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Blowing an image away using particles

Posted in free tutorials on April 2nd, 2008 by Georges

In this three part tutorial, I will show how to dissolve an image using Houdini particles.

For a high resolution version, please feel free to go to the tutorials page and download the videos.

Part 1: I will mainly show you how to transfer the colors from the image to the particles.

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mia_roundCorners in Maya

Posted in free tutorials on April 1st, 2008 by Georges

In this video tutorial I’ll explain in depth how to use the mia_roundCorners node newly introduced in maya 8.5. Its use with maya materials as well as mental ray materials and mia_material will be discussed and explained in detail.

To download a higher quality version or a text version of this tutorial please do not hesitate to visit my tutorials page.

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GrayScale representation of ZDepth & Height fields

Posted in free tutorials on July 15th, 2007 by Georges

In this Maya video tutorial I will explain in depth how to create GrayScale representation of ZDepth as well as Height fields, using many methods including ‘shading networks’ & ‘mel scripting’.

To download a higher quality version or a text version of this tutorial please do not hesitate to visit my tutorials page.

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