[TRAILER] Applied Houdini - Dynamics IV

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Author: Steven Knipping

Applied Houdini is a production quality oriented series created by
Steven Knipping, currently a Senior Rigid Body Destruction / FX
Technical Director at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic (Star Wars:
The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tomorrowland). Benefit
from production proven workflows while also getting an in depth
explanation of why things works they way they do. Best of all - each
video is crammed with actual information and footnotes instead of
gratuitous talking and dead space.

In Dynamics IV, we cover the scenarios for dust/smoke/steam/magic most
often found in production work - destruction. We begin with basic
fracturing and rigid body simulation, as well as secondary particle
simulation. From these we can dynamically source volumes into our
smoke sim with characteristics of the fracturing mesh itself. Advanced
workflows for speedy collisions, accurate sourcing, and VEX language
attribute manipulation are covered in detail.


Author Page: https://www.cgcircuit.com/instructor/...

Prerequisites: Dynamics I,Dynamics II,Dynamics III

About the Author: Hey! Check out my demo reel here: https://vimeo.com/161576184


I'm a senior rigid body destruction and FX TD at Industrial Light & Magic, and have recently worked on films including Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Currently working on Star Wars: The Last Jedi!

My areas of expertise mainly focus on Houdini-based FX, especially rigid body destruction, particles, and smoke. I have also done a lot of pipeline coding, simulation programming, shader writing, lighting, and even... modeling!

Other industry roles included FX positions at Atomic Fiction and The Mill (NYC), and a few years doing hair and cloth at PDI/Dreamworks Animation. Before all that I was a student, ultimately earning an MSE in Computer Graphics from the University of Pennsylvania.

I also do lots of metal casting, archery, and of course.... board games.