but you have to look at the lightning a bit more. There are no random thickness to it, but a constant bigger and smaller diameter lines depending where the current goes most.

amazing content!

YESSS!

Awesome

awesome tutorial, have my sub!

Wow. The making of lighting was awesome. So many useful elements like grease pencil etc. Amazing idea. But what about the all lights and background especially clouds, grass etc

That was so entertaining

Who said you sucked at animate? This is the best!

Amazing

Thanks a lot bro!!

awesome