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Awards // Burberry Festive

May 1, 2021May 1, 2021By gareth

Burberry Festive has garnered some favourable reviews over recent months with it hitting the top spot on Televisual’s 2021 Commercials 30 Survey shortly followed by winning a Silver at the CLIO Awards in the Craft Visual Effects category. Mad props to all those who worked on it. It came out good. https://www.moving-picture.com/news/burberry-takes-home-silver-at-the-clio-awards https://www.moving-picture.com/news/burberry-and-jean-clement-soret-hit-number-1-in-televisuals-2021-commercials-30-survey

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VEX: Point Pitch, Yaw, Roll

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020By gareth No Comments

matrix3 m = maketransform(@N,@up);@orient = quaternion(m); vector4 pitch = quaternion({1,0,0}ch(‘pitch’)); vector4 yaw = quaternion({0,1,0}ch(‘yaw’));vector4 roll = quaternion({0,0,1}*ch(‘roll’)); @orient = qmultiply(@orient, pitch);@orient = qmultiply(@orient, yaw);@orient = qmultiply(@orient, roll);

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VEX: Rotation Around Axis

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020By gareth

float angle = chf(“angle”); vector4 rot = quaternion(radians(angle), {1,0,0}); @N=qrotate(rot, @N);

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Python: Phyllotaxis

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020By gareth No Comments

node = hou.pwd() geo = node.geometry() # Add code to modify contents of geo. # Use drop down menu to select examples. from math import radians, sqrt, sin, cos numpoints = 200 angle = 137.508 cval = 0.2 for i in range(numpoints): theta = radians (i * angle) x = cval * sqrt(i) * cos(theta)

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Python: Split Into Groups

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019By gareth No Comments

This little script for Houdini is one I’ve had knocking about and thought might be useful to throw out onto t’interweb. Select the node at which you want to split out the groups and it will create a bunch of blasts and OUT nodes to separate out per group. import hou selectedNodes = hou.selectedNodes() for

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Awards: JD.com – “Joy & Heron”

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018By gareth No Comments

“Joy & Heron” has picked up a few awards in recent weeks. A Gold Ciclope for Long Form Animation A Silver LIA for Production & Post-Production: CGI Animation Golds at The One Show Awards for Online Video, Branded Entertainment, and Animation.

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VEX: split string and convert to integer

September 20, 2018By gareth 2 Comments

//Split @anotherAttribute based on ‘_’ string myString[] = split(s@anotherAttribute, “_”); //Use last element as attribute value s@tempString = myString[-1]; //convert string to integer i@myIntegerFromString = atoi(s@tempString);

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VEX: Bend Wrangle

September 14, 2018May 21, 2020By gareth No Comments

Taken from https://tosinakinwoye.com/2017/01/23/houdini-vex-snippets/ //Input is a line //Resample SOP on line for more points //Activate curveu attrib in resample SOP //Remap curveu to shape of bend @curveu=chramp(“ramp”,@curveu); float bamt = chf(“bend_amt”); //bend amount vector benddir = chv(“bend_dir”); //bend direction @P+= benddir * bamt * @curveu;

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Houdini Python: Find/Replace Parameter Expression

January 18, 2018January 18, 2018By gareth No Comments

A little script to find/replace strings in selected nodes’, parameter expressions: import hou sel = hou.selectedNodes() dialog = hou.ui.readMultiInput(‘Find/Replace In Expression’, input_labels=[‘Find: ‘, ‘Replace: ‘,], buttons=("Find/Replace", "Cancel"), severity=hou.severityType.ImportantMessage, title=’Find/Replace’, close_choice=1) find = dialog[1][0] replace = dialog[1][1] if dialog[0] == 0: for n in sel: for parms in n.parms(): try: newString = str(parms.eval()).replace(find, replace) parms.set(newString) except:

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VEX: SOP Rotation

May 24, 2017By gareth No Comments

f@speed = fit01(rand(@ptnum), ch(‘minSpeed’), ch(‘maxSpeed’)); float angle = (ch(‘angle’)+@ptnum)*@speed; vector axis = sample_direction_uniform(rand(@ptnum*ch(‘seed’))); @orient = quaternion(angle, axis);