Animation and motion graphics

Gallery: one of the most visually diverse projects I’ve worked on

A corporate project from a few years back: a narrative animation, character-driven, with cel-rendered characters…

hJuly 2, 2020

Houdini tips

Houdini to Fusion camera animation exporter script [U]

Send a camera (or other animated object) from Houdini to Fusion. This is a work…

hMarch 8, 2020

Animation and motion graphicsHoudini tips

Houdini HDA: Depth of Field visualiser

A handy little depth of field visualiser. Hang it off the bottom of a camera…

hSeptember 17, 2019

Animation and motion graphicsHoudini tips

Blender to Houdini camera exporter script

Unlikely anyone but me needs this, but just in case: a Houdini script to copy…

hAugust 23, 2019

Apple

Apple, why did you split the bundle? [rant]

Oh, Apple, oh Apple. Not often do I feel the need to write about this…

hJune 14, 2019

Uncategorized

Welcome to the farm. In the attic.

Big changes at h Manor. First, a client needed me to re-render some old projects…

hMay 11, 2019

Houdini tips

Houdini tip: rendering tiny glowing stuff fasterer

New page: a useful wrangle for when you need to render lots of tiny glowing…

hFebruary 4, 2019

Houdini tips

Houdini / Redshift: Varying disk-based instance materials

Thought I'd better try writing this up as it took me bloody ages to get…

hJanuary 30, 2019

Houdini tips

Tiny, tiny Houdini tip: for 0.00001% of users, this may help you keep things feeling tidy

The node editor snaps nodes to an invisible grid, by default, to help you keep…

hNovember 15, 2018

Houdini tips

Houdini HDA: Particle Looker 1.7

Should be called "Point Looker" really. Super simple really, just a time-saver if you keep…

hNovember 10, 2018