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Yeah I gotta say as cool as X-Particles is, as long as you're not trying to stay inside C4D for all your work it's just no Match for Houdini. It's generally easier to quickly setup particle systems, but the power is not even close. And especially fluid simulations are just SO MUCH faster in Houdini... That said, your plugin looks really cool and I'm sure there's going to be many users that want exactly something like this for an affordable price inside C4D. I heard this as a feature request many, many times over the years. Any chance there's going to be some kind of speed comparison with X-Particles in the future?

Good stuff! Where were you when I didn't have X-Particles and Houdini 😪 ?

That was a seriously impressive video. And seriously impressive work from the people making these movies. I still can't believe how crafty these people had to be to make these effects happen... especially since a lot of this stuff can be done by someone nowadays after 15mins of After Effects beginner tutorials.

That has some weird zombie apocalypse vibes to it.

You can help banding a bit if you add some noise in post. You just have to find the right values since too much wrecks the encoder on youtube and makes quality even worse and too little doesn't have any effect. But overall theres just some banding you can't really fix. YouTube bitrate is just too low. If you want your work to look as good as it get's you either have to host it yourself or you can use Vimeo. Vimeo has really, really high bitrates. As for your work, I think it looks mostly great, especially the lights in the beginning but I do think the quality of the animation degrades a bit as soon as "the action" starts. I can't really explain it, but it feels like tons of work went into the falling net, the lights turning on and the middle part just looks a bit... Vanilla? Both in terms of animation as well as the grading. I think you can get A LOT out of this animation if you do some more color work on the middle part.

I think you should invest in a new lens... that abberation is rough 🥴

NVidia already (kind of) does this with DLSS. I was sceptical when it first came out but it's such an amazing tech.

Got something done, wohoo! 100% Houdini + Redshift

This is getting out of hand! Now there's three of them! JellyBowlFixed.mp4 EDIT: Network and *.hip for anybody curious 🙂 Jelly.hiplc

Reworked some of the simulation settings and added freaking BUBBLES! 🤪 Jelly2.mp4 Oh and I just want to mention real quick, some of these frames in the simulation look kind of... disturbing.

Starting to look good! I assume you plan on adding smudge later? Aside from "better" lighting that's pretty much what's missing for me there.

Not saying you guys don't have your reasons, I was just curios about the technicality behind this.

Not a developer by any means, but how come I can effortlessly run multiple instances of After Effects, Houdini and many other softwares at the same time then?

Thanks for mentioning, noticed that too. Gotta watch out for that in the next one

Ding Ding Ding we have a Winner!

I don't know what's wrong with these videos... they play for me 😕 This should work. Jelly.mp4

Here's mine for today! Material is trash but I think the simulation is okay 🙂 HoudiniJelly0000-0150.mp4

Looking damn fine!

I think you and me have a VERY different definition of "only".

It's Apple so that's an automatic dislike from me dawg 😆

Sure is. I was just a little concerned when you compared fictional violence with real violence. Might be because in my youth my favorite hobby got dragged through the dirt a couple of times because politicians couldn't find a better scape goat for school shooters. Agreed though. Let's agree to disagre... kind of. But not really 😆

I find this to be a very... narrow view. I hate violence irl in any shape or form. It's unecessary. But I do like a good gory videogame. Mind you, I don't play these games because of the gore but because they are good games and their atmosphere just happens to be supported by gore. I wouldn't want to play a game with zombies without over the top blood and gore effects. It's just not the same. There are certainly cases where this goes to far, for example the Mortal Kombat games; these are just as gory as possible just to be as gory as possible. What really rubs me the wrong way is that you're comparing this to real bloodsport that happened in our history. Just because I like some heads exploding in my videogames and movies does NOT mean that I ever want to see something like this again. I really don't. That said, yes, the first Episode in the first Season was by far the worst and I did find this scene to be over the top and unecessarily gory. I bet this was more a case of some artists going "hey we never had the chance to do this in any movie yet, let's see how good we can make it look". And yeah, they nailed it pretty well lol.

It is. As far as I know, Netflix is basically approaching different studios and telling them to do something they like, which is why this stuff is often very experimental.