Tutorial: Making a Sci-Fi Octopus in Blender

A Blender tutorial on how to make a Cyber Kraken! 🐙| AD: The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: Watch the full timelapse here: The final project file is available here: @polyfjord2 Referenced tutorials: Rigging robotic arms: Procedural bubble texture: Caustics/god rays: Procedural arm animation: Assets used: Parent to nearest bone addon: Textures: AmbientCG metal: Textures: AmbientCG plaster: Textures: AmbientCG pattern: Software used: Timestamps: 00:00 What we’ll be creating 00:27 Creating the armature for one arm 01:56 Modeling the tentacle suction cups 05:47 Duplicating the arms 07:03 Parenting the link objects to the armature 08:28 AD: Skillshare 09:37 Modeling the head 10:30 Modeling the eyes 12:21 Attaching the head to the arms (part 1) 12:57 Modeling tubes using curves 13:44 Modeling bracket clamps for the tubes 15:49 Attaching the head to the arms (part 2) 16:42 Duplicating the bracket clamps 18:10 Drawing more tubes 19:36 Adding disc shapes for the head 21:23 Modeling energy storage devices 22:53 Modeling vents to the cage 23:38 Modeling spikes to the tentacle arms 24:52 Parenting all objects to the armature 25:25 Giving it a more dynamic pose 26:09 Adding volumetric lighting 27:51 Adding some simple materials 28:59 Adding and tweaking textures 31:30 Adding a subsurface scattering shader 31:56 Adding compositor glare 32:26 Material tweaking 34:36 Giving the octopus a tail 35:58 Further material tweaking 37:29 Fake caustics/god ray setup 38:32 Procedural noise animation 39:58 Final result 40:45 Thanks for watching!