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Houdini Solaris / Katana interoperability part 1/2

Video in English: https://youtu.be/iDMVZKomJpQ

Video in Spanish: 2023-08-19 09:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Solaris Katana interoperability part 1/2 - trailer

Hello patrons,

This is small trailer for the video Houdini Solaris / Katana interoperability part 1/2.
The full video is published only for patreons in the next post.
The whole thing i...

Lighter for Houdini Solaris - FREE

Quick overview of the lightin tool "Lighter" created by Anton Grabovskiy for Houdini Solaris. Check Anton Github here: 2023-08-07 20:48:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Shooting HDRIs for VFX - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/u23OzNK44EE

Video in Spanish: 2023-07-17 15:08:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Shooting HDRIs for VFX - trailer

This 3 hours video is droping next.
Everything you need to know to start shooting and processing HDRIs to create image based lighting rigs for lookdev and lighting.

Thanks!
Xuan.
2023-07-17 15:08:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Houdini Solaris Dummy Crowds - FREE

Quick video showing how to use one of my oldest tricks to create “dummy crowds“, but this time in Solaris, which makes this even easier and faster than using SOPs or MOPs.

I’ve used a ...

Houdini Solaris and Katana. Custom attributes. FREE

This is a quick video showcasing how to use custom attributes in Houdini Solaris for USD scattering systems. The USD layer will be exported to Katana to do procedural look-dev using the exported cu...

Professional photogrammetry 03 - videos

Videos in English.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/lBxADHB9stY
Part 2: 2023-06-15 14:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Professional photogrammetry 03 - trailer

Hello patrons,

This is the third episode of "Professional photogrammetry".
Two videos, around 4 hours long where we will talk about Photometric stereo scanning. We will discuss the differ...

Discord community.

Hello! I hope everyone is having a great week.
I just created a Discord community for us to interact with, ask questions and have fun.

Not sure how much time I'd be able to spend there bu...

USD in depth part 06 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/MwWIZtxCi4c

Video in Spanish: 2023-04-03 17:53:36 +0000 UTC View Post

USD in depth part 06 - trailer

Hello everyone,

USD in depth part 06 is dropping today.
This time is all about lighting and rendering.
We will take a look at all the lighting/lookdev/rendering tools available in Sola...

Professional photogrammetry 02 - videos

Videos in English.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/c3hHMh6yl5U
Part 2: 2023-02-02 20:40:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Professional photogrammetry 02 - trailer

Here is the trailer for "Professional photogrammetry episode 02".

In this 4-ish hours video I will talk about scanning in natural environments. We will cover everything needed for scanning a...

USD in depth part 05 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/gUA7te5eAIQ

Video in Spanish: 2022-10-28 06:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post

USD in depth part 05 - trailer

Hello patrons,

Part 05 of the USD series is here.

This is a 3 hours video about working with FX layers in USD.
We will explore different situations where we will deal with roundtri...

Mix 05 - videos

Mix 05 part 01 English: https://youtu.be/1V2_nIyD1mU

Mix 05 part 02 English: 2022-10-08 07:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Mix 05 - trailer

Hello patrons,

This mix is not really a mix. What I mean by that is that the two topics covered in this video have a relationship between each other but also with a topic that we will be dis...

USD in depth part 04 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/kVcnNNayj6k

Video in Spanish: 2022-08-30 17:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post

USD in depth part 04 - trailer

Hello patrons,

USD in depth part 04 is here.
In the last episode we talked about asset authoring in USD and Solaris. I spent many hours after that publishing all the assets from Aninmal L...

Professional photogrammetry 01 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/sFKZSv9p_QA

Video in Spanis: 2022-06-23 11:19:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Professional photogrammetry 01 - trailer

Hello patrons,

Let's take a break from the USD training, we'll come back to it in the next video.
For now, let's enjoy a 4 hours video about professional photogrammetry.
I reckon this ...

USD in depth part 03 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/PkhBj-8o_yQ

Video in Spanish: 2022-06-11 06:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post

USD in depth part 03 - trailer

Hello patrons!

USD in depth part 03 is here. This is where the action starts to happen.
We will spend around 3 hours in Houdini Solaris talking about asset creation.
I have a bunch of ...

USD in depth part 02 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/Ufym94LEnxU

Video in Spanish: 2022-05-02 16:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post

USD in depth part 02 - trailer

Hello patrons,

USD in depth part 02 is here.
This is another dense video, about 3 hours long talking about USD.
In the first video we talked about data and structuring, in this second ...

USD in depth, part 01 - videos

Video in English: https://youtu.be/tMC_0smnlR0

Video in Spanish: 2022-04-05 18:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post

USD in depth, part 01 - trailer

Hello Patrons,

I'm starting a new series called "USD in depth", where I will be exploring everything USD related. As you probably know USD is a new standard pipeline system/file format based...

Back to full HD.

Hello,

I'll be recording fullHD in the future, not everyone has a 4K monitor and some people have issues since the resolution is too big.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Xuan.

Deep compositing, going deeper - videos

English video: https://youtu.be/jXBLs3hPowo

Spanish video: 2022-02-26 16:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post