Film and VFX
I was the VFX Supervisor for the German TV series Legal Affairs. There was a wide range of effects required, like 3D animation of a drone, the simulation of an explosion, and dozens of screen inserts. You can watch the following video to get a behind-the-scenes of Legal Affairs with...Continue reading
Dynamic Data Windows can safe render time and disk space. This can easily be done using Houdini’s Mantra render engine. But Karma and other Solaris/USD/Hydra delegates are missing this auto crop feature. This is why I created a Houdini HDA that automatically calculates a dynamic data window or crop mask...Continue reading
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 reconstruct...Continue reading
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. What...Continue reading