Tornado

by Thomas Piemontese on Apr 19, 2012

Image is: finished (?)

Tests done with Blender’s smoke simulator, internal render and compositing (gimp was used for the image).
You can the animated result here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hF09YMnuKg

The smoke resolution is set to 64 (division), with high resolution set to 3.
A little more than an hour to bake, 4 to 5 hours to render the whole video.

Discussion

25 Responses to “Tornado”
  1. Joseph Rea
    Posts: 12

    This is fantastic, great job!

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 7:43 am
  2. superzizo man
    Posts: 23

    Awesome

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 7:54 am
  3. Lukas Kejha
    Posts: 12

    Absolutely fantastic work! Please, can you make a tutorial for this?

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 8:04 am
    • Thomas Piemontese
      Posts: 33

      As everybody’s asking, I’ll see what I can do. And thanks :)

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       Apr 19, 2012 at 8:23 am
      • Jonathan Williamson
        Posts: 2976

        Hi Tomwalks, I’ve sent you an email to your hotmail account. Let me know what you think :)

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         Apr 19, 2012 at 11:16 am
  4. J Dii
    Posts: 8

    Amazing… :O
    Let me jump in the “I would really love a tutorial on this” wagon… =)

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 9:10 am
  5. nikodemus hemlig
    Posts: 10

    i would love a tutorial

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 9:37 am
  6. Rafal Sietnik
    Posts: 30

    Demolition Man!

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 10:01 am
  7. Calzaath
    Posts: 232

    nice!

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 10:06 am
  8. Fabian vargas
    Posts: 68

    i vote for a tutorial of this..!!! it’s great..!!

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 12:05 pm
  9. Adam Liska
    Posts: 55

    Stunning work!!!

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 2:33 pm
  10. Ben Webster
    Posts: 2

    This is incredible!

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 2:41 pm
  11. Thomas Piemontese
    Posts: 33

    Wow ! thanks everyone !

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 4:09 pm
  12. 34pjm43
    Posts: 2

    I love this animation; it’s a wonderful sight, especially since you made it in Blender.

    However, I don’t think you should make a tutorial on this. And just let the animation stand on its own. Unless you feel more compelled to help people understand it, and not forced into it.

    Again, love it. The fire tornado was surreal. Can’t wait to see more.

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 5:22 pm
  13. Andre Coelho Piazarollo
    Posts: 38

    I vote for tutorial too. Amazing job.

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 7:26 pm
  14. Anita Potter
    Posts: 37

    That was cool. My kids thought it was real.

    Simply awesome!

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     Apr 19, 2012 at 8:43 pm
  15. Nathan Cunningham
    Posts: 17

    Really great animation, Tom. By the way, the other stuff you have on Youtube is also really awesome. The hover car is funny and well made. How did I miss you in the community until now?!

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     Apr 20, 2012 at 2:27 am
  16. Konrad chan
    Posts: 144

    OMG can I use this for video I’m making in school.I’ll credit you and everything. The video isn’t even gonna be shown on youtube again.

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     Apr 20, 2012 at 5:38 am
  17. Sven Neubert
    Posts: 102

    WOW – FANTASTIC JOB – I like the blowing sand – very realistic

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     Apr 20, 2012 at 11:18 am
  18. Sean Watters
    Posts: 31

    This is amazing!!!!! I’ve always wanted to know how to make a tornado in Blender. My attempt was poor, to say the least. Could you please do a tutorial? This is by far the best animation done with blender internal! And I saw Sintel and Big Buck Bunny!!!!!!!!!!!

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     Apr 20, 2012 at 2:52 pm
  19. felixthunter
    Posts: 49

    WoW!… You are da’ man!!!!!…;D… P.S. The last tornado(the fire one)looked like a spinjistsu from this Lego theme…:D…

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     Apr 20, 2012 at 7:37 pm
  20. Muaaz Manzoor
    Posts: 47

    I really want to produce awesome stuff like that but my pc can support that. Please do a tutorial anyways and keep doing the wonderful work and prove that blender is not less than any other software.

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     Apr 21, 2012 at 5:10 am
  21. Jonathan Williamson
    Posts: 2976

    Hey everyone,

    TomWalks was kind enough to produce a two part tutorial on this incredible tornado! Part 01 is live now: http://cgcookie.com/blender/2012/05/02/creating-a-tornado-in-blender-with-particles-and-the-smoke-simulator/

    -Jonathan

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     May 2, 2012 at 9:10 am

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