Mouse track with Heightfield advection

Engage ~ A Panoply Curiosity Curiosities is an on-going series that explores a variety of ideas and concepts from the artistic to the technical. For more in the series - panoply.co.uk/curiosities

Always loved this monkey that has a brief appearance in the 19-2000 gorillaz video.

timelapse of sculpting the monkey from gorillaz 19/2000 in Nomad on an ipad.

Over at the befores & afters magazine Patreon, we pay tribute to Tim Lawrence, who worked on those crazy 'Beetlejuice' face transformations done with replacement animation. There's some fun imagery to check out. patreon.com/posts/those-cr… (flipbook anim here orchestrated by cgwiki)

Magpai workspaces are going to have very little "Chat" functionality. Instead, I'm trying really hard to have AI just magically fill in the gaps.

First test with rokoko smartgloves and coil pro. The rokoko solver works out a body pose from just hands, neat. 3 takes stitched together in houdini, nice to go from "i wonder if this'll work" to anim in minutes. #madewithrokoko

Ben has thought hard about making AI useful. Chatgpt while powerful, is a chatbot for most. Magpai lets you connect it to start a houdini render, or update a spreadsheet, or publish a web article, or send you an email summary of news sites, or whatever else. Check it out!

Improvements to auto-rigger, faster and more controls #animation #3danimation #rigging #zbrush #nomadsculpt #ipad #morphinapp

Once a year I try to use "opinput" in wrangles, and I end up seething. For the record, its all lowercase, and starts from 0. Not CamelCase and starting from 1 as it appears in Vops. Autocomplete won't help you, nor will the tooltip when you hover over the wrangle inputs.

look at this trainwreck of naming and indexing. I get backwards compatibility to a point, but cmon... (cheers Ferry Taswin for this awful example)

Some vague rambles about learning houdini, but really about learning any new skill; how to keep going after the initial burst of energy is spent: tokeru.com/cgwiki/Houdini…

blueprint is important to make something. 🦊 this is the fox machine's one. 🤥 #houdini #copernicus

Comparing nodes between houdini builds: tokeru.com/cgwiki/Houdini…

The volume and quality of Jan's work is amazing. He'll bang out a horror short, the week before a perfect photoreal deer groom and render, the week before that amazing volumetrics, the week before that a Pwnisher entry. Annoyingly talented. :)

Electro test with Morphin beta, shaping up to be a great companion app to Nomad . Export glb from nomad, rig, weight, animate in Morphin. Should be ready to release soon!

Interesting question from Paul Esteves to do #thesphere style visualizations with new cops: tokeru.com/cgwiki/Houdini…