Attaching archives during render time with -addsphereRI

This project was about creating and editing RenderMan attributes in Maya. preshapemel attribute was imported to the objects in the scene to switch the points of the actual object with a rib archive or a simple sphere before prman takes the scene over. The interface is created with the help of an r...

Maya lighting scad scripting Animation Renderman cutter rib color instance prman preshapemel
Camp fire

I was doing some flame tests with Houdini before I get some real footage with a mustang in the race track for the ghost rider project... so this is what I came up with, and I know the final comp doesn't look good because I just slapped the flame on top...

Houdini lighting after effects scripting Modelling instance instance light instancepoint isooffset Mantra metaball pop rop
Houdini crowd sim

I thought I posted this before, apparently I didn't.

It is a crowd sim driven entirely by Houdini POP networks. The run cycle was some mocap fbx I found online (model is mia from Motion Builder), but I had to edit it a little to fit in here.

Using...

Houdini Dynamics scad scripting fbx instance instancepoint Mantra pop particle color proximity run cycle walk cycle
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