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

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

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

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

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

*** It’s finally done! Helge and his team worked for more than a year on this epic publication and are happy and proud to be finally able to tell you all about it. So here are the details about the contents of this video-tutorial: This publication “pixeltrain – Houdini FX Fundamentals >> Fast Forward“ by experienced trainer Helge Maus is a complete Introduction to Houdini FX. In 117 lessons withRead More

>> MOUVO – Education in Motion 22. – 23. Februar 2019, Prag   “Mouvo – Festival presenting Motion Design in all of its forms. Ubiquitous and creative dynamic field, combining graphic design, animation, video, special effects and new technologies. Mouvo festival is a meeting place for all the thinkers, talents and producers around the world, who would like to cooperate and meet others from the community, those who are eager to learn, inspire and to be inspired.” www.mouvo.czRead More

  pixeltrain goes Italy und Helge freut sich ins Land des Cappuccinos, der Pizza und Spaghetti und nicht zu vergessen des Tiramisus in bewĂ€hrter 3D- & VFX-Manier einzutauchen. Wie Ihr Euch vorstellen könnt, ist Helge per Sprach-App in jeder freien Minute fleißig am Italienisch lernen und im pixeltrain studio erklingt nur noch italienische Musik von Francesco Gabbani, Ermal Meta, Laura Pausini, Elisa und Co 😉 Wir haben eine Spotify Liste “pixeltrainRead More

  Das Team von dve advanced systems lĂ€dt Euch herzlich zum Cinema 4D R20 Release Day am Montag, den 3.9.2018 in MĂŒnchen ein!   Programm: 17.30 Einlass 18.00 Jonas Pilz von Maxon stellt die Features der aktuellen Version Cinema 4D R20 vor. – Pause – 19.30 Helge Maus von pixeltrain hĂ€lt einen Vortrag mit dem Thema „Praxisnahe Workflows for MotionGraphics & Guerilla VFX” 20.30 GemĂŒtlicher Ausklang im Garten NatĂŒrlich gibt es dazu GetrĂ€nke undRead More

Wie versprochen schalten wir fĂŒr Euch nun die gesamte Tutorial-Reihe von Helge zu Cycles 4D frei. Lernt von Helge, wie Ihr Eure ersten Projekte in Cinema 4D mit Hilfe des Cycles 4D Renderers von Insydium Ltd umsetzt! Schreibt uns gerne (info(at)pixeltrain.de), was Ihr von Cycles 4D hĂ€lt. Überzeugt er Euch in seiner Leistung? Helge ist sehr von diesem Renderer angetan. Doch schaut selbst, wie er arbeitet und was er soRead More