Master Balloon Constraints in Vellum - Step by Step Tutorial

In this third video of the Vellum 101 series, we’ll dive into combining different constraint types:

🧵 Cloth
💨 Pressure
🧶 Hair
✂️ Stitch
🛠 Struts

Plus, we’ll cover lighting and rendering in Solaris to bring it all together!

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Clean Rubber toy
01:02 - Group sorting
02:02 - Place the strings
03:13 - Create the Balloons
03:59 - Fix orientations
04:21 - Reduce intersections
06:05 - Clean your graph
07:07 - Strut Constraints
08:04 - Pressure Constraints
08:30 - Hair Constraints
08:50 - Stitch Constraints
09:22 - Set up your Constraints
10:12 - Set up your Solver
11:04 - Result
11:21 - Clean up
12:00 - Point Deforming
13:10 - Prepare to solaris
13:47 - Into Solaris
14:03 - String width
14:35 - Dome light
14:52 - Get Rubber toy texture (Quick tip)
15:51 - Final touches & Camera Animation
16:39 - Materials & MatX library
18:00 - Render and Final thoughts