After we’re done setting up our simulation, let’s render it! This time using Redshift, one of our favorite engines when it comes to working and rendering in Houdini. Yes it doesn’t come with Houdini. Yes it’s a third party addon. Yes it costs money. However […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 13: Setting Up Grains
With version 17, Houdini introduced a new simulation framework called vellum. It is based on position based dynamics and thus offers a relatively fast way to simulate a multitude of effects. In our case we’re gonna use it to set up a bunch of grains […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 12: Setting Up Particles
Houdini isn’t just a great tool for procedural geometry creation – it’s also the single most powerful particle system we’ve seen to this day. Plus: The particles are deeply integrated into Houdini’s functionality, so you can combine them with virtually any tool Houdini has to […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 11: The Foreach Loop
Ever wanted to take your meshes apart and work on their individual polygons? No? Doesn’t matter – here’s the foreach loop which allows you to do exactly that! Download Project File
Houdini In Five Minutes 10: Procedural Animations Using The SOP Solver
The very first (and still imho the most fun) way to dive into simulation territory is Houdini’s SOP solver: It allows you to execute a node tree on a previous frame’s data. This gives you the ability to create evolving shapes, hand built particle systems […]
Rendering 101 pt. 5: Studio Intro / Light Formers
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Houdini In Five Minutes 09: For-Loops & Extrusions
Apart from attributes, loops and iterative techniques are maybe the most useful concept when building your procedural geometry inside Houdini. With very efficient node trees we can cook up pretty intricate effects. NOTE: As I might have mentioned, Mantra is by no means a fast […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 08: Exporting To Alembic
A few words on how to get our animated geo out into other tools. And more importantly a few thoughts about helping yourself when stuck in Houdini. NOTE: As I might have mentioned, Mantra is by no means a fast render engine, so I decided […]
Houdini In Ten Minutes 07: Animating The Spheres
Let’s get things moving and build procedural animations using our scatter setup. And while we’re at it why not talk a bit about more or less clever ways to set this up… NOTE: As I might have mentioned, Mantra is by no means a fast […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 06: Art Directing Your Scattered Spheres
How about we start art directing our scattered spheres and rebuild our setup so we can paint where we want our objects to got? Look no further! NOTE: As I might have mentioned, Mantra is by no means a fast render engine, so I decided […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 05: Making Your Rendering Look Nicer
A bit of depth of field can never harm! Learn how to tweak your render settings in Mantra for final rendering. Download Project File
Houdini In Five Minutes 04: Rendering It
What is geometry worth if we can’t generate an image out of it? Let’s do this by setting up Mantra, Houdini’s built in render engine. Download Project File
Houdini In Five Minutes 03: Attributes
What on earth did we just do?! Let’s talk a bit more about one of Houdini’s fundamental building blocks: Attributes. Download Project File
Houdini In Five Minutes 02: Your First Node Tree
Let’s get cracking and build our very first setup! Download Project File
Houdini In Five Minutes 01: Houdini’s Structure
Skip to 02:05 if you’re tired of Mo’s semi-motivational ranting. Houdini 2020! We’ve seen it pop up often enough on our social media timelines. And to help you transition to this amazing tool, we’re creating these five minute(ish) tutorials to help you quickly graps the […]
Particles Part 09 – Rain Part 01 -Setup
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Rendering Houdini Effects in Eevee
Since the release of Blender 2.8 people are looking into Eevee, their rasterisation real time render engine. Eevee is free and gives good and quick results, so why not bringing over effects from Houdini to render there. In this tutorial I’ll walk you through the […]
Rendering 101 pt. 4: Lights
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Obstacle Avoidance: Flow Fields
A quick and easy method for guiding particles / agents / things around obstacles, using Attribute Blur and Measurement SOPs. Download Project File
Rendering 101 pt. 3: Theory- Camera Models & Film Response Curves
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Nerd Rant: Blender Hype
You Asked for it – there you have it: Two hobgoblinish nerds rambling on about computer graphics in general and Blender and the recent hype in particular. EDIT: “That 3D Format” whose name we couldn’t remember turns out to be gltF – thanks Vasilis!
Quicktip: Blender – Alt-Navigation
In this Quicktip Manu will share his settings for combining standard navigation in Blender’s viewport while keeping most other shortcuts untouched to be able to follow Blender tutorials using Blender style shortcuts.
Rendering 101 pt. 2: Theory- Materials, BxDFs, Fresnel & Microfacets
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New In Houdini 18
Houdini 18 has been released! While Manu is still busy wrapping his head around Solaris (tutorials covering his efforts are coming…), I had the absolute pleasure to comb through H18’s new features list and compile my list of neat new nodes I found. I grouped […]
Rendering 101 pt. 1: Theory – Raytracing, Pathtracing & Monte Carlo
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Rendering 101 – pt. 0: The Overall Plan
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Importing an MRI Scan as VDB Volume
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Physarum Slime Mold
While Manu and I have been on season break, my twitter stream washed up these mesmerizing, beautiful videos. Turns out they are created by Sage Jenson, a genius digital artists. But not only do they create these fantastic pieces of art, they also go to […]
Summer’s Finally Here! (We’re Back)
Mo caught a cold, Manu is freezing, we’re both so pale our cameras have trouble finding a proper exposure – that’s right, it’s finally summer in Germany! Yes, it definitely took us longer than anticipated to get back and restart the free stream! We’ll be […]
Website Redesign: How To Use The New entagma.com
We finally FINALLY(!) got a redesign for entagma.com! Believe me it was a ride. We should maybe talk this through in a nerd rant. This video gives a quick overview of the site’s major new features. However be aware this is all pretty new and […]
Volumes 101 – New Since H17 (Visualisation & Sourcing)
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Vellum 101 – pt. 29: Inflation by Attribute
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Season 3 Finale: SeeYou in Summer!
Thanks so much for your feedback, support, links, questions, everything! You are amazing – we’re glad & proud to be part of this community! Wow – it’s been a long season! Time for us to recharge our batteries, read some papers, try failing less at […]
Season Finale: Procedural Subdivision Curves
Data Viz – ever tried creating a bunch of smoothly connecting lines manually? Me neither, that just seems too involved. Enter Houdini. But how do you create control vertices for those subdivision curves? In this tutorial we’ll roll our own little algorithm for creating control […]
Vellum 101 – pt. 28: Slicing Grain Softbodies
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Vellum 101 – pt. 27: Grain Softbodies in Vellum
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Analytical Foam
As position based simulation techniques are very fast theses days, it is possible to use them to confrom intersecting spheres to each other, to model foam. Nevertheless there are other possibilities, too.
Vellum 101 – pt. 26: Structural Optimisation
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Vellum 101 – pt. 25: Activating Grains
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Quick Wind Tunnel
Usually you’d find pyro setups behind all kinds of explosions, fires and sometimes fireworks, but how about something more calm? Something like a wind tunnel used to evaluate the aerodynamic properties of cars, trains and planes? (Please do not use this setup to evaluate any […]
Vellum 101 – pt. 24: Tearing A Bag Of Grains
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Vellum 101 – pt. 23: Looping A Simulation
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Polyfolding – Part 2
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Vellum 101 – pt. 22: Peeling Off
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Polyfolding – Part 1
This is the first part of a two part tutorial. Part two will be available soon. Polyfolding is an interesting effect where you split up an object to individual bands and make them curl up. It can be used to disintegrate an object or make […]
Vellum 101 – pt. 21: Crushing A Can
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Vellum 101 – pt. 20: Balloon Popping
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Vellum 101 – pt. 19: Stiffness Dropoff
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