Performing in the Metaverse (AWE Asia 2023)
August 30, 2023 · archiveA talk on VRChat's grassroots gig scene- full body tracking, decompiled Half-Life stages, and why 75,000 people a day show up to dance as a scientist with a bald head.
The Journal
Archive posts from 2009 onward — Houdini, RenderMan, VJing, and the odd rabbit hole.
NeRF'd
April 7, 2022 · archiveTraining a neural radiance field from a phone-quality SFM pointcloud, then figuring out what to do with the volume it gives you back.
RfM Installation Docs
March 31, 2017 · archiveNotes and forum correspondence on the fight to get Renderman For Maya and Alfred talking to Maya properly.
Medical Data in Minecraft
March 8, 2016 · archiveTurning volumetric medical data into Minecraft voxels, because the environments are just a bunch of voxels already.
Dynamic camera mapping
September 12, 2014 · archiveA system for dynamically mapping video textures onto geometry in Houdini as it starts moving, tracking changing topology through a cloth solver.
cmiVFX class: Houdini Directable Particles & Point Clouds
April 20, 2012 · archiveA 3-hour cmiVFX training I recorded in 2012 on directing particles with point clouds in Houdini. The site is long gone; the demo reel survived.
Plastic deformation system
April 22, 2010 · archiveA Houdini 10 workflow for smashing a car into an object using the cloth system's plastic deformation.
PRman and Houdini 10
March 3, 2010 · archiveGetting PRman 14.3 talking to Houdini 10 on OSX 10.5, a combination nobody else had written up at the time.
Live Video Performance (VJing)
January 14, 2010 · archiveHow a chance meeting in 2003 turned into a decade of VJing alongside acts like Aphex Twin, Pendulum, and The Crystal Method.
Houdini Cloth Masterclass
August 13, 2009 · archiveA masterclass on Houdini 10's cloth tools, presented while at SideFX, now mostly outdated as a workflow reference.
Houdini Particles and PCopen
June 10, 2009 · archiveA primer on using PCopen in VOPs to advect particles, or modify just about any geometry attribute on a point, grid or shading sample.