In this tutorial, I’ll show you a technique from the Swedish Steel Prize Main Titles – combining a MoExtrude with some sweet effectors, a tiny bit of XPresso, and a Mesh Deformer to get some sharp metal spikes!
00:22 – How to create a Sphere 😱
00:33 – Setting up a MoExtrude with a Random Effector
01:09 – Fixing the Random Effector not being random
02:10 – Deflating the sphere with a Random Effector as a Deformer
03:09 – Tiny XPresso: Using the Global Matrix
04:03 – How to use the Mesh Deformer for a high-quality mesh
05:22 – Why doesn’t the Mesh Deformer work tho…
05:33 – Fixing the Mesh Deformer with a Connect Object
06:00 – Fixing the Mesh Deformer by changing External-mode
06:37 – From Blob to Sphere with falloff in the Mesh Deformer
07:43 – Adding a ‘lil extra summin’ with the Jiggle Deformer
08:28 – Enjoying our weird spaced-out pineapple-looking blob
Music:
Intro & Outro – Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It (Instrumental) by Ice Cube
Background – Cello Concerto No. 1 In C Major by Joseph Haydn
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