Log into your account to keep track of your progress. You can work through the lessons without logging in but your progress will be lost when you refresh the page.

During this tutorial, we will explain some basic math terminology (floats, vectors, normalization) and how to creatively use dot and cross products in Houdini.

This is a beginner friendly tutorial which seeks to demystify these mathematical concepts.

Files:
${item.title}

CREATED BY

dthornhaus
DAMIAN THORN-HAUSWIRTH

Damian Thorn-Hauswirth has worked professionally in various capacities in the animation industry for over a decade. He returned to the University of Central Florida in 2022 to obtain an MFA in Animation and Visual Effects in order to teach. His virtual reality thesis production, Castle of Unknowing, went on to become a semi-finalist at the student Academy Awards and premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Exemplified by this production, he hopes to create art which challenges concrete and routine perception, arousing a sense of questioning and mystery within the viewer. Damian recently moved from Florida to the Poconos to serve as assistant professor of animation at East Stroudsburg University. He seeks to teach future creatives about the variety of potentials of animation, inspiring both artistic expression and technical expertise.

More from Damian Thorn-Hauswirth

COMMENTS

  • svenlipp 6 months, 1 week ago  | 

    thank you ! awesome and straight to the point.

  • Lobato 4 months ago  | 

    Nice. I've been using dot product a lot to create cel shading, but I didn't think about the use of cross products, for example. Your thoughts give me the insight that I can use dot products to create something like a triplanar shading where I can control the sharpness by tweaking the vector magnitude. Thanks.

Please log in to leave a comment.