FX supervisor at ILM London

SimSOM is a multi-physics simulator, coded by me from scratch. It is capable of simulating different states of matter, like liquids, fluids, semi-fluids, granular materials, soft bodies, cloth, solids, sticky materials, and best of all it allows interactions and even switching between different types of materials, it supports moving and deforming geometry and many other features.

In collaboration with cmiVFX here is my latest Full Feature training video in Houdini Generating Regional Procedural City Skeletons using Real GPS Data. In this tutorial I demonstrate how to import map data and create Virtual Cities from around the world.

Python scripting could be of a great help, especially when it comes to redundant things that if done manually would take ages. In this tutorial you are going to learn how to use python in Houdini.

In this tutorial we’ll deal with caustics in Houdini. By guiding you step by step into achieving the above result. And the different possible solutions and optimizations that Houdini offers.

Many subjects are tackled in this Houdini-Mantra shading and rendering tutorial, such as Materials, Rendering tools, Direct and Indirect lighting, Global Illumination, Displacement, details about Mantra and others.

In this 3 parts tutorial I will explain how to transfer the colors of an image to particles in Houdini, then i will talk about creating an initial state file to end up using it in a particle simulation to blow the image away.