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Creating a Plant Pot in Houdini - free tutorial

by Adrian Lazar

Hi all, I recorded this short video tutorial creating a plant pot in SideFx Houdini. It shows the modeling, the shading and a very basic rendering stage. It was a live recording and if sometimes it feels slow that's because I had to resize Houdini to 1280x720 and work in this small size = no fun. It doesn't have any voice over but from time to time short tips are displayed on screen. This plant is just one of the assets I am currently creating for Class Dismissed, a short film I'm making with a friend of mine. Hope you like it and for more tutorials visit the Houdini Training page on my website: http://training.adrianlazar.com

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Houdini Shading with the Mantra Surface Shader - free tutorial

by Adrian Lazar

Hi guys, In this new free SideFX Houdini Training Video I'm going to show you how flexible the standard Mantra Surface Shader really is. Find more on http://training.adrianlazar.com At almost 2 hours long this video tutorial is focused on shading and shading only. Using just the parameters that are exposed by default in the standard Mantra Surface Shader I'm going to create 26 materials representing different types of surfaces: wood, metal, glass, plastic, concrete, paint, etc. The scene used in this training video is from a real production, a short movie that me and a friend are currently working on. On a few occasions I had to cut out the render time in order to keep the video easy to follow. It doesn’t have any voice over but from time to time short tips are displayed on screen. A small note: Remember that the Mantra Surface Shader is not a black box and that it can be heavily modified if you dig inside. Make sure you don't miss any tutorial by sending an email with the subject "subscribe"…

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Houdini Cookoff Recipe

by Adrian Lazar

Hi guys, Here is a short talk about my winning entry for the Cook Off contest held by Side FX. I talk about my background as a 3d artist, how I started to learn Houdini and how I approached this contest. If you like to know more I've put together with cmiVFX an almost 5 hours long training course. Find out more about the course and get it from here: http://cmivfx.com/tutorials/view/389/Houdini+Cookoff+Recipe SideFX made a short article about my Cook-Off training course that you can find here: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2098&Itemid=66 Thank you, Adrian

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SideFX Cook Off Contest - Final Entry

by Adrian Lazar

Hi guys, Finally, after sleepless nights I finished my entry for the Cook Off Contest held by SideFX, the maker of Houdini. Just a few points: - This is my first finished project done in Houdini and it was fun and a great way to learn the software; - Modeling, shading, lighting and rendering is all done in Houdini and the Mantra render; - No composing and no render on passes. This is the complete opposite of how I use to work but the contest rules don't allow using another software for compositing and I didn't had time to learn Houdini compositing part so I decided to render only the beauty pass. Was an interesting take but I missed the flexibility given by rendering on layers approach. - I've applied some grading in post using Nuke as it is allowed by the contest rules; - Edit was done using FCP X; - Average render time per frames was around 20 minutes, peaking at 32 for the shot with the snowy sugar; Hope you like it, Thanks for watching! My entry thread here: sidefx.com/​index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=22574&sid=630efd7dc2389f5184b2ca96a7248132 Link…