Having fun with Affinity’s Products
Recently, Affinity launched its vector and bitmap software on Windows. I already bought Affinity Designer and now I am testing Affinity Photo beta, which I will buy as soon as it’s out of the beta …
UI
Tonight I spent some time with a couple of renders for a UI exercise. I wanted to test a Vray shader for UI renders, below the result.
More Houdini Stuff
So little time lately. I started a new website with a collection of my photos. I’m keeping myself busy, going out every weekend for a photography session. Nonetheless, I’d love to focus more on Houdini, …
Letter from home
Quoting a lovely soundtrack by Pat Metheny, I started a project just for fun, called Letter from home. First two:
Sun on his face * Language is a Virus
I took this picture yesterday at the Getty Museum. I wanted to try some sort of van Dyck color treatment. Then I used Language is a Virus to generate a Dada poem. The black & …
More displacement
I did the previous displacement with a shader. This time I modified the geometry itself, using a VOP attribute.
Houdini Displacement
The proceduralism of Houdini is really something! You can go back, change the starting point, go forth and update the result, and Houdini will properly take into account all the tweaks made. Render: Elements:
Mantra Glass Shader
I’ve exported a Pflow simulation from 3ds Max to Houdini (just because I still don’t know how to handle particles with Houdini). Then I wanted to do a test with Mantra, this is the result:
Houdini: first contact
Not sure whether I’ll move forward with Houdini or not. This beast needs some serious attention, and time. Anyhow, for the time being I’ll have some fun: