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...
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...
Done in a weekend, this shot was a little complicated. Rotoscoping two characters took a little too much of my time and I couldn't spend enough with the renders and the animation. The skeletons had dynamics calculations added to them. Rest of the fx wer...