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Blender’s Boids System is capable of creating fascinating large scale scenes with just a few clicks! Super easy and quick!

BlenderbubblepinsJanuary 30, 2022blender, blender particle system, blender boidsComment

Facial Mocap (Motion Capture) with Apple’s iphone

Facial Motion Capture solutions without breaking the bank! Software overview for in house studio setup that are affordable and user friendly.

New Blender Channel on Youtube!

I finally started a new Blender channel on Youtube, it’s about time!

Blender, HoudinibubblepinsJuly 20, 2020houdini to blender, houdini, sidefx, blender, blender 2.83, volume material, vdb, houdini vdb, blender vdbComment

Toon / Stylized Animation using Houdini

Creating Toon Animation with Houdini’s COPs and Blender Toon Shaders. zBrush’s NPR Filter inspired me to explore more ways to create Toon and Stylized animation.

Procedural Animation, My Flapping Wing Test

My Procedural Animation Test that procedurally generates flapping wings inspired by Sculpted Animation, also known as Key Meshing in Blender

Houdini, BlenderbubblepinsJune 10, 2020houdini, sidefx, blender, procedural animation, procedural, animation, bird wings, flapping wings, flap wing, wingComment

Controlling when to Break Glue Constraints in Houdini

Here I demonstrate how to animate the force field to produce a delay in the destruction of a fractured wall. This is a technique I used to produce some variation in the scene of the destruction of a fractured wall structure. The resulting visual effect has a huge hole that gets blasted through the wall and slowly destroys the rest of the wall pieces as the force field grows in its animation.

Normals in Geometry & Computer Graphics

Normals are vectors in computer graphics that define the exterior surface of a geometry and the direction the surface is facing. Normals may also be called “Surface Normals”, but usually are referred as “normals”, are used in 3D applications to help render the polygon on the screen by distinguishing the front and back side of each primitive.

Computer Graphics, Houdini, BlenderbubblepinsOctober 28, 2019houdini, sidefx, normals, blender, vector, surface normalComment

SideFX Siggraph 2019

SideFX’s Siggraph 2019 presentation was held in Los Angela’s on July 30, this past Tuesday at the time of writing this. SideFX announced Solaris to the public and mentioned many impressive updates that out coming out to Houdini in the upcoming release. In Houdini 18, we’re going to get a new context window that will take advantage of USD (Universal Scene Description) and a new CPU renderer named Karma replacing Mantra.

Computer Graphics, HoudinibubblepinsAugust 2, 2019karma, sidefx, siggraph 2019, blender, eevee, USD, Universal Scene Description, Pixar, FBX, alembic, houdini, houdini 18, siggraphComment

Affordable Motion Capture at Home

A general overview of affordable Mocap technology, what it cost and the software and hardware accessories required for a basic motion capture setup at home.

Computer Graphics, BlenderbubblepinsJuly 10, 2019kinect, Microsoft, blender, mocap, motion capture, depth camera, animationComment

Quixel with Houdini & Blender

Introduction to Quixel’s products and sharing some of my personal experiences.

Computer Graphics, Blender, HoudinibubblepinsJuly 9, 2019houdini, Quixel, blender, photogrammetry, redshiftComment

Software and Hardware for 3D Animation

There are many different software applications out there to choose from. It doesn’t matter whether your budget is $0 or $1000. Free software exist out there and it’s very high quality. Yes I’m referring to Blender.

3D Models to 3D Print for Free

When it comes to 3D printing, it is probably well known that there are a lot of open source 3D models available on the internet for free.

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