Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

Hi Jordi, Did you ever assemble your Houdini migration notes into a PDF or an ebook? Cheers, -=Eric On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: > Yeah Mantra has this ability to make the same looking render, take 4 min > or 2 hours, depending on your settings. >

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Thanks Oscar, I am about to start rewriting them all for Houdini 15 (many many things have changed for the better and would be silly to do a plain conversion, really the new features need to be put forward) You will have to be patient, will take me a bit as you can imagine. jb > On 11 Jan

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Hey, I'm not Jordi, but the guides can be found on the sidefx site: https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content=view=2711=418 Cheers Oscar On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Eric Turman wrote: > Hi Jordi, > > Did you ever assemble your Houdini migration notes into

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Regarding rendering in Houdini. Currently, in H15 (15.0303) I´m finding UDIM support a bit limited, f.e. for all those cases where one would want to do adjustment stuff to a texture put inside a Cop2net and then pointing to that in a map slot. op:obj/cop2net/OUT The limitiation is that the

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Yeah Mantra has this ability to make the same looking render, take 4 min or 2 hours, depending on your settings. But for transparent stuff.. stay away!!! its worse than Arnold with internal reflections. Really can't stress enough how important blender has become for rendering in my pipeline.

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Wow.. forgot about this rant :) It's been about 9 months since I wrote that, and I'm still pretty happy with houdini. Only thing I don't like much as a freelancer is Mantra. Like Jordi said, its probably comparable to Arnold. (I did a fur job a few months ago, and it was allot faster than

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Yeah,, not to indie :( On 03/01/2016 20:27, Jordi Bares wrote: Ha ha ha…. It is true, we are all getting spoiled by Redshift… but hey! that is coming to Houdini too!!! ;-) jb On 3 Jan 2016, at 19:22, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Wow.. forgot about this rant :) It's been about 9

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Now, to keep that thread alive and because Autodesk is about to gently push people more and more into the rental this but don´t own that corner. I´m currently dabbling with the "Apprentice" Houdini 15 version. Mostly at the single click level of things. Doubleclicking on a node still often

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Does fabric currently have a stand alone UI for rigging and weight painting ? or do you need to import weight maps from what ever app you are intending to finish in ? On 2 January 2016 at 17:27, Tim Leydecker wrote: > Now, to keep that thread alive and because Autodesk is

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In my experience render times between Arnold and Mantra are very similar, only thing is that Arnold uses memory in a more efficient way (again in my experience) but you can do some really crazy stuff simply using Mantra, plus it is free and so far I have never found Mantra limits in production,

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...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:44:49 + Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Network and hardware are fastest I've used. It's just the nature of the work. Volume data in my case is not very large, only a few Mb per frame

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-- From: moloney.cia...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:44:49 + Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Network and hardware are fastest I've used. It's just the nature of the work. Volume data in my

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. Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:03:12 -0400 Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini From: luceri...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com wrote: I've used

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it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:03:12 -0400 Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini From: luceri...@gmail.com

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com wrote: I've used it a decent amount as the guys at the foundation of our studio all use it, but I really dislike it (I used it years ago too before xsi) it is so dis-organised and slow, I think it breeds sloppy workflow with

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From: moloney.cia...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:44:49 + Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Network and hardware are fastest I've used. It's just the nature of the work

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considerable impact on productivity, or is it something I can probably live with, like I do with maya xsi...  thanks! -Manu IMDB | Portfolio | Vimeo | Linkedin From: moloney.cia...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:44:49 + Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your

RE: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Network and hardware are fastest I've used. It's just the nature of the work. Volume data in my case is not very large, only a few Mb per frame. But, e.g. to make useful collision fields from complex

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

I'm loving working with Houdini, but sometimes it's just frustratingly slow. Even with the new VDB tools, converting and caching everything out as volume fields is a real drag. But then again the caching workflow is super-slick. I shudder at the thought of all the time lost to the mysteries of ICE

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before saying slow or fast regarding volumes or vdb we have to talk about the resolution of the volumen, and the amount of fields involve.  same with DOPs , after mentioning ALL the plugings, dops can interact with all the solver at once,  that means will take in consideration, RBD, with liquids

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Is this processing time or hardware time? (disks, network, etc..) Of course saving gigabytes per frame is slow but may be a clever local SSD sync to the main server could do the job to make the process faster? jb On 19 Mar 2015, at 12:56, Ciaran Moloney moloney.cia...@gmail.com wrote: I'm

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Network and hardware are fastest I've used. It's just the nature of the work. Volume data in my case is not very large, only a few Mb per frame. But, e.g. to make useful collision fields from complex geometry often requires a good bit of SOPs pre-processing. I get the impression that much of SOPs

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Gerbrand Nel schreef op 17-3-2015 om 11:11: I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent the last year learning Maya, and got to a point where I can compete against people straight out of collage. This got me a bit down, as

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://envmanu.carbonmade.com/| Vimeo http://vimeo.com/manuelhuertasmarchena | Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelhuertas -- From: byronn...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:14:34 -0400 Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: softimage

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

If you are a Softimage power user, it will take a lot of time to get back to that level in Houdini. However, you don't need to be a Houdini power user to use Houdini. Learn the basics (basic modeling, basic UVs, basinc animation, etc) and then choose an area where you want to dive first. Most

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Does Redshift have any plans for Houdini? Have you all found there are many opportunities for remote Houdini work? I wonder since it's a smaller market share that the competent artists may be able to negotiate better circumstances like remote or better pay? On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:54 AM,

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I agree with Francois, little steps, start with the simple stuff, from modelling and animation, rigging (SOPs specially) and lighting, then move into VEX and VFX also in chunks, fluids, pyro, then particles and last DOPs (dynamics) which is where the meat is. With regards with Redshift, I

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Like a dream Jordi. :-) On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Jordi Bares Dominguez jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Francois, little steps, start with the simple stuff, from modelling and animation, rigging (SOPs specially) and lighting, then move into VEX and VFX also in chunks,

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, 17 Mar 2015 16:14:34 -0400 Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com How are you finding your new found Houdini knowledge to be fitting into the needs of the marketplace? Are there many shops adopting it? Or are you a lone wolf or able

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

How are you finding your new found Houdini knowledge to be fitting into the needs of the marketplace? Are there many shops adopting it? Or are you a lone wolf or able to turnkey shots for people? I too have found Maya unintuitive and uninspiring. Houdini looks interesting but I'm wary of jumping

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examples of that for film (not talking about fx of course), I am guessing that the main idea is somehow similar... ?! cheers -Manu IMDB | Portfolio | Vimeo | Linkedin From: byronn...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:14:34 -0400 Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

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a SOP for that! a -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Gerbrand Nel Sent: 17 March 2015 10:12 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

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@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent the last year learning Maya, and got to a point where I can compete against people straight out

Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent the last year learning Maya, and got to a point where I can compete against people straight out of collage. This got me a bit down, as I'm one of the more experienced softimage

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What a beautiful post and watching out for your fellow artists. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent the last year learning Maya, and got to a

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: for the love of your career.. try houdini From: ntmon...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com What a beautiful post and watching out for your fellow artists. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I

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I'm about to throw myself at Houdini so this is great to hear. Thanks Gerbrand! DAN On 17 Mar 2015 12:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent the last year learning Maya,

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: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini From: ntmon...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com What a beautiful post and watching out for your fellow artists. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not getting anything out of posting

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That certainly is a great approach but even better is if you go in the other direction, use Houdini as the backbone and render from Mantra/Arnold/Octane/PRMan/3Dlight/whatever as the FX live inside Houdini and therefore it is the natural backbone. Ultimately you will be using a myriad of tools

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:14:34 -0400 Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com How are you finding your new found Houdini knowledge to be fitting into the needs of the marketplace? Are there many shops adopting it? Or are you a lone wolf

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelhuertas -- From: byronn...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:14:34 -0400 Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com How are you finding your new found Houdini knowledge

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I always worry that Houdini is not such a friendly app to be used as a 'backbone' as you (Jordi) phrase it. But I'm basing that on the logic that most of our 3d artists will HAVE to use it, but that's not really the case... I've started to settle into the idea that maya is OK for being the base,

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...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Gerbrand Nel Sent: 17 March 2015 10:12 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent

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mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent the last year learning Maya, and got to a point where I can compete