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Houdini Fireworks
I started with the firework shelf tool thinking that it will give me the ultimate solution, but as most of you know it doesn't do much,...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
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Houdini Hologram (animated object upgraded)
Well if you've been following along the updates done for the Image base hologram then this would be a natural next step, I just added the...
Mar 11, 20201 min read
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Houdini Hologram (image based)
Remember the old Hologram tool Well I pushed it more so it now has a light source with some nice volumetric effect. Download...
Mar 2, 20201 min read
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Houdini Deforming Flip
Well if you are looking for the technique behind Spider Man the water rise monster shot then you are in the right place. I found two ways...
Feb 9, 20201 min read
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Houdini Fish School
In short a simple fish system which includes: - Avoiding each other. - Avoiding obstacles. - Controllable range at where the fish will...
Dec 26, 20191 min read
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Houdini mixing smoke colors with different densities
Doing colored smoke used to be a bit of a hassle in Houdini but as of version 17 it became easier and here I'm showing it with a density...
Nov 2, 20191 min read
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Houdini Vellum balloons (scene file)
A simple setup to create balloons, Tool's features: - Different string length (yup I used strings not cloth for the wires) - Balloons...
Oct 16, 20191 min read
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Houdini Hologram (image based)
Continuing with the hologram series but this time I created a tool that uses a 2d sequence to create an appealing 3D (or let's say 2.5D)...
Oct 3, 20191 min read
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Houdini Reflection Vector (vops)
As simple as the title suggests, you will need an origin point and a target one to drive the direction and the collision model, I...
Sep 15, 20191 min read
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Houdini Fixing (overlapping / intersecting) mesh for cloth sim
A tool I developed while working on MBC Ramadan TV spots, you can check them here.. I was tasked with cloth sim and some of the...
Sep 2, 20191 min read
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Houdini Flag
A simple setup attaching a piece of cloth to a string using Vellum. Download... #Houdini #cloth_sim_with_thread_pulling_cloth...
Aug 13, 20191 min read
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Houdini Black Hole (Redshift)
The problem with the previous mantra setup (https://vimeo.com/333709972) is that it was really slow to render, and now with the redshift...
Aug 5, 20191 min read
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Houdini Plexus
Tool's features: - Two wire zones (text, environment) - Wires and source count (global, text, environment) - Drop based on length (you...
Jul 1, 20191 min read
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Houdini Hologram (animated object)
You asked for it and here it is, Built on top of the original Houdini hologram tool: https://vimeo.com/308812994 Now the tool support...
Jun 2, 20191 min read
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Houdini Black Hole (mantra)
Got motivated by the event last month "The supermassive black hole at the core of supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87", and OMG it...
May 2, 20191 min read
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Houdini stick scatter points to a deforming model
A simple trick but crucial to stick scatter points to a deforming model. Download...
Apr 12, 20191 min read
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Houdini Recursive Fracturing (Particle solver Stage 02)
As I promised stage 2 is here and I'm confident it contains everything you need to create an amazing Recursive Fracturing, well don't...
Apr 2, 20191 min read
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Houdini Recursive Fracturing (Particle solver Stage 01)
It took me some time to wrap my head around this technique, it's getting pretty complex fast so I broke it into two stages, the first one...
Mar 9, 20191 min read
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Houdini Rock Generator
Tool's feature: - Creating deep and shallow cracks. - Horizontal or vertical stripes of your choice. - Color visualizing on point color,...
Feb 3, 20191 min read
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Houdini object occlusion and camera culling
Although you can create this tool using a simple attribute vop and a ray sop but out of practice I used a wrangle to achieve the same...
Jan 11, 20191 min read
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