Sunday, March 2nd, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerTutorial: Dynamic Cloth Simulation for Productionhtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"The Gnomon Workshop has released Dynamic Cloth Simulation for Production, a guide to professional character effects, recorded by Untold Studios Senior CFX Artist Salah Hussein.The workshop, which sets out how to make a 3D characters clothing dynamic using cloth simulation, provides over four hours of video training in Houdini.An essential guide to character effects workflows for animation, VFX and cinematicsIn the workshop, Hussein sets out his professional workflow for simulating an animated characters clothing and props using Houdinis Vellum solver.He begins by converting layers of cloth from the character asset into efficient proxy geometry, then sets up a constraints network that makes it easier to fine-tune or debug the simulation. After setting up the Vellum solver and refining the sim, Hussein demonstrates how to export the data cleanly, preserving the original geometry without changing any attributes or topology.As well as the tutorial videos, viewers of the workshop can download Husseins Houdini Indie project files, and Alembic simulation caches.About the artistSalah Hussein is Senior CFX Artist at VFX and motion design firm Untold Studios. He has more than eight years of experience in advertising, television, and game cinematics. Studios he has worked for include MPC, Jellyfish Pictures, Folks VFX, Axis Studios and Rodeo FX, on projects like Spirit Untamed, Marvel Snap and the Diablo Immortal launch trailer.Pricing and availabilityDynamic Cloth Simulation for Production is available via a subscription to The Gnomon Workshop, which provides access to over 300 tutorials.Subscriptions cost $57/month or $519/year. Free trials are available.Read more about Dynamic Cloth Simulation for Production on The Gnomon Workshops websiteHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Full disclosure: CG Channel is owned by Gnomon.Latest NewsTutorial: Dynamic Cloth Simulation for ProductionMaster character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.Sunday, March 2nd, 2025Check out free Blender scattering add-on OpenScatterPromising open-source add-on lets you scatter plants and rocks in your scenes according to elevation, texture masks or guide curves.Sunday, March 2nd, 2025CETA Software launches Artist AccessCheck out the new time-tracking tools in the cloud-based production management platform for VFX. Free for six months to startup studios.Friday, February 28th, 2025Foundry releases Nuke 16.0Next major update to Nuke introduces native multishot compositing, and improves roto performance and BlinkScript editing.Friday, February 28th, 2025Boris FX releases SynthEyes 20253D tracking and match-moving software gets new multi-export system, AI-based roto masking, and 3D head mesh for head tracking.Thursday, February 27th, 2025Adobe launches Photoshop on iPhoneImage-editing and retouching app is now available on iPhone as well as iPad, with an Android version coming soon. Read our FAQs here.Thursday, February 27th, 2025More NewsPlastic Software releases Plasticity 2025.1Technicolor Group begins to shut down operationsDownload four free VDB clouds from VFX AssetsArtlist discontinues the FXhome apps: HitFilm and Imerge deadFree tool: Mesh Cleaner for BlenderTutorial: Introduction to Lighting & Compositing for CinematicsAdobe to raise the price of Substance 3D subscriptionsAdobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.0Chaos acquires architectural AI tools developer EvolveLABEpic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1Assetify 2 converts Blender animations to game-ready formatsIs AI replacing render farms?Older Posts