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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 21: Understanding Vectors Part 2
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 20: Swirly Rocks Projects Part 2
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 19: Understanding Vectors Part 1
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 17: Dataviz Mini Project
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Guest Tutorial: Dart Throwing
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 […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 16: Understanding VOPs in Houdini
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 15: City Model Mini Project
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Interference Patterns On Surfaces
Today we’re revisiting an old setup of ours: Creating intricate interference patterns using circular waves. Time has passed since Mo built the first version of this in 2018 and now, with Houdini 19.5, we got a new node that finally allows us to calculate those […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 14: Intricate Torus Project
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 13: Understanding For Loops in Houdini
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 12: Rendering B: Octane Walkthrough
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 11: Rendering A: Overview and Preperations
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 10: Flower Tube Project Part 2
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 09: Understanding Points, Verts, Prims, Details and Edges
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Paper Folding with Vellum
In this video Chris covers a simple way of simulating origami like patterns in Houdini and Vellum, just using edge groups and (depending on how you count them) three or six lines of vex. We can very much recommend watching Junichiro Horikawa’s previous explorations on […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 07: Understanding Groups in Houdini
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 05: Squishy Vellum Project Part 2
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 04: Squishy Vellum Project Part 1
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Houdini Tutorial: Waddington Landscape
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, […]
Guest Course: Creating a Rolling Objects Solver – Part 7
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
Guest Course: Creating a Rolling Objects Solver – Part 5
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
Guest Course: Creating a Rolling Objects Solver – Part 4
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
Guest Course: Creating a Rolling Objects Solver – Part 2
In part two of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer starts building the actual solver. Download Project Files
KineFX 101 – pt. 28: Building a Curve Controller for KineFX
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Houdini Guest Tutorial (Simon Fiedler): Easy Energy Spirals
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.
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.5: The Rig Attrib VOP
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No VEX Houdini: My First(ish) Setup: Abstract Sails
Continuing our “No VEX Houdini” tutorials, Mo presents one of the first setups he built when he started using Houdini. He also rambles a bit about what Manu and Mo actually mean when they talk about using VFX tools for abstract design. In this quick […]
Guest Tutorial: Path Solver
We’re thrilled to have Houdini artist supreme Vladyslav Lavrenov for a guest tutorial. And quite a hefty one! Vlad takes us through his reasoning and steps to build a path solver in Houdini to have seemingly random momevements on a grid form a coherent behaviour. […]
Guest Tutorial: Meshing Small Scale Flip Sims
Our friend Alvaro Moreira put quite a lot of work in optimizing small scale fluid meshes over the last couple of months. Today he wants to share his findings with the Entagma community. Watch him smooth a fluid’s surface while maintaining sharp creases between the […]
The Houdini Donut Tutorial!
EDIT: Simon Fiedler just informed me that in fact we’re not the first ones to do a Houdini Donut tut. Dang! Kudos to Konstantin Magnus! — Mo has recently started learning Blender. (Don’t worry – we won’t ditch Houdini. We just think Blender makes for […]
Rendering 101 pt. 14: Photon Mapping / Caustics In Redshift
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Quicktip: Fluid Splashes Using FLIP
After we went over shading, lighting and rendering refractive materials in our latest video in Rendering 101, you wanted to know how the liquid splash we used had been created. Look no further – in this tutorial Mo walks you through all the necessary settings […]
Guest Tutorial: Dr. Jeroen Claus – Rendering The Corona Virus’ Spike Protein
You asked us how to visualize the corona virus, but we’re by no means biologists… So we went out (Only virtually of course – we’re still curfewed as of today.) and found someone who is more qualified than us to cover that task. May we […]
Rendering 101 pt. 12: Basic Setup – V-Ray
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Rendering 101 pt. 11: Basic Setup – Arnold
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Rendering 101 pt. 10: Basic Setup – RenderMan
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Papers Please – Graph Bundling Pt. 2: Building The Setup
Watch pt. 2 here. In part two of our tutorial on Kernel Density Estimation Graph Bundlig we’re implementing the setup and adapt it to create smooth animations. EDIT: It’s been brought to our attention that there is another neat graph bundling technique based off of […]
Papers Please – Graph Bundling Pt. 1: Theory
Watch pt. 1 here. Let’s spread a bit of joy and dive into VEX and Houdini-SOPs again to implement a really neat technique from a french/dutch paper covering graph bundling. While graph bundling is usually found in network analysis or geovisualization, we’re gonna adapt the […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 20: That’s All Folks!
That’s it for the first sprint of “Houdini in five minutes”. We’ll probably publish additional five minute tutorials in the future but for now it’s back to our default schedule: Bi-Weekly Free tut and premium courses on Patreon. Free Resources (Apart from Entagma): Matt Estela’s […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 19: SOPs, Redshift & MOPs – Isocontours: Setting Up The Rendering
In our final project for this first sprint of “Houdini in five minutes” we’re gonna build a tactical shooter style isocontour map with a bunch of moving particles. We’re gonna be using Houdini’s built in SOPs, a bit of MOPs (www.motionoperators.com) and Redshift (www.redshift3d.com). In […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 18: SOPs, Redshift & MOPs – Isocontours: Setting Up The Particles
In our final project for this first sprint of “Houdini in five minutes” we’re gonna build a tactical shooter style isocontour map with a bunch of moving particles. We’re gonna be using Houdini’s built in SOPs, a bit of MOPs (www.motionoperators.com) and Redshift (www.redshift3d.com). In […]
Houdini In Five Minutes 15: Packed Primitives (Theory)
Let’s dive into our last bunch of videos in this first sprint of “Houdini in five minutes” with a seemingly dry topics: Packed Primitives / Instances. Although slightly technical, it’s a powerful concept that enables Houdini to work on massive scenes.
Houdini In Five Minutes 14: Rendering Grains In Redshift
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