1. August 2020

Mantra Shading Workflow, UVs & UDIMs in Houdini FX

1. August 2020 By admin

Dear Houdini FX Enthusiasts, What keeps you up in long nights sitting in front of your screen? Right, Coffee 🙂 Today, I have finished the first 4 hours module of my new free “Houdini FX Practice Hour” project “Coffee Cup”. My focus this time was showing you the first steps in approaching procedural Polygon Modeling in Houdini FX. We talk about groups, channel referencing and we write some snippets ofRead More

17. July 2020

Houdini Practice Hour: Learn Expressions

17. July 2020 By admin

This time I talked too much and so our “Houdini FX Practice Hour” tutorials are a little bit late. But, I think you will like them. 3 new lessons … This time we finish the lid of our coffee cup – again with procedural Polygon Modeling – and you will learn a little bit more Houdini HScript expressions as helpers. Also you will see how to make your own HoudiniRead More

10. July 2020

Houdini Practice Hour: Modeling fully procedural

10. July 2020 By admin

Ok, Friday is release day and the next “Houdini FX Practice Hour” project has started. We will start this week building a Coffee Cup Scene with some beans flying around. Also, we will dive into “procedural” Polygon Modeling in Houdini FX and, later for the beans, into Retopo and Rigid Bodies. So, for people coming from other 3D applications, you will find a whole bunch of important Houdini FX conceptsRead More

11. June 2020

Houdini Practice Hour: Mantra

11. June 2020 By admin

It’s done – today I have finished the complete “Toothbrush” series of my “Houdini FX Practice Hour”. 16 FREE lessons, over 3 hours of training about Houdini FX, Grooming Hair, Substance Painter and Mantra Rendering. Now I am planing the next project 🙂 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings Thanks for subscribing and sharing! If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials, you could join my Patreons: https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d Or you canRead More

5. June 2020

Photorealistic Textures in Substance Painter

5. June 2020 By admin

The next hour of free content is online. This time we dive into Substance Painter and texture our Toothbrush from the “Houdini FX Practice Hour”. Next week we will finish this project by rendering the final scene in Houdini FX with Mantra and Pixar’s RenderMan. And, the next project is coming soon! These tutorials are meant for newbies in Painter but are filled with many tips & trick and workflowRead More

27. May 2020

Houdini Practice Hour: Grooming System

27. May 2020 By admin

Here we go – the next 4 lessons of our “Houdini FX Practice Hour” (Beginner’s series) are online. Hairy stuff, this time! The toothbrushes get now their bristles with the help of the Houdini FX Grooming system. Thanks for all your support! In this tutorial, you will learn how the Houdini FX Grooming system works and which nodes are involved to build up an easy system. We will take aRead More

22. May 2020

Houdini FX Practice Hour: Toothbrush

22. May 2020 By admin

Welcome to our new “Houdini FX Practice Hour” project. This time we will model, texture and render a Toothbrush with glass. Also, we will dive into the Houdini FX groom system for generating the bristles with hair. Hope, you like it – if yes, please subscribe 🙂 In this tutorial, we will create a Houdini FX project and talk about the importance of the project structure and the Houdini variablesRead More

6. May 2020

Final Lessons for Banana Project online!

6. May 2020 By adminLeave a comment

The final lessons for the Houdini FX Modeling & Texturing Workshop “Banana” are online now. This time we are working with UVs, Texturpainting in 3D Coat and then render the final product. Hope, you liked the first project in my new “Houdini Practice Hour” series. In this tutorial, we will unwrap the UVs of the banana, use uv layout and then export the object as FBX and obj. These topicsRead More

29. April 2020

Houdini FX Practice Hour: Banana Project

29. April 2020 By admin

Today I’ve released the first part of my new “Houdini FX Practice Hour” series on YouTube. 5 Lessons for Beginners, showing Direct Modeling in Houdini FX. Hope, you like it: https://youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings Next part will come next week, then we will dive into UVs, Texture Painting, Shading and Rendering. In this tutorial, we will set up our Houdini FX scene for modeling. These topics are covered: Setting up a reference imageRead More

28. November 2018

Video-Tutorial >> ProEXR 2.0 in After Effects

28. November 2018 By adminLeave a comment

  In Helges neuesten, kostenfreien Video-Tutorials geht es um das kostenfreie PluginProEXR 2.0 (https://www.fnordware.com/ProEXR/) für Adobe After Effects CC. Dieses Plugin erlaubt es, Adobe After Effects Arists endlich komfortabel mit multi-channel EXRs zu arbeiten und auch noch Cryptomattes direkt in AEX nutzen zu können. Damit rückt After Effects ein Stück näher an die VFX-Pipelines der großen Studios heran.     Im ersten Tutorial stellt Euch Helge das kostenfreie Plugin ProEXRRead More