I can’t quite believe that three years have passed since I last posted here. Lots of things have happened (mostly good, but a few bad!) and I thought it would be appropriate to summarise them before I move on to posting other articles.

Here’s a video I put together for anyone who’s looking for a fast overview of ICE. The video demonstrates some basic techniques with particles, and mostly uses the menus to keep things simple.

This tutorial was written for the November 2008 of 3D World magazine (issue 109). It shows how to create a rig for a 4 wheeled vehicle that uses spring dynamics to simulate suspension movement.

A cheat sheet for Houdini showing the most commonly used SOP operators, expressions, and variables.

All about Cinestyle. Technicolor’s new picture style for the Canon 5D MkII.

A question and answer session discussing the techniques used for the AT&T Spring commercial. This was a job I jointly led in our Mill New York office earlier this year.

Written for 132nd edition of Digital Media World Magazine.

If you’re thinking of shooting video for any sort of extreme sport, then the GoPro Hero HD camera is a great choice. I used one for filming a windsurfing holiday in Egypt last year and got some great footage.

Here’s 10 practical tips for shooting on the GoPro Hero HD camera.

The Replace ICE String tool lets you effortlessly change attribute names in your ICE trees.

This is the second article of two that show solutions to common problems faced when using Python in XSI.

It discusses a useful way of importing your own Python modules into your plugins.

This article is the first of two that will show you solutions to a couple of common problems you’ll face when using Python in XSI.

Here we look at passing functions to PPGs to be used as PPG logic. Something simple in other scripting languages, but harder in Python.