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Due my curiosity on new technology I cannot stay without try new AI tools , especially to manipulate video and use this technology as tools to support creativity . For what I discover is really interesting the intepolation processes and the video to video workflow to improve and create stunning Read more…
In this post I’ll love to share a tool I developed for a freelance job that I did . How many time did you build ropes using curves and all the time edit the curves due the curve do not adapt properly to the model? In my case a lot Read more…
Here a tool I developed (inspired from Rick Banks). I decided to create a fully procedural wall builder that allow users to tweaks with all aspects of the wall , from the shape, brick’s dimension, assign textures and colors . During the developement I figured out a lot of things Read more…
I created a little tool to populate crowd along a curve , this is very usefull especially when you should create army formations , or give a specific shape. The tool allow not only to choose how many people you want but you can also choose how many row expands Read more…
Creating dust and smoke effects realtime Hi there to continue the Steam walkers crowds sim I decided to share my workflow and improvements using the Golaem simulation inside Unreal. After setting-up the environment and installation … yess! To make this transition smoothly I suggest you to take a look at Read more…
Continuing to experiment with Houdini Crowds, I wanted to push my technical knowledge a bit to see the real and effective problems. To add some difficulty I have defined a locomotion and terrain adaptation behavior. In the following simulation I imported a Mixamo character going not only to vary mirrored Read more…
I experiment a bit with Houdini crowds and obstacles avoidance, really simple to implement . I tried to implement in different situation and is always working fine 🙂 I tried to use on a flocking simulation and a standard biped simulations and in both case I got excellent results. The Read more…
Hi there, due I’m closing this shot for the Golaem Academy 2 , I wish to share a little breakdown of the work involved on this shot . The rig – I created a really simple rig to create some animation cycles like stand , stand to walk, walk and Read more…
If you have recently approached Houdini, one of the first questions is what does VOP, VEX, SOP, DOP mean? Some people call them contexts, and technically they are a way to distinguish between types of networks and nodes. If you are a beginner I advise you to set the Houdini Read more…
Hi there! Developing a shot for my own personal sci-fi project I encounters some difficulties to figure out … how I can do that? The shot mainly show some miners/slave that pulling a floating cargo, and at one point the character to the right must to falling down . The Read more…
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