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DIY Rendering Engine Like It’s 1975
What do you do when you need fast info passes rendered out but are too stupid to set up something in ROPs and too lazy to use Solaris? Right – you build yourself a 1970s render engine straight in SOPs. Clever? Not sure. Useful? Definitely. […]
Geometry Nodes Ep23 – Finishing The Effect
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Advanced Setups 24 – Controlling Stable Diffusion With Houdini Pt. 2: img2img
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Advanced Setups 23 – Controlling Stable Diffusion With Houdini
Of course Mo could take the high road and build a stable diffusion pipeline using Huggingface’s Diffusers library… But let’s not kid ourselves. Thanks to Automatic1111’s API Mo can duct tape together Houdini and WebUI to use both of these awe inspiring powerful tools to […]
Creating Escher Inspired Tiling Tesselations
Jeroen Claus happens “to know a particular kind of software that’s pretty good at applying a set of geometrical rules.” So he sets out to take you on a journey of building Escher inspired tesselations. Download Project Files (.hiplc)
KineFX 101 – pt. 29: Rigging Volumes
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Creating an AI Chimera Using Stable Diffusion
We continues poking into stable diffusion by giving a brief overview of what tokens and embeddings are and how the can be manipulated to blend between prompts. Finally we create some nonsensical animals. Huge thanks to Chris Hoffmann (ugly stupid honest) Notebook: Stable Diffusion Deep […]
Geometry Nodes Ep22 – Coloring the Yarn Sculpture
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Houdini Tutorial: Waddington Landscape
We are very excited to host our dear friend Dr. Jeroen Claus with a very special tutorial. He’s been working together with Tape Lab, UCL Cancer Research’s Cell Communication Laboratory, to visualise data from their study A Single-cell Perturbation Landscape of Colonic Stem Cell Polarisation, […]
Geometry Nodes Ep21 – Creating the Second Layer: The Yarn Sculpture
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Guest Course: Creating a Rolling Objects Solver – Part 1
View Full Course Here Please welcome our friend Bastian J. Schiffer who generously agreed not only to do a guest tutorial, but a full seven part course! In this begintermediate course, he is going to take you through the steps necessary to build a solver […]
KineFX 101 – pt. 28: Building a Curve Controller for KineFX
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KineFX 101 – pt. 27: Flower 05: Fur, Karma and Variations
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Geometry Nodes Ep20 – Implementing a Linear Falloff
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Stable Diffusion & OpenCV for Face Detection and Automatic Compositing
Ever wondered what to do with your overfitted neural networks that seem to be good at generating exactly one thing? In this video, Mo has a suggestion: Augment it with a bit of OpenCV and use it to automatically detect facial features in an input […]
Advanced Setups 22 – Jeroen Claus: Comparing Clustering Algorithms
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Geometry Nodes Simulation: Relax Points
Often you’ll need point distributions with non-overlapping points. Be it that you want to pack scales onto the surface of a fish or distribute vegetation on your procedural terrain. Although the “distribute points on faces” node comes with a poisson disc mode to remove overlapping […]
Houdini Guest Tutorial (Simon Fiedler): Easy Energy Spirals
Please welcome our Friend Simon Fiedler to a guest tutorial. He generously agreed to share a quick and easy production setup he built for a recent project: Energy spirals with a high degreed of art directability.
KineFX 101 – pt. 26: Flower 04: Blossom Animation
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KineFX 101 – pt. 25: Flower 03: Extra Bits
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WebUI + Houdini Tutorial: Generating And Using AI Depth Maps
Mo goes over how to generate a depth map from a single image and use it in Houdini’s Karma XPU to render a relief like geometry. Download Project Files: https://www.entagma.com/downloads/AI_Houdini_depthmap.zip
Creating AI Portrait Pictures using Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth
After installing the stable diffusion webui (https://youtu.be/cL_ZYdkIqBU), Mo goes over how to train an AI model to generate portraits of your face using dreambooth. Stable Diffusion webUI:https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
KineFX 101 – pt. 24: Flower 02: Blossom
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Stable Diffusion 2.0 Quickstart
It’s come so far that even Mo couldn’t ignore AI any longer, so he reluctantly started diving into diffusion models. When he emerged a month later (and very unkempt) this is what he found out. This tutorial covers installing Stable Diffusion 2.0 using Automatic1111’s webUI, […]
KineFX 101 – pt. 23: Flower 01: Petal
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Geometry Nodes Simulation: Advect by Curl Noise
Simulation inside of Geometry Nodes is finally possible with this “buffer” hack. After setting up the sim environment, Manuel explains to you what the curl of a vector field is all about and implements a version of curl noise to drive some simulated particles. Download […]
Connect The Dots with Geometry Nodes, The “Plexus” Effect
This time we’ll create the “plexus” effect with Geometry Nodes inside of Blender. Manuel shows you how to abuse geometry to fake a loop, that tests all connections between the points of an incoming point cloud and compares their lengths. Then, only the ones are […]
KineFX 101 – pt. 22: TD Techniques: Copy Rigged Characters
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Advanced Setups 21 – Jeroen Claus: HDBSCAN
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KineFX 101 – pt. 21: CFX Fur – Part 2: Using and Misusing Fur Nodes in SOPs
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Chainmail Part 2: Deform the Chainmail Using UVSample
In this second part of the chainmail tutorial Manuel shows you how to create a Vellum cloth sim and how to attach the chainmail geo to the simulated cloth using the VEX function UVSample(). Download Project File
Advanced Setups 20 – Jeroen Claus: DBSCAN
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Chainmail Part 1: Creating a Procedural Chainmail Pattern
In this first part of the chainmail tutorial Manuel shows you how to create procedural chainmail instancing real geometry onto a procedural hex pattern created with VOPs. Download Project File
KineFX 101 – pt. 20: CFX Fur – Part 1b: Karma Hair Procedurals
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KineFX 101 – pt. 20: CFX Fur – Part 1a: Obj Level Workflow
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Geometry Nodes Ep19 – Cleaning Up and Creating Reusable Node Groups
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Quick Tip: Setting Up A Default Scene In Houdini
Mo is back from berlin where he spent a few days with Colors And The Kids One of the questions tackled there was how to set up a scene file that’d automatically load when Houdini started up. Turns out Houdini looks for a few script […]
Advanced Setups 19 – Jeroen Claus: Dataviz Excursion – K-means Clustering Explained
Thrilled to have Jeroen Claus back for a series on popular algorithms used in data analysis and visualisation. In this first (free) episode he’ll take you through what k-Means clustering is and how it works. Download Project File (.zip)
KarmaXPU Quickstart Pt.4: Excursion – Visualizing Lipid Membranes
Notes:– I’m recommending to stay away from refractive materials in rendering. This is due to the fact of this particular group of students having limited rendering resources. If however you have those resources, go wild! Mo had the pleasure of joining Dr. Jeroen Claus of […]
KarmaXPU Quickstart Pt.3: Excursion – Visualizing Proteins
Notes:– It *could* be that 1 Houdini unit = 1 angstrom (which is 0.1 nm)– I’m recommending to stay away from refractive materials in rendering. This is due to the fact of this particular group of students having limited rendering resources. If however you have […]
Geometry Nodes Ep18 – Creating Instances and Manipulating them
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Nerd Rant 2.0 Ep. 22: Manu’s Dad’s Paintings
While moving, Manu unearthed a part of his dad’s portfolio of oil and watercolor paintings. Mo and him discuss his father’s art style, marvel at some contemporary art and ramble on about growing up with a painter.
KineFX 101 – Pt.19: CFX: Muscles Part 2
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KarmaXPU Quickstart Pt. 2 – Custom Attributes, Subsurface Scattering
Continuing with our KarmaXPU quickstart, this video covers reading custom attributes into a MaterialX shader and using it to drive the look of our material’s subsurface scattering. Download Project File
Geometry Nodes Ep17 – Finishing the Falloff and Node Groups
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KarmaXPU Quickstart Pt. 1 – Basic Lighting, Shading & Rendering
In this tutorial we’ll shade, light and render the geometry we created in our previous tutorial, inspired by Alex Valentina’s Work for Form Mag. We’ll be setting up a simple scene graph in solaris, import and light our geometry using an HDRI and then spend […]
KarmaXPU Quickstart Pt. 0 – Creating Our Test Geometry
It’s finally time we talk about Karma again. Nope not your spiritual system, but Houdini 19.5’s built in new’ish rendering engine. It’s been making quite fast progress since the time it’s been released a few versions back, so in our opinion with KarmaXPU being in […]