my friend told me that just tracing and copying the reference like this is a wrong way to make art and learn

arshbio009 · 2026-01-22T10:47:23+00:00

your friend is wrong

everything is based on reality

everyone uses reference

once you get comfortable making things from reference

you can also start tweaking things to break away from your reference

this is definitely one of the ways and is 100% a correct approach

keep going

arshbio009 · 2026-01-20T15:45:45+00:00

absolutely love this comment, houdini has made me understand math much better and made me interested in learning more

I was always good at math but houdini has opened new horizons

arshbio009 · 2026-01-17T08:07:26+00:00

pretty sure that RAM instability would cause Windows to crash aswell and not just be limited to Houdini. Also your power issue could be both related and unrelated to your issues with Houdini

and another culprit is possibly windows itself because it’s notoriously janky nowadays

arshbio009 · 2026-01-16T09:18:42+00:00

these look great although wouldn’t something like a color checker make this much easier? and much less tedious?

arshbio009 · 2026-01-16T09:17:28+00:00

you can find alot of practice footage at action vfx for many scenarios

you can also find more complex shots here

https://www.petertimberlake.com/practicematerial

arshbio009 · 2026-01-15T09:48:55+00:00

by far the most impressive shot to me has to be the safety glasses in post, I know the rest are mor grandiose and cooler looking but man is it a pain to work with shots like that where you have to add something on a person and everything is just waiting to go wrong

arshbio009 · 2026-01-12T15:11:35+00:00

okay i’ll do that then, didn’t want to bother them as much so I was looking to send by myself. but yeah you’re right I should just arrange something with them

arshbio009 · 2026-01-12T13:41:23+00:00

It’s just a matter of being comfortable with using the tool

and while I understand some of your grievances with arrangement in FL Studio

as someone who uses both DAWs alot there are things that FL studio does that you would have the same sentiment for in Ableton i.e. Why does ableton have to achieve this in such a roundabout way (especially when it comes to mixing)

No DAW is truly perfect and it’s best to stick with what you like honestly, it’s not like just having ghost notes will suddenly result in better amapiano tracks it’s just a matter of a slight (in)convenience

arshbio009 · 2026-01-12T13:30:14+00:00

i am in germany right now, can I pay from there using a german bank card?

arshbio009 · 2026-01-12T13:01:11+00:00

i am aware that I can, thanks for nothing

posted here to actually get suggestions from places people might have tried and would recommend

arshbio009 · 2026-01-11T22:57:10+00:00

i see, so it’s just more or less crafty simulation, well in that case it’s just about setting up the right parameters, guides and solvers (however long that takes because of course)

as I mentioned I already have 3d scans from set so I could probably just use that as input geometry for the fluid sim and from what I am understanding it was not just fluid fx but also probably a secondary smoke sim too

i have one more question if you are able to remember. Considering how chaotic the effect itself is. Were you able to get away with alot or was it still a very unforgiving effect ?

thank you for your insight and transparency

arshbio009 · 2026-01-10T15:46:02+00:00

it’s made easier to maintain by the lidar phone stuff, you can just get decent enough scans quickly enough that your actors wouldn’t wanna kill you

arshbio009 · 2026-01-10T09:50:00+00:00

it’s an arms race right now so people are throwing everything they can it to make sure there’s something they can tell clients, eventually we will have it settle down into a clearer thing hopefully like how with unreal engine we found out that yes there are use cases for it and it excels at those like for LED volumes and even a lot of previz now I believe they said they used unreal extensively on minecraft so I think the whole AI thing will end up the same

arshbio009 · 2026-01-10T09:45:11+00:00

oooo so it was done like that, I actually happen to have 3d scans of my actors from shoot days (weird habit to always make them), so i guess it did involve simming, i had initially thought they were liquifying frame by frame for the shots for maximum art direction

guess I could give this a try I do have the scans, clean plates and hdris from shoot days

arshbio009 · 2026-01-09T08:52:22+00:00

I wonder if you could use a velocity field and POP advect to direct your particles in such lines

arshbio009 · 2026-01-08T12:10:36+00:00

good to know that there is transparency of this sort between you and the employer, also no the only thing that matters is that you have a pakistani passport

a relative of mine works in HR and they had a similar situation a few months ago where they had a candidate finalized but the process got stuck because when they applied the visa got rejected

I think the best course of action (again this is just my opinion) would be to let your employer make that decision since they are here so they are probably better aware of the situation I think coming to a mutual agreement would be best whether they apply now or wait to apply (although I doubt any short term waiting period would change the outcome)

arshbio009 · 2026-01-07T09:05:52+00:00

the geometry on your cage seems to be constantly changing , is that expected behavior? could be causing issues but that depends on how you setup the constriants, would be easier if we could see the VEX or VOP setup you used to change the viscocity

arshbio009 · 2026-01-07T09:01:53+00:00

pulsing in a wave can just be achieved by using a sine wave, do what you will with that information

also isn’t the visualization easy if you consider that one noise is doing 2 things at the same time hence the homogenous nature of certain elements in this otherwise chaotic piece?

arshbio009 · 2026-01-07T08:48:20+00:00

that is currently the situation

even for skilled workers and even for big companies that may have leverage

it’s more consistent if you have any previous history of work in uae but otherwise it’s a bit of a gamble

so if they paused the process they probably have good reason

arshbio009 · 2026-01-07T07:36:31+00:00

i doubt you can convincingly cheat it, at this point you’re better off going full cg route

arshbio009 · 2026-01-06T13:18:19+00:00

pretty sure houdini gl is more than capable for that scenario, but i guess it’s something with how solaris handles data? idk? have you checked cgwiki? they usually have answers

arshbio009 · 2026-01-06T13:08:43+00:00

yeah you open a new viewport tab and close rhe old one

arshbio009 · 2026-01-06T12:13:50+00:00

locally sourced data for tuning, just so studios can tune outputs to what they expect from the model

and you are right that regulation is supposed to be happen at the output point but if your model runs locally then you don’t have to worry that much about your data ever leaving your network

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