Tomorrow is the first offical NY Houdini usergroup meeting at the a School of Visual Arts in NYC with some Alumni and NY VES holiday party afterwards if interested you can receive a 3 Month License of Houdini Indie for free for attending… So if your in NY tomorrow come by.. RSVP to Join me at NY Houdini Meetup with presentations by Blue Sky Studios
http://meetu.ps/e/Cd8M1/v12qr/a [meetu.ps]

Hey guys just putting it out there that there is a new Houdini Usergoup in NY( NYHUG ). The first meeting is going to be on Dec 15th with two of Blue sky's Td's showing off some of there work with the software and tips and tricks… So if your in NY please join us …https://secure.meetup.com/register/?ctx=ref [secure.meetup.com] here is the link with all the info for RSVPing …. Hope to see some of you attend it should be good..


George

Ive been tring to put one together for some time and nothing has been able to become offical there was a few attempts at this in the past .. That would be awesome.. There are few users that got together through Facebook to put one through there but nothing actually personal.. I would be very much interesting in helping start one with you guys. Usually the problem would be venue where to host one. We were going to use the SVA labs a few times but since low interest was never successful… There are some artists from various studios here that use it.. Would be interesting though Get SESI involved as well to make it offical..


George .

looks awesome Rob ….. another leap over the rest…

awesome

Hi Edward

They have one more after that but same result with H13 I'm guessing it's the video card that is old for it to work with H13no?



Thanks. For the reply ..


George

Hi Edward

thanks for the reply using an old quadro fx 1800 card latest driver from Nvidia.

driver version 307.45
direct x 9.0c
core clock 352 mhz
memory data rate 1250 mhz
total graphics video memory 2047mb
memory interface 256 bit
graohics memory 256 mb gddr3
Pci express X16

if thats what you mean … I know it's old…


George

Hey guys don;t know if anyone has this problem or it;s just me… but is anyone getting Unable to link glUniform1uiv error message …. just wondering if it's my machine that's bad or if it's a bug… Sorry in advance for the problem….

any help would be great…

thanks …

george

thanks Jeff ….

I was just wondering about having H11 and now tring to install H12 if one needs to get rid of H11 to get H12 to run?

thanks



george

hey Adam
there are a few that are out there are from CMI VFX. They have one on particles video and how to create them from different sources how to drive them and render them.. There also Digital Tutors has someDVD's on particles and some through Peter's vimeo videos he has good tutorial videos … then there is Odforce there is the Mecca of Houdini everything from the best in the industry… Also there some examples in community section of the sesi website… Old school's blog is a great resource as welll…. so hopefully this is helpful on your journey to particle mastery….


George

thanks Graham for a great resource lots of goodies….

yeah I have been checking it out and some really wild procedural VFX . they have the whole movie online as well in case u would like to see it on youtube as well.


George

Hey Guys

thanks for all the great info but I'm new to Houdini on OSX. I just have a question if OSX version of Houdini only work with Intel machines or can it be used in legacy G5's??

thanks in advance


George

thanks for the info… Tell Kim and the rest of the team great Job…This is looking very good for us…. As an industry……..


george

I was wondering when the news about 9.5 was going to come out.. Is there a way to be in the beat program at all or is that only for production studios only? thanks for the info Robert u guys are always breaking the mold ……




George

I;m haveing trouble with the install of h9.1 beta.. can;t get it to do the license thing… i was wondering if anything has happpned with beta 9.1 for win 64 bit. at all?


Running on a dual dual core 4 gigs of ram BOXX and Nivdia quadra fx 1500 lastest driver card… also having pop up s about the wacom tablet needs to be reinstalled even though i have it installed…. Would love the help thanks……


George

Sorry to but in but i hear about this new feature Soho but what is that really for my ignorance in this topic it sounds interesting….





George

Well from what i remember from school and looking at reels at lunch time at certain studios. A reel should show what it is you want to do. It being character animation you should show good acting skills as well as good poses and the timing has to feel right. Some good follow thru and gestures if it;s a human type of character if it;s anything other then that should should show good motion and timing.
If you have movies or clips of movies and recreating those shots might help as well as i have seen some of this being done at schools. If you have your own footage u can use that as reference. Show that you can create convincable animation is the key. From what my experiences were. Could be wrong depends if you want to work in commericals if your good enough to work on movies. So show strong poses, good timing, convincing performances , if you know some acting put it in there as well. That should be good enough to land a job i think… or some of the students showed that some work in some big companies now….

good luck when your done you should post it to get some feed back on it… before sending it out…




George

didn;t they use HOudini on happy feet? I think i read something that they used it for some of the fx shots…. Am i wrong on this one?





George