Houdini probably out done themselves with the set of Ocean tools in the software. You can create very decent ocean surface geometry with just 3 nodes! And the default settings produce pretty good results. It even gets better, it’s so fast!

Ocean waves seem like it moves up and down along the water, but the fact is that water moves in a circular motion in the shape of trochoidal wave. There are many things in life derived from the trochoid, like spiral stairs, screws, springs, and DNA helix diagrams.

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.

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

If you’ve ever tried rendering a 3min animation scene in 1080p at 30fps on a relatively good PC setup you’ll understand how long it takes. You will love light maps! Light maps boost the rendering performance by huge margins!

Gradual improvements in my CG landscape created in Houdini and rendered with Redshift. You can see 7 versions of my landscape and demonstrates how I improved it slowly after every version.

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 Printing measurement tools like rulers! Is it possible? Is it accurate and up to scale?

Design, Fabricate, and Tweak! Digital Fabrication workflow and lifecycle.