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Houdini Solaris / Katana interoperability part 1/2

Video in English: https://youtu.be/iDMVZKomJpQVideo in Spanish: https://youtu.be/8A-hLAWPAnM

Solaris Katana interoperability part 1/2 - trailer

Hello patrons,This is small trailer for the video Houdini Solaris / Katana interoperability part 1/2.The full video is published only for patreons in the next post.The whole thing is divided in two videos, the first one is around 2.5 hours and hopefully next month I can publish the second video cove...

Lighter for Houdini Solaris - FREE

Quick overview of the lightin tool "Lighter" created by Anton Grabovskiy for Houdini Solaris. Check Anton Github here: https://github.com/grabanton/lighter

Shooting HDRIs for VFX - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/u23OzNK44EEVideo in Spanish: https://youtu.be/4LzEyWLWAto

Shooting HDRIs for VFX - trailer

This 3 hours video is droping next.Everything you need to know to start shooting and processing HDRIs to create image based lighting rigs for lookdev and lighting.Thanks!Xuan.---Trailer: https://youtu.be/q6sMXtxEngMCasi 3 horas donde muestro como capturar y procesar HDRIs para crear rigs de image ba...

Houdini Solaris Dummy Crowds - FREE

Quick video showing how to use one of my oldest tricks to create “dummy crowds“, but this time in Solaris, which makes this even easier and faster than using SOPs or MOPs.I’ve used a flavour of this dummy crowds technique in many shots for a bunch of movies. It is very limited in so many ways,...

Houdini Solaris and Katana. Custom attributes. FREE

This is a quick video showcasing how to use custom attributes in Houdini Solaris for USD scattering systems. The USD layer will be exported to Katana to do procedural look-dev using the exported custom parameters.This technique will be explored in depth in my upcoming video about Houdini Solaris and...

Professional photogrammetry 03 - videos

Videos in English.Part 1: https://youtu.be/lBxADHB9stYPart 2: https://youtu.be/ezSmuZBcAqAVideos en Castellano.Parte 1: https://youtu.be/jolddU3GM_UParte 2: https://youtu.be/LlT6rd-jSro

Professional photogrammetry 03 - trailer

Hello patrons,This is the third episode of "Professional photogrammetry".Two videos, around 4 hours long where we will talk about Photometric stereo scanning. We will discuss the different setups that we have available for this kind of scanning. Then we will work on three different exercises...

Discord community.

Hello! I hope everyone is having a great week.I just created a Discord community for us to interact with, ask questions and have fun.Not sure how much time I'd be able to spend there but worth giving it a try.Please follow the link: https://discord.gg/6JBDXGEQ

USD in depth part 06 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/MwWIZtxCi4cVideo in Spanish: https://youtu.be/cSQtOso7KkY

USD in depth part 06 - trailer

Hello everyone,USD in depth part 06 is dropping today.This time is all about lighting and rendering.We will take a look at all the lighting/lookdev/rendering tools available in Solaris.We will focus mainly on Karma, as it is the propietary Houdini rendering engine and hopefully something that we all...

Professional photogrammetry 02 - videos

Videos in English.Part 1: https://youtu.be/c3hHMh6yl5UPart 2: https://youtu.be/cHVIp0fe2XIPart 3: https://youtu.be/hy-3mL1ShBoPart 4: https://youtu.be/cw4obUDyxUEPart 5: https://youtu.be/Ll0khhScqogPart 6: https://youtu.be/UH6t80AsMvgVideos in Spanish:Parte 1: https://youtu.be/qy29KtbBerUParte 2: ht...

Professional photogrammetry 02 - trailer

Here is the trailer for "Professional photogrammetry episode 02".In this 4-ish hours video I will talk about scanning in natural environments. We will cover everything needed for scanning and processing two different types of natural assets.The first asset is a 3D asset, the second one is a ...

USD in depth part 05 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/gUA7te5eAIQVideo in Spanish: https://youtu.be/SrsXZXugPf4

USD in depth part 05 - trailer

Hello patrons,Part 05 of the USD series is here.This is a 3 hours video about working with FX layers in USD.We will explore different situations where we will deal with roundtrips from LOPs to SOPs to LOPs. We will have a look at different types of FX that require different approaches when working w...

Mix 05 - videos

Mix 05 part 01 English: https://youtu.be/1V2_nIyD1mUMix 05 part 02 English: https://youtu.be/XI3iPeffQVQMix 05 part 01 Spanish: https://youtu.be/cip-LNrdDWIMix 05 part 02 Spanish: https://youtu.be/TMKwNwBMijg

Mix 05 - trailer

Hello patrons,This mix is not really a mix. What I mean by that is that the two topics covered in this video have a relationship between each other but also with a topic that we will be discussing soon in the USD series.In the first part of the video we are going to be talking about ingesting lidar ...

USD in depth part 04 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/kVcnNNayj6kVideo in Spanish: https://youtu.be/ppHnf-8Txl8

USD in depth part 04 - trailer

Hello patrons,USD in depth part 04 is here.In the last episode we talked about asset authoring in USD and Solaris. I spent many hours after that publishing all the assets from Aninmal Logic's lab scene using my asset creation HDA, in the way that I like to publish assets. Now that everything is ...

Professional photogrammetry 01 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/sFKZSv9p_QAVideo in Spanis: https://youtu.be/sT0flv8P9gM

Professional photogrammetry 01 - trailer

Hello patrons,Let's take a break from the USD training, we'll come back to it in the next video.For now, let's enjoy a 4 hours video about professional photogrammetry.I reckon this will be a short series, maybe 3 videos about photogrammetry acquisition and processing.In today's video...

USD in depth part 03 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/PkhBj-8o_yQVideo in Spanish: https://youtu.be/l-JxfJmA9AY

USD in depth part 03 - trailer

Hello patrons!USD in depth part 03 is here. This is where the action starts to happen.We will spend around 3 hours in Houdini Solaris talking about asset creation.I have a bunch of different scenarios that you will face while working with USD and assets. From very simple assets to more complicated o...

USD in depth part 02 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/Ufym94LEnxUVideo in Spanish: https://youtu.be/e8D9LwldCuQ

USD in depth part 02 - trailer

Hello patrons,USD in depth part 02 is here.This is another dense video, about 3 hours long talking about USD.In the first video we talked about data and structuring, in this second video we will be talking about composition in USD.USD layers can be written and read in different ways, it is very impo...

USD in depth, part 01 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/tMC_0smnlR0Video in Spanish: https://youtu.be/evwA9yfzRqM

USD in depth, part 01 - trailer

Hello Patrons,I'm starting a new series called "USD in depth", where I will be exploring everything USD related. As you probably know USD is a new standard pipeline system/file format based on layers that contain scene descriptions. It is supported by the VFX platform and is or will be t...

Back to full HD.

Hello,I'll be recording fullHD in the future, not everyone has a 4K monitor and some people have issues since the resolution is too big.Sorry for the inconvenience.Xuan.