Houdini mask pyro forces by speed and distance
Adding more details to your smoke sometimes can be tricky and a straight forward Turbulence is not the answer, so in an attempt to bring...
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Dec 8, 20201 min read
Houdini Bricks Builder
Bricks builder or as I like to call it "Brickfy" is a new tool that takes advantage of the amazing Chain sop introduced in Houdini 18.5...
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Nov 19, 20201 min read
Houdini Water Explosion
My take on water explosion, it's heavily inspired by Graham Matthew's setup. Tool's feature: - main plash done with flip. - secondary...
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Nov 9, 20201 min read
Houdini dirty fluid
In an attempt to mimic how dirt in water behaves, I created this simple setup Using different flip densities, which gave an acceptable...
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Oct 10, 20201 min read
Houdini Parachute (Vellum)
The anatomy of this setup goes like: - Box: Sadly still RBD doesn't interact quite well with vellum so I had to fake the rigidity of the...
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Oct 3, 20201 min read
Houdini Glue
This setup is based on Arnold Song's technique presented in Sidefx Worldwide HUG | Los Angeles. I faced a problem with the constraint...
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Sep 15, 20201 min read
Houdini Dirt
Getting my self familiar with grain solver doing some stress and stability tests, I thought it might be helpful to share. As you can see...
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Sep 5, 20201 min read
Houdini Fireworks custom shape
Skip to the 20s to see the tool in action and how does it function, it was based on the previous fireworks tool but with custom explosion...
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Aug 19, 20201 min read
Houdini (instancing,proxy,redshift rs....)
The most ultimate guide to redshift proxy, instancing, timeshifting rs sequence, not sure if I covered everything but what happened is...
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Aug 6, 20201 min read
Houdini Branching & Roots tool
If you've tried the built in Labs Curve Branches tool then you'll know what I'm trying to achieve here, Despite looking so complex but...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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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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,...
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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...
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Mar 2, 20201 min read
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...
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Feb 9, 20201 min read
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...
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Dec 26, 20191 min read
Houdini Fish School
In short a simple fish system which includes: - Avoiding each other. - Avoiding obstacles. - Controllable range at where the fish will...
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