Blender Speriments - Noise Bones and Godrays

Final Result - Video

Summary

Biz	Biz Biz
Author	Project Somedays
Title	Blender Speriments - Noise Bones and Godrays
📅 Started	2025-04-19
📅 Completed	2025-04-19
🕒 Taken	~1hr
🤯 Concept	Playing with armatures and noise to get subtle movement
🔎 Focus	Rigging and godrays
🖥️Rig Deets	24GB RAM, 13th Gen Core i9, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

🎓Lessons Learned🎓

• Edit Mode > Select > Select Random and then CTRL + to make the selection more blobby
• God rays: the narrower the area light, the clearer the godrays
• I need to work harder at understanding weight painting 😅

Resources:

• This exellent Godray tutorial by Grant Abbitt

Stretch Goals/Extension Ideas

• Cool background?
• Use bendy bones?

TODO:

• Find model
• Rig
• Light

🪵Dev Log🪵

2025-04-19 Gathering Assets and Blocking 🕒1hr

• Found a tree model
• Rigged it
• Went through all its bones and added noise to the wxyz quaternion channels
• Made my volume scatter cube
• Experimented with various lighting setups