Project file available at gumroad.com/l/stylized_dissolve
In this video I show how I created a cell animation inspired, stylized dissolve effect. For people interested in just an overview, in the first 10 minutes I quickly walk through and explain my network setup and talk about my thinking behind it. After that, I rebuild the effect explaining in detail every step of the process. I hope sharing the info this way is useful for both new and old Houdini users.
I use a couple MOPs nodes, but also show alt setups for users who don't have MOPs installed.
0:00 Intro
1:40 Overview start
11:07 Step by Step Build start
11:40 Voronoi Fracture Setup
13:20 Packed Geo
13:57 Mops Spread Falloff to activate pieces
17:40 Create Active attribute / convert to Integer
19:43 Non Mops method of spreading active attribute
21:34 RBD Bullet solver set up
22:56 Dividing the Pieces and Points
24:12 Generate attribute to scale pieces off
24:52 CHOPS count timer setup
28:47 Using that timer with Mops to scale pieces
32:32 Non Mops way of scaling pieces with time
37:31 Unpack / VDB from Polygons
39:23 Trails Build Start
39:48 Trail SOP
40:40 For Each Loop for Tapered pscale
46:22 Speed Multiplier for pscale
49:21 Using the timer to scale off trails
53:30 VDB from Particles / Meshing the trails
54:17 Combine the Pieces and Trails
59:03 Closing thoughts / Flipbook render