This is my first in a series of Houdini tutorials, in which I will be talking about city generation. In this video we are going to be Generating Regional Procedural City Skeletons using Real GPS Data.
Generating cities or street level data previously would take weeks or months and a team of artists, with this method and based on real life data, one artist will be able to generate realistic city skeletons in a very short time.

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This is my latest Houdini tutorial, in collaboration with cmiVFX. As the title says, in this video I talk about python in Houdini in general and about taking the digital assets to a next level by empowering them with Python. the example I will be working on is a Rubik’s cube rig, a fully functional animatable rig. The Rubik’s cube rig subject has made its way many times into forums, and many competitions were made about it, so after doing my Rubik’s rig for Maya here’s an explained Houdini version, so it’s a very nice brick to add to your video tutorials library!

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This application allows you to convert nuke Camera.chan files into either FBX or flame action files with the simplest of controls.

It began as an idea of Chris Maynard based on the research for the NukeX tracking system.
Then I did the code for the ‘chan to flame’ part, and Justin Israel did the code for the ‘chan to FBX’ part, and the interface.

We are distributing it for free, as part of the cmiApps. And there is a version for all three major operating systems, that you can download using the following links :

download: Linux 12.2 MB.
download: Windows 9.1 MB.
download: OSX 29.8 MB.

Here is a new Houdini tutorial of mine, in collaboration with cmiVFX. In this video I tackle Subsurface Scattering in Houdini using Mantra. I cover many subjects like Attenuation, Simple, Single and Multiple scattering and more.

The example we will build is the ‘Juice Cup’ scene, so we will create the light setup, the materials, some from scratch, and others based on Houdini’s built in ones … etc.

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This is my new Houdini tutorial, in collaboration with cmiVFX. It’s about Refractive materials and Caustics in Houdini using Mantra. In this video I cover many subjects like scene setup, materials, photons and more.

As long as we advance through the tutorial we will build, step by step, the ‘water glass’ scene.

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