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3d environment render, inspired by a John Howe illustration
www.artstation.com/artwork/DvK8gn
Software used:
-Maya & Arnold
-Speedtree
-World Creator
-Quixel Mixer
-Nuke

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

Some more lighting tweaks:
- Changed the eye-ding setup to be reflected sphere lights instead of small disc geo constrained to the eyes anim.
- Additional hdri reflection in the sclera.
- Added a cool tone light to shape the LHS of her face
- Reduced SSS on arms

updated lighting after some feedback

Revisiting the lighting on this shot 🎬

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

Before and after:
Testing using 'houdini hair procedural' in Solaris to add subtle cloth fibres to the trousers, and help break up the straight edge on the trouser geometry. Combined with 'houdini preview procedurals' where hairs are calculated at render time from the guide curves
#Houdini #Karmaxpu

Get ready for the MARDINI Daily Art Challenge! 31 days, 31 challenges—your chance to create, compete, and win cool prizes. www.sidefx.com/community/ma...

#MARDINI2025 #houdini

Bleu shot wip for today. Next up..to setup a very subtle tree leaves animation for the background.. tried with static frame but think it's not enough.
#Houdini #KarmaXPU #3danimation #3drender

Work in progress for new shot I'm working on for Lupin House. Been focusing more on the groom setup for Bleu with a vellum sim setup on the guides, then will continue developing the environment and lighting next week :) 🐦
#Houdini #KarmaXPU #3danimation

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

This only works because the base usd assets (buildings from Kitbash) are not setup with a proxy/render purpose. Otherwise it would become a proxy within a proxy, and I can't get the best of both working... any ideas anyone? :)

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 💡🎬

Nice! I like the interactivity with a slider. Have you tried the vex functions 'split' and 're_replace'? Split is useful for breaking up a long string into components by a character of your choice.. normally i'd use [-1] to get the last component. Re_replace for removing numbers :)

Now for the fantastic 3D artists I follow 🙂‍↕️🙌💖 It would be great if you could share it and give them some love if you don’t know them yet. I’ll keep updating and resharing these with time

go.bsky.app/3GtnjDE

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

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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