CG Roundup Podcast
Big news! I have been invited to be part of the CG podcast cgRoundup. I have been listening to the show since its inception so after I was invited to be part of the team I jumped at the chance. My debut is currently up as Episode 5 which was originally going to be just an audio test with Andrew but we talked for a crazy long time, so a show could easily be devised from such material. This episode covers mostly Houdini so if you’re a Houdini user there are some nice points of discussion you might be interested in. I’m certainly looking forward to more shows!
August 17th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
only 42 minutes in and not under perfect listening circumstances and i’m compelled to comment.
this is gonna be lopsided, but just a quick comment.
response to your comments at about 38 minutes: i’m pretty sure one of the H10 sneak peek vids showed CHOPs curves attached to the params, like a pop-up window docked to the param, no?
and stop mentally preparing yourself for a bleak future, dropping the HD ver! ( have you used MOI? ) because by the time things would change that much, Blender and others would be at a different level. IOW, the 3D app landscape will have changed… DRASTICALLY.
… so will programming tools.
… and then starting w/ Blender source or the recently released into the public domain H source, or from scratch, we will start our own 3D app. bring on the excess noise! ;o)
… also, if we’re gonna drop the $$$$, we’re gonna be beyond doing this as a hobby, yes?
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The Wild. totally thought it was a copy of Madagascar. interesting to hear otherwise. really need to check my facts. ( wasn’t it the *only* movie that *only* used Houdini? ) it was a total proof of concept and it apparently didn’t pay off, but if you watch it, didn’t it? the only complaints i heard were the story and that it bombed, so it wasn’t H that sunk it. still it’s not gonna help get ppl to learn something new — to them — when they are comfortable where they are. ( enter conspiracy theories here. )
definitely more later! peace & 42
August 18th, 2009 at 9:21 am
For the CHOPs thing do you mean Motion FX? I didn’t even think of that. Maybe there is a way to hook that into the ramp parameters. Definitely going to look into that!
August 18th, 2009 at 10:55 am
yes, Motion FX. i found it ( again ) off of youtube w/ search terms “houdini motion fx” but it’s title is “H10 Countdown – Wiggle Room” ( both w/o quotes )
but per your discussion in this ep regarding ramps, is Motion FX an answer?
if not, and perhaps more …. complicated (?) … than ppl from other apps would like, but there are examples of using a range of 100 frames of a CHOPs curve and resampling it down to [0..1] when fetching the it and then using it for whatever in conjunction w/ $LIFE etc.
would that cut it?
other than that, more more MORE!!!!