Created by LA-based studios An Orange Door and Master of Shapes, VR Go-Karts is a virtual reality driving experience, where the driver interacts with a real-time virtual environment in in Unreal Engine using a VR headset – all the while moving through physical space in a real go-kart that isRead More →
This masterclass will cover new Vellum constraint features in Houdini 18, some of which are workflow enhancements. This includes automatically computing mass and thickness based on density, making it easier to work with geometry of different resolutions. Normalizing stress computations over substeps, will save you the hassle of having toRead More →
SideFX intern Emily Fung shares some of her soft-bodies workflow tips using FEM. Emily has been using some of the new FEM features since the development of H18 to create demo material (most notably the gummybears). The presentation will consist of two examples, which showcase how to prepare clean simulation-readyRead More →
Animal Logic’s Adam Katz outlines how their team built and automated their Character FX pipeline. When production began on Peter Rabbit in 2017, Animal Logic had the unique opportunity to build their Character FX cloth and fur toolset from scratch. Faced with many technical and artistic challenges, the team hadRead More →
Luke Gravett, Associate FX Supervisor at Animal Logic discusses their push to simplify and unify their pipeline workflow processes by moving fully to Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) format, including the use of Houdini’s new Solaris lighting tools.Read More →
Not all feathers are created equal. Learn how Alt.VFX from Brisbane, Australia hired a SideFX intern who had developed a feather tool. They then worked with him to adapt it to their requirements for their clients Toyota and Bank of Melbourne, to add plumage to both a robin and aRead More →
A retrospective look at the challenges and advantages of using the Solaris Lookdev, Layout and Lighting tools on a full-feature production at Animal Logic. After migrating to a full USD pipeline at Animal Logic, the FX department had to create a feature-rich set of tools, which allowed them to importRead More →
Hear insights on how Animal Logic builds and automates their Character FX pipeline. When production began on Peter Rabbit in 2017, Animal Logic had the unique opportunity to build their Character FX cloth and fur toolset from scratch. Faced with many technical and artistic challenges, the team had to thinkRead More →
In this masterclass we step through the functions of attribute paint. We also briefly unpack it and look at how it can be embedded as a tool in other assets.Read More →
In this lesson, you will be introduced to Houdini’s new context for lookdev, layout and lighting called LOPS. This new suite of tools is also known as Solaris and works together with the new Karma Render (beta).Read More →