WEBVTT 00:01.930 --> 00:07.300 Before we get started, as always, you want to set your project by going to file set project, choosing 00:07.300 --> 00:12.730 the correct folder that you want your project to be set in and then go back to file project window so 00:12.730 --> 00:19.060 that all the correct folders can be created so that when it comes time to render that your images will 00:19.060 --> 00:24.250 be the correct folder where your render images will go and the scenes that we're going to save as working 00:24.250 --> 00:26.200 files are going to go in the scenes folder. 00:27.850 --> 00:29.170 Let's start by creating a sphere. 00:29.170 --> 00:35.050 You can do that by creating a normal public sphere or I'm going to go to the platonic solid and I'm 00:35.050 --> 00:41.920 going to go to the inputs here and increase the subdivisions to three one two F to frame up on the object 00:41.920 --> 00:42.250 here. 00:42.730 --> 00:49.210 And I'm going to go to deform texture to form, and then I'm going to add a texture to this, the former 00:49.390 --> 00:50.260 by clicking here. 00:50.710 --> 00:53.140 And I want a 3-D texture for this effect to work. 00:53.150 --> 00:54.130 We need a 3-D texture. 00:54.130 --> 00:56.230 The solid fractal or volume noise works well. 00:56.250 --> 01:01.060 Volume noise has a more obvious immediate effect than the solid fractal takes a little bit more work 01:01.060 --> 01:02.950 to give it more drastic results. 01:03.190 --> 01:09.220 So I'm going to choose the volume noise for now and to make sure that the texture is being applied to 01:09.220 --> 01:11.050 the normals instead of just straight up and down. 01:11.050 --> 01:17.830 Based on the handle of the texture of former, I want to go into the texture of former and choose direction 01:17.830 --> 01:18.370 normal. 01:18.670 --> 01:23.440 Now the texture to form is being applied to the normals of the faces of the sphere by clicking the place. 01:23.440 --> 01:30.550 Three texture object here I can scale up the 3D texture so I can adjust the effects to be more soft 01:30.550 --> 01:33.970 or more sharp based just on the scale of the place. 01:33.970 --> 01:35.500 Three texture object here. 01:35.900 --> 01:37.810 I want to go for something a little bit softer. 01:38.770 --> 01:43.030 The next thing we can notice is that the texture to former is reaching a limit here. 01:43.030 --> 01:45.430 We can start to see the surface of the sphere. 01:45.700 --> 01:52.750 So if we go to the texture to former into the texture itself, we can dial down the amplitude so that 01:52.930 --> 01:56.990 it's not hitting that limit of the shape of the sphere any longer. 01:57.160 --> 02:04.450 Next, I want to create a curve circle and then choose the 3D texture while the nerves are still selected 02:04.450 --> 02:10.150 and go to the animation menu, constrain motion paths attached to motion path. 02:11.700 --> 02:16.290 Now, if we play this back, you can see it looks like it's just rotating, so we need to go into the 02:16.290 --> 02:23.670 motion path settings by selecting the nerve circle, going to motion path and uncheck follow. 02:24.870 --> 02:28.410 Now, if we hit play, the texture will move through the object. 02:28.410 --> 02:34.440 Instead of just looking like the object is rotating to get rid of the slowdown of the motion path, 02:34.440 --> 02:37.410 we can select it to display the key frames in the timeline. 02:37.410 --> 02:38.940 Double click the timeline right. 02:38.940 --> 02:41.290 Click and choose tangents linear. 02:42.270 --> 02:45.420 Now it will loop seamlessly from the end to the beginning. 02:46.590 --> 02:53.160 We can also get rid of the last frame by changing the timeline to 119 instead of one 20, because the 02:53.160 --> 02:54.650 first and last frame are the same now. 02:54.660 --> 03:00.210 So for it to loop, we need to get rid of one of the those frames, the first or the last. 03:00.960 --> 03:03.390 So now we have the start of the looping blob. 03:03.390 --> 03:07.650 In the next lesson, we'll refine this a little bit more and start lighting and rendering it.