Lighting challenge for the Academy of Animated Art
Character Animation by George Toombes

Houdini Solaris & Karma XPU
Nuke

Latest shot I've done environment work, lighting, rendering & comp for Lupin House
And breaking glass with rbd material fracture 🔨
#Houdini

A little breakdown of a shot I worked on for Lupin House :)
#Houdini #KarmaXPU #3danimation #rendering

A #Houdini setup for reducing viewport visibility of 1000's of scattered objects, for smooth viewport performance, using 'render' and 'proxy' purpose. To remove the conflict of doubling up of purpose between asset and instances, I just pruned the corresponding purpose for the instancing part

Here's a shot update and breakdown with new vs old lighting. I wasn't really happy the previous version, and after a lot of tweaking of lights and material/geometry setup... hopefully it's an improvement! #Houdini #karmaxpu #3danimation

Here's a demo of layering usd files, and working with variants in Solaris. When I receive a new alembic animation cache from Maya, I can process it through this setup to ensure materials are consistent between shots, with the flexibility of variants if needed #Houdini

Little edit of shots I've worked on lighting, rendering & comp so far for Lupin House. Hoping to make some improvements, and work on new shots in the future :)
#Houdini #Solaris #Karmaxpu

Latest shot I've complete for Lupin House! (with a little breakdown) This one took a bit longer, as there was no base environment to go by, and I wanted to get Bleu's groom setup working nicely in Solaris
Animation by Ember Capistran Beede
#Houdini #Karmaxpu
www.lupinhouse.com

Lighting, rendering & comp- latest shot I've worked on for Lupin House. #Houdini #KarmaXPU #Nuke
www.lupinhouse.com
Animation by Anne Domning:
anne-domning.squarespace.com

Here's a vellum simulated hair test on Bleu, the sim is lightweight on the guides, and then an additional hairgen on top that follows the guide sim
Animation by Ember Capistran Beede for Lupin House

Testing 'Houdini Procedural Hair' setup in Solaris on Bleu, originally setup in Maya with xgen
#Houdini

Experimenting with setting a proxy and render purpose on an instancer setup with 10000's of objects that slows down the viewport. Proxy version only displays a limited amount of objects to keep the viewport snappy #Houdini #Solaris

Work in progress for my next Lupin House shot 💡🎬

Poor Bob! Here's final lighting & comp, and a breakdown below
Really nice animation by Ting Liu for Lupin House 🤖
#Houdini #karmaxpu #3danimation

Here's a work in progress for the latest shot I'm working on for Lupin House.
Step 1: Import Alembic cache
Step 2: Sort though loads of nasty Maya object file paths!
Step 3: Make a nicely organised Solaris stage and hierarchy
Step 4: Asset materials with MaterialX
Then onto lighting! #Houdini

Here's the latest shot I've done lighting, rendering & comp for Lupin House Animation. Using #Houdini and rendered with #karmaxpu
www.lupinhouse.com
I really love the animation on the character- done by Giada Bertano. Find more of her animated shots here:
vimeo.com/giadabertano
#animation

Here's a new shot I've finished using Houdini, Solaris and Karma xpu: Animation preview vs lighting + comp

Animation by Keith Walheim for Lupin House:
www.artstation.com/kwal/profile
www.lupinhouse.com

#3danimation #animation #rendering