Jason Harmon

All Living Things Demo is OUT on STEAM

The short demo will introduce you to a few main puzzle mechanics. How one thing is hidden in another, how another thing can deceive, and how all things have a role to play in the eternal becoming

store.steampowered.com/app/3681490/...

Free #Houdini hipfile for the Particle Lenia system:
vanityibex.gumroad.com/l/particle_l...

based on this article
observablehq.com/@znah/partic...

YouTube video by Voxyde VFX VFX Essentials - ROT Attribute - Houdini Tutorial

Have come back to this tut from Voxyde (not sure if he's here yet) on post sim particle rotation. Probably one of the most straightforward approaches I've come across.

youtu.be/JC7GQV-G910?...

We created a #SideFX #Houdini #3D @bsky.app account back in Feb, but it's been dormant since then. Time to change that – let's GO!

YouTube video by Voxyde VFX Houdini Solaris - Assign Materials by Name

Really helpful tip on auto assigning materials in LOPs based on the name attribute.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDkp...

Calling all Houdini people!

BoomBox - Houdini HDA for fracturing and art directing RBD sims. Fracture, direct velocity, modify constraints and forces, and simulate, all in one nifty little box.BoomBox is a tool that lets you quickly create and art direct shatter effects. It can fracture incom...

Gumroad
whatifound.gumroad.com/l/boombox
YouTube
youtu.be/FV1N6tBRQJk
audio from bensound.com

BoomBox is here! 💥You can get it on Gumroad and watch the Quick Start on Youtube.
Links in the thread.
This tool is a ton of fun, I can't wait to see how people use it.
#Houdini #motionGraphics

chatGPT couldn't get those differences sorted, but a good old fashioned google search got me there. I sincerely hope with the rise of all these LLMs that old forums stay alive. Years of solved problems are buried in there.

Here's where I finally found the answer
www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.ph...

Spent a good part of my day setting up more scripts in AE. I've been using chatGPT to make some small pipeline tools.
Today I made a script that will send a slack message when a render is done. Interestingly maying system calls has different syntax between windows and macos.

I am here, thanks for the new followers. I'll start to post more here in the coming days.