HOUPLA Presents: Mantra 10

Thanks for everyone who came out last night to our event in the Santa Monica office. Andrew Clinton had a great time meeting all the users and chatting about new features in Mantra 10.

Also, thanks for those of you who showed me how to properly pour from a keg. It's the little things that seem to matter.

The room was packed, and the corridors filled with people and cups of Fat Tire. A great way to help the local users meet one another, catch up, or explore Houdini for the first time ever.

A few photos from the evening:

Nordin Rahali points at old co-worker from Framestore, Dan Seddon.

James Kirk and Ken Ibrahim in the standing area checking out the presentation.

John Courte (AKA, St John), showing how it's done while spinning the tunes.

R&H TD, Victor Grant reviews Houdini intern Dan Letarte's latest work.

Soaking up the knowledge with a brew :).

** Please let us know if you're interested in teaching any classes in Houdini or doing an Houdini Intern Mentorship program. All inquiries can be sent to Aliza Sorotzkin, aliza@sidefx.com.

EVENT: Toronto Technical Evening on Crumpling and Tearing

Come join us in Toronto this week :)

Crumpling and Tearing in Houdini 10
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm

This technical evening will cover the new crumpling and tearing features that are available in Houdini 10's physically-based cloth solver. These include support for plastic deformation, dynamic tearing and changing topologies. The presentation will include direction on basic workflows, and fundamental physical properties of cloth objects. Many of these concepts will be supported by working example videos including smashing cars, cutting fabric and collapsing buildings! Presenters for this event will be Side Effects Developer Michiel Hagedoorn, and Side Effects intern Martin Sawtell.

Come along for an informal and interactive evening to see what Houdini 10's cloth simulations tools have to offer.

The evening will conclude with refreshments.

Please register on the event page here.