the future of animation is clearly finding the most efficient and easiest way to produce animation and there is no easier way to create animation than simply using simulation tools, if your dream is to make a swarm of bees its much easier to using a simulation system that sets the rules of how each fly moves or how the whole swarm moves than animating each individual bee, have you ever tried animating water by hand or animating clothes, these are all impossible to do with out simulation so seat tight cause this video should contain something that is guaranteed to help.

1 Fly System

This fly system is based on boids, to anime a swarm of flies, rocusts, bees, birds with just a few clicks, setting it up is easy and changing the type of insect is even much easier.

Like Ian Hubert said, add moth for realism, here its not just moth, its every type of insect you want, and you can add them everywhere.

2 Animated Realistic Fountains Library

water, not only the key to life, but a great indicator that she is ready or that she has finished and you did a great job, this addon has alot of water, from fountains, to water falls to rivers this library has it all.

3 Handy Toolset

this handy toolset, is great for hardsurfaces, but its best feature is the cloth tool, that you can use to instantly simulate cloth on any part of the mesh you select, you can change the fabric type you are simulating to get different wrinkles and a different look.

4 Simply Cloth Pro

old but gold, simply cloth has stood the test of time, dressing digital characters since blender 2.8. with a wide range of cloth presets to choose from, you are guaranteed that what ever character you have, there will be a garment for them.

5 Flip Fluids

If you want some serious fluids simulations, you are going to need more than the built in manta flow simulator that comes with blender, what you need is flip fluids, it gives you the speed, control and detail that lucks from the built in system.

6 Ragdoll Tools

have you ever tried animating a character falling, my advice, don’t unless you want a headache, if you dont want a headache, then use this ragdoll physics addon, you can animate the character as usual with bones and everything and when you want them to fall or be in a collision, you just turn on the ragdoll and the addon can take over, giving you realistic ragdoll physics animations with just a few clicks.

7 Clothes In Motion

Design your characters as you want and when its time to dress them up, let the clothes in motion addon handle that, so that you save time on cloth simulation and setting up proper cloth collisions.

this addon is design for you to hit the ground running, its not just for creating character clothes, its design for animated characters.

8 Dust Particles+

if you ever wonder why your renders dont look as good as the pros, its because yours lack small things like these, start adding the detail that is lucking using this amazing library of dust particles, they are fully animated in a realistic way.

9 Fracture-Iterator

this is for the visual effects artists out there, everyone needs a good fracture tool for breaking stuff, and no addon beats fracture iterator, this addon comes with a range of presets and templates to help you break, destroy and fracture any objects in your shot.

10 Bsnow

no true vfx artist can work without a great weather tool, and bsnow is the sort of addon you need, for scenes that require large amounts of snow, the materials are on point and can really make your scene pop.

11 Clothfx – Dynamic Cloth Tearing

most times when we think of cloth simulation, we think of boring staff like characters walking, but cloth simulation are not just about simulating flags on poles or supermans cape, you can do alot more than that especially if you have clothfx a dynamic cloth tearing addon.

12 Kaboom

kaboom is another vfx tool you should not miss out, great for making explosion effects, it adds debris, explosions, smoke and alot of other things to make a convincing explosion, and if you want, kaboom has an easy way to bake all these effects to keyframe.

13 Ignite – Fire Dynamics

Ignite fire, is one interesting addon, when creating animations most of the time, your imagination is limited by the tools you have in your arsenal, you would not think of an animation of fire igniting unless you have a way to do it, this is a tool to ignite your imagination.

14 Khaos: Ultimate Explosion

vfx effects entails alot, from destructive forces, debris, particles and more khaos is a simulation addon that can help you handle everything in one place.