Smash an iPhone

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Discover how to make a smashed iPhone using Blender.

Length:
52 minutes
Software:
Blender 2.5
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Rate:
VN:F [1.9.17_1161]
Rating: 4.9/5 (51 votes cast)

In this tutorial you will discover how to:

  • Model an iPhone
  • Shatter glass using textures
  • Create hundreds of glass shards using particles

Expensive. Glass. Phone. It’s inevitable.

In this tutorial we drop straight into the world of iPhones, and why the ground is their #1 enemy.

Final Image

Textures used in this tutorial

At a Glance

Screenshots from the video:

Inspiration

Not sure where to go with this tutorial? Check out the links below for more iPhone inspiration:

I hope you enjoyed this week’s tutorial!

Question of the day: What’s the most valuable thing you’ve dropped? Answer below! :D

Download finished .blend Smash an iPhone, 4.9 out of 5 based on 51 ratings

About Andrew Price

User of Blender for 9+ years. I've written tutorials for 3d World Magazine and spoken at three Blender conferences. My goal is to help artists get employed in the industry by making training accessible and easy to understand. I'm an Aussie and I live in South Korea ;)
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  • vlado

    I always wonder why gimp don’t have such “compositor” for every layer … like smart object in photoshop. It would make everything easier.

  • Nicolas

    Hey! The “Modified iPhone Background” link is broken . Here is the one a make http://bancofotos.net/photos/20130104135732381808905.jpg it’s the same but at least it’s something. Hope I help someone (:

  • Ach Hadda
  • Ronikos

    I threw it on the ground! :D

  • http://blender.org Vivian

    I REALLY need the original iPhone .blend file for a project, would love if you could upload it :) Many thanks!

  • huge fan

    can you upload the original i phone picture

  • Damian

    Here’s my iPhone 5 Concept based on the leaked case specs.

    http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/394708_10150990651747071_2032646230_n.jpg

  • Christopher Bishop

    Hey Andrew, I need help @9:30. I am not sure how you got both sides of the cube to turn the way you did. I extruded them and rotated but when I rotate it gets all funky and doesn’t turn like yours. I’m not sure what I am doing wrong. Could you or anyone help?

  • Stefano Corrado

    I followed this tutorial once but I wasn’t good enough to follow it throughout but with the tips I got from this I managed to make my own iPhone down the line:

    http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll156/Dagon14/iPhone4.png
    http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll156/Dagon14/iPhone2.png
    http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll156/Dagon14/iPhone3.png

  • http://derek1906.site50.net Derek

    Blender and Andrew Price are so amazing! And I like your voice and your tutorials!

  • sharif

    Many thanks for this…….i will request please more video tutorial upload.

  • Bryce

    Anyone else having trouble with the background image only showing-up in the camera view . . . . ?

    • Bryce

      Got it . . . Viewing a background image does not work in perspective; switch to orthographic.

  • Ian

    Hi,
    It’s really well done!
    I’m progressing well through the tutorial but find little things stopping me from proceeding;
    1. You keep saying ‘scale’ when (I think) you mean ‘extrude’. So I’m not sure if I’m following correctly.
    2. You didn’t say how you set up the background to utilise both the front and the side on the one screen.
    I’m very grateful for your hard work on this and many other tutorials.

    Ian

  • The Waffler

    Hey! You should make a smash a Samsung Galaxy Nexus!

  • frank

    i started to do this but i had to change computers and blender didn’t run on it.:-(

  • Benjamin karl

    I love you tutorials but being a noob I find some of them too fast I cant follow but nice work

  • http://www.blenderaristocrat.yolasite.com Olly

    Hey guys, sorry for shamelessly promoting myself on such an awesome site here ;) But go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/blenderaristocrat/ :) Would really appreciate comments!! :D

  • http://www.blenderaristocrat.yolasite.com Olly

    Hey guys, sorry for shamelessly promoting myself on such an awesome site here ;) But go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/blenderaristocrat/ :) Would really appreciate comments!! :D

  • http://www.pegasusdigitalmedia.com Aaron Newton

    FYI the “Modified iPhone Background” link is broken. Making my own…

  • http://www.pegasusdigitalmedia.com Aaron Newton

    Tip – at 15:35.

    It’s easier to fill a circle by doing the following:

    Extrude all vertices > [alt] + [m] (i.e. merge) > “At Center”

  • Danny

    do you listen the cricket at 44:55 ?

  • andalusi

    This took me over two days:

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15795053/4.png

    I really like your tutorials, Andrew!
    Keep them up…

  • http://www.fotocron.com fotocron

    Great shot..!

  • http://vimeo.com/elliottower Elliot

    The most valuable thing that I have ever dropped has to be my 25 grand sigma 200-500 f 2.8 lens. lol

    It would have to be my laptop. Luckily i dropped it onto a couch so there was no damage. =D

    Really nice tut!

  • Mattias

    A Swedish company called “Chip n’ play” is using this exact image in an ad-campaign. I saw it today on a bus…

    http://www.chipnplay.se/ (in swedish)

    /Mattias

  • Aest

    Heym I’m having the same problem as Highchiller. The vector blur does not work. How can I fix this? And what is and how can I change this timestep?

    I’ve got same problem with the exploding granade tutorial. Just can’t get the vector blur to work (I checked “vector” box in rander layers panel). Plz help.

    • Rob

      Hey, i’ve had the same issue, and even despite finding Timestep/Tweak i couldn’t fix it. Btw, it’s located under particle system -> physics.

      The only way i could fix it was reverting back from 2.6 to 2.58. I’d also suggest downloading his .blend file.

      Besides that, another great tutorial!

  • Highchiller

    Well, i think the problem was the false timestep (is called “tweak” in this version of Blender which used in tutorial) particles. The standart was 0.04 and thats too low of course.
    Now it works :)
    My Version: http://www.abload.de/img/smashediphone6ugr.jpg

  • Highchiller

    :( the vector blur doesnt work :(
    i take a tick for “dynamic” and “vector”… and i render and render all the time, but never the blur works…
    anyone got an idea?

    PS: awesome tut :) i like it very well
    AND very sorry for this BAD english :(

  • eric

    Fun tutorial, here’s what I got. https://picasaweb.google.com/114594408748729630879/ScrapbookPhotos#5656310596006583474

    Then I tried to make it look as if it was on my desk: https://picasaweb.google.com/114594408748729630879/ScrapbookPhotos#5656315750139394290
    …and it didn’t go well.

    Tips/technique to doing such?

  • marouane

    exellent tutorial andrew keep up like that in just wondred if you can do a tutorial how to model a realistic wolf pleeeeeeeeeeease

  • http://www.sharpeffects.c.cc Lincoln Sharpe

    Andrew Price is basically the Andrew Kramer of Blender!!!!

  • sarah

    check out what we created!

    http://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0

  • ricki

    check out what we created!

    http://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0

  • ken

    Hi
    thnx but it’ll be greater if you show the result at the beginning of vdo so we can see.:)

  • ChristianR

    haha this helped me because i have been making a frozen in time disaster scene for about 2 weeks. I made the Smashing of a Wine Glass and Used Pixels to make all of those little pieces of glass all over the place. Thanx again Andrew

  • oops!help!

    Ooh uhmm its at 2:26,after I extrude another line comes up at the buttom and I think your not suppose to have them.

  • oops!help!

    Uhmm Im stuck at the part where you extrude.Mine seems to show another line at the buttom when I extrude up?

  • blenderfan

    hi

    @2.40 when I’m trying to select one of these lines, it just moves that red circle and nothing happened. if I’m missing some setting, tell me.

    thanks

  • http://prophatosgrapha.110mb.com Samuel

    Can you check to see if something happened to the video? On my computer, it won’t play past seven-teen minutes.

    • Ashwin

      Right-click.

  • Robin0insane

    Hey, A.P. !!
    Thanks for this tutorial. It’s Very instructive !
    Waiting for “How to smash a HTC Desire”, now. ^_^
    Me and a friend started using blender 3 weeks ago and found your website.
    It has become sort of online classroom for us.
    Thank you, keep improving your “blenderguring” skills,
    I think you can make Shrek 5 or 6. HAHA !

    Keep on Blending in the free world !
    Greetings from Toulon, France !

  • Monty0101

    Actually, water is their number one enemy lol

  • Spencer Franklin

    Relatively new to Blender and I was able to understand your tutorial perfectly. I saved an image after I put in all the lights and particles with the I-Phone to show my family. Basically everything before compositing. However, when I tried to render the image again to composite, it won’t render the particles anymore. I’ve run into this issue before with earlier, simple projects and I’ve always had sporadic results in fixing it. Usually I just redo the particle system as a whole. However, this is more complicated and having already attempted it once, to no avail, I would be very appreciative if you someone could explain why this is happening.

  • http://ampace.wordpress.com Andy Pace

    As always, enormously impressive, even more so that you completed it in under an hour. Great tutorial for demonstrating a wide range of techniques.

  • Mridul

    thats a mind blowing ,awsum,superb tutorial …thanx….

  • Mr Blender

    Ur too good, ur a god
    i got stuck around 23:00

    if u see this andrew i really wanna finish but for some reason i
    cant see the black edge like u describe/show

    thnkas

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