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Christopher Rutledge

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fun with SIMULATIONS in COPERNICUS with Houdini 21

Hello my lovely friends and happy 2026 to you all. Starting the year off right with a brand new Houdini tutorial showcasing some of the fun I have been having lately with COPERNICUS in Houdini 21, ...

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Eggland!

Hey everyone, this TV pilot that I was responsible for the animation on just dropped on Adult Swim. I had some help from some other super awesome Houdini friends, Matt Siegel, Bruno Cohen, and TJ P...

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Vellum Minimal Mode

I wanted to share this underrated feature from the new release that everyone should check out!

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Annecy talk is online!

Hey there friends, the Annecy talk I did with Magnus about the film we are making with the rest of the incredible Tumblehead team for SideFX is online now! I go pretty deep into how I built the swe...

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the state of character rigging with APEX in Houdini 20.5

YO! Houdini 20.5 is out!! What are you doing? Go get it!!!

Lots of fun stuff in Houdini 20.5 and I'm excited to make some more videos about some of my favorite new features. Apex defin...

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Pictoplasma 2024 Talk

Have been super busy recently working on a short film project with the tumblehead.com gang which you can see an update on from Ma...

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Adding controls to you rig with apex is so easy!

Wish I figured this out yesterday before I made that video. Im sure I'll make a more comprehensive apex rigging video at some point, buit while people are still figuring things out, heres a quick s...

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A Super Basic APEX video

Houdini 20 is out! One of the big new foundations SideFX is building that is first seeing light of day in Houdini 20 is APEX. It is still very much early days for APEX, and I wouldn't recommend any...

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live stream today

STREAM LINK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHM-FJPvVEA


Hey patreon! Working on some really fun...

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Solaris Quick Tips!!!

Made this little video in response to Paul Esteves' recent youtube video. Hopefully it's helpful!

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update! where I have been and what's coming soon...

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Houdini Hangout stream!

Check out this stream I did with Peter Arcara, we talked about lots of stuff, including KineFX, Solaris, Karma, broke down my "Bulby" project in depth, and discussed a bit about a new project I did...

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Patreon Trailer

Here's the official launch video for the patreon. Thank you so much to anyone who decides to subscribe, I will do my best to make it worth your while. You'll see if you scroll down that I already h...

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Solaris/Karma XPU quick VDB instancing demo

Was helping someone out and figured I'd share this with the patreon! Files attached. :) 


Will officially launch this patreon soon by the way, I've been editing a nice launch v...

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Massive KineFX improvement tip from Oliver Hotz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MpVY1J6_ds


Felt that this needed to be shared more so I figured...

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GooberTalk Project File

This is JUST the project file for Goober Talk available to 3$ patrons. The 10$ tier includes the zip of the project with textures and external stashes, as well as all original HDAs used (and some m...

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Super Efficient Caching Quick Tip!

Here's a nice little quick tip that I use all the time for caching stuff. There's a pointcache prep hda that bundles this functionality up attached. Enjoy this freebie!

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Goober Talk Project Breakdown Part 1

I covered for you wonderful day 1 patrons my super weird "Goober Talk" project that I made in Houdini, including the audio which I did in Ableton, all the way through until the solaris / karma rend...

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