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Paul Del Vecchio retweeted
Art-Directing RBDs in Houdini is now live!
Anton Dan has been cooking this one for almost a year, and his attention to detail shines through every chapter.
Learn:
• VEX-driven RBD art direction
• Procedural assembly workflows
• Ground destruction & large-scale impacts
• Debris, dust, particles & Pyro
• Solaris, USD, Karma & Nuke compositing
Create from scratch a full cinematic project: a rock golem emerging from the earth and smashing into a sci-fi defense wall.
Paul Del Vecchio retweeted
Fired "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley says CBS News boss Bari Weiss is lying when she says there was an effort to "find a way back" for him.
"At no point did anyone in the meeting suggest there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. 'Firing' was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested 'a way back.' To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of '60 Minutes' a few days before and without cause. 'I'm not answering that question,' she said... These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do."
variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs…
Another price bump for VRay. As much as I hate to do it, at this point, I might just switch to Arnold or just use Karma XPU.
Paul Del Vecchio retweeted
DaVinci Resolve 21 Beta 2! Adds improvements and bug fixes for the DaVinci public beta including more intuitive photo crop tools, faster and more accurate IntelliSearch, and better immersive workflows including support for foveated streaming and rendering using Apple Vision Pro support. Download now from bmd.link/bYUybM
Figured out destruction texturing in Houdini. Excited with the progress. Got some good shit on the way. #FilmMaking
Did a little color and FX processing on this in Resolve. Really liking the results of this test and seeing what Houdini is capable of. #houdini #HoudiniFX #davinciresolve
With the age tools, I wonder if I can turn myself into a baby...
cined.com/davinci-resolve-21…
In Houdini, Mantra looks good, but it seems slow if you want a clean image. VRay, while still CPU like Mantra, seems so much cleaner at lower sample settings.
Back to better stuff. I figured out how to render the explosion lighting in Houdini without rendering the actual explosion itself.
Use a Geometry light, select the Explosion as the Geometry, disable Explosion but keep GeoLight active.
#director #filmmaking #houdini #HoudiniFX
