The Manifestation of Thoughts - Weekly Wrangle #29
In this week's weekly wrangle, we talk about the effects of your non-verbal thoughts and how that plays into the general direction that your life moves towards.
In this Weekly Wrangle, we'll take a look at a variety of Houdini artworks for a dose of inspiration and constructive critique. Plus, we'll cover some industry news and hold live Q&A
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY5_wh1BptA
To watch the full course, visit:
https://www.cgforge.com/course/houdini-for-the-new-artist
In this video, we'll talk about the basics behind Karma, LOPs, USD, and Solaris. If you want to use Karma as your render engine, then you'll need to understand how to generate USD information.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VAbZJsjqQ
To watch the full course, visit:
https://www.cgforge.com/course/houdini-for-the-new-artist
In this video, we'll take a look at the various lighting tools we have when using LOPs with Karma. Specifically, we'll explore the light mixer, light linker, how to use viewport hotkeys to setup lights, and
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w1yLFhph_M
For more Houdini tricks, visit
https://www.cgforge.com
In this video, we explore how to clean bad geometry in Houdini. This technique works great when preparing geometry for simulations. If you've ever experienced non-manifold geometry, inverted faces, bad normals, geometry errors, improper winding orders, and would like to reduce simulation times, then this quick tip will come in handy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYuBJK-HVkc
For more Houdini quick tips, visit https://www.cgforge.com
In this quick tip, we explore the attribute adjust nodes. These set of nodes are extremely useful when manipulating attribute values because it provides a high degree of convenience when altering values.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-HmS00i9c
In this Weekly Wrangle, we'll take a look at a variety of Houdini artworks for a dose of inspiration and constructive critique. Plus, we'll cover some industry news and hold live Q&A
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLFEyYap_40
To follow along with the full course, be sure to visit: https://www.cgforge.com/course?courseid=houdini-for-the-artist-modelling-i
You can also find part II of this lesson at: https://youtu.be/q6SV-CYPoZE
In this video, we go over For-loops. Looping through geometry in Houdini is pretty awesome, and you can find all sorts of awesome ways to use them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9kVPI_o9MU
Check out www.cgforge.com for more tutorials.
In this quick-tip, we learn about curved particle motion blur whenever you're rendering with Redshift. Curved motion blur can be a pretty big deal if you're trying to achieve certain effects, and with Houdini / Redshift, it's pretty easy to accomplish once you know how it works.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FyZ9evoJVc
To learn more about Houdini, be sure to visit www.cgforge.com
In this tutorial, we talk about the trace node, and how we can use it to very quickly model a leaf. There's all sorts of applications for this technique that will help you in procedural modeling and simulation, and you can also pair this with instancing to help you create a lot of variety in a short amount of time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkb2AhQ6YKQ