The Giant Eight Ball

Here is another old shot, done entirely in Maya and After Effects. Simple camera projection to pick up reflections, and proxy scene geometry to pick up shadows.

Maya scad old after effects camera projection scene geometry
Flaming 2 seater

These are stills from the last shot I am working on. There is a particle system that spawns the sprites for the flame and a copy of it with much less particles that instance the point lights to light up the scene.

This is tricky because there is a bug in Houdini 9.5 that messes up the scene perman...

Houdini scad scripting instance instance light instancepoint Mantra pop particle color flame sprite
Smoke Ship continued I

This is a different take on the smoke ship project. I dropped renderman, and particle systems to simplify the pipeline.

I brought the softbody simulation back in which was already cached on the disk before and hooked it up to an isooffset node under S...

Houdini scad Renderman HDR pipeline Modelling isooffset Mantra pop softbody cache depth map sop volume smoke
Cars light test

These are some of the light and compositing tests I've done with the car models.

final gathering Mental Ray lighting vfs xsi cars
Meteor

This is a meteor effect I've experimented with using Houdini, Mantra, and RenderMan as well.

Three particle systems spawned over 25k particles in midst of their lifetime. All particle systems were rendered with Mantra seperately and then composited on top of each other in the compositing section...

python Houdini scad Renderman color Mantra pop flame pipeline meteor point color
Atmospheric anomaly II

Geometry is imported for each particle system cache. Houdini’s sprite node that is in the POP network doesn’t really function for prman. So I had to copy little circular grids on particles with template point attributes. I had to make sure that the grids would face the camera at all times, so while...

Houdini scad scripting Renderman rsl shader Modelling prman pop sprite smoke add normal vex