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ooo, fly! re-timed for drama and rendered the seq

ooo, fly!

re-timed for drama and rendered the sequence! kinda cool. Heh.

#materials #planks #wood #wooden #simulation #details #sheets #vinyl #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #yellow #ripe #redshift3d #sculpture #sculpture #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #behindthescenes #blender #c4d

Late night experiments :) Saw a bunch of planks,

Late night experiments :)

Saw a bunch of planks, chopped them up, and swung them in the air! Swipe for BTSy images

#materials #planks #wood #wooden #simulation #details #sheets #vinyl #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #yellow #ripe #redshift3d #sculpture #sculpture #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #behindthescenes #blender #c4d

It's FRIYAY!! And meet SHARKDINO! Having some fun

It's FRIYAY!! And meet SHARKDINO!

Having some fun meshing some stock geometries from @autodesk_me Maya's content browser together! And of course brought it to @sidefxhoudini for some dance action! Also, I've appended a throwback to a dance item we did at @masonrystudios

And as always, rendered in @redshift3d oh yes, we've recently beefed up our GPU setup in the studio and this whole sharkdino thing took 16 minutes for the whole animation to render?!

Holymoly! 3080tis are monsters!!

Swipe for BTS-y stuffffff. Have a great weekend!!

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#sharkdino #shark #trex #dino #dinosaur #dance #ridiculous #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #cinematography #rnd #redshift3d #materials #modelling #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #realistic #blender #c4d

Hey! It's mid-week! more experiments in @sidefxhou

Hey! It's mid-week! more experiments in @sidefxhoudini and @redshift3d in @masonrystudios

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#pattern #ruffle #flower #curves #spline #abstract #cloth #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #cinematography #rnd #redshift3d #materials #modelling #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #realistic #blender #c4d

Resistance bands? Add colour to your exercise rout

Resistance bands? Add colour to your exercise routine!

Created using @redshift3d and @sidefxhoudini

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#bands #colourful #resistancebands #rings #organic #curves #shapes #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #colors #rnd #redshift3d #materials #modelling #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #realistic #blender #c4d

Stonehenge? Swipe for alternate renders and BTS-y

Stonehenge?

Swipe for alternate renders and BTS-y images :)

Sculptures made using @redshift3d and @sidefxhoudini

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#stonehengerocks #stonehenge #sculpture #fluid #organic #plant #liquid #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #simulation #rnd #redshift3d #materials #modelling #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #realistic #blender #c4d

Who else sees a gecko? Created some custom curves

Who else sees a gecko?

Created some custom curves to drive a FLIP sim. Resulted in some pretty sculptures.

Swipe for alternate renders and BTS-y images :)

Sculptures made using @redshift3d and @sidefxhoudini

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#gecko #lizard #sculpture #fluid #organic #plant #liquid #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #cinematography #rnd #redshift3d #materials #modelling #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #realistic #blender #c4d

Hard-surface! Yay or nay? Well, I started modellin

Hard-surface! Yay or nay? Well, I started modelling cars many years ago, and man.. I was a nut case, modelling cars every single day for months!

I dreaded organic modelling. Thankfully, @zbrushatpixologic came along and it's all fun and games again!

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Anyway, I've recently assigned my students to model a hex nut, and I thought I should also join them, it's a pretty quick and fun task.

But don't underestimate this simple nut job (lol, nutjob). It requires analysis, breaking down the main form into smaller forms. And then problem-solving when putting the small forms together.

Also, it's a great introduction to hard-surface modelling, topology and the important concepts of adding edge loops to tighten the creases!

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Who could resist the temptation of putting together a cool scene and play with the lights, materials and the camera?

Well... nut me!

Swipe to view all the shots and BTS-y stuff!

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Was "shooting" in @redshift3d and @autodesk @autodesk_me Maya.

Hex nut was also modelled in Maya.

If you swipe towards the end of this carousel post, early material tests were done in Arnold, putting my laptop's CPU to the test! Haha! It's surprisingly interactive!

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#nut #hexagon #hex #hexnut #nutsandbolts #details #metal #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #cinematography #rnd #redshift3d #materials #modelling #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #realistic #blender #c4d

Do not play with fire! Unless of course if it's CG

Do not play with fire! Unless of course if it's CGI! Haha, did quite a lot of work with smoke simulations, but it's been a while since we did some fire on a project, so it's quite fun now that there are better and faster tools!

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@redshift3d renders volumes seriously fast.
@sidefxhoudini seriously lowered the bar for pyro sims with all their new pyro tools since 18.5. gonna try them out in the next couple weeks!

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#fire #heat #desert #simulation #volumes #details #temperature #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #sandstorm #rnd #redshift3d #sim #pyro #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #volumetric #blender #c4d

More 💀 clouds! Ghost rider much? It's a little

More 💀 clouds! Ghost rider much?

It's a little blotchy because I only had access to an old version of Houdini, quite hard to work without the sparse solver. Use a sparse solver when you can! Fast and indicative feedback makes volumetric work much more fun!

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Rendered in @redshift3d
Volumetric modelling in @sidefxhoudini

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#skull #mummy #cloud #simulation #volumes #details #puff #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #modelling #rnd #redshift3d #sim #pyro #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #volumetric #blender #c4d

O? A 💀 cloud. Just messing around with Houdini

O? A 💀 cloud.

Just messing around with Houdini's cloud node while testing various volume solving solutions. I find the "Cloud Noise" node quite a convenient tool to just add some noise to a VDB density field, doesn't necessarily have to be used for clouds :)

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Rendered in @redshift3d
Volumetric modelling in @sidefxhoudini

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#skull #mummy #cloud #simulation #volumes #details #puff #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #modelling #rnd #redshift3d #sim #pyro #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #volumetric #blender #c4d

Frizzled sunny side up! -- A test. I was in searc

Frizzled sunny side up!

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A test. I was in search of simpler ways for creating custom velocity vector fields, and apparently the pyro source and rasterization nodes do a really good job by default! VDB sparse volumes ftw!

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#dust #egg #cloud #simulation #volumes #details #abstract #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #cloud #rnd #redshift3d #sim #pyro #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #volumetric #blender #c4d

Sand storm! Had to do a lot of volumetric work rec

Sand storm! Had to do a lot of volumetric work recently, so dived into a little bit more RND in order to work more efficiently!

Thought I just share some of my tests.
Btw, this test shot was super cheap to setup and render. Haha! If you're interesting... read on!

To build this wall of dust clouds, I cheaply instanced a short sample of a mid-res simulation along a line and added some slight rotation.

For the area of focus, the resolution didn't hold up, so I just quickly re-simed at a higher resolution and plonked it manually into the area of focus and viola! The illusion of detail. Cheap cheap, veli good!

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@redshift3d just takes a dozen instances of the sand storm like a champ! @motionoperators is your friend to handle rotations in a friendly way
@sidefxhoudini

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#dust #storm #cloud #simulation #volumes #details #desert #vfx #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #sandstorm #rnd #redshift3d #sim #pyro #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #volumetric #blender #c4d

Now the song is stuck in my head! This year's been

Now the song is stuck in my head! This year's been a year of CGI food and how can I miss this opportunity to make some SG Kueh!?

And I did it quite literally. Haha! Sorry, didn't get to some of your suggestions. Chilli crab was a hot suggestion huh! Could've been quite goofy. Omg, there's a dance to this song. Now I need to make the Kueh dance...! Hah!

Anyway, sharing some techniques through this BTS video for all you animation and motion designers out there.

The Road Ahead is a pretty good NDP song imo. Don't forget to check out the MV featuring animation done by the good folks @findingpictures

Swipe for alternate renders, and a @zhapcai.png

Simulation in @sidefxhoudini
Rendered in @redshift3d

#ndp2021 #singapore #sg #nationalday #kueh #kuehlapis #flag #ndp #food #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #dessert #3D #redandwhite #bts #redshift3d #artdirection #vfx #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #tutorial #blender #c4d

Inspired by @jjlin Sanctuary Finale's concert visu

Inspired by @jjlin Sanctuary Finale's concert visuals. The stage visuals were absolutely beautiful, XR technology and all, gotta give it to the team and @isotopeproductions But yes, I was one of those lucky SISTIC patrons... Haha, I'll get to it when the re-stream happens..

Really fun to explore stage visuals to in CGI!

I was messing around with this in @sidefxhoudini and @redshift3d Surprisingly easy to create a procedural concert lights setup! Will do a quick tut if anybody is interested.

Else, swipe for alternate renders and for WIP images!

#motion #motiongraphics #design #art #animation #visual #motiondesign #artwork #creative #instaart #motionlovers #mograph #c4d #3D #cgi #vfx #redshift3d #maya #behindthescenes #mgcollective #render #houdinifx #digitalart #digital #lightshow #concert #stage #masonrystudios #motionmate #mdcommunity

A for algorithmic design! Could you guess the algo

A for algorithmic design! Could you guess the algorithm?

Answer: Reaction Diffusion!

You see, when I started in Houdini almost 2 years ago, I skipped such slightly more advanced topics, but I've decided give this a go because I have a tiny bit more understanding, by that I mean I know the basic of vex and vector manipulation.

And mostly because there's a really great video on Entagma recently on directing your reaction diffusion simulation! Thanks Mo! @therealentagma

I had to give it a go, and if generative design is your thing, don't miss this!!!

Swipe for alternate renders!

Techniques demo-ed by @therealentagma
Simulation in @sidefxhoudini
Rendered in @redshift3d

#reactiondiffusion #algorithm #simulation #bumblebee #abstract #generative #growth #closeup #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #yellow #pattern #redshift3d #artdirection #vfx #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #organic #blender #c4d

Ahh! BTS of Banana Skull sculpting in Blender! Did

Ahh! BTS of Banana Skull sculpting in Blender! Did some anatomy sketch studies right before sculpting. Helped me to stay focused on the "landmarks" of the form.

I come from the world of Zbrush and I feel entirely at home sculpting in Blender! You should try it too! Have fun!

This software has come a long way. Version 2.9x is getting my serious attention.

Swipe for BTS-y stuff.

Sculpted in @blender.official
Layout in @sidefxhoudini
Rendered in @redshift3d

#tutorial #skull #skeleton #banana #ball #details #bananapeel #bts #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #yellow #howto #redshift3d #sculpture #fruit #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #behindthescenes #blender #c4d

Chendol sculpture! Yums. Having some fun while ru

Chendol sculpture! Yums.

Having some fun while running a @sidefxhoudini and @redshift3d training programme @masonrystudios

Swipe for alternate renders and BTS-y blabla. Almost the weekend! Cheers!

#materials #grass #blade #chendol #sculpture #details #bananapeel #closeup #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #yellow #ripe #redshift3d #plant #abstract #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #organic #blender #c4d

Any Blender users out there? :D This is my blende

Any Blender users out there? :D

This is my blender debut! Saw a video of Blender's sculpting module and decided to give it a shot. And I must say... VERY IMPRESSIVE!

I come from the world of Zbrush and I feel entirely at home sculpting in Blender! This software has come a long way. Version 2.9x is getting my serious attention.

Swipe for BTS-y stuff.

Sculpted in @blender.official
Layout in @sidefxhoudini
Rendered in @redshift3d

#materials #skull #skeleton #banana #ball #details #bananapeel #closeup #blender3d #design #art #motiondesign #artwork #art #instaart #blendercommunity #3D #yellow #ripe #redshift3d #sculpture #fruit #render #houdinifx #digitalart #cinema4d #organic #blender #c4d

Rendered a little shiny image as I pass the 3k mil $Rendered a little shiny image as I pass the 3k milestone on IG. Thanks for your continued support! A lot of you have been asking so imma find time to work on some more mini tuts! 😎 As usual, rendered in @redshift3d and @sidefxhoudini swipe for some amateur BTS footage. huhuh. #crystals #abbe #dispersion #light #glass #diamond #redshift3d #typography #c4d #3dtype #reflection #refraction #3kfollowers #3k #shiny #shimmer #iridescent #chroma #colors #motiondesign #art #cgi #vfx #render$

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