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Richard Cope

@richardcope.bsky.social

digital artist, surfacing at netflix animation keen on sidefx houdini https://richardcope.github.io/

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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.Β 
www.sidefx.com/products/what...

26.08.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Canadian Indie Animated Features On The Rise: 'Space Cadet,' 'Death Does Not Exist,' 'Endless Cookie' A deep dive into three new indie Canadian features screening at Annecy.

Canadian indie animated features are on the rise: We spoke to the directors of three singular Canadian films screening at Annecy – 'Space Cadet,' 'Death Does Not Exist' and 'Endless Cookie.' Read the piece here: www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

12.06.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Cannes 2025 Interview: Eva Lusbaronian on her short β€˜Death of the Fish.’ Watch the trailer exclusively on Cartoon Brew, and read our discussion with the filmmaker: www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/canne...

24.05.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Sylvain Chomet’s THE MAGNIFICENT LIFE OF MARCEL PAGNOL will premiere at #Cannes2025 as a Special Screening, one of the movies I’m most looking forward to this year.

10.04.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This looks stunning, also just realising the triplets of Belleville is the only film of his I've watched.. time to explore more

11.04.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The normalization of AI, the rise of people using phones in theaters, the advent of influencers over writers all stems from the same anti-art mentality. The commodification of creativity to the point that people feel entitled to steal from artists to create soulless AI slop.

27.03.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Why is cartoon brew promoting ai slop?

26.03.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'The Eclipse' Short Film Is A Magical Directorial Debut For Gabriel Schemoul Schemoul, an animation industry artist in France, worked nights and weekends for nine months to create this stunning, dreamlike film.

β€˜The Eclipse’ short film is a magical directorial debut for Gabriel Schemoul. An animation industry artist in France, Schemoul worked nights and weekends for nine months to create this stunning, dreamlike film. Watch the film and learn how it was made here:
www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/the-e...

25.02.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The new free Tutorial is online!
Watch it now on: entagma.com/simulating-the…

We would love to see what you guys create with OpenCL!

17.02.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!

03.02.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Human brain microvasculature seen through skull using #ultrasound. The processed data were imported into #houdini #sidefx to give life to velocity vector field using animated particles. #scicom #neurosciences #datavisualization
The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#physmedParis

08.11.2024 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5
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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...

29.01.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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