New Blender Channel on Youtube!

I finally started a new Blender channel on Youtube, it’s about time! I was recording and editing my Houdini to Blender VDB video on my Bubblepins channel and realized a lot of the content is focused on Blender rather than Houdini and decided it would make more sense to create a new Youtube channel for the Blender content. This also gives me an excuse to buy more Blender add-on’s!

I’m kickstarting the Blender channel with 3 new videos, which continues from the Export VDB video on my Bubblepins Houdini Channel.

Bubblepins (Houdini Channel)

Export Volume VDB from Houdini into Blender

I start off demonstrating how to export raw VDB files from a pyro simulation and on my Blender channel, I import these VDB files.

Import VDB files into Blender

A new feature was added to the latest Blender 2.83 release and now we can import raw VDB files into Blender to be rendered out using Eevee or Cycles.

Near Future…

I’m hoping to combine both Blender and Houdini to create more scenes. I have high hopes for Blender’s Eevee rendering engine. I got really good results with just 10 sec / frame @1080p. I thought that was mind blowing!

Toon Shading

Pyro SIM generated in Houdini and Imported into Blender for Toon Shading

Not only that, Blender has a lot of Toon shaders that renders very fast as well, which means this makes it possible to create a short animation series. Something that I always dreamed of doing!