Man, I love your weird videos : P This stuff looks so damn freaky
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Best comment ever. Thanks!
I was thinking about the parameter space where these forms live. Ideally, every new feature adds another dimension to that space. With a bunch of knob twiddling you can explore that space and discover these twisted contraptions. Finding a form you like, is basically punching in a set of coordinates. It should be trivial to take a snapshot of that. Then you could lerp between snapshots to create drastic animated changes to those forms.
Woah…I really like that idea.
I suppose you could do that in Sequencer, but it feels too cumbersome. I want to hit P on my keyboard to punch in a snapshot. The left/right arrow keys could be used to transition between snapshots. And it should be dynamic. I have this old BP tweening system I should go dig up:
Now if I could just get the engine to build 
Ugh…I always forget to delete Intermediates. That’s it. Adding this to my .bashrc:
alias nai='find . -type d -name Intermediate | xargs rm -rf'
Load the changes:
$ source .bashrc
Now I can nuke all intermediates with one command:
$ nai
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Is that a marshmallow face?
If anybody is interested in tutorial(s) with source, send me a message.
Fresh off the press:
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So I’ve been working a lot with rabbits lately 
Messing around with sin/cos.
Aaaaaannnnd one more quick one:
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In my ‘curve anim basics tut’ I found a bug in my code that I wanted to exploit. Here is the result…
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People keep thanking me for my free tutorials and I felt bad about locking the other ones. So…
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Love your stuff @cannabis.cod3r. Have you done any breakdowns of some of your cool effects, would love to see them and pick them apart 
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Thanks. I cover how I built most of these in my tutorial vids. For example:
- Black Lotus is tweaking the basic linear distribution. Both are covered in tutorials
- Dreams is a combination of grid distribution and sphere influence tutorials
- Face Wash is from the image to curve tutorial
I cover how to build a toy. Play and discovery is up to you. However, there is no reason I can’t package these toys up as executables for others to try. I’m working towards that…
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Messing around with fluids
I thought this was interesting. A fluid-like effect using just an elastic ease-out tween.
Latest experiments.
Using a render target to drive the scale of particles on a sphere:
and layering multiple emitters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fET7stZ9pY
As well as putting out some more tutorial vids. Cheers!
Grabbed Ryan Bruck’s fluid sim work and fed various render targets into Niagara.
Basic fluid sim:
Flowmap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-43CLtgv3mM
Fluid sims in 3D:
Same data as above, just stacked in a colorful tower:
I think I’ll focus on incorporating more physics into future experiments, but we’ll see.
And if your company needs someone to build crazy, abstract experiences, please message me.
Until next time!
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Been tinkering with physics:
What if I used physics to create an inertia slider?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtYiJ2fE9jE#t=1m39s
Finally, I wired up a basic test to see how it feels (hint: awesome!)