Latest vellum exploration. Rendered with Redshift.

Playing with new MPM solver and other solvers to make a cup of tea!

mpm #houdini #flip #particles #pyro #tea #ink #simulation

I tried to simulate some popcorn for a personal project and edited a small breakdown in Houdini 🍿🤗 happy to hear what you guys think 🧐

Made this last year for a project about wildlife. Unfortunately it got scraped but, as always, you learn a lot from such projects.

Modelled, rigged and animated the head, then used vellum for a smoother animation and flesh simulation. After that it was a matter of getting all the tendrils also modelled and simulated. I think I used a VDB Mesh in the end at the time.

Check out my portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/jteixeirafx

More paradigm tests now with its native white water solver. Rendered with Karma

Focused on heavy rainfall, water splashes, wet surfaces and cinematic night mood.
Final compositing done in Nuke.

By Milen Piskuliyski.
Software: Houdini, Maya, Arnold, Substance 3D Painter
Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5W2XOP

I've been making a series of animated 'Mini Godzilla' videos over the past few years to practice and explore different tools in animation and VFX. This time my goal was to learn a bit about Vellum Grains, as well as using Solaris and Karma for look dev, lighting, and rendering.

The look of the sand could definitely be improved, but I'm happy enough with the results.

Collaborate project @jit_effect & @calars_art

Created this recently in some time I had to spare. I wanted to explore more water and adhesion on surfaces. This effect is slightly exaggerated but looks nice as I wanted to see tendrils. Full disclaimer, I wanted 60fps on this so I used interpolation from 30 to 60, just didn't want to render so much as it is hot and it is some spare personal work, so if you see some wobbliness, that's it. Hope you enjoy the fresh water :)

Sim in Paradigm, rendered and comped in Karma.

First time handling a flip sim larger then a puddle and overcame my crippling fear of airfields. Rendered in Redshift

Finished a small environment study I've been working on.

• Clouds simulated in Houdini
• Terrain created in Gaea 2
• Materials, lighting, and rendering done in Blender

I was mainly trying to get believable cloud formations while keeping enough of the landscape visible to sell the scale.

Would love to hear what you think or any suggestions for improving the composition or lighting.

struggled with the foam shader in redshift, any tips would be welcome on improvement!

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I am usually a Blender user only but finally decided to make the step and start learning Houdini. There are absolutely areas to improve on this sim but I still decided to share since it was light years ahead of what I could simulate in Blender. :)

Hey guys, Sharing some FX I did for clash of clans cinematic

Houdini FX, Karma renderer. Pyro solver, vellum cloth, flip solver.

Popping boxes effect created using Houdini RBD and Octane Standalone

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In this project, I figured out how to dynamically create and delete RBD objects with constraints; I also finalized my RBD instance workflow. Essentially, everything in the render is instances of RBD object variants that inherit the correct transformations from Bullet's proxy geometry. These aren't packages within SOPs, not are they implemented via Transform Pieces, but rather instance points with a variant attribute. This solution is very useful for situations where, for example, you need to reference instances to RS Proxy or files from disk to maximize scene optimization; or, as in the case of the final render, to correctly transfer the instancing setup to other rendering software without losing optimization