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I am excited to present the latest version of my modeling addon for Houdini. The core and tools have been practically rewritten from scratch, with the main focus on moving away from a separate, foreign UI and fully utilizing Houdini’s native features for tool interaction. Modeler now operates based on Houdini's radial menus, hotkeys, and shelf tools. Release video

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Z allows you to simultaneously edit geometry in Houdini and ZBrush. The toolkit is designed for modeling and animation artists and divided into four parts: 1. Data exchange between programs without using files. The function may be of interest not only to Houdini users but also to ZBrush users who want to improve their workflow by an order of magnitude 2. Blend Shapes creation in Houdini and ZBrush. Tools optimized for high-poly animated geometry 3. Converting FiberMesh to Houdini Curves 4. Built-in remeshing with ZRemesher. Provides a convenient way for partial remeshing and clean mesh with smart relaxing Product link: https://alexeyvanzhula.gumroad.com/l/nuBwF Lightweight version: https://alexeyvanzhula.gumroad.com/l/RaNuJ

Soft Boolean technology, which was previously part of Modeler for Houdini addon, is now available as a separate product. Soft Boolean tools allow you to stitch polygonal meshes with boolean operations and adding accurate fillets to the resulting geometry. Houdini node can be used with the classical procedural way as well as with the help of special shelf tools. Also, the node can be used in other programs using Houdini Engine. The package contains a plugin for Houdini and some scripts for Maya. Release video: https://vimeo.com/592734907 Product link: https://alexeyvanzhula.gumroad.com/l/iWQyT

Modeler 2021 for Houdini Released! Release notes: https://www.dropbox.com/.../Modeler-2021-Release-Notes... Product Link: https://gum.co/mdNet Release video and new video tutorials will be available soon

Product link: https://gum.co/KYCgR What's new: 1. The Modeler core has been completely rewritten. Performance, stability and UX are improved. 2. A hotkey system has been created. Hotkeys are now configured in a separate editor (Hotkeys shelf tool). The editor allows you to quickly configure keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Unlike other modeling programs, you can now associate any tool with any combination of keys or mouse actions. In a similar way, the mouse and keyboard are configured in Nevercenter Silo, but unlike Silo, there are no restrictions here. That is, you can assign absolutely any tool to the mouse. On the other hand, mouse tools such as interactive selection can also be assigned to keyboard shortcuts. Also, unlike the standard Houdini behavior in Modeler, you can use the additional two mouse keys X1 and X2 (Ctrl+X1, Shift+Ctrl+X2 etc). The Hotkeys editor has two default mouse layouts: 1. Standard - that works just like DM and the previous Modeler version - LMB to select items and MMB to drag them 2. Pro - which allows us to select geometry components with RMB and drag with LMB. MMB used to select invisible items too. 3. The interactive state system (add-on for Python States) has been rewritten from scratch. Many tools have become more interactive and have the ability to customize the node in the viewport. In addition, you can quickly create custom interactive python tools for your own HDAs. The mouse wheel now works more universally. In many nodes, the wheel allows you to change the Uniform Scale parameter. List of nodes that now use state tools: Soft Boolean, Insert Mesh, QPrimitive, Array, Hose, Bevel, Extrude, Bridge, Set Flow, Smooth Points, Thickness, View Deform. 4. Retopology tools (Topo category) have been redesigned. TopoDraw tool (Alt+A) allows you to quickly draw poly patches on the reference geometry. It has an ability to snap to existing geometry. Topo mode (Alt+T) now packs the reference model. This speeds up the entire process of retopology with millions of faces. The Push tool now works in the Topo mode, which allows you to get the desired result even faster. In addition, the Push tool has improved performance and stability. 5. The Insert Mesh SOP was redone from scratch. It has interactive tuning, better performance, and more accurate results thanks to improved normals. 6. The Deform menu was merged with the Align menu and renamed to Transform Menu (Z). 7. The Relax tool renamed to Smooth. The tool is completely redesigned and takes advantage of Python States. Using the Smooth tool, you can smooth points or polygons in a standard way. On the other hand, the edges are smoothed as separate curves. Combined with interactive enhancements, the tool allows you to quickly fix messy areas. 8. Tools that create modeling nodes were removed from the Modeler shelf. Only general tools are now on the shelf. Direct modeling tools are now called from the Modeler mode. Added shelf tools: Delete Node, Merge Nodes, Stash History, Pack History, Clean History и Delete Attribs 9. Added a new tool Repeat Node Parms that allows you to apply settings from previously created nodes of the current tree 10. ToolsPanel (spacebar) renamed to Launcher. Launcher tools have been re-sorted and have a new Mouse section for interactive tools like selection or dragging 11. For Bevel, Bridge, Extrude and Smooth tools separate nodes were created 12. Bevel, Extrude, Inset, Smooth, Thickness hotkeys can work as sticky keys. That is, the call of a hotkey, for example, of the Extrude tool, leads to an instant change of the extrusion value before releasing the key. 13. Added Inset tool that uses Extrude SOP. In contrast to the Extrude tool, the first time you start Inset, you can change the inset with LMB. 14. The Lattice tool removed. It is now replaced by improved View 4 and View 9 (View Deform) from the Transform menu (Z) 15. Tools for a quick preview of the subdivided geometry were created: Preview Subdivide (Alt+1) и Preview Subdivide Wire (Alt+2). Standard viewport subdivision and instance subdivision (Symmetrize Tool) ar assigned to Alt+3 и Alt+4 respectivelly. 16. Select By Normals mode (6) allows you to select components based on normals 17. Local transformation tools have been added to the Transform menu: Local Move, Local Rotate и Local Scale 18. An Extend (Y) tool. This add-on to the Extrude tool allows you to quickly extrude edges and polygons using handles. 19. The Bridge Connected tool returned from the DM package 20. Slice, Clip and Mirror tools have the ability to set the initial origin based on points selection center 21. On the next call, the Delete tool changes the node so that it deletes unselected geometry. 22. The KitBash tool now offers to automatically create a KitBash panel if it is not created 23. Shift+Double Click can now replace the geometry of the current Insert Mesh SOP with the geometry from the KitBash panel 24. Combine and Boolean now offer to select nodes at the object level if the tool was launched inside the SOP container 25. Set Flow creates more accurate geometry in unusual situations. 26. Added a Point Weld tool (Alt+W) for interactive point stitching 27. The Soft Boolean SOP can be configured interactively. It also has a slightly improved performance. 28. Collapse History (Left) renamed to Pack History 29. Many tools are assigned to new hotkeys. The ToggleCompass tool is now called with the Backspace key. 30. The Edit Mesh shelf tool now renamed to Modeler 31. Modeler now moved to the package Houdini system instead of using houdini.env

Modeler 1.0 for Houdini released! Free for all the DM 2.* users. $70 for the DM 1.* users. https://gum.co/xKBKM What's new: 1. DM now renamed to Modeler 1.0 2. new feature: the DM menu (Z hotkey) has been replaced with a new alignment menu where you can use tools for fast and accurate transformation. The menu includes the whole set of tools for working with a compass, geometry centring, quick flattening with gestures and many other transformation tools. Use the hotkeys for the tools of the old DM menu. 3. new feature: Deform Menu (N hotkey) with lots of interactive deformation tools including a new Lattice tool 4. new feature: MODELER_PICK_STYLE environment variable allows to override Modeler startup selection pick style. Add it to the houdini.env file. Use "Box", "Lasso", "Brush" or "Laser" values, then restart Houdini. 5. new feature: the hard and soft boolean tools are now combined in a new menu called Boolean (J hotkey) 6. new feature: a Fix Curves tool helps get rid of broken lines in open polygons. This helps when beveling corners of open polygons. 7. new feature: a Select Curves tool helps to select open polygons (curves) in the model 8. improvement: now some tools can create curves and process them. For example, the Extrude tool can produce lines from selected points. The Collapse tool can flatten open polygons (curves). The Connect tool can be used to cut a segment between two selected points or connect two open faces. The Push tool now properly moves points in open faces. 9. improvement: the RMB menu of the Push tool has a new item Toggle Connectivity, which allows you to move points, capturing the points of other closed pieces 10. improvement: the Push tool now works slightly faster 11. improvement: the Push tool can now slide point with Ctrl+MMB 12. improvement: the mouse and keyboard shortcuts of the Push tool have been completely redone 13. improvement: if nothing is selected, the Hose tool searches for all the curves in the current geometry 14. improvement: a Group parm added to the Hose Tool. Can be used in conjunction with a result of the Duplicate tool 15. improvement: Hose now creates straight edges tube if the Resample Curve set to zero value 16. improvement: Geometry Library renamed to KitBash and works only as the python panel 17. improvement: KitBash replace feature now doesn't update the item icon 18. improvement: Tools Panel now has a new category KitBash with tools for working with the library items. Now you can create, save, overwrite and update icons faster, without actually working in the KitBash panel 19. improvement: volatile edge sliding now does not require explicit movement of the mouse pointer to the edges 20. improvement: volatile edge sliding now can be used to slide points and faces 21. improvement: Fix Overlaps can now use face groups 22. improvement: Duplicate applied to edges now creates a curve in the current geometry object 23. improvement: the Resymmetry tool now works slightly better. The Tollerance parameter is no longer saved between nodes (). This allows you to not change the position of the seam points. 24. improvement: mouse wheel manipulation in various tools has been improved 25. improvement: new simple box type has been added to the QPrimitive HDA 26. improvement: Tools Panel now has a more logical structure for faster access to popular tools 27. improvement: the Modeler shelf was fully revisited 28. improvement: the Walk History Up and Walk History Down tools (Up and Down hotkeys) now work more interactively when traveling through nodes with more than one input or output. 29. improvement: the Select By Shells tools was replaced with a new Convert To Shells tool (Ctrl+1) 30. improvement: double-clicking with LMB in the viewport is completely revisited. Now you can jump to objects level by double-clicking LMB in an empty space. Clicking on a geometry allows you to quickly switch between objects. If you are in a certain state, double-clicking activates the selection mode. All these improvements speed up the modeling process. 31. improvement: the deformation tools (Size, Ramp, View) now have the fixed blend feature. The transition between the deformable points and the undeformable part looks more correct. 32. fix: Hose now orients rings copies correctly 33. fix: Slice, Mirror and Cut tools now set correct geometry center on tool activation 34. fix: JumpUp and JumpDown tools does not work when Compass is active 35. fix: QLight now works properly if you run it from the orthographic viewport 36. fix: sometimes camera movement with Alt did not work after a mouse click 37. Lots of tools have changed hotkeys. Look at Tools Panel for more details. 38. Python code has been revisited 39. Documentation has become more detailed 40. Overall speed improvement 41. Other improvements Works only in Houdini 18. Use build >= 18.0.346

I'm glad to introduce my new asset for Houdini 16.0 / 16.5.

Modeler for Houdini is allmost finished. But i haven't working hardware at this time. Also I have some financial problems. I need some support from you, guys, who want to try the results of my work. With new hardware i'll finish Modeler very quickly and it will be available as free open source project. Features list: 1. Poly Modeling a. Improved standard modeling tools b. Additional poly tools with PySide and VEX power c. Accurate (high precission modeling) with numeric editor d. Soft geometry deformation with Move Brush (like in traditional sculpt programs) e. Moving components with Blender style 2. Retopology You can use all the modeling tools to retopologize geometry (not only TopoBuild SOP). 3. UV Separate asset for quick UV layout. You can create UVs in 3d space and 2d space seamlessly. 4. Sculpting Seamless integration with ZBrush for geometry edition in both programs at one time. 5. Objects list Tree style objects list for very accurate scene manipulation. Same as Layer Manager in other programs. 6. UI Modeling environment is combined in one separate editor with its own viewer, node editor and parameters panels. Also it has custom UI elements like numeric editor or objects list. 7. Customization. All aspects of UI are very customizable: a. UI elements visuals, like size and color b. Mouse button shortcuts c. Keyboard shortcuts d. Editable menu with tools list e. And others 8. Old videos where you can see some features: www.youtube.com/vuxster My PayPal account: vuxster@gmail.com Best regards!

Hello, ​My name is Zac and I am a 3D Artist (Maya) and graphic designer looking for full time work in the US. My portfolio and demo reels can be viewed at www.zac3d.com Within my resume you will see I have been doing professional 3D work since 2009 and have more than eight years as a professional graphic designer. In addition to this, I also have been a freelance designer since 2003 creating projects ranging from corporate branding to digital video editing to web design to digital portraits as well as 3D models and exploded views and animations. Throughout my years of experience, training and education I have learned the value of hard work, creativity and being part of a team striving towards a common goal. Additionally, I am a fast, versatile worker that isn't afraid to learn new skills. In a recommendation from Chris Lord, a former owner of Design Mill, said, "Zac is a leader, when he is challenged he steps up and does whatever it takes to accomplish a task and do so with great value and professionalism." I am my harshest critic and always strive to put out the best possible product within the time available. While I know a wide variety of software, I am always seeking new ways to improve my skills by learning new software and techniques. You can view my 3D demo reel and graphic design portfolio at www.zac3d.com and I have also provided a link to my LinkedIn profile below. linkedin.com/in/zacswanson Swanson_Zac_Resume.pdf