Houdini Tutorial: Popping A Soap Bubble

Support us on Bubbles! We have a bit of a thing for bubbles here at Entagma. But the one classic Houdini setup we have not done yet is a bubble pop. So let’s fix this right now! Download the scenefile here: Chapters: 00:00 Building the base bubble 02:11 Creating the pop mask via a pyro spread sim 05:06 Splitting the bubble along the pop line 07:44 Flip Sim A: Sop preparations 10:44 Flip Sim B: Basic parameter tweaking 13:22 Flip Sim C: Driving the sim with our pop mask 16:32 Flip Sim D: Adjusting droplet detection, surface tension and reseeding 20:59 Flip Sim E: Caching and Meshing 22:35 Merging bubble and Flip sim 27:54 Rendering in Solaris and Karma