Blue Fox Creation shows how you can create a surface growth effect using Animation Nodes in Blender.

No questions growing animations and growth effects are a popular standby with motion designers. We’ve seen tutorials that cover these types of effects in Side FX Houdini and Cinema 4D mostly.

Blue Fox Creation’s (Hari Sreedhar) channel on youtube bridges the gap between motion graphics techniques and accessibility, showing how to cross over popular motion graphics aesthetics in Blender working procedurally with Animation Nodes.

His latest tutorial shows how you can create growth effects with animation nodes, allowing you to place replicated objects along the other object’s surface in Blender.