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This Houdini 9 tutorial teaches you how to work with the shelf tools. There are shelves for all the areas of Houdini from modeling to dynamics, to animating and particles. This particular tutorial shows you how to use the viewport and shelf tools to model within Houdini 9 and work with surface operations (SOPS).

In this Houdini 9 modeling tutorial you will learn how to create objects using the sweep sop (surface operator). You can create or animate objects by sweeping them along curves or other objects. Watch and learn how to use the sweep sop in Houdini 9.

In this Houdini 9 modeling tutorial you will learn how to use the surface operator the carve sop. Carving objects is a fast way to model and manipulate them using curves and lines or other shapes. Watch and learn how to use the carve sop in Houdini 9.

In this Houdini 9 software tutorial you will learn how to use the creep sop. The creep sop is a surface operator used for creating surfaces and modeling as well as animating. As the name suggests, you learn to use the creep sop to creep objects or surfaces along another object or curve. Watch and learn how to use the creep sop in Houdini 9.

This Houdini 9 tutorial teaches how to sweep an object along a curve while orienting the object to the curve's direction. Learn how to apply a sweep sop to orient objects on curves in Houdini.

Watch shader writer, Mario Marengo, explain spectral wavelength and how to utilize it within Houdini. This presentation was recorded at a Toronto Technical Evening hosted by Side Effects Software.Shaders generally work in RGB color space. This is limiting when trying to replicate many lighting phenomena. Some of these phenomena are thin-film interference as with soap bubbles and light scattering in clouds. It is easier to work with color in spectral wavelength space, as opposed to RGB space, as...

In this video series, learn how to create a simple dynamic simulation by creating a procedural pre-vis avalanche in Houdini 9. Rigid body dynamics (RBD's) are a powerful and important part of creating visual effects in 3D. This tutorial shows you how to use them in Houdini 9 to create a procedural pre-vis avalanche.

This 7 part Houdini 9 tutorial series is about how to transfer color using dynamics is a great place to start to understand Houdini's dynamics in a significant way. Part one covers painting setup, two establishing a paint source, three creating paint, four defining paint colors with a solver, five painting with dynamics, six reviews how it works, seven setting up for render output. Learn to paint and transfer color with dynamics in Houdini 9 and get more control over your work in this tutorial.

This Houdini n9 software tutorial covers a very simple lighting and rendering scene to show the basic workflow for generating a PBR render. We use a digital asset to quickly establish a group of geometry to light. In the lesson we also add an area map so that we can extract the lighting information from it. There are two .rat files to experiment with, the seashadow.rat file simply provides a pattern. The st.peters_cross.rat is an HDRI image from the Debevec site. Watch and learn how to set up...

Putting together a table of contents is as easy as 1, 2, 3, especially when you use built-in heading levels as you begin writing your first draft. Then let Microsoft Office Word create the TOC with your headings. Watch the demo to see how to insert a table of contents and make revisions that Word will update automatically.

Flags are colorful reminders for items you need to follow up on, whether tasks, messages, or contacts. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 offers several options for setting flags to complement the way you work. Flags can give you pop-up reminders and they also appear in the To-Do Bar, where you can easily see what actions you need to take each day. Learn how to stay on top of things with reminders in Outlook 2007.

If you're buried in e-mail (and who isn't?), Instant Search in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 can save the day for you. The new Instant Search helps you quickly find e-mail messages, appointments, contacts, or any Outlook item. You don't even need to know which folder the item is in. Watch the demo to see how to use this fast search feature in Outlook 2007, and start finding what you want instantly.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting is a conferencing solution that you can use to engage audiences in online meetings, training, and events. Learn how you can schedule, join, or present a Live Meeting by using new features such as audio, video conferencing, uploading handouts for distribution, and using Microsoft RoundTable.

Office Live Meeting is a conferencing solution that you can use to engage audiences in online meetings, training, and events. Learn how you can schedule, join, or present a Live Meeting by using new features such as audio, video conferencing, uploading handouts, and using Microsoft RoundTable. Watch the demo to learn how to schedule a meeting in Office Live Meeting.

This Office Communicator demo shows you how to add a person to your call (without dialing), how to redirect an incoming call, how to use tagging, and how to initiate a multiparty video call. If you need to learn how to start and use video conference calls in Office Communicator 2007, then this tutorial has you covered.

In this first demo of a 4-part series, learn how to set up labels for mass mailings using the Mail Merge feature in Word 2007.In this second demo learn how to select recipients to be part of the mass mailings by using a Microsoft Office Excel 2007 worksheet as the data source. You will also learn how to refine the recipient list by using filtering or sorting. In part three learn how to create the layout of the label, including how to add and position your company logo and placement of the text...

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 has a new design. The new Ribbon keeps the commands that you use most often visible while you're working instead of hiding under menus or toolbars that you have to hunt for. Also, commands that you may not have known about before are now very easy to discover. When it comes to designing your slides, live preview of style galleries lets you see how things such as backgrounds and shape formatting will look before you apply them. A new SmartArt graphics feature...

This series of videos focuses on a typical UV workflow in Houdini 9. Learn how to create projections, edit UVs with a variety of tools, save out UV maps, and apply textures. Please download the project files below to follow along with these Houdini 9 texturing lessons.1. Simple UVs:Start with this lesson, it quickly covers the major steps we will use in the subsequent 4 lessons. This is a good overview showing the tools and workflow that will be repeated many times.

In the following series of videos we will establish a particle stream that is then used to create a surface that evolves over time in Houdini 9 software.Part 1 covers Surface From Particle Stream: This is a very simple introduction to how a stamp function is defined in a copy sop. We then generate a series of stamp functions applied to a box, copied to a stationary grid and to a particle system as well.Part 2 covers Guided Surface From Particle Stream:In this example we continue with the...

These two Houdini 9 lessons illustrate a valuable and efficient means of modeling an animated surface in a manner not generally considered. It provides an explanation of the advantages to this approach and compares it to a more traditional means of animating a surface. So watch the tutorial and learn how to animate a stingray in Houdini 9 using newer style animation methods.

These Houdini 9 software lessons illustrate a means of animating a surface without keyframes and/or character tools. Learn how to animate using the Spring SOP in Houdini 9.

This Houdini 9 tutorial shows you how to roll and unroll a surface without using expressions. Learn how to roll a surface with the Wireblend tool in Houdini 9. Once you create the rolled surface, you can also animate it.

This Houdini 9 particle effects tutorial establishs a means to attract particles to follow a curve faithfully. POPS is one of the most powerful effects generating parts of Houdini and getting particles to follow or be attracted to a curve will be extremely useful to any Houdini effects artist. So watch and learn how to attract particles to a curve in Houdini 9.

This open source software tutorial shows you how to use the tile clone tools in Inkscape. The tile clone tool allows you to create the first few tiles and then clone them to create an entire grid or fill a specific area with the tiled pattern. Check out this Inkscape tutorial and start expanding your graphic design abilities.

This software tutorial shows you how to create funky looking text effects in Inkscape. This tutorial of course is just a guide to the ways you can funkify text, so watch and learn how to use Inkscape to make this funky, groovy, 70's text, then start making your own versions.

In this software tutorial you will see how to create a polaroid picture and make it look like it is pinned up on a wall using Inkscape. All you need for this creative pinned-up polaroid is a picture and the open source software Inkscape.

Just what you need for your graphics projects - a graphical reminder note! This Inkscape software tutorial shows you how to create a reminder note complete with the scotch tape to "attach" it to documents. You should be able to easily find some creative uses for your graphical reminder "post it".

If you do any amount of graphic design or layout design, then you know the importance of using kerning when working with typeface. This Inkscape software tutorial shows you how to manually kern text within Inkscape. This isn't the best graphic design software, but it is open source and if you are using it for layout you may need to use text kerning and will find this video helpful.

In this software tutorial you will learn how to create a highlight effect on an object in Inkscape. This particular Inkscape tutorial shows you how to make a highlight effect on a button giving it a more dimensional look.

This software tutorial shows you how to draw a file folder from scratch in Inkscape. Besides learning how to create file folder images or icons, you will learn how to use some of the basic tools in Inkscape like the align tools.

In this software tutorial you will learn how to use boolean operations in Inkscape to combine or remove two shapes. Boolean operations are an important part of modeling in 2D or 3D and give you a way to make fast and accurate shapes. So watch and learn how to work with booleans in Inkscape.

In this Inkscape software tutorial you will see how to create a shiny web 2.0 style button or icon. There is no sound but the picture and mouse movements are clear enough to follow along visually. So watch and learn how to create a crisp reflective web 2.0 style button in Inkscape.

In this After Effects compositing tutorial you will learn how to make a force jump or a super jump. Make someone look like a super hero or Star Wars character jumping super far across your screen. All you need is some footage and After Effects and this tutorial.

In this After Effects tutorial you will learn how to create clones. All you need is multiple copies of video footage of the same person or object (cleverly prepared ahead of time would be preferred) and After Effects. Using opacity, you can quickly create a movie of clones from your footatge in After Effects.

In this video tutorial you will learn about a very powerful feature in Houdini called Copy Stamping.This is a very simple introduction to how a stamp function is defined in a copy sop. We then generate a series of stamp functions applied to a box, copied to a stationary grid and to a particle system as well. Copy stamping allows you to control methods of copying multiple objects or values to other objects or values easily within Houdini 9 saving you from wasting time on repetitive tasks.

In this Houdini 9 video series, you will take a look at the new dynamics shelf tools and see how easy it is to create fairly complex simulations very quickly.A demonstration of how to setup dynamics and particles, working together, within the 3d viewport. It will cover pin contraints, rigid body collisions, particle systems, collisions and gravity in Houdini 9 dynamics.

Photoshop is a great video tool and this tutorial shows you one of the ways you can use Photoshop to edit and work with videos. You will learn how to use alpha channels in Photoshop specifically when working with video footage.

In this software video series, you will learn how to use Takes in Houdini 9.

In the following lessons you will learn some essential tools and techniques for working with muscles in Houdini. In the first lesson, you will learn how to rig up a simple muscle arm using Houdini's Muscle tool. The Muscle tool uses meta-balls to capture your character's skin with realistic muscle/skin interaction.

This tutorial examines the different mask shapes available in VisionLab Studio, CompositeLab and EngineLab and how to use them for compositing. Most of the information also applies to garbage mattes. Learn how to use masks and mask shapes in VisionLab studio.