We’ll dive into the world of SSS and the different methods Houdini offers to achieve it. Using strait forward examples, you will understand how to use this feature and what is needed for it to work correctly.
 cmiVFX, geonak, houdini, mantra, render, sideFX, tutorials
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.
 cmiVFX, houdini, mantra, render, sideFX, tutorials
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 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.
 free, geonak, maya, mel, mental ray, mia round corners, render, tutorial