Tag: SideFX

  • All about cymatics

    For Side Effects, I talked to Method Studios about their cymatic effects work done in Houdini for Black Panther. It’s awesome when science guides the art.

  • An Effects-Laden Solution to an Icy Problem

    Great headline, I thought. This is my breakdown of Digital Domain’s Houdini fx work for The Fate of the Furious, published on Side Effects Software’s website. Incredible work.

  • Storytelling details

    For SideFX, I wrote about Disney Animation’s use of Houdini for Zootopia – everything from hair to water fountains. The film is great, but the detail is sometimes what makes it so re-watchable.

  • Houdini in TVCs

    You might usually associate Houdini with big budget film visual effects, but it’s been finding a large place in commercials for many years too. Like this Honda spot with vfx by Alt.vfx. I wrote about the work at the Side Effects website.

  • Houdini. So hot right now

    SideFX asked me to find out what visual effects and animation studios were looking for in Houdini artists, and where they can learn more about the software, which I have to say is on something of a hot streak right now.

  • Method’s just-so-cool Houdini vfx

    Motion capture. Dancers. Houdini. What a combo. Here’s a story I wrote for Side Effects on Method Studios’ AICP reel.