Hi Everyone, Here is a short bonus tutorial, production oriented. Originally a Patreon request about clarifying displacement. 

I think this may as well benefit some people on my channel.  

- Generate quick UVS within Zbrush 

-Export 16bit/middle gray displace 

-Export 32 bit exr displace 

- Export normal maps  

Also note that even if you don't use Zbrush to bake displacement and normal maps, the last half of the video can still be useful to understand displacement technics in general. In what situation should you use either 16 or 32bit ? Well it's your choice, we use both in production. I would say 32bit tends to be more accurate but also heavier so if you are limited in ressource and have a lot of those 32bits with multiple UDIMs, be careful with memory management. 

By the way  I am making a 30% off discount on most of my gumroad products  until 4th of January : https://gumroad.com/adrienlambert Use promocode "AL2021" at checkout. 

Happy Holidays !

To celebrate the end of this crazy weird year, making public one of the most popular tutorial that was exclusively released for my patreons.

 this tutorial covers a lot of tips about Heightfield in sidefx houdini. 

So let's see how to make some cool looking terrain while having a look at the basics and most common Heightfields technics within Houdini.

My patreon is on Hold at the moment, too many projects and things to catch up on top of my work. But you can expect it to come back some time next year with some fresh content ! Big thanks to everyone who joined and participated, in the meantime keep up the learning and stay tuned to my youtube channel !

Happy Monday ! 

Just released a course about tree workflow

This video that summarize the big steps of the tutorial :

A big part is dedicated to create a procedural wind system in Houdini (no dynamics / simulations), which I often find helpful to quickly bring some life in the model. No need of fancy workstation I did the demonstration with a gaming laptop. ;)

The full length video is available here at the symbolic price of 1$.

=> FULL COURSE

Hope this can give some insights. 

Cheers

Only time of the year where I do some massive 50% off everything, definitely check out my artstation store and my gumroad. Some exclusive product either on gumroad or artstation so defintely check out both !

 You've been a lot to ask for beginner friendly tutorials about Houdini... I figured it's October, let's make pumpkins !  

So in this "Pumpkin Hell" tutorial I am finally taking the time to talk more in detail about procedural modeling .. I usually try to explain my thoughts process as much as I can, but going slower and deeper this time so hopefully should help if you are still fairly new with Houdini procedural. 

But don't get desperate if you can't totally grasp everything yet...  there's a reason it's called "pumpkin hell" . A lot of information in one hour and I still picked a pretty challenging topic for beginner... So let me know if you have any questions I'll try to answer. 

Carving pattern used for this tutorials can be downloaded on : https://www.designbolts.com/ 

Project files are available for my current official patreons on the discord server. https://www.patreon.com/adrienlambertvfx 

IMPORTANT : if you are a new member you'll get only access to the rest of your pledges at the beginning of coming month (patreon policy). Just keeping video tutorials visible whatever the pledge in meantime.  

 In the next video we'll explore Solaris in houdini 18.5 to lookdev and create a stylized render for our pumpkin. 

Hope this help !

Part4 of Action Sequence Design / Tutorial series focusing on Art directing the look of our sequence.

Now that we have our character moving, camera setup, set dressed, cape cloth simulation, it's time to finally focus on lighting. I am using Redshift for rendering, but note that I am explaining lighting Fundamentals as well so everything applies whatever engine you're using. (wink to Mantra, Renderman, Arnold, Vray, Octane...) 

I am finding my hdr image on this website : https://hdrihaven.com/

Thanks to my patreon for the support !

Part 2 of my "Action Sequence Design" series

Having fun with vellum and procedural modeling to sim a cape for our character. Most importantly we go through some vellum tricks so the cape react properly with the crazy animation we setup in part01.

 Of course still a lot to learn about this solver but nothing more rewarding than training on a practical example. :)

Stay tuned ;)