Understanding Houdini smooth function

This foundational tutorial demonstrates how to create and animate procedural masks along a single axis by leveraging the Houdini smooth function and normalized bounding boxes in Houdini VOPs.

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Learn how to create and animate procedural masks along a single axis by leveraging the smooth function and normalized bounding boxes in Houdini VOPs. It covers essential techniques for adding noise-driven distortion, remapping ranges with ramps, and using offsets to build complex, looping wipe effects suitable for a wide variety of production tasks.

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