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Gasta on the C4D reel!
My personal video Summer Comes, Summer goes has been officially included in the Maxon Cinema 4D General Reel 2016!
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GastaLoop 103
You can download the Houdini project here. I had a bit of fun with Point VOPs, nothing crazy. GastaLoop 103
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Creative Review interview
Originally published on Creative Review May 2014. Nicola Gastaldi is a motion graphic designer for visual effects and post production company Smoke & Mirrors in London. For the CR Annual launch party last week, he created an audio-visual installation, using projection mapping, especially for the event. We spoke to Gastaldi about his work and how…
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Houdini training day 8
Following this tutorial that creates trails from volumes. Playing with some splines. In Houdini you create them with the Curves sop. Resample to subdivide splines. Polyframe to generate tangents from points. Press X to create a Visualize node. A nice way to invert tangents from points is with an Attribute Wrangle and this code v@tangent…
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Houdini training day 7
Remember: VDB from Polygon to create a volume from polygons. Some VEX here. VEX stands for Vector Expressions. SHIFT + R to reverse the node inputs. The full list of VEX functions is here. to declare a variable: int nameofthevariable; // create a integer variable vector nameofthevariable; // create a vector variable Fetching vector P…
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Houdini training day 6
So, I’ve just finished the first big tutorial on Digital Tutors. More free Houdini tutorials here: http://www.gridmarkets.com/johnny-farmfield.html https://vimeo.com/user2030228/videos But before I start on those, I’ll dive into Dynamics a bit more with another Digital Tutors tutorial. Cloth object If some penetrations happen, check the cloth thickness in collisions. The main controls for the Cloth are in…
