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There’s this handy little function in Houdini that seeds a value based on the name of the node, it’s called “opdigits()“. A very simple scenario where you’d use this is if you have 10 boxes in a scene, and you want to cache them out with the naming scheme of: “box_1”, “box_2”, “box_3”, “box_4”, “box_5”,Continue reading “The Lazy Compositor – Seed From Suffix”

Back in May 2021, I was put forth by ZOIC as a candidate for the Unreal Fellowship, I was beyond excited for the opportunity to get to know Unreal, but I’ve had my doubts as well. I had heard that Unreal was this amazing piece of tech that allows artists to work in real time.Continue reading “An Unreal Experience”

Conditional expression writing and its application to Nuke Particles.

Learn about attributes “size”, “mass”, and “color” and some practical examples.

Learning about particle attributes, beginning with “ID”, “Position”, and “Velocity”.

When I shot my first wedding video back in Oct. 2018, I was pretty happy with what I captured in camera and thought I had enough to piece together a good wedding film. It was until after I had delivered the video, that I noticed something was missing, a key component of immersion – FOLEY!Continue reading “FILM – UPDATE PATCH v1.0.2”

Vancouver’s got some heavy snow fall in recent days, which forced me to abandon my bicycle and “switch” to the Skytrain to get me to work. I rewrote the first paragraph no less than 10 times. I’m a master of word play. The Switch node needs no introduction, no node tree is complete with aContinue reading “CMP – UPDATE PATCH v.1.0.2”

I launched my wedding video business ( http://www.studiogood.ca ) at the beginning of 2019 with the aim to force myself to learn more about film making. One year later, not only have I learned more than I had hoped to about the topic, I’ve also gain much knowledge about running a business, managing clients andContinue reading “FILM – UPDATE PATCH v1.0.1”