Entagma – Page 2 – Advanced CG Resources

Advanced Setups 17 – Jeroen Claus: Solving The Traveling Salesperson Problem in Python

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KineFX 101 – Pt.13: Combining Vellum with KineFX

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Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep. 19: Mo Was At OFFF, The Second Wave Of Houdini For Designers

Mo got to go to Barcelona to present at OFFF and is still on cloud number nine. The guys discuss what learning and teaching Houdini to a visually minded person means, how and why there is a resurgence in interest in Houdini and finally they […]

Geometry Nodes Ep12 – Displace and Shade a Torus by Noise

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Geometry Nodes Ep11 – Create Noise Driven Displacement

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Geometry Nodes Ep10 – Fields

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OFFF Special: My First Vellum Sim

Back from OFFF 2022 and well rested, we managed to upload our talk’s very quick example of how to build and export your very first Vellum cloth simulation in Houdini. Enjoy! Download Project File

KineFX 101 – Pt.12: KFX Potpourri: Capturing, Secondary Motion And Fixing Skeletons

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Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep.18: CG vs. Photography

Manu and Mo ramble on about what sets CG and photography apart and what might make them closer than they appear at first glance. Rethinking Photography (German): https://fotografieneudenken.de Chris Hoffmann / Ugly Stupid Honest: http://www.uglystupidhonest.com

Creating An Abstract Wire Sculpture

One of those classic setups again! This time we’re combining custom point advection with a few nifty techniques in Houdini to analyze how our base geometry is shaped and where its edges are. Also we’ll talk briefly about a basic rendering setup in Octane. Napoleon […]

Geometry Nodes Ep09 – Visualize Vector Addition

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Geometry Nodes Ep08 – Make the Visualizer into a reusable Node Group

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Geometry Nodes Ep07 – Refine the Vector Visualizer

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Geometry Nodes Ep06 – Creating a Vector Visualizer

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Geometry Nodes Ep05 – What are Vectors

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Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep.17: Using Python Libraries In Houdini

Before leaving for easter holidays, Manu & Mo discuss the usefulness and pain involved in using Python libraries in Houdini’s SOP context to easily access higher level functionality like arcane file export or intricate math.

Geometry Nodes Ep04 – Node Properties

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Geometry Nodes Ep03 – Working with Attributes

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Geometry Nodes Ep02 – Working with Geometry

Now it’s time to get our hands dirty with Geometry Nodes. Let’s create our first procedural setup, that turns a triangulated model into an alien mesh structure. In this lesson you’ll learn how to use Geometry nodes to modify existing geometry and how to branch […]

Geometry Nodes Ep01 – Intro to Geometry Nodes

In this episode we’ll look into how geometry is stored inside of Blender, how polygons define the connectivity of vertices and how Geometry Nodes is just another modifier, but one that can be customized without limits. To follow the lessons you’ll need at least Blender […]

Geometry Nodes Ep00 – Overview

Blender rencently added a brand new procedural system to its feature set: Geometry Nodes. While being quite powerful it’s not necessarily easily accessible, especially if you are new to procedural workflows. So we decided to cover this system in depth with a new patreon course. […]

Houdini Guest Tutorial: Jeroen Claus – Creating Toon Shading Outlines

Thrilled to have Jeroen Claus back for a quick tutorial on creating toon outlines as geometry in Houdini. Ideal for those hybrid renders between toon and photoreal shading. Download Project File (.zip)

KineFX 101 – Pt.11: Enhancing Growth-Sims With KineFX

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Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep. 16: Blatant Advertising, Premium Course Blender Geometry Nodes

New premium course out on April 14th: Generative Design Using Blender Geometry Nodes Mo is cranky he’s back in Germany, Manu isn’t cranky although he hasn’t been out of Germany. Manu discusses his soon to be released premium course on Blender’s Geometry Nodes.

Advanced Setups 16 – Multithreading Python

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Packing Rigid(ish) Bodies In Vellum

Yes, we covered this in our “packing the Torus” tutorial, however back then we didn’t have Vellum! You draw the conclusions yourself! Seriously though, using vellum for rigid body intersection detection and resolution can be a neat trick when you’re depending on a unified simulation […]

KineFX 101 – Pt.10: The Non-Animator Character Animation Pipeline

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Python in Houdini: Controlling An Embroidery Machine (DST Export)

In what might be our most useless Houdini tutorial to date, Mo covers exporting Houdini geometry for use in an embroidery machine. Yep that’s right. You’re welcome. Setting up Python for Houdini: https://youtu.be/aUdC8p17QEc Virtual Embroidery in Houdini: https://youtu.be/RgLcREpwaU4 Info on the .dst file format: https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Embro… […]

Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep.15: Learning Houdini With Vincent Schwenk pt. 3 – Grains

Part three of our special Nerd Rant with Vincent Schwenk is here! This time we focus on recreating a setup Mo once created for a project into which Vinz hired him. Vincent Schwenk is an incredibly talented Designer / Art Director based in Hamburg, Germany. […]

KineFX 101 – Pt.9: Retiming Simulations With DIY Motion Clips

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Pack Points inside Objects with Geometry Nodes

Geometry Nodes offer a node to distribute points on the surface of another object. But scattering points inside of the volume of a object is not as simple. In this tutorial Manuel explains how to build a Geometry Nodes setup that does just that. First […]

Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep.14: Learning Houdini With Vincent Schwenk pt. 2

TPart two of our special Nerd Rant with Vincent Schwenk is here! This time we spend time talking about getting geo into and out of Houdini, tweaking simulations and how to install MOPs for Houdini, which makes mograph tasks a good bit easier. Vincent Schwenk […]

KineFX 101 – Pt.8: Character Animation Using Motionclips

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Abstract Particle Animation Using Houdini, Vellum & Octane Render

Inspired by Maxim Zhestkov’s great artwork, we set up a simple Vellum grain sim and render the results using Octane render. Download Scene File (.zip)

Vellum 101 – pt. 40: Melting Things Using Vellum Fluid

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Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep.13: Learning Houdini With Vincent Schwenk

This is a special nerd rant – just an excuse to upload well over an hour of Vinz and Mo struggling with understanding / teaching Houdini to an absolute beginner. So if you’re thinking of learning Houdini, this call where Mo introduces Vinz to the […]

KineFX 101 – Pt.7: Building An Auto Framing Camera

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Houdini Tutorial: Melting Things using FLIP

Learn how to turn any object into molten lava by adapting one of Houdini’s presets to liquify any geometry. Ben Watt’s tutorial that triggered Mo to look into this. While we’re not talking about shading & rendering in here, we provide a scene file that’s […]

Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep.12: Digital humans

While pondering what makes a decent digitally created human figure, Manu & Mo go almost toe-deep into the philosophical aspects of what believable digital humans would mean technologically and for society. Don’t expect mentions of elk meat, saunas or chimpanzees though.

KineFX 101 – Pt.6: Building Procedural Walkers

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Simulating A Rubber Band Ball In Vellum

Again Patrick triggered this one by asking if we could have a look at a setup he’s been working on. And boy did we like what we saw. Mo decided to simplify it a bit and slow it down so it could be used to […]

Advanced Setups 15 – Solving Optimal Transport using Python and POT

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Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep.11: Game Design – Tools & Processes

In the second part of our nerd rant with guest Marcel Casasola Merkle we talk about the nitty gritty of what game development means. To Marcel. We talk tools, techniques, opinions on what to best use when creating a game.

KineFX 101 – Pt.5: The Rig Attrib VOP

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Render Houdini Particles with Blender CyclesX via Geometry Nodes

Transferring data between DCCs is a cumbersome but necessary task. Particles are not yet supported via nodes inside of Blender for example and usually come in from somewhere else. In this tutorial Manuel shows you how to create a surface flow particle effect inside of […]