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exploration using a midi keyboard in houdini to generate live plants🎵🌿 (a lot of learnings so process thread below)

So fun Michael Kim! 😍 @maikool_k is a multidisciplinary designer based in Los Angeles currently at FutureDeluxe. His work incorporates his love for rendering and motion design into imaginative storytelling and digital media advertisement.  #Houdini

@yannikwenk 🖤🫡

@shapiro500 appreciate the share!

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Some cool artists I've come across lately ⬇️⬇️⬇️

@helloluxx thank you! 😙

@maikool_k Very cool!

not sure what I made this week but it looks like a danger noodle couch. started with a curve drawing concept saved in my hip files from a while back and this result was a bit unexpected 🐍🛋️

@thieb_co 💫☀️🏖🐠😃

there you go @maikool_k 😄 twitter.com/maikool_k/stat…

LOST GIANTS #004 💙 A poetic representation of the need to get lost to find yourself. Curiousity, loneliness, fear and happiness, all that expressed through this series #lostgiants #nft #3d

@thieb_co loving the wheat vibe but deep down thinking we need to see the hawaii giant 😎

Note that I'll stay away from a clear/neutral blue sky anyway 😄

Alright so yesterday I started gathering references for the next #lostgiants iteration, which vibe do you guys think I should go for first? (poll below)

@numosis this one do be hittin doe !!

Monochrome

@thieb_co lool yea maybe dont sit on this one 🥸

@maikool_k So clean @maikool_k 🔥 looks dangerous

@RemixNv damn now you got me curious on what it could have looked like

@maikool_k Really cool! You could push it even further by making the couches leave trails on the carpet. Would be really interesting to see how that looks.

@gabbys @richczhou @kazijawad_ GAB 😭

@maikool_k @richczhou @kazijawad_ OKAY GENIUS !!! 💪🏻😌

@samjerommasonic thank you sam😊

also major credits to @richczhou and @kazijawad_ for helping me solve this mind boggler - I started studying design to escape the maths but it looks like trigonometry has caught up to me in the end. here's some of our kitchen table process from back in the fall 🧑‍🍳

original idea is based on a concept called dubins path, a method to connect points using the shortest curves an object would need to travel. mix that math with houdini's extrusions/vdb tools and you get some interesting looking furniture

CLAW

@numosis @PaulEsteves28

@maikool_k @PaulEsteves28 Chef kiss emoji

hi! back from quite the hiatus. took some time to straighten priorities with college back in person, work, and life but I think I've gotten the balance (somewhat) down again. more 3d explorations to come :))

@motionpunk1 @PaulEsteves28 Thank you! 😄

@maikool_k @PaulEsteves28 amazing sim!

bonus: method to import marvelous designer geo into houdini + automatically "keep" the sewing lines with them. code is a bit hacky but works to create the weld group for vellum sims if you need - just make sure you export from md as "thin" garment

in the meantime, some mask rnd from the past weeks. can really never go wrong with vellum (and ty to @PaulEsteves28 for making videos that make learning it so much easier. new documentation is such a life saver)

@modopole good to be back man! and hopefully yea explorations to come weekly 🤞

@maikool_k Good to have you back mate, hopefully it will be like this often pure fire always 👏🏻