Mandelbulb 3D Tutorial - part 1 - Overview

First in a series of tutorials showing how to use Mandelbulb 3D to create 3D fractal images and animations.

This first vid is a quick overview of the various windows and features of M3D, plus a demonstration of the basic steps for exploring the shapes and rendering an images. Future vids will cover more specifics about colors, camera, lighting, animation, etc.

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Gallery of images http://bit.ly/m3dpics

Check out a playlist of the 3D fractal animations I've create with M3D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB1m1TZ6WiQ&list=PLBA14567494C6C3C2

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• 3d fractal
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[collin4206]

hey i was wondering if you could do some tutorials on how to zoom the camera inside of the fractals and or how to animate with keyframes? would it help if i said PLEASE=) this program is amazing yet somewhat hard, i'm use to the blender animation interface.

[kitchendon]

@collin4206 Check the playlists on my channel - the newest one goes over the keyframe animations.

[rbcrazyriderrb]

how do people make those videos where they are zooming into the fractal with no lag and it last a long time. I cant seem to do this when i explre in the 3d i just lag alot

[kitchendon]

@rbcrazyriderrb Mandelbulb 3D doesn't do realtime animations. you can move around in the 3D navigator, but to get a final video you set up an animation then M3D renders all of the individual frames. It can take hours, days and sometimes weeks to churn through it all. Trying to make an animation tutorial, but my first few tries have failed. will try again soon

[CarlTremura]

this may seem like a stupid question, but i cant for the life of me see how I can make the actual geometry change each step of the animation. I can make the image and render it fine, I just dont know what values to tweak at each step to make it slowly "morph". I assume that theres some way to make it step incrementally automatically, or do I have to make a keyframe, then tweak a param, then move the cam, recalculate the image and rinse and repeat?Much thanks!

[kitchendon]

@CarlTremura yes, M3D has a keyframe animation system. You set your parameters, camera, colors, and other settings for individual frames, then M3D calculate the in-between settings. I'm getting ready to finish this series of tutorials, shouls just be a day or two. one will def show the animation features.

[atomikfrog]

this is great!

[blen2r]

great tutorial! thank you for doing this!

[rbcrazyriderrb]

@kitchendon yes lease make mandelbulb amination tutorial!!

[kitchendon]

@FXshortFILM You can find a lots of parameter files at fractal forums. try here bit (dot) ly/m3dparams a lot of people also post their parameters in the gallery. bit (dot) ly/m3dpics Also a lot of people on Deviant Art who share params.