Tutorials Patreon: Nick Medukha
In this tutorial we will be using vellum to create this effect of our watch frame being covered in the decorative copper foil. Features interesting dive into scaling vellum, some sopsolver stuff and retiming, of course haha :)
Hey guys! This week I wanna share one super cool effect, which is based on VDB from particles, some winds and some pyro (as usual haha)
Originally this was done in Blender by super talented artist Albin Merle, definitely go check out his setups! I tried to do something similar but in Houdini, hope you will like it, lots of cool stuff!
[Tutorial] Vellum Constraints & Pyro
Heeey guys! I managed to do this quick little tutorial this week, in which you will learn how to combine two very powerful things - dynamic constraints of the vellum and my favorite pyro source spread!
[Tutorial] RBD Activation with Pyro
Heyyy guys! Today we are creating RBD activation/disintegration effect, that is inspired by one of the R&D frames from this project done by Computerface studio.
Hope this tutorial will be useful. In case of any questions, as always, please feel free to reach out to me here or in cozyplace discord server :)
[Tutorial] Vellum Hair Impact + LERP
Heyyy guys! Ending this month with a beginner friendly Vellum hair effect and my favorite linear interpolation function!
P.S. HomePod model not included, bought it from turbosquid
P.P.S. Hate moire pattern lol
[Tutorial] Procedural Textures + OSL + Some tips for beginners :)
Heyya guys! This week I wanted to share a few thoughts about procedural textures and my love to noises. Godddamit noises are so powerful and have SO wide range of applications. In this tutorial i also talk about a few tricks that helped me to learn 3D faster and potentially these tricks can save quite a few headaches of yours :)
Hope you ll like it, and as always any questions or comments highly appreciated here or in our @cozyplace discord!
[Tutorial] Pyro Meshing + UV Warp
NOTE: 1.5 playback speed advised, recorded early this morning :)
Aaand after 2 days of research around the attaching uvs to the expanding mesh - here it is! In this tutorial you will learn about pyrodynamics - buoyancy and turbulence and how to make them affect only parts of your volume, learn 2 ways of meshing pyrosims and of course I will walk you trough the cool concept of assigning uvs to the growing mesh!
[Tutorial] Cloth Disintegration
Heyyyyy guys! In this tutorial we will take a look at the interesting disintegration technique, guided by pyro and pops, and also we will take a brief look on UVs in Houdini and some shading techniques :)
Heyyy guys! Last day of the month, but managed to edit this 3rd tutorial this month. Sorry for bad sound, caught a really nasty cold, so I also had to spend 2 hours to cut out all the sneezes. Anyhow, hope youll find it useful and see you next week!
[Tutorial] Advanced RBD Disintegration
Heyyy guys! This time we are diving deeeep into the disintegration world :) Inspired from this awesome piece by Roman Kaelin. This setup consists of multiple parts, which overlayed on top of each other, gives this beautiful multi-layered render!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9szqwm6rje7nyzm/Desert%20Morph.hiplc?dl=0
[Tutorial] Vellum Fluid UV Mix
Hey guys! In this tutorial we will be creating Vellum Fluid Mixing setup, which is based on distorting the uvs on particle points and transferring them to the mesh :) This cool little setup was inspired from Gabriel Morala and his Houdini Simulations project.
Dior Chapter 2 - RnD & Storyboard | 6 TUTORIALS IN 1!!
HEEEEYYY! This one is by far the biggest tutorial I have ever done! There are 6 different techniques, like mini tutorials of the setups I have used to create RnD for our Dior Sauvage project.
Here I cover storyboarding process, I explain why and what I do and the we dive in Houdini and C4D to create some stunning RnDs!
If you feel you need a deeper dive in any of these techniques - let me know, ill be happy to do a separated tut and answer all your questions!
FPW Chapter 1 - Client, Research & Moodboard
Hey hey hey heyyyyyy!
You voted - you got it!
This month we are creating FULL project from absolute scratch. 4 weeks - 4 chapters.
In this, first chapter, I will walk you trough all the crucial steps from the moment when you get an email asking "are you available?" till creating a detailed mood-board which serves as inspiration for your further designs.
[Tutorial] Beginner Vellum Crumple
Hey guys! Lets end this month with this beginner-friendly, but super satisfying vellum crumple tutorial inspired by korb.tv and prepare for the next month which will be SUPER exciting!
[Tutorial] Industrial Foam with Vellum
Hey hey hey! Today I will show you my take on growing industrial foam in cracks of the fractured object :)
Hey guys! New Patreon exclusive tutorial here :)
This one is pretty cool and will teach you some hidden features of deformers+vellum and also neat way to "inflate" or in our case - unfold :)