Adventures in MPM land: the Fine Art of Balancing Numbers, Anse Vandevelde, Houdini Horizon

Dive into the new MPM solver introduced with the release of Houdini Well walk through two projects a landslide and a lava stream each using different material presets. We will explore the workflow, the techniques used and talk about the challenges faced while exploring this new solver. Anse Vandevelde is currently a marketing FX Intern at SideFX. She first got into Houdini while studying at Digital Arts and Entertainment in Belgium, thats where her love for FX and problemsolving really took off. As part of her universitys program, she did an exchange in Montreal and completed an internship at Stargate Studios Malta. Afterwards, she went on to do freelance FX work for UKbased animation studio Revenant before returning to Canada and joining SideFX.