Kalin Stoyanov

kalinbe

About Me

EXPERTISE
CG Supervisor
INDUSTRY
Film/TV

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LOCATION
Bulgaria

Houdini Skills

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Recent Forum Posts

Softimage to Houdini guides Aug. 15, 2016, 5:22 a.m.

Hi to all,

My name is Kalin and I was user of Softimage xsi from the very beginning. Now I am a proud Houdini user. In a constant search of better animation tools I already explored the power of rigging in Houdini, it’s great but the speed is a big issue at the moment. Here are some suggestions:
1. The idea mplay to retime the animation is great but it’d be great if we can save the curves to be reapplied later.
2. In CHOPs blending the animation to be more visual. When blending two clips will be more helpful to have an overlapping control in Motion FX View, like all other motion elements. I love Motion FX View, but it needs a visual revamp. For “constrains”: Fetching the matrix of one object and applying to another is quite slow wen you have a complicated character rig. I really do not want to have Softimage inside Houdini, it’d be great if the current toolset improve into a more user friendly interface and a proper speed. A few versions back particles were out of DOPs, now they are part of it. Maybe is time Motion FX View to be part of animation editor? For channel editor and dope sheet fixing the bugs will be more then I need.