Tying & Untying A Ribbon Knot Using Sidefx's Houdini Vellum

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That special season of the year is creeping ever closer and you might be starting to think about gift wrapping. One important aspect of which is the decorative ribbon that goes around it. Not that we're particularly talented at arts and crafts, but we were intrigued to see how and if a (somewhat) decorative knot was possible in Houdini using Vellum.

00:05 - Intro
00:30 - Initial Setup
02:47 - Grouping Ribbon Ends
03:27 - Vellum & Collider Configuration
06:10 - Vellum Cloth Configuration
08:39 - Setting Up pscale & restlength
11:04 - Configuring Vellum Solver
12:05 - Animation Tweaks
13:10 - Ideas For Future Tweaks
13:32 - Untying The Knot
16:55 - Infamous Last Words

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