As always, Librarian with the idea. Thanks! Appreciate it.

Actually animating hand writing on a piece of paper. Animated strokes. Just the type. Not the pen, hand, etc… Animated writing.

Has anyone ever come across a way in Houdini to animate hand writing? Obviously it’s easy to do in After Effects. I’m trying to figure out how to approach this in Houdini. Thought? Thanks!

Thanks guys, I'll take a look. Cheers.

Good morning, I'm trying to find a way to create a mask, or black and white matte, of my subdivided, transformed geo. (see attached.) As the falloff is animated, I need to be able to create a matte so anything transformed and subdivided is white, and the unchanged grid is black. Thank you for any ideas! T

Thanks!

Hey, actually like this. But starting from a central circle shape. Thanks for any insight.

Hi all, I've had results making curl noise particles, I am now trying to "lock" the curl noise ONLY on the X and Y plane. So the particles, trails, are only flowing on a plane. Starting in the center, or emitting from a circle curve. That's the critical part. I see how flow lines are created, but I need the particles to do the work. *Ultimately I need to create really round particle swirls. Any ideas? Thanks! T

Matt, my next question would be how to have the trails in the center dissipate? So they animate out, as we have them now, but those trails in the center disappear after a second as the trails move outward. Thanks again. T

Matt, that's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Amazing. Thank you so much. I was scanning through CGWiki, also some some great ideas for other things. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. Cheers Terence

Hello all, I have a flow field of lines, now I want to create that same shape with particles. So each line, the curls, would be drown by one particle each. Starting at the center would be ideal. Any magicians out there have an idea how to achieve this? I've been playing with Pop Curve, but that's not working. Thanks! T

Hello all, I am using a pop color node to color my particles within the DOP net. How would I promote this to a Cd attribute, so I can have Arnold read it for the particle color? I don't see any way of doing this from within the DOP. Please see attached. Thanks! T

In Illustrator make sure the text is only outlines. No shapes used to create a hole in the letter P. Then select all outlines. Group them. Save as Illustrator 8. For some reason Houdini likes this best. Add normals, and the Hole node will work. Just did a whole bunch of titles this way. T

Maybe this type of approach? https://chishbak.gumroad.com/l/FreiOtto

Hello all, I have created a particle grain simulation where I use an attribute from map to create the look of my swirling particles. Basically using a photo for the look, and forces to drive the particles advection. It looks great. —— What I am trying to do now is “reverse” the simulation so they all reform the original flat image. Doing it all in one shot. So it starts off with the flat image, then the particles swirl, then they swirl back to form the original image. Make sense? I’m trying to do this effect in Houdini as opposed to looping the animation. Thanks for any ideas. T