Animation and motion graphics

Houdini / CHOPS – an automatic player piano

No keyframes were used to create this: it's a MIDI file recorded from my keyboard,…

hDecember 20, 2021

Animation and motion graphics

Quick one-day challenge: a split-flap display

Quick project: a programmable split-flap display. You can choose how many character modules you want,…

hNovember 26, 2021

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