vfx

Framestore’s Ahmed Gharraph and Grant Walker talk about the making of their reindeer for McDonald’s Christmas. For more on how Framestore uses Houdini for Character FX, check out Ahmed’s full presentation here: https://vimeo.com/313877649Read More →

Laika’s preferred dynamics isn’t really a heck of a lot different from any other studio but we do stylize our work to meet established criteria for our show style, and we do need to be able to integrate our work with the stop motion animation. In short the work needsRead More →

Learn about Pixar’s new RenderMan for Houdini plugin, completely rewritten to support the latest interactive workflows in RenderMan. Wayne Wooten will demonstrate RenderMan’s greatly improved integration with Houdini, including interactive modeling, shading, and lighting. Wayne will also highlight features like seamless support for Houdini’s geometric attributes, volumetric rendering, and theRead More →

Andriy will introduce the procedural features of building a hair system for a lion. He will explain why grooming artists do not need to try to recreate the usual methods of grooming, known to them from other 3D packages. He will show procedural methods of forming hairstyles for human charactersRead More →

Part 2 of a three part tutorial. Learn more at https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/pyrofx-fire-flames/ In this video, you will take a deeper look at the nodes that contribute to the burning tree effect and make changes to create a more realistic flame. You will learn how to split fuel and temperature, refine combustion,Read More →

Part 3 of a three part tutorial. Learn more at https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/pyrofx-fire-flames/ In the final video, you will learn how to create presets out of your existing simulation then apply them to a burning agent who walks through four trees igniting them along the way, You will learn how to makeRead More →

Moritz and Henry walk through the suite of tools they developed to help with common motion graphics tasks in Houdini. The workflow and interface should seem familiar to users of other motion graphics software packages, but it’s using Houdini-friendly workflows under the hood for more experienced Houdini artists. MOPs isRead More →

In this video, we discuss the three key constructs in PDG, how the PDG graph fundamentally works at a technical level, how to perform basic customizations and additions on top of the PDG platform, the basics of how PDG interacts with existing schedulers on the market, and end with someRead More →