Animated Lightning in Blender (Tutorial)

In this video, ‪@MartinKlekner‬ shows how to create a 3D lightning using a simple Grease Pencil workflow and how to composite it into your scenes. Learn how to make the waves in our course.
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LINKS
⇨ Free Introduction to Compositing:    • Introduction to Compositing in Blender  
⇨ SlowMo Guys Lightning video by Joey Carlino:    • Lightning Strike at 103,000 FPS  
⇨ Lightning tutorial using Geometry Nodes:    • Realistic Lightning with Geometry Nodes ||...  

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Getting reference
01:54 - Drawing the lightning with Grease Pencil
05:47 - Animating the lightning
07:00 - Adding Thickness and Opacity modifier
09:13 - Rendering out layers
11:29 - Making the Lightning visible & Grease Pencil effects
12:48 - Compositing
14:40 - Driving exposure and Drivers
15:45 - Adding Glow with Ellipse mask
17:30 - Gradually blurring the Lightning

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GPU: GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
RAM: 64 GB

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