Houdini is only Stupid if You Are | Simon Fiedler & Bastian Schiffer | FMX HIVE 2022

Simon & Bastian share a number of interesting setups and workflows from previous projects for various commercial clients and their take on solving production-inspired problems using Houdini.
Simon Fiedler & Bastian J. Schiffer have been working in the motion graphics and advertising industry for over a decade. Sharing a creative studio space with fellow 3D artists in Mainz, they work for various international studios and collaborate on projects for direct clients.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:43 - Meet Simon and Bastian
00:02:55 - Reel
00:04:05 - Asics GlideRide 3
00:09:35 - Rihanna
00:12:57 - BrainBox AI: Cube
00:20:41 - BrainBox AI: Roomscan
00:33:27 - Asics Grip
00:40:34 - Beautyrest Foam Layers
00:50:21 - Q&A

[@heytheist9349]

Houdini doesn't let you down even when it probably should. Me: **Tugs on slider** Houdini: **Beats chest** Houdini: "10^20 voxels, coming right up!"

[@locant23]

I dont use Houdini but want to. But this is me learning a new software and like ooooh what does this slider do.

[@vipergx]

@@locant23 Houdini really likes manual input. Usually, it's better to know your values :) Or have a beast of a machine

[@FaddyVFX]

Totally very good video, alot to learn from your channel, you have very good talent. Im looking forward for more great more advance videos, good luck 🤞

[@smileyscience]

super amazing, Thanks you guys.

[@shazzadulhaque]

Amazing Presentation!

[@pragmaticvfx]

Very cool presentation! Thanks for sharing!

[@antoniopepe]

really inspiring. thanks

[@carlherner9458]

amazing talk!

[@Willopo100]

tbh Houdini is for some people and not for others. its just a tool like everything else. a lot of jobs you really dont need houdini.

[@yassinedjebbari4819]

It's not really a tool, better call it an IDE or something like that, you build Tools in it ... That's the big difference about it I think

[@morphtek]

the end game for any 3d job is houdini just for the robustness and clarity of projects when working with it

[@MotionPunk]

Great presentation guys! At 6:27 you are taking the vdb and get its animation to the original mesh?? At first i thought you are transferring the uvs to the vdb. And now my mind is blown hehe

[@cmolfino]

It seems they are projecting the original mesh into the VDB mesh inside a Solver. They're doing what the ray sop does, but with custom vex wrangle... that'd be my guess

[@MotionPunk]

@@cmolfino yea that makes sense the thing is that this grows out of 0 so not sure if ray sop can handle that. Similar with point deform.

[@cmolfino]

​@@MotionPunk actually it grows from a small piece... and based on the "intersect" and "minpos" inside the wrangle, that's pretty much what the raysop does. I think they're also smoothing the boundaries with a mask.

[@MotionPunk]

@@cmolfino thanks so much

[@veithnurtsch1069]

Wow!!! Respect and greets to germany! :)

[@chadbonanno5724]

Fantastic stuff!

[@geleopagot]

Why like every cool Houdini artist is Simon?

[@mattiamerenda8121]

Most accurate title ever can't wait to watch this one

[@milansvancara]

I wouldn't really say that. I mean, Houdini is very powerful in what it can do with procedural stuff (and surely more powerful than current Blender Geometry nodes, don't get me wrong), but I wouldn't call it an especially smart system. Blender geometry nodes (and many other node systems) have a much more logical and analytical approach to their workflow. Houdini is kinda stiff and less natural. It's more powerful with its incredible library of effects and nodes, but not super smart:)

[@nil_blank]

As someone who's never used Houdini I'm def feeling stuuuuupid... 🤤. Looks amazing though.

[@vipergx]

I'm using it and still feel stupid watching this kind of presentations ;)

[@flexcg675]

OMG! i want learn it!

[@bobcharlotte8724]

I love that title. lol

[@PawelGrzelak]

Great set of quick tips.

[@IgorDvorski]

In the room scan how did you apply ScanNoise on points after cluster gradients wrangle, I cannot get that final step

[@ivanfilatov5482]

where is fbx exported with instances?

[@notjaydanbhooshan93]

most hilariously encouraging title on a houdini youtube video

[@Staglaitor]

How can i find out the most strong developer with their tutorial about geometry context?

[@AdiusOmega]

When I was young I was so into VFX and learning all about this kind of stuff and did pretty well. Then life happened and I was stuck working a slave wage job trying to make ends meat. 16 years later and I'm still there with hardly any time to continue to learn. I feel like the world has defeated me and now I AM too stupid to learn anything like this. Can I start over?

[@marcolondero]

Of course!

[@kokoze]

The biggest thing about houdini that I don't understand/ dislike is how they name their nodes. Sometimes nodes are called "x to y" and sometimes "y from x". And some nodes just have strange names. But other than that yeah it is very cool

[@sima_jk]

Honestly Unreal Engine gives me complete headaches when it comes to confusion about naming nodes. :D

[@quanli3552]

even the title sounds parametric

[@pizola3285]

I need to learn chops

[@HUNTERRRR]

woah

[@jimjimjim5995]

Yes, as he said at the end there's no good tutorial about CHOPs

[@psclip3309]

Is houdini good for motion graphics or should I learn c4D? I see motion graphic videos on the internet that are made using cinema4d are more creative and interesting and those made with Houdini are more polished simple and more towards vfx and very boring.

[@ArtinKavousi]

why power of 5! is my logic base!

[@guymanperson1]

The title perfectly sums up why I love Houdini. it rewards you for getting smarter about how you do things, whereas life all too often punishes you for being "too smart for your own good."

[@darkarps]

"because client" lol thank you for that

[@darkarps]

this has honestly been the best, thank you x one million, I will study this forever

[@videoeditingpro9618]

I am looking for the cheapest institute to obtain a diploma in Houdini's vfx less then 20.000 cad in year For anyone who has information, I will be very thankful

[@Flipside3D]

I'm stupid ........ sobs

[@rishen]

I stopped watching at 4:43. Using this for almost a year now as a student. Never understood shit, prolly never will. The title of video is for people like me. This is fucking depressing.

[@khomatech6428]

shoes

[@pshethia01]

In such a technology changing world i dont think we should be learning something so hard.. C4D is suffice

[@heinblues]

wrong

[@omni_frame]

30:40

[@ShawarmaBaby]

that is insane

[@samartini1]

JESUS this talk is flooded with adverts nearly every minute and this looks like an interesting talk :( Sniffle @ YT!

[@EmvyBeats]

Houdini is only stupid if you can't afford it.

[@chargedbystars]

What a condescending title from two knobs that push buttons.

[@yuexiao3230]

My Houdini is smart

[@mxgn0]

is this an offer to private teaching lmao

[@sandesh3273]

Houdini is only Stupid if You Are Simon Fiedler . read it without the '|'.

[@ericdodier3404]

Guys we found Hitler's grandson, woot

[@veruzzzz]

Houdini is only stupid thanks to video titles like this.

[@iluvyunie]

what do you even mean

[@ShawarmaBaby]

is not very hard. Houdini is not an easy software, or i am fucking stupid for not knowing things?

[@iluvyunie]

@@ShawarmaBaby houdini is pretty tricky You just have to not get angry at it when you can't immediately do something difficult and technical and run into problems. Lots of patience is required- just yesterday for example I lost my bananas at my computer because it took an hour to bake a sim and it didn't work. That was me being stupid. That's my takeaway from the title haha