smoke / cloud

PBR test

3x3 pixel samples
standard glass shader
PBR render,
VEX GI_light with 32 samples
13m45s on a dinosaur computer


6x6 pixel samples

point instancing !

a little play with point instancing inspired by the Duracell advert - here
http://www.postdreamer.com/video/602_duracell

working in Melbourne

well we cant use Houdini ALL the time....shame...but im having a long awaited excursion in Maya now.

lots of information to come....if only i had time.

future topics could include:

fur/fur card generation in Houdini and transfer to Maya for rendering

• with the new service pack from Maya, we can import vertex colours through FBX
• in Houdini - the normals on the fur can be blended into the normals on the skin for better fur to skin blending
• LODs on fur cards
  

grease and Mud with nParticles in Maya and Houdini
poly + voxel Dust in Houdini and Maya

rendering with nParticles from Maya Unlimited- on Maya Complete !

Mel script and equivalents in Houdini

• in this production i learnt a bit about Mel from Pawell Grochola (Dneg)
  , Joe Leveson (FrameStore / RSP / Fuel) and Jess Curtis (Fuel)
  

we used scripts for :

• generating Lighting passes, and rendering FUR geometry
  
• importing and exporting scene assets / general scene mangaement
• importing obj sequences and animating the visibility like stop-mo
  

soon....

Houdini Fluid test

early days...stuff i can improve on right away:
a reflection / environment map.

more resolution in the mesh / smaller fluid particles.

nicer render- ie a cyclorama - i have an asset for this !
shadows - a wet map. This could be created manually from a top down render
or there must be some procedural method - proximity between the fluid mesh and the
collision plane maybe affecting point colour...like an Amb Occlusion pass ! :)

to far too long to render on my old, old machine :)

Maya nParticles Tests

2nd nParticle anim in maya
with cache sped up 10 times.



fisrt nParticle anim in maya

Maya PLE ncloth tests

well it has been a REALLY long time since i played around in Maya,
what ami doing in Maya anyway ?! I have to do some comparisons.
Im also keen t investigate Maya and Houdini translation techniques.


4th test

tshirt



3rd ncloth test
sphere pulls the cloth around via a
constraint and collides with it

2nd n-cloth test, the torus has 2 'point constraints' on it
as well as a collision relationship with the cube and a noise field
turned on in the n-cloth solver.

1st test - one point constraint and a noise field in the solver