Hi everybody,

Well, well, well, some of you kinda already heard the rumor…
Here it is!
Big news for Christmas. To peacefully watch during the holidays:



HOUDINI L-Systems Essentials DVD 1
Learn how to construct organic models with l-systems
http://www.cmivfx.com/product_houdini_lsystems1.asp [cmivfx.com]
(In High Definition)

cmiVFX is proud to announce the first DVD ever released about l-systems, an immense and yet not well-known field of computer graphics.
Aiming to partner with our customers, and upon general request, we decided to fill the immense void of learning material in this vastly underestimated topic. No less than 4 DVD's will be released to introduce you to the immense variety of effects you can achieve with l-systems. From the large topic of plant and tree modeling to tentacle animation, wire DOPs, lightning effects, complex crack generation, snowflakes, corals, L-system based surfaces, city pattern creation, blood flow through bronchus, making L-systems more scriptable and much more.

The first DVD introduces you to the main concepts of L-system grammar, the different types of rewriting, the use of parameters and expressions, the use of conditional statements, probabilities not presented as a list of commands but smoothly introduced through complete examples. Since finding the correct formula for a plant may require pen and paper, the tutorials are interspersed with blackboard animated schematics, as if you were in a real classroom.

Once you're familiar with the l-system syntax you will learn how to create realistic trees with full interactive control over their morphological parameters, then plants ( both static and animated with fully detailed growth sequences, using parameters for growth triggering, you will learn how to create elaborate leaves with polygonal l-systems and how to use l-systems to create the control structure of a trimmed NURBs surface like a banana-tree leaf (using the accuracy and the power of l-system commands to provide complex deformations)

We will teach you how to create a gorgeous rose flower with multiple petals, animated with l-systems as control structures, at different steps of their development using special expressions to have onion-skinning-like display for keyframing.


For more information about cmiVFX and the best High-End, High-Def training, please visit our the website at http://www.cmivfx.com [cmivfx.com]

Link:
http://www.cmivfx.com/product_houdini_lsystems1.asp [cmivfx.com]


Merry Christmas everybody

David Gary @ CMIVFX

We were faster, David!
Already ordered

Count me in for one of those …

R

Wow, that's a lot of stuff to digest :wink:

Just a NOTE:

Those who buy Both the Cities DVD and the L-Systems DVD on Monday the 15th 2007 will get the blender advanced fluids DVD for Free. Offer expires at midnight.

head over to cmivfx.com if this applies to you.

Will the Cities and L-Systems DVD's be offered in a bundle?

Thanks.

normally we only deliver the 3 disk or more as a hat trick kit.

You will have to wait alittle bit for that to happen.

ALTHOUGH, i can hook you up with any three DVD's in a single purchase.
Just email me.

-c

Sorry to drag up a semi-old thread… but how much Houdini experience do you need before taking on this DVD? Is this more of an “intermediate” DVD that won't cover basics or could a more-or-less beginner take it and follow along pretty well?

thanks…

This dvd gets you started in lsystems. So its safe to go for it at ANY level of houdini expertise. HOWEVER, the next one WILL be needing the first DVD “lsys 1” to understand it.

lsystems are WAY powerful and we tendt to exploit all options that will also teach you other areas of the app through natural habit.

any questions, feel free to ask.

-chris

Hi!

The DVD is let's say 70-80% pure l-system ( about formulas and grammar, and botanical models) so it's not even specific to Houdini and in this field, no experience at all is needed.

About the Houdini-specific parts, we go a little faster so maybe an “intermediate” one.
This is the first DVD ever released about this topic in Computer Graphics, so all the ideas behind the grammar can be transposed to any other software.
L-system are also a way to discover some other aspects of Houdini:
We like to show how Houdini's different parts talk to each other - which makes its strength -
( in the following DVDs, you will see more relations with rendering, with CHOPs, with DOPs).

-d