Marius Schmücker

2025-08-18 iPad/Tablet Design Workshop Attendees: Andy Goralczyk Brecht Van Lommel Dalai Felinto Jonas Holzman Julian Eisel Pablo Vazquez Sergey Sharybin William Reynish Some participants were present the entire time, some for specific ...

Very cool to see, these thorough design efforts for Blender on tablets. devtalk.blender.org/t/2025-08-18... #b3d

Bring your MetaHumans into Houdini! The latest MetaHuman Character Rig HDA lets you seamlessly import and assemble high-quality MetaHumans with head, body, and textures. You can also now create MetaHuman-compatible hairstyles directly on your character.

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Houdini 21 is here! KineFX gets a Motion Mixer, Animation Catalog, Autorig Builder & enhanced muscles. Copernicus adds GPU Pyro FX, reaction diffusion FX & texture baking. Solaris expands with Shot Builder, Live Rendering & Gaussian Splats & much more. 
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What's New in H21 | SideFX What's New in H21

@sidefx.bsky.social #Houdini 21 is online!

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Check out the #Houdini 21 sneak peek! We’re sharing a preview of some of the new features. More will be revealed at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver—don’t miss the Keynote, HIVE presentations, and more starting the week of August 11. 

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NAB 2025 Update YouTube video by Blackmagic Design

BM Resolve/Fusion 20 supports proper deep compositing + channels?! Sounds like an amazing update!
#blackmagicdesign #resolve #fusion #compositing

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I wrote a little primer on rigid body dynamics in Houdini after seeing a lot of similar questions online. Bullet is a pretty deep rabbit hole to fall into and there's a lot of legacy stuff that's very confusing for new artists... hopefully this helps you get started!
www.toadstorm.com/blog/?p=1123

Mardini 2025 prompts have been announced! Get 2 free months of #Houdini Indie to use for this daily challenge....we are so excited to see what you create!
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#mardini2025

YouTube video by David Rhodes GSOPs 2.5 Sizzle Reel

GSOPs 2.5, now available!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GcN...

New:
-Coarse meshing utilities
-Improved spherical harmonics (including per-splat rotation)
-New content, examples, and toys

github.com/david-rhodes...
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#GSOPs #3DGS #GaussianSplatting #Houdini

I've recently finished writing my first tutorial for Copernicus in Houdini, building a tri planar projection in cops with opencl. I hope it's useful for someone!

richardcope.github.io/tutorials/tu...

YouTube video by Houdini VDB Compression for Virtual Production and Games | ZibraVDB for Houdini (Alpha) | SideFX Labs

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This looks really interesting!
#houdini #houdinifx #zibravdb

SYDHUG_volumes A re-recording of the SYDHUG presentation I recently did about Volume. I hope it's useful. Hip file with frustum raserizer and voxel res calc tool. https://oscarsrazor.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/0...

A re-recording of a SYDHUG presentation on @sidefx.bsky.social Houdini volume optimization techniques.
vimeo.com/894363970

Hey guys, if you want to check out all of my 31 #Mardini 2021 HIP files, you can download them for free!

marius-schmuecker.com/mardini
gumroad.com/mareyus
github.com/MAREYUS/MARD...

@sidefx.bsky.social
#houdini

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Hey guys, if you wanna check out my 2020 #Houly HIP files (two of which won 2nd daily prize), you can download them for free!

marius-schmuecker.com/houly
gumroad.com/mareyus
github.com/MAREYUS/HOUL...

@sidefx.bsky.social
#houdini

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Since Twitter went pretty much downhill over the last years, I'm trying to find a new home over here.
👋I’m Marius, Houdini FX Artist/TD at Accenture Song. I love creating procedural setups, problem solving and learning something new every day.
Let's start by resharing some stuff in the next posts.