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cmiVFX – Houdini Shading Systems

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cmiVFX – Houdini Shading Systems
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Category: Tutorial


cmiVFX mentors pride themselves on delivering new learning content requested directly by the customers, allowing our video library to be the most relevant in the entire universe! This Ultimate Shading video for Houdini takes an in-depth look at the new Houdini shading system improvements delivered to us in the most recent update by SideFX. The brand new improvements in Houdini span from a new viewport, improved shaders (including the new Disney shader) that are so amazing and efficient to use, that you will all fall in love. The new Material style sheets are an amazing addition to the popular VFX suite, for it is a great, flexible tool to make the Shader TD’s job even more powerful. New opportunities arise with this new system to allow users to shade massive amounts of geometry, from the very simple to the very technically complex. There are also multiple improvements in the Mantra renderer, which increases the value of the combined solution, making Houdini a very convenient tool for your production pipeline. We can’t wait to see what you do with the information in this video! When it comes to delivering the latest, greatest Houdini content, cmiVFX has your back! [Read more…]

Digital Tutors – Creating Custom Shaders in Houdini

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Digital Tutors – Creating Custom Shaders in Houdini
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Category: CBTs


In this Houdini tutorial, we’ll explore under the hood of a shading network.

We’ll start by creating our first simple shader from scratch using the basic Surface Model. We’ll see how to promote parameters and build an artist friendly user interface for our shader. Next we’ll add displacement to our shader and learn how to bring properties from our geometry into the shading network so that we can develop a dynamically changing surface.
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cmiVFX – Houdini Transformium

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cmiVFX – Houdini Transformium
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Category: Tutorial


cmiVFX morphs its latest release on to your computer or mobile device by launching the new Houdini Transformium Effect training video, on sale now! You saw the movies, you marveled at the action packed sequences, and you sat through the satire created by the actors through the entire series. Your reward is learning this killer new and cmiVFX improved Houdini Transformium Liquid Metal animation effect! In this course we will examine and recreate the effect from the films in Houdini. You will learn how to divide the work into different part so is easier to manage and modify when your supervisor, director and/or client ask for changes. That alone is worth the price of admission to this killer video! There’s a lot of techniques and cool tricks to get the final effect and you’ll learn them all. [Read more…]

CMIVFX HOUDINI L-SYSTEMS ESSENTIALS 1 DVDR-AG

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CMIVFX HOUDINI L-SYSTEMS ESSENTIALS 1 DVDR-AG
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Category: VFX


Upon general request,this is the first video ever released about this immense and yet not well-known field of computer graphics. L-systems are a very useful language for describing fractal looking objects and branching structures. It’s mainly used in environmental design, both artistic and scientific, to create realistic plants and trees and to simulate complex botanical animated phenomena. It has been used in special effects in a great variety of films to create anatomical patterns such as neurons in Fight Club or vessels in Hollow-Man 2.In these videos, we want to unleash the power of the l-systems by showing you the maximum of different things you can make with them:From the large topic of plant and tree modeling to tentacle animation, wire DOPs, lightning effects, complex crack generation, snowflakes, corals, L-system based surfaces, city pattern creation, blood flow through bronchus, making L-systems more scriptable and much more ( generalized recursive modeling). For plants, instead of showing you in full detail how to model an orchid and let you find your way alone to model a tulip or liliac we took another smooth but yet very in-depth and comprehensive approach where you will learn ALL the techniques and acquire methodology to model ANY plant or tree through complete key examples. [Read more…]

FXPHD – Lighting & Rendering Destruction FX in Houdini & Nuke

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FXPHD – Lighting & Rendering Destruction FX in Houdini & Nuke
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Category: Tutorial


Autodesk Maya, Side FX Houdini and The Foundry Nuke will be used in this course to complete photoreal lighting for the visual effects destruction scene which was started in the HOU213 course. You will have access to highly detailed assets which have been made by fxphd which will allow you to render out lighting passes for a detailed Nuke composite. This course will cover some finishing touches to the FX work as well as an in depth look at the lighting process for feature film VFX.
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Digital Tutors – Introduction to Materials in Houdini

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Digital Tutors – Introduction to Materials in Houdini
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Category: Tutorial


In this Houdini tutorial, we’ll take an introductory look at materials.

We’ll start by setting up our Houdini session for a proper shading workflow. We’ll learn about the Render View, the Material Palette, basic environment lights, and the Mantra render node. We’ll learn how to apply materials from the Material Palette to various types of geometry.
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Digital Tutors – Image-Based Rigid Body Destruction in Houdini

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Digital Tutors – Image-Based Rigid Body Destruction in Houdini
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Category: Tutorial


In this Houdini tutorial, we’ll discuss how realistic destruction can be done in a quick and easy way by using Houdini’s Make Breakable shelf tool combined with the Voronoi SOP leading to pre-fractured objects.

We’ll discover a new method to pre-fracture an object based simply on an image whether it be a photograph or image such as a brick or stone wall. We’ll then create the stone and mortar assets from the original geometry by preparing them to retain texture, break into clusters or bits, and have a layer of fine dust for the final effect that will be encapsulated in a digital asset with a variety of parameters. [Read more…]

cmiVFX – Houdini Sand Solver

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cmiVFX – Houdini Sand Solver
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Category: Tutorial


Another brand new advanced Houdini video from cmiVFX! We’ve brought back another one of your favorite mentors, Mehdi Salehi. This time we will show you how Houdini can be used for developing a sand solver. This tutorial does not use the “Grain Solver” tool which is available in Houdini 14. Instead we will develop a new tool based on “Flip Object” to simulate sand so Houdini 13 users can also follow this tutorial.
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cmiVFX – Houdini Cloth Techniques

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cmiVFX – Houdini Cloth Techniques
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Category: Tutorial


cmiVFX has released a SideFX Houdini Cloth Masterclass in which Shivani Sondhi explores the Houdini Cloth Context in depth. While employing a beginner’s approach, she begins the lesson with a comprehensive introduction to the features and tools available. This is a long detailed chapter that will get the viewer “up to speed” quickly. With the basics of cloth complete, Shivani dives deeper with intermediate to advanced subjects such as custom attributes, multisolvers and finally the sopsolver with cloth. This would be an excellent lesson even if she had stopped there…
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cmiVFX – Houdini Cartoon Effect

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cmiVFX – Houdini Cartoon Effect
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Category: Tutorial


cmiVFX has just released an incredible, brand new Houdini training video called “Houdini Cartoon Effect.” The mentor for this video, Hirai Toyokazu, shows you how to make your work in Houdini look like a high-quality anime drawing and you’ll also learn a variety of stylistic techniques including simple expressions, dynamic explosions and pencil effects. In addition to all of this, Toyokazu’s techniques can be used to improve the quality and efficiency of your work when you’re not making cartoon-style animations as well. For more information about the content of this video, check out the chapter descriptions below, or watch our Vimeo teaser trailer. [Read more…]