Bola Studio’s Threadify for Houdini is a fast way to make realistic ropes, threads, knits, and yarn.

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New Plastic shows how to use an OSL Shader to create a realistic fabric material with Octane in C4D. Sometimes creating a knitted fabric is as simple as starting with the right foundations. For example,
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New Plastic uses Octane Render to create a classic Jersey Knit fabric in C4D. This new tutorial from New Plastic shows how to create a Jersey Knit fabric material using Octane Render in Cinema 4D. “That’s the
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Lukas Thorup shows a simple way to animate knitted surfaces using the Mograph Tools in C4D. There are plenty of tutorials out there that will take a more hard-lined node-driven procedural approach to create knitting in
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A Simple Bifrost Graph can create a great-looking animated stitching effect procedurally in Autodesk Maya. Bifrost’s “Visual Programming” happens in the graph editor, and often all you need to see is the node setup in
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Markus P. shows how to animate a knitting pattern with Bifrost using Fields. We’ve seen this kind of thing a lot, especially in Side FX Houdini, but this new tutorial from Marcus P. shows how to create
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BlueFox Creation shows how to use geometry nodes to create contours out of a mesh. A new tutorial from Blue Fox Creation (Hari Sreedhar) shows how to make a sculpture in Blender using any model and geometry nodes to
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Carlos Alvarez Velazquez shows how to make realistic fabric using V-Ray and Maya xGen. Realistic weaving and fabrics in 3D are always a wonder. The detail required to make a convincing fabric is mind-blowing. Check out this
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PolygonPen shows how to create 3D stitching using edge to spline and cloners. Adding details like stitching is relatively straightforward, thanks to Cinema 4D’s toolset. A new tutorial from PolygonPen shows how you can create a 3D
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Víctor Paredes shows some best practices for creating and working with meshes in Moho. It’s amazing what you can get out of a still image using deformable meshes. Plenty of animation apps offer a way
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Blue Fox Creation looks into using Animation Nodes in Blender to create a knitting animation. Over the last little while, the Blue Fox Creation channel’s series offered some insights into re-creating some of Cinema 4D’s
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Tim j Design shows how to build a wire growth system in Houdini and render it with Octane. As weird as it may sound, it seems like you can’t even be a motion designer these
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Maximilian Schönherr walks through how to create a simple knit effect using Bifrost Graph. Bifrost allows artists to work procedurally and create some fantastic effects using a node-based setup in the Maya Bifrost Graph Editor.
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Alexander Golubeff shows how to create an advect growth effect using VDB volumes in Side FX Houdini. Motion designer Alexander Golubeff shows how you can create some great-looking effects using VDB advection in Side FX
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Simon Thommes Shares an Amazing Looking and 100% Procedural Knitwear Shader for Blender. Freelancing 3D Artist Simon Thommes crafted a bunch of procedural shaders for Blender, and his most recent is a knockout. Knittr is
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A small tight knit New England community is shaken by the arrival of a newcomer. Meanwhile, a mystical creature quietly affects the lives of the locals. Direction & Animation: Alan Jennings Cast: Josh Shaffner, Blake
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Fabricio Chamon Shows How to Create an Infection Effect Using Solver SOP and VEX in SideFX Houdini. The internet is chock-full of tutorials that cover growth and infection effects, and most center around SideFX Houdini.
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Junichiro Horikawa How to Create an Animated Weaving Effect Based on Parametric Objects in Side FX Houdini. There is nothing quite as mesmerizing as an animated weaving effect. What better way to create one than
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