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Aug 1, 20201 min read

Houdini Beach FLIP Simulation

Test after another until I reached more than 40 iterations each taking more that 8 hours to sim over a span of a month, finally reached...

Jul 12, 20201 min read

Houdini Painting Flow

I was inspired by David Ferreira work that was featured on Houdini Hive 2020, so I thought of utilizing the flow field I created earlier...

Jul 3, 20201 min read

Houdini Flow Field

I did a small research around vector and flow fields and came across this blog post. so inspiring but didnt mention how exactly it was...

Jun 17, 20201 min read

Houdini Vellum hair (up res)

A nice trick that will allow you to up res an already simmed vellum hair, in my example I simmed only 350 hairs and boosted them to 5000....

Jun 7, 20201 min read

Houdini Vellum balloons (wire cut supported)

I built upon the old balloons setup and added the following: - string will cut now at a specific threshold and a specific point. - new...

May 5, 20201 min read

Houdini fountain

I tried creating this effect a couple of years ago but "Pop fluid" wasn't added to Houdini yet also the fluid sourcing back then was...

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May 4, 20201 min read

Houdini edge selection to curve

Update: apparently Houdini has a beta tool for that under the Labs section called "edgegroup_to_curve", it will save you a couple of...

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May 2, 20201 min read

MBC1 Ramadan 2020 TV spots (Fananees)

I was tasked with creating the water simulation inside the washing machine in the first spot, I used Houdini to do so and the challenges...

Apr 5, 20201 min read

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,...

Mar 11, 20201 min read

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...