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Igor, this is the first time I've logged into this site in about 3 years. I have just seen this houdini thread, skipping from page 1 where you modelled a procedural table, to page 16 where you made a great cart full of stuff, to now where you're modelling realistic old rifles and moving onto greener pastures. Congratulations on the new channel, it's exciting to see. Nice work!

Ha first thing that pops up is that it's only Win 10 compatible.. should have checked the fine print before upgrading the MSA.

Hi everyone, we are looking for up to date reels and contact details for any London based C4D freelancers, for work in the next month. Experience using Octane render a plus. Please give us a shout at info@lightfield.studio. Cheers

Man, fields are mega

If you're just starting out, and not confident in your own modelling skills, then charging top dollar straight away is not a good plan. That estimate I gave you would be on the very low end of what a modeller could charge, but keeping in mind people in different markets can charge different amounts. For example, in the states, day rates are way higher than the UK and Europe. However, living costs are higher with expensive healthcare etc so it's justified. In your case, charge what you feel comfortable with, but most importantly be clear about what you can and can't do from the start with your client. So long as you manage the expectations, and don't give them any unwanted surprises (it takes you 5 days when you thought it'd be 2 days, etc) then you should be OK. I agree with Vozz above, it's important to charge your worth and not undercharge, but first you must get professional skills up to speed. Once you know how good you are, and can demonstrate that to new clients, then you can bump up your rates and live the dream (assuming your dream is being a 3d freelance modeller guy). Good luck with it, sounds like you'll have fun and learn a lot.

Charge by the hour that way if they make a lot of changes you get paid for them. Agree on the rate up front (say, 30 euros an hour? figure out what you want per day and divide it by 8), and every time she sends you a new sketch or some feedback let her know how long you have a) spent on it and b) think these new changes will take. As far as working in black goes, make sure that's OK with her as well as some businesses will need to account for where they spend cash, so it doesn't look like they're spending hundreds of euros on < N O T H I N G > which looks super dodgy.

Fabric engine is much more like ICE from XSI (now bifrost in maya) or a programming language than just a material system.

Looking more into the fields stuff, and .. wow it's pretty great. I highly recommend the aixsponza intro videos by Manuel, that guy is a boffin and his entagma Houdini tutorials are amazing. https://www.aixsponza.com/projects/chroma

I do a lot of mograph stuff so the fields effects are interesting. Multi instance seems great, hope it is easy to inegrate into 3rd party renderers. The VDB stuff looks nice. Xparticles has had this for awhile (and houdini forever)so I'll be interested to see how the native C4D implementation compares. Seems weird to rely on it for actual modelling though, as poly meshes generated via VDB are always pretty gross even if they are all quads. Not sure but I think meshfusion in Modo is more advanced than this as it still keeps hard edges and flow (Kiwi, is that right? ha). Node based materials + Prorender I will barely use since I'm using Redshift and Octane these days, but nice to know they're there. I can see some people finding node-based materials a bit of a challenge to get used to. Bodypaint MIA, but motion tracker has been updated. Go figure. I'll still upgrade. I love C4D.

Yes there's different modes, and you can also create layered scans where you just move the camera and repeat the process. It's also got the ability to output the scanned points as particles, mograph clones.. lots of creative options.

LAZpoint - it's amazing, and renders blindingly fast. I recently worked on a job where it was used extensively.. http://lightfield.studio/clapat_sqr_portfolio/adnoc-panorama-launch-film/

Wow that's both really sad but amazing he's made it public. I hope he's OK. I was a registered effex user up until v2.5, it's got some quirks but is very powerful in certain ways. Definitely recommend anyone who doesn't have Xparticles or Houdini giving it a try - the mesher in particular is great.

If you were a cynic you might think they'd want to kill it, Softimage style..

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Nope don't do it! The new xparticles features are fantastic, in particular VDBs for meshing and flow fields for super custom particle animation. If you really want even more powerful fluid options I'd recommend buying houdini Indie, and learning that. All this is just my humble opinion, of course.