This course, taught by Jeronimo Maggi, covers how to sculpt and perfect this extremely common aspect of most FX shot work: the creation of secondary particles and the technical and creative processes behind it. Appropriate size distributions, shaping, motion, and orientations will be covered. On completion of the course, you will have great setups to bring to the next production to get shots looking better and finalled faster.

Jeronimo Maggi started his career as a 3D generalist and has been working with Houdini as an FX Artist for the last 5 years. He worked for several years in the education field teaching Houdini and currently works in Animal Logic Vancouver as a CFX Technical Director. Aside from Houdini, he is also programs in Python and enjoys creating tools to speed up workflows.