michael

3D @futuredeluxe
previously @active_theory

[michael @maikool_k]

exploration using a midi keyboard in houdini to generate live plants🎵🌿
(a lot of learnings so process thread below)

[Houdini.School @HoudiniSchool]

So fun Michael Kim! 😍 @maikool_k is a multidisciplinary designer based in Los Angeles currently at FutureDeluxe. His work incorporates his love for rendering and motion design into imaginative storytelling and digital media advertisement. 

#Houdini

[michael @maikool_k]

@yannikwenk 🖤🫡

[michael @maikool_k]

@shapiro500 appreciate the share!

[michael @maikool_k]

@helloluxx thank you! 😙

[michael @maikool_k]

not sure what I made this week but it looks like a danger noodle couch. started with a curve drawing concept saved in my hip files from a while back and this result was a bit unexpected 🐍🛋️

[michael @maikool_k]

@thieb_co 💫☀️🏖🐠😃

[michael @maikool_k]

@thieb_co loving the wheat vibe but deep down thinking we need to see the hawaii giant 😎

[michael @maikool_k]

@numosis this one do be hittin doe !!

[michael @maikool_k]

@thieb_co lool yea maybe dont sit on this one 🥸

[michael @maikool_k]

@RemixNv damn now you got me curious on what it could have looked like

[michael @maikool_k]

@gabbys @richczhou @kazijawad_ GAB 😭

[michael @maikool_k]

@samjerommasonic thank you sam😊

[michael @maikool_k]

also major credits to @richczhou and @kazijawad_ for helping me solve this mind boggler - I started studying design to escape the maths but it looks like trigonometry has caught up to me in the end. here's some of our kitchen table process from back in the fall 🧑‍🍳

[michael @maikool_k]

original idea is based on a concept called dubins path, a method to connect points using the shortest curves an object would need to travel. mix that math with houdini's extrusions/vdb tools and you get some interesting looking furniture

[Numosis @numosis]

CLAW

[michael @maikool_k]

@numosis @PaulEsteves28

[michael @maikool_k]

hi! back from quite the hiatus. took some time to straighten priorities with college back in person, work, and life but I think I've gotten the balance (somewhat) down again. more 3d explorations to come :))

[michael @maikool_k]

@motionpunk1 @PaulEsteves28 Thank you! 😄

[michael @maikool_k]

bonus: method to import marvelous designer geo into houdini + automatically "keep" the sewing lines with them. code is a bit hacky but works to create the weld group for vellum sims if you need - just make sure you export from md as "thin" garment

[michael @maikool_k]

in the meantime, some mask rnd from the past weeks. can really never go wrong with vellum (and ty to @PaulEsteves28 for making videos that make learning it so much easier. new documentation is such a life saver)

[michael @maikool_k]

@modopole good to be back man! and hopefully yea explorations to come weekly 🤞