@petercubic.bsky.social
Buffalo, NY native. Loves all things spaceflight, F1, and VFX. Training Lead at SideFX.
Tomorrow night (11/05/2025 at 6pm EST), we're going to have Kate Xagoraris as a guest. She's worked on a couple of really interesting HDA toolkits for star catalogs and proteins. It should be a great chat with a lot of science nerdiness!
#houdini #sidefx #vfx #sciviz
Tomorrow (10/29/2025 at 4pm EDT) we're going to have Valentina Malavasi join us. She'll be talking about some of her projects that she's worked on as a student at #BUAS. Her work focuses on bridging #Houdini and #Unreal. Hope to see you there!
#SideFX #gamedev #vfx #procedural
Tonight (10/22/2025 at 6pm EDT) we'll have another guest on the stream, Ferry Taswin! If you're curious about ways to make your own custom workflows in #Houdini this stream should be really interesting for you. Hope to see you there!
#sidefx #python #vfx
Weβre thrilled to announce that you can now become a Houdini Certified Instructor! Apply to take the Houdini Exam and join our growing community of certified instructors.
More details are available here: www.sidefx.com/education/edu...
#sidefx #houdini #instructors
Tonight (10/1/2025 at 6pm EDT) we're going to to another live Q&A on the stream. If you have any questions about how to do something in #Houdini this is a great time to ask on the stream. We'll all do our best to get you an answer.
houdinihangout.com for more info
Tomorrow night (9/17/2025 at 5pm EDT), Carlos Dordelly will be joining the stream to talk about some practical workflows and tips in #Solaris. He'll especially focus on things for solo artists and small teams. See you there with your questions!
#sidefx #houdini #vfx #mograph
Tonight (9/10/2025 at 6pm EDT) we're going to try to connect a #Copernicus Flow sim to a #Vellum sim. We'll use the velocity from one to drive the other. Hope to see you there!
For more stream info and Discord link: houdinihangout.com
#sidefx #houdini #motiondesign #vfx
Tonight (9/3/2025 at 6pm EDT) we're going to try to get something working with the new Shot Builder tools. There won't be anything grand or expansive shown off, but we'll do our best to do something interesting with them.
houdinihangout.com
#houdini21 #sidefx #vfx #openusd
Houdini 21 is released! Tonight (8/27/2025 at 6pm EDT) we're going to open it up and play around with some of the new features. There are lots of features that weren't covered in the Keynote, and we'll try some of those. Bring your questions!
#sidefx #houdini #vfx #motiondesign
Just a reminder that we'll have Danny Laursen as a guest tonight (8/13/2025), but this time starting 2 hours earlier at 4pm EDT. Hope that will be a nice change of pace for any Europeans wanting to watch.
Come join us to talk about Danny's awesome flower workflow and HDAs!
I love that those timecodes are in hh:mm, and not mm:ss. Hahaha! It was quite the marathon of features. :)
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Soo many incredible goodies coming in #Houdini 21!
- Animation, rigging and muscles: 0:10
- Quad-remesher, texture baking and terrain erosion: 1:02
- Rendering: 1:20
- COPs texture gen: 1:40
- Simulations: 2:07
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C--0...
#techart #simulation #procedural #3dart #texture #anim
Watch the Houdini 21 Keynote from SIGGRAPH 2025! Discover new KineFX motion mixer, muscle system improvements, MetaHumans integration, Copernicus GPU Pyro solver, built-in ML tools, Vulkan support, and more. Today at 10 am PST!
youtu.be/C--08SipCNU
This week (8/13/2025 at 4pm EDT) we'll have Danny Laursen on the stream to talk about his awesome flower tools. We'll look at the logic behind the HDAs, and then go into the tool's functions. Hope to see you there!
www.youtube.com/@Dan...
#sidefx #houdini #3dFlowers #FLOPs
Tonight (8/06/2025 at 6pm EDT) we're going to chat about the H21 Sneak Peak video that was released on Monday. I'm sure you've seen and heard about it by now, but if you want some more analysis of the video come join us!
youtu.be/aq7JQCV51CY...
#houdini #sidefx #vfx #H21
We are thrilled to announce #houdini HIVE Equinox (Sept 23β25, 2025), join us for IGNITE workshops, HIVE presentations, and social events. Building on last yearβs Horizon, this year goes bigger with more ways to learn, connect, and be inspired.
www.sidefx.com/equinox/
Check out new awesome tutorial by Matt
#morphinapp #ipad #animation #nomadsculpt #ROBLOX
youtu.be/2B4QOdT7Xms?...
Tonight (7/30/2025 at 6pm EDT) we're going to try to make an animation like this art from Apoxia: www.instagram.com/ap... We'll see how we go about creating it, but some non-simulation options might happen. We'll see!
#sidefx #houdini #motiondesign
Tonight (7/23/2025 at 6pm EDT) I'm going to take a shot at making a dust explosion inspired by this reference: www.instagram.com/re... Never sure what we'll come up with, but join us for the process!
#sidefx #houdini #vfx #motiondesign
Tonight (7/16/2025 at 6pm EDT) I'm going to try to make some abstract cloth inspired by Ariel Ting Wei Lu. Check out her amazing website here: ariellu.com/google-d.... Not sure how it will turn out, but it should be fun regardless!
#sidefx #houdini #motiondesign #vfx
Tonight (7/2/25), I'm a little unsure about what we should do. It will be a bit of a viewers choice, and if nobody has a live suggestion I'm going to play with some stuff in Vellum. Sorry for the indecision, but it should be fun either way.
#sidefx #houdini #motiondesign
Tonight (06/18/25 at 6pm EDT) we're going to work on creating some animated, nested instances in Solaris. USD can be tricky for a lot of people (me included!), and hopefully we'll clear up some misunderstandings.
houdinihangout.com for more info
#houdini #sidefx #solaris
Tonight (6/11/2025 at 6pm EDT), we're going to create something inspired by this ad from @TactycStudio: youtu.be/ULgOsnNxexI...
There's a cool melting effect that we'll try to use Vellum Grains and MPM on. Hope to see you then!
#houdini #sidefx #mpm #vellum #motiondesign
Tomorrow night (6/4 at 6pm EDT) we're going to be joined by Tom Goffelli (aka WaffleBoyTom). He's going to walk through the basics of using APEX outside of the current rigging/animation tools. This should be a bit of a continuation of his awesome talk at FMX. See you then!
#sidefx #apex #houdini
woo, the graduation film from UTS ALA (where i used to teach) from last year is online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqw...
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Just passing by one of Switzerland's newest tourist attractions. You're Google Maps famous @thewheatgerm.bsky.social!
#jetlagthegame #nebula
Tonight (4/16/2025 at 6pm EDT), we're going to look at how to make an MPM sim inspired by this work from Jan Elsner: www.instagram.com/re...
It's a really great piece, and since he mentioned using MPM for the project we'll do the same. Hope you join us!
#houdini #sidefx #vfx
Tonight (4/9/25 at 6pm EDT) we're going to do another Q&A session. Join the stream if you have any burning questions about Houdini or just want to chat about it. These open sessions are always fun, so I hope to see you there.
houdinihangout.com
#sidefx #houdini #vfx
Come join me as I make a couple different versions of this kinetic wind sculpture.
#houdini #sidefx #procedural #sim
Come watch me try to come up with something for today's #Mardini prompt.
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