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. […]
Geometry Nodes Ep16 – Psyche Transform – Spherical Falloff
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Geometry Nodes Ep15 – Real World Project 1 – Psyche Transform Effect
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New In Houdini 19.5 Pt 3: Shallow Water Solver (Plus KarmaXPU)
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
New In Houdini 19.5 Pt 2: Karma XPU Beta (MaterialX, Solaris)
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
New In Houdini 19.5 Pt.1: Tangent Fields (And a Bit of VEX)
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
KineFX 101 – Pt.16: Rigging An IK Robot Arm
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Better Texture Tiling
Even if you have a perfect tilable texture with seamless borders you often run into problems when tiling the same texture often to cover large areas. If your texture happens to be irregular you might want to give this tiling trick a try to make […]
Procedurally Create Detroit Agate with a Karma Shader
If layers over layers of car paint accumulate in the factory over the years they create grey rocks with magic hidden inside. Once you start to cut and polish these rocks all the individual color layers are revealed and create a color explosion. In this […]
Advanced Setups 18 – Implementing Monte Carlo Geometry Processing in VEX
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Procedural UV Unwrapping with Geometry Nodes
This tutorial uses Blender 3.3 Alpha. You can get this version from here: Download Experimental Builds Blender 3.3 Alpha adds nodes for procedural UV unwrapping. In this quick tip tutorial Manuel explains one way of using the new feature on some procedurally built rocks.
Noise Advection with Geometry Nodes
Advecting points through vector fields is often handy for different purposes. It can be used to visualize noise fields or vector volumes or just to create some beautiful abstracted graphics. Follow Manuel in this tutorial, while he hacks Geometry Nodes to make iterative advection along […]
KineFX 101 – Pt.15: KineFX & Vellum 2: Building a Balloon Character
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Giving Birth Using Vellum
Sometimes we get the weirdest questions. And we’re quite thrilled about them! This time our friend Patrick (https://www.altshift.de/) approached us with a.. let’s call it special Vellum setup and some questions about how to make all Elements interact properly and animate them. Resulting in whatever […]
Nerd Rant 2.0 Ep. 20: Midjourney, Dall-E & AI vs. Design
Manu and Mo ramble on about what the arrival of AI tools such as midjourney, Dall-E or Imagen mean for (not only) the field of visual design.
Demystifying Sevilla’s Parasols: Waffle Structures
At a recent Houdini meetup, Luc Morroni came up with quite an interesting tutorial topic: Procedural waffle structures, like the ones used in Sevilla’s Metropol Parasol. Seems easy enough at first I thought – but as always, the devil’s in the details. In this case […]
KineFX 101 – Pt.14: Capturing B: Building A DIY Bone Deform SOP
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KineFX 101 – Pt.14: Capturing A: Procedurally Creating And Modifying Weights
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Geometry Nodes Ep14 – Create the Procedural Low Poly Rocks Shader
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Geometry Nodes Ep13 – Create the Procedural Low Poly Rocks Geometry
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Demystifying Hamburg’s Concert Hall’s Acoustic Panels
Having visited Hamburg recently I was smitten by the city’s concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie. What looks quite minimalistic from afar turns out to be an incredibly detailed building. Of special interes to me were the acoustic panels within the main concert hall, developed by Yasuhisa […]
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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