Second year of Mardini.

I enjoyed it so much I felt like I was in a Dixit card game, when working on my idea and after that I saw that others thoughts were the same or super different. - it was nice surprise
I also learned a lot and it opened a lot of houdini doors for me, and touched parts of the program I never had the courage for, or just forgot that it exists.
It was nice to contact a bit with the same interest, I don't have the opportunity in my average days to have this.

and Mardini proved again to me that Houdini is a unique kind of tool for creativity, I never used a piece of software like this.

so thx to be part of this and I hope sooner than next year.

see you in the future mardini folks

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Woop woop! Extra well done to those who have completed a submission per day! And especially the first time completing peeps as its first for me to fully fill out the IRONHEART contactsheet in the 3mardinis ive attempted Peaceout be well! <3

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Thanks for the fun month. See you next year!

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Thank you for an amazing month!

It's only been a month since I first touched Houdini, so this challenge was tough—but it was such an incredible experience. I had so much fun creating works I’m proud of!

I’ll keep learning and pushing myself. Please check out my X for more!

@shiffon_ram

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This month we’ve almost turned into a family! It was awesome and so much fun. Congrats to the winners — your works are amazing!

A huge thanks to SideFX Team for an incredible software that enables such a wide range of projects. And thanks to the organizers and everyone who was involved. This challenge is a clash of Titans.
Now I’m going to catch up on sleep — for the past month, I’ve been going to bed between 5 and 7 a.m. 🤯 But every day I grew up and learned a lot. An incredibly valuable experience

Wishing everyone an unstoppable flow of creativity and success, see you in March 2027!

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This month flew by! Huge respect to everyone who participated - you all made this month really fun and motivating.

I’ve been learning Houdini for just about a year now, and going into this, I wasn’t even sure I could make it to the end. I’ve always hesitated when starting new work, overthinking and chasing perfection. This challenge made me realize that perfectionism was probably holding me back more than helping. The best thing this challenge taught me is that it's okay not to be perfect - as long as I'm improving

Even though the challenge is over, I want to keep this momentum going. But probably not daily, haha.

PS. Just realized I didn’t even have a profile picture this whole time, so I literally just took a selfie lol

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