Film and VFX
Karmara for Houdini is a HDA that will help you to add arbitrary USD Attributes to your Renders. This works for all render engines (including Karma) that are supported inside of Houdini’s Solaris Context. At first, I was only planning on adding Camera Data to the Metadata to easily...
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Now that many of us are slowly transitioning to a USD based workflow, it will be more important to understand how to do certain things in Solaris, the USD based scene management and layout context in Houdini. One of the more hidden things is, adding metadata to your renders....
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Change Strings has been updated last on 24.10.2020 to version number 1.5 Change Strings can batch change or rename most strings, meaning text, in Blackmagicdesign Fusion and Fusion inside DaVinci Resolve. These strings are Tool/Node names, expressions, and filepaths. Simply write the text you want to replace (or delete)...
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When I started to test out Quixel Mixer, I quickly realized, the available brushes are too few. I often needed a brush with more texture, drips, and character. This is why I created my own brushes to use in Quixel Mixer. But since many other Applications can use image-based...
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You will often use the painting tools in Fusion, to create masks, remove unwanted objects, or to create shapes for Motion Graphics. But there aren’t many brushes available from the start and sometimes you will need a brush like pencil strokes or spray paint. This is why it’s important...
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Quixel Mixer is fairly new to the Texture Painting market. But as a free and easy to use Software, it’s a great way to add simple Texture painting to your portfolio and enhance your 3D models. In this post, I will show you how to add thousands of free...
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Page 1 I recently switched from Mac to Windows. Before, my old iMac late 2012 was powering through everything I would throw at it. But finally, after 8 years, switching to a self-built Windows PC put me in front of a question I never had to ask before: What...
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Page 1 pCustom and pCustomForce are two very powerful tools in Blackmagic Design Fusion / DaVinci Resolve. Unfortunately they aren’t that well documented. This is why I decided to create a page dedicated to pCustom examples and use-cases. This should help you to achieve more with particle simulations in...
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Change Strings to quickly change several Filepaths and Filenames in several Loaders and Savers at the same time. This will be a huge time saver and spare you a lot of work. First, you will need to download Change...
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Keeping nodes organized is vital to efficiently working in Blackmagicdesign Fusion or DaVinci Resolve. But unfortunately, Fusions naming behavior when copying nodes or tools can be annoying. Instead of counting upwards (like other 3D, VFX, or Motion Graphics Applications), Fusion will append a “_1” behind the original name. In...
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