Zombies Ruin Vacation
Zombies chomping (and being chopped) in reverse, for Zombie Island trailer. Houdini was used for rigging, animation, effects and rendering. A nice score for Toronto based SideFX software! Read the VFX breakdown here.
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Procedural Bridge
Just a tad more deep than your typical SimCity type bridge building. A great demonstration of the power of Houdini. -
A New Era for the Video DJ
Andrew Lowell Productions just released an ebook entitled, Simultaneous Music, Animation, and Sound with Houdini. At $29.95, I picked it up immediately! His goal is to share his discoveries in order spark more interest in this area, and the reasonable price reflects this goal. Big props to the author for... -
Guinness Commercial: noitulovE
Guinness gives us a little history of life with “noitulovE” (that’s “Evolution” backwards, if you haven’t noticed). The question of “Daddy, where did we come from?” can be answered in less than 1 minute! I know this commercial is old news, but needed to post it anyways. Get a better... -
Softimage’s ICE
Softimage has introduced ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) in XSI 7. Taking strong cues from Houdini’s procedural workflow, ICE finally brings XSI a particle system and much much more. Despite what the general public thinks, there is a LOT that can be done on a 3D production that does not require... -
Houdini and Mr X Inc
I just finished watching Resident Evil Extinction. It’s the third movie of the Resident Evil series and I was pleasantly surprised. If not for any other reason, the FX don’t feel so fakey and the action is continuous. How about the story? Mad Max w/ zombies? It worked for me....