How to make this kind of "fluid, trail, double layering" effects?

[NLSN]

Hi All,

I have been trying to make this effect (attached pics), but not going anywhere. Could anyone help? 

Thanks a lot!

Best,

NLSN

Edited March 7, 2021 by NLSN

[anim]

if you already have an animation you can for example use Trail SOP to make multiple copies of it in time, mesh together using VDBs and assign glass material to it, then render with your original object that's shaded differently, black in this case

[NLSN]

I will try this and see how it goes. Thanks Tomas!

[NLSN]

On 3/7/2021 at 4:01 PM, anim said:

if you already have an animation you can for example use Trail SOP to make multiple copies of it in time, mesh together using VDBs and assign glass material to it, then render with your original object that's shaded differently, black in this case

Hi Tomas,

I have tried different ways to make the polygon lines into mesh (fluid surface look) after the trail node. But no luck. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[JJ FX]

Trail should work just fine.  You don't need that scatter. Unpack that geo > convert to poly (or maybe not) > add (remove all geo, but keep the points) > trail > resample. You might want to add timeblend for that character you have, so it will interpolate between frames, but it will resample without the timeblend too

Edited March 15, 2021 by JJ FX

[NLSN]

5 hours ago, JJ FX said:

Trail should work just fine.  You don't need that scatter. Unpack that geo > convert to poly (or maybe not) > add (remove all geo, but keep the points) > trail > resample. You might want to add timeblend for that character you have, so it will interpolate between frames, but it will resample without the timeblend too

This looks much better and closer to what I am trying to achieve. Thx! Still figuring how to convert this into the liquid form. 

Edited March 16, 2021 by NLSN

[konstantin magnus]

On 16.3.2021 at 2:10 AM, NLSN said:

Still figuring how to convert this into the liquid form. 

Usually with VDB from particles.

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Edited October 31, 2021 by konstantin magnus