Come hang with us as we talk with XAPKOHHEH (otherwise known as Anatolii Iudanov) and Alexey Vanzhula. There will be excessive laughter, talking about 3D, stories from the past, and also there will be a presentation from XAPKOHHEH, revolving pyro and vellum. What about those two things? Well you haveRead More →
STUDIOS FEATURED IN THIS REEL: Alex Dracott Gameloft Hinterland Studios Main Road Post Mojtaba Oriuee UbisoftRead More →
Path Deform bends geometry to follow the shape of a curve, then lets you apply secondary deformations such as scaling and twisting. This tool can be used to deform a long flexible object into a desired shape. You can also have the curve animate the deformation of static geometry suchRead More →
This Quickstart video will cover how to use Topo Transfer to project clean quad head geometry onto a dense and non-uniform scanned mesh geometry, to get a resulting clean geometry while capturing the features from the scan. This feature was under development for a future release but was backported intoRead More →
The 3D viewport now has display options for adding uniform fog effects. You can visualize this fog using OpenGL with controls for density, opacity, height and depth range. You can also add a distant light to act as the sun and control how the sunlight interacts with the fog. ThisRead More →
The Unity plugin now lets you connect to a session of Houdini Engine running inside Houdini. The state of Houdini Engine can be viewed in Houdini while working with the plugin in Unity. Changes you make on either end, whether in Unity via the plugin or in Houdini via itsRead More →
Johannes Richter, Principal VFX Artist at Remedy Entertainment takes us through the creation of ‘reactive environments’ in the game Control where the gamer essentially has the ability to smash their surroundings into pieces, and more.Read More →
Barry Bacon is our character, which we will groom and render in Houdini. This is a short course, made up of two parts. Part 1 covers how to prepare your scene, comb guides and add parting lines. Part 2 goes over how to generate hair, clump them, add variations andRead More →
Virtual Production and Extended Reality are new terms for real-time content production, and they’ve captured the imagination of many producers who’d typically be working in live events. Join us for an orientation to VP, content production pipelines, strategies for managing work on a tight calendar, strategies for collaborating as aRead More →
In this session we will dive deeper into Houdini’s crowd workflow. Mikael will demonstrate how to set up blend shapes and how to use the full-body IK solver in VEX to give you even more control over your agents. Mikael Pettersen is a Lead Crowd Technical Director at MPC andRead More →