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Simulation

Everything in the school that teaches Simulation, across one department.

17 lessons · 1h 29m · VFX

Lessons on Simulation

I made a fluid solver with nodes — CGMatter · 11m · Advanced
I cracked the fluid mixing problem — CGMatter · 13m · Advanced
Starting with particles | Simulation | Computer Animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 5m · Advanced
Flamethrower with Blender Nexus — CGMatter · 15m · Advanced
Spring-mass system | Simulation | Computer Animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 3m · Advanced
Volume Editing - Blender Geometry Nodes Tutorial — CGMatter · 8m · Advanced
Sand Simulation - Blender Tutorial (Nexus) — CGMatter · 7m · Advanced
Simulating water | Effects | Computer animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 3m · Intermediate
Case study: The Good Dinosaur | Simulation | Computer Animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 5m · Advanced
Support strings | Simulation | Computer Animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 2m · Advanced
Create water surface using particles | Effects | Computer animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 2m · Intermediate
Modeling hair | Simulation | Computer Animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 2m · Advanced
Introduction to particle systems | Effects | Computer animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 2m · Intermediate
Animating particles | Effects | Computer animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 3m · Intermediate
Smooth collisions | Effects | Computer animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 2m · Intermediate
Getting to know Hayley Iben | Simulation | Computer animation | Khan Academy — Khan Academy Labs · 4m · Advanced
Computer Simulation (Pixar in a Box) — Khan Academy Labs · 2m · Advanced

Departments teaching this

Oscar winners for visual effects

Books on visual effects

The workstation

G.Skill 64GB DDR5-6000 kit — The floor for 4K raw with effects
Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB — The other one, usually cheaper
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
Apple Mac mini M4 — The cheapest Mac that cuts 4K without complaint

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