Moritz visited the BSC – the Barcelona Supercomputing Center last August and had the pleasure of meeting the Designers and Scientists that work there. This is the second Part of this Interview series. His second Interviewpartner is Guillermo Marin, Designer of Data Visualization at the […]
Moritz visited the BSC – the Barcelona Supercomputing Center last August and had the pleasure of meeting the Designers and Scientists that work there. His first interviewpartner is Fernando Cucchietti – the Head of Data Analytics and Visualization. Fernando explains how he ended up in […]
This is the one that’s out of focus, as Mo doesn’t check focus and it shows. Chris Hoffmann is visiting and talks AI, art, generative design and everything else. Chris Hoffmann’s Website ComfyUI Wundt Curve Pixel Composer
Manu and Mo are back, exhausted and happy. They are now professors at Nuremberg Tech and have a new master’s program for you. Our New Master’s Degree Program Our New Master’s Insta
In this episode we’ll take the ‘fresh out of beta’ Karma XPU for a spin and talk about the new physical sky, thin walled transmission, material linker, snapshot menu and ACES setup. https://entagma.com/downloads/H20_SopsDopsKarma.zip
In this episode we’ll take a quick look at the new simulation tools and features in Houdini 20, specifically the new POP Wind Shadow, updates to the Vellum rest blend constraint and vellum brush, the new density controlled gravity in pyro as well as some […]
Houdini 20 is out and the literal poster child of this release is the new Feather workflow. And this really is a whole workflow, because it offers tools not only for creating feathers but also for creating a whole plumage, simming and rendering. So, let’s […]
Houdini 20 is out and the literal poster child of this release is the new Feather workflow. And this really is a whole workflow, because it offers tools not only for creating feathers but also for creating a whole plumage, simming and rendering. So, let’s […]
Houdini 20 is out and the literal poster child of this release is the new Feather workflow. And this really is a whole workflow, because it offers tools not only for creating feathers but also for creating a whole plumage, simming and rendering. So, let’s […]
We’re thrilled to have Andreas Catucci as a guest! Somehow aside from creating amazing work, he managed to record a video on a technique very dear to our hearts: Dart throwing. Sounds like simulating aerodynamics? Not quite. It’s a method to densely pack a surface […]
Manu and Mo discuss why they stopped worrying and love Python.
Mo has been away, working together with Paul Ambrosiussen to bring machine learning into Houdini. Resulting in a toolset with the bestest ever Banner on Github: MLOPs
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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. […]
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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 […]
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)
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 […]
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, […]
In part seven of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer extends our solver to take into account random initial rotation and so it works with cubes instead of tubes. Download Project Files
In part six of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer modifies our solver so it works with discs instead of spheres. Download Project Files
In part five of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer modifies our solver to work with POP particles. Download Project Files
In part four of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer goes over how to use our setup to have objects rolling across displaced surfaces. Download Project Files
In part three of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer covers how to apply our solver to multiple elements at once. Download Project Files
In part two of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer starts building the actual solver. Download Project Files
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 […]
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 […]
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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.
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
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
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, […]
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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 […]
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)
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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
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 […]
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 […]
Manu moved houses, Mo helped rebuild the Nerd Rant studio in Manu’s attic, the guys ramble on about redecorating, WD40, luggable PC cases and portable displays for your travelling workstation needs. Sliger Cerberus X Uperfect Portable Monitors
One of the major milestones in Houdini 19.5 is the SOPification of FLIP fluids – allowing for a much more streamlined setup of fluid simulations. In this video Mo goes over the basics of the new workflow, including custom viscosity and density for our liquid. […]
Mo is going to SIGGRAPH – and he’s running late. So this text admittedly is very brief. In this video we’re gonna (ab)use Houdini’s new shallow water solver to create this abstract streamline animation. Download Project File
Mo visited the Art Gallery of Ontario and got inspired. In This video he’s using Solaris, Karma XPU and MaterialX to shade and render the sculpture created in this tutorial. Download Project File
Mo visited the Art Gallery of Ontario and got inspired to test drive one of the hidden gems in Houdini 19.5 – Tangent Fields. Download Project File
