Working With the Light Mixer LOP in Houdini 20
In his intro to Solaris and Karma in Houdini, inside the Mind covers working with the Light Mixer LOP.
#houdini #Solaris #Karma
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4 Tips to Create Better Underwater Scenes With C4D and Redshift
CG ShortCuts offers four easy tips for creating better underwater scenes in Cinema 4D and Redshift to sell the effects.
#c4d #redshift
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Tips for Creating and Texturing Cliffs Procedurally in Houdini
cgSide quickly breaks down some techniques to generate procedural cliffs and how to texture it in Houdini 20.
#houdini
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Check Out This Substance Designer Guide for Absolute Beginners
The Substance 3D team posts an essential skills dive into working with Adobe Substance 3D Designer.
#substance3d #designer
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A Complete Guide to Walk Cycle Animation
Owen Fern covers everything you need to know to animate walk cycles, from blocking through spline, polish, and presentation.
#maya3D #walkCycles #animation
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How to Quickly Rig Characters in AE With Rubberpin
Rubberhose Rubberpin can make AE’s Puppet Pins way more useful for quickly rigging characters.
#afterEffects #rubberhose3
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How to Create an ACES Color Workflow Between Substance 3D Tools and Cinema 4D
The Substance 3D team shows how to create an OCIO ACES workflow to determine the colors between Substance 3D tools and Cinema 4D.
#Substance3D #painter #c4d #ACES
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How to Create a Torus Knot Animation With Geometry Nodes
Ilir Beqiri shows how to make a motion graphics loop with Blender’s Geometry Nodes inspired by a torus knot animation.
#b3d #geonodes
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How to Create Different Looks for C4D Particles by Various Shading Methods
3DBonfire explores creating various looks for the same particle animation in Cinema 4D with quick particle shading tips.
#c4d #particles
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How to Reset Particle Age in Cinema 4D
Athanasios “Noseman” Pozantzis shows how to reset particle age so you can test age via a condition and affect particles after the fact.
#cinema4d #particles
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How to Mix Two Displacement Maps With Maya MaterialX Graph
Christoph Schädl shows how to mux two displacement maps using the LookDevX MaterialX graph in Maya.
#maya3d #materialX #lookDevX
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30 Mari Node Graph Tools You Need to Know
Jens Kafitz runs down the 30 Node Graph tools in Mari that can make your life better.
#mari
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Understanding Logic Gates With Cinema 4D Xpresso
Expresso Mechanic TV looks at logic gates within the Boole Node With Cinema 4D Xpresso.
#xpresso #c4d
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Learn What Replaces the Partition Node in Newer Versions of Houdini
Rohan Dalvi covers what the Partition Node did in Houdini and what replaced it in later versions.
#houdini
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How to Extrude Vector Images in Unreal Engine
Winbush shows how to quickly create 3D shapes by extruding vector images in Unreal Engine.
#unreal
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How to Create Realistic SSS With Cycles by Using Volumes
SilverwingVFX posts about getting a more accurate version of SSS by not using SSS but Volumes instead while using Cycles.
#b3d #cycles #sss
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How to Create a Realistic Grass Feild in C4D With Quixel
Effectatron shows how to use Quixel Bridge with Cinema 4D to create a realistic grass field with looping wind effects.
#quixel #c4d
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How to Create a Waterfall Effect With New C4D Particles
3DBonfire uses the Flock modifier to create a nifty fluidic waterfall effect with new C4D particles.
#c4d #particles
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How to Create Animated Circuit Lines in After Effects With Shape Layers
Valeri Visuals shows how to use Shape Layers in After Effects to create animated circuit lines based on simple principles.
#aftereffects #shapelayer
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A Guide to Houdini Instancing and Proper CopyToPoints Workflow
Adrien Lambert sheds some light on the proper instancing workflow in Houdini implemented by SideFX in the latest versions.
#houdini
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How to Model a Sofa Procedurally in Houdini
Rohan Dalvi continues his modeling series and shows how to model a sofa in Houdini.
#houdini
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A Beginner’s Guide to Working With Volumes in Houdini
Voxyde VFX shares a course that helps new users explore working with Volumes in Side FX Houdini.
#houdini #volumes
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How to Create a Liquid Orb With Particles and Advection in Cinema 4D
3DBonfire shows the capabilities of Cinema 4D’s new Unified Particle System and works with advection to create a liquid orb effect.
#c4d #particles
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5 Tips to Master Texture Bakes Like a Pro
On Mars 3D covers five tips to solve common texture baking issues in Substance Painter.
#b3d #substance #3Dpainter
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New Mari Extension Pack Packs a Punch
Mari Extension Pack 6 R2 introduces new features and improvements like a new node editor and powerful Ramp Editor and more.
#mari
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How to Create Edge Damage With Bifrost in Maya
cgSide harnesses the power of Bifrost Graph to demonstrate how to create edge wear and tear and edge damage to objects in Maya.
#maya3d #bifrost
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How to Create a Spirograph Animation in Blender using Particles in Geometry Nodes
Bradley Animation shows how to make an abstract Spirograph animation using triangles, particles, and Geometry Nodes in Blender.
#b3d
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How to Render C4D’s New Particle System With Octane Render
SilverwingVFX works with the new Particles from Cinema 4D 2024.4 and how to render them with Octane.
#c4d #particles #octane
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How to Use RubberHose 3 RubberRig to Quickly Rig Characters in Ae
Jake In Motion shows how to rig characters quickly using RubberRig in RubberHose 3 for After Effects.
#aftereffects #rubberhose3 #rigging
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How to Create a Colorful Spirograph Animation With Geometry Nodes
Simon Ubsdell shows how to create a colorful Spirograph animation in Blender using curves and simulation nodes in Blender Geometry Nodes.
#b3d #geoNodes
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How to Emit Particles from Vertex Maps in Cinema 4D
Athanasios “Noseman” Pozantzis uses Fields to show how to emit particles in Cinema 4D from Vertex Maps.
#c4d #particles
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WorkingWith Redshift’s New Volume Displacement
Shawn Astrom shows how to work with Maxon Redshift’s new Volume Displacement to create a planet from maps.
#c4d #redshift #standardVolume
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How to Make a BPM-Driven Sine Oscillator in Fusion With Expressions
Simon Ubsdell uses Lua to create a BPM-Driven Sine Oscillator in Black Magic Design Fusion.
#fusion
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How to Render Curves With Blender Grease Pencil
Ilir Beqiri shows the steps for rendering curves with Blender Grease Pencil.
#b3d
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An Introduction to MaterialX Data Model in Maya LookdevX
LookdevX 1.3 has introduced the MaterialX data model, and here is a look at it in action.
#maya3d #lookdevx #materialx
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Working With VEX, VOPs Clamp, and Fit Functions in Houdini
Inside the Mind covers working with Clamp and Fit functions for remapping and setting a range of values in Houdini.
#houdini #vex #vops
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How to Rotate Normal Maps in Octane by Creating a Script
SilverwingVFX shows how to create a script to rotate normal maps in Octane Render for Cinema 4D.
#c4d #octane #osl
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Everything You Need to Know About Blender Cameras
Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego runs down all the technical stuff you should know about Blender Cameras.
#b3d
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How to Create Clouds in C4D With Redshift
Daniel Danielsson shows how to make clouds in Cinema 4D and render them using Redshift Renderer.
#redshift #c4d #clouds
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A Dive Into What’s New in Autodesk Maya 2025
Reza Sarkamari walks through the new features and tools in Autodesk Maya 2025, including Bifrost and Modeling.
#Maya3d
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A Glimpse Into Working With Unreal Motion Design Tools
Jonathan Winbush runs through workflow and new real-time motion design tools in Unreal Engine 5.4.
#Unreal #mograph
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How to Modify Clones With C4D’s Weight Tag Field
Helloluxx offers some tips for working with the Mograph Weight Tag Field to control the Modify Clone Parameter.
#c4d #fields #mograph
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How to Block and Organize a Scene in Houdini Solaris and Karma
Inside the Mind continues with his Introduction to Solaris and Karma series and shows how to block in and organize a USD scene in Houdini.
#houdini #solaris #karma
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How to Create Bubbling Mud With a Fluid Sim in Blender
Sardi Pax uses a simple fluid simulation setup to show how to create bubbling mud in Blender.
#b3d
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How to Use an Infection Solver to Simulate Fire in Bifrost
Stormvn 3D-CGi uses the basic infection node to simulate fire spreading in a Bifrost Graph.
#bifrost #Maya3d
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How to Create Static and Dynamic Tears With Houdini
Kate Xagoraris shows how to cry like a pro and create static and dynamic tears within Side FX Houdini.
#houdini
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How to Build a Recursive Subdivision System With C4D Scene Nodes
Dominik Ruckli shows how to build a Recursive Subdivision Capsule with Cinema 4D Scene Nodes.
#c4d #sceneNodes
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Check Out PPG 2, a Procedural Polygon Generator for Bifrost
Roland Reyer shows off the new features of the Procedural Polygon Generator node for Bifrost for Maya.
#bifrost #maya3d #ppg2
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How to Use Workplanes for Modeling in Cinema 4D
Athanasios “Noseman” Pozantzis shows how to use the Workplane in Cinema 4D, which can help with modeling tasks.
#c4d
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How to Create a Foam Shader With Octane in C4D
SilverwingVFX shows how to create a foam shader in Octane Render using Surfaces and Volumes.
#octane #c4d #volume
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