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This is a full start-to-finish project, building a spiral galaxy in Houdini from scratch. We cover simulation, shaders, rendering, and compositing. We are going for an aesthetic and art-directed attempt here, rather than a scientifically accurate representation of a galaxy. The great thing about this tutorial is that you will be able to produce a high quality result at the end of it. This isn’t just a technique tutorial, where you have to where you learn some abstract technique and have to fill in the blanks to reach a good-looking end product. We discuss creative decisions, make adjustments on-the-fly, and work toward a stunning result. This is an intermediate level tutorial. Familiarity with Houdini is assumed, and you should have some experience in all the Houdini contexts before attempting this tutorial.

cmiVFX has been leading the forefront of Visual Effects Methodology And Training for the last decade by creating unique video titles that can’t be found anywhere else. Our videos are an extension of heavy research and development as well as experience. Recently, we suffered a major weather event that destroyed our town as well as cut our power for days leaving us in the cold as fires and flood waters ran rampant all around. We are still recovering from this devastation, and are thankful to all the supporters out there. We appreciate your loyalty and demeanor during these hard times. One of our mentors living on the west coast sought out an opportunity to potentially help others seeking weather information by creating a brilliant Houdini Python tool that lets you have live weather graphics for Motion Graphics work. With a little imagination, you could potentially turn this into a way to reconstruct weather events based on data given by government and satellite agencies. This is a full feature video with a personal touch. Varomix keeps his video live in a window while he records so that everyone can meet him on a more personal level. We would like to extend this new type of service as a way to better see what you as the consumer might want from us in the future. We are really proud to be able to produce this entire video during the Hurricane Conditions and aftermath with extremely limited technology. It’s actually quite amazing, an testament to how efficient the cmiVFX production workflow really is.