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Beginner Blender 4.0 Tutorial - Part 6: Geometry Nodes

Introduces the geometry nodes editor and builds a simple scatter setup step by step, explaining what each node does. The foundation for the scatter work later in the series.

Blender Guru · 24 min · Beginner · ANI · Animation · 2024

What you take away

Build a basic geometry nodes tree that scatters instances across a mesh

Watch it

Filed under

Oscar winners for animated feature

Books on animation

Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation — Susannah Shaw
The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation — Ken A. Priebe
Character Animation Crash Course! — Eric Goldberg
Timing for Animation — Harold Whitaker, John Halas
Cartoon Animation — Preston Blair
Elemental Magic — Joseph Gilland

Kit for this lesson

SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE 8TB — Desktop archive drive built for footage
Corsair 128GB DDR5 kit — For Unreal, caches and twelve open applications
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K — Quick Sync, which some codecs still love
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X — 16 cores — the sweet spot for a cutting room
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — The sensible half-price render card
Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB — The other one, usually cheaper

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