Welcome to the second and final part of our mini series on how to melt complex objects with fine details, textures and multiple materials. All without melting your pc as well! In the first part we built a setup to retain geometric detail and now […]
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New In Houdini 20: Karma – Physical Sky, Thin Walled Transmission, Material Linker And More
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
New In Houdini 20: Feathers 03 – Simulating And Rendering
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 […]
New In Houdini 20: Feathers 02 – Grooming Feathers
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 […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 11: Rendering A: Overview and Preperations
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KineFX 101 – pt. 30: Tree Rig 04: Rendering in Karma
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KineFX 101 – pt. 30: Tree Rig 03: Simulating the Twig
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KineFX 101 – pt. 30: Tree Rig 02: Rigging the Tree
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KineFX 101 – pt. 30: Tree Rig 01: Generating a Tree
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KineFX 101 – pt. 27: Flower 05: Fur, Karma and Variations
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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
KineFX 101 – pt. 21: CFX Fur – Part 2: Using and Misusing Fur Nodes in SOPs
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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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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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
Test Driving Houdini 19: Creating Wrinkles & Rendering Them In Karma XPU
It’s Halloween(ish). – so Mo decided he’d create something creepy. And this is as creepy as his mind gets. No judging. In this tutorial we’ll cover the creation off stress maps to drive the procedural generation of wrinkles using Houdini’s Karma XPU and MaterialX displacement. […]
Test Driving Houdini 19: Pouring Quicksand/Paint Using Vellum Fuids
Houdini 19 has been released and Mo is taking it for a test drive. As far as you can drive any software. (I mean a car’s firmware you’d definitely drive…) In this video, Mo demonstrates the new Vellum fluids by using them to create a […]
Test Driving Houdini 19: Karma XPU, MaterialX And A Hidden Gem
Houdini 19 has been released and Mo is taking it for a test drive. As far as you can drive any software. (I mean a car’s firmware you’d definitely drive…) In this video, Mo builds an abstracted sculpture out of minimal surfaces by using H19’s […]
Nerd Rant 2.0 – Ep.2: Rendering in Houdini?
We finally fixed our streaming setup, Manu had a haircut and the guys discuss if it is a good idea to render your projects in Houdini or if you should rather export to other tools.
New In Houdini 18.5
Full Playlist Here Houdini 18.5 is out! And here are the features that got us excited! Of course there’s much more. (SOP based rigging anyone?!) We had great joy in seeing that Karma has come a long way and that real time pyro sims in […]
Houdini On Mushrooms: Karma – Point Attributes & Render Settings
Watch Mo fail as he tries rendering out a 3D Scan in Houdini’s new (and very beta) rendering engine, Karma. The perils of using beta software… 3D scanned mushroom from www.aixterior.com Download Project File