CMIVFX Shake 4 3D Compositing DVD INTERNAL-HELL | BIN | 562 MB
We built this DVD to show you the WHOLE TRUTH about compositing. When working in a production pipeline, often source materials are coming from multiple applications and even multiple FX houses. Learn to bridge all the gaps in your workflow with file translations
from Cinema 4D, Maya, Boujou, PFTrack and Shake 4. See how all the products integrate quite well with each other, and allow you to get the results you need. We designed it this way to show you the worst case scenario, and how its not that bad after all. We have all the final footage for the Shake composites on the DVD-Rom.
cmiVFX - Houdini XML Based Procedural Cities | ISO | 204 MB
cmiVFX launches its latest Full Feature training video in Houdini Generating Regional Procedural City Skeletons using Real GPS Data. Once again on the cutting edge of creating real world projects, cmiVFX demonstrates how to import map data and create Virtual Cities from around the world. Generating cities or street level data previously would take weeks or months and a team of artist. cmiVFX has streamlined that process with this innovative New Houdini series of creating skeleton cities.
This video covers a detailed workflow within VEX nodes to allow the viewer to have a deep understanding on creating professional shots for such natural effects. This in-depth introduction to Fractals will add an essential knowledge to all Houdini artists wanting to move to the next level. At this same time, you will learn how to seamlessly create a digital asset to make your fractals accessible on any shot that you are working on. When you're finished with the video, you will have the opportunity to create very complicated cloud system, in very difficult scenarios like multilayering effects with complex design and anything else you can dream up.
VEX is one of these things that makes Houdini really unique.Initially designed to be a powerful shading language, its paradigm has been extended to enable users to create new custom operators (like new SOPs, POPs, CHOPs). With the Houdini visual programming philosophy, VEX comes as a new dedicated context: VOPS where the data flow of your program is represented by custom nodes that wrap mathematical functions. VEX programming is so immense of a field that you could recreate almost half of the nodes of Houdini in all context combined. These first two videos are an introduction to VEX/VOPs in the SOP context, maybe the easiest one to master: this means you'll learn how to create new surface operators, new modeling tools, new deformers with VEX/VOPs. It is at the same time an introduction to VEX concepts that are shared among all the various contexts, that we will reuse in our videos about rendering and shader development, or in videos about particle animation. Seashells, global deformers, water ripples... while being a language reference, these videos are intended to be a great cookbook for useful mathematical formulas.
cmiVFX-Houdini Smoke And Dust
M4V H.264 | 1040 x 592 | 3 hr.50 min. | + Exercise files | 544 MB
This video covers topics in producing large scale simulations within Houdini using the latest tools and custom techniques in the industry.
This is a feature length , project based solution for those of you looking to build block buster smoke and dust effects for high end projects.
1. This lecture presents a variety of approaches and techniques to create a single procedural road system.
2. This lecture presents a variety of approaches and techniques to create a Crash Barrier procedural system.
This video was created to assist animators, teaching a series of different techniques and methods for building effects inside Houdini. Visual Effects Tips and Tricks, is what this video is all about.
L-systems are a very useful language for describing fractal looking objects and branching structures. It's mainly used in environmental design, both artistic and scientific, to create realistic plants and trees and to simulate complex botanical animated phenomena.
In these videos, we want to unleash the power of the l-systems by showing you the maximum amount of a variety of things you can make with them. From the large topic of plant and tree modeling to tentacle animation, wire DOPs, lightning effects, complex crack generation, snowflakes, corals, L-system based surfaces, city pattern creation, blood flow through bronchus, making L-systems more scriptable and much more.
This lesson will tackle the learning process involved with Houdini's interpretation of Subsurface Scattering rendering. Find out how to add this trick to make your renders look more real then every before.
Designed to be a detailed map and extension of the fundamental concepts of procedural modeling, this innovative video is the first entirely project-based video released by cmiVFX for Houdini. This video will take you through a functional tour of the modeling tools in Houdini, to get you started in creating large scale sets for your later visual effects style construction OR destruction.
This video is the entry gate of cmi's Houdini training system. Aimed at new users and migrators from other animation packages, this training will give you the fundamentals you need to get started with this magical application. Learn this incredible piece of software which has received a Technical Achievement Award in 2002 for its revolutionary approach to 3D Animation. Discover how Houdini's data flow has become the natural language of 3d, reducing the distance between your ideas and reality.
We want to avoid to have too many virtual car casualties lets make those road virtually safer. Like everything you want to create procedurally you need to understand what the basics are making the object what it is. You will get an overview what element to consider when placing crash barriers. You'll learn how to procedurally create the placement of the crash barrier by using Vops such as compare, modulo & import attribute.
This video is the first in a series to teach EVERYONE how to do proper multi-level, multi-layered, destruction using Realflow and a plethora of other 3D CG Animation Packages.
We will show you how to do things in Houdini, Maya and 3DS Max so that you can jump between all of them depending on where you work.
This totally unique video opens you the magic door of Houdini proceduralism through its intensive use in the modeling of Paris-like city. Instead of giving you some generic advices you may find by yourself browsing the help of your software,This video takes you through a 4 hour, full res intense procedural trip into the creation of a very detailed city, totally from scratch to a fully detailed building, and gives you solid methods to tackle down many workflow issues during the creation of a large scene with its unique "divide and solve" techniques. Learn how to create complex city patterns, both regular and irregular. Create a fully customizable building. Learn how to use procedural modeling, expressions, copy of operations, procedural shading, and texturing. Remember the old saying "Rome wasn't built in the day". Well with this video, and the "incredible Houdini" software prove it wrong.
Upon general request,this is the first video ever released about this immense and yet not well-known field of computer graphics. L-systems are a very useful language for describing fractal looking objects and branching structures. It's mainly used in environmental design, both artistic and scientific, to create realistic plants and trees and to simulate complex botanical animated phenomena. It has been used in special effects in a great variety of films to create anatomical patterns such as neurons in Fight Club or vessels in Hollow-Man 2. In these videos, we want to unleash the power of the l-systems by showing you the maximum of different things you can make with them: From the large topic of plant and tree modeling to tentacle animation, wire DOPs, lightning effects, complex crack generation, snowflakes, corals, L-system based surfaces, city pattern creation, blood flow through bronchus, making L-systems more scriptable and much more (generalized recursive modeling). For plants, instead of showing you in full detail how to model an orchid and let you find your way alone to model a tulip or liliac we took another smooth but yet very in-depth and comprehensive approach where you will learn ALL the techniques and acquire methodology to model ANY plant or tree through complete key examples.
