Curiously I ve been reading the transition guides you kindly wrote lately, thanks Jordi! I am sure that Houdini provides the scalability and resources to be an end to end solution. But for the time being thatdecision is not up to me. At AF we have a katana(vray) & maya pipe. Houdini is used for hero fx stuff. Its on my plans totry and create a production ready asset to show production (once I figure out how to create something actually "useful"!) and only then see the plausibility of using Houdini for environment work (as an additional tool... who knows then..). As this concept is still a bit "new" (although I know its not the case...) I have not seen much cg environment pipelines based on this software if at all. The only case I am aware is rising sun pictures... but I dont know someone there atm. I ve seen houdini used in videogames environments... but dont have much examples of that for film (not talking about fx of course), I am guessing that the main "idea" is somehow similar... ?! cheers
-Manu IMDB | Portfolio | Vimeo | Linkedin From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:14:34 -0400 Subject: Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini To: [email protected] How are you finding your new found Houdini knowledge to be fitting into the needs of the marketplace? Are there many shops adopting it? Or are you a lone wolf or able to turnkey shots for people? I too have found Maya unintuitive and uninspiring. Houdini looks interesting but I'm wary of jumping on something that I'll never get to use. Unlike many of you here, I am in a small market so there aren't many 3D jobs to go around. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Simon Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: I always worry that Houdini is not such a friendly app to be used as a 'backbone' as you (Jordi) phrase it.But I'm basing that on the logic that most of our 3d artists will HAVE to use it, but that's not really the case... I've started to settle into the idea that maya is OK for being the base, (after some love) so perhaps this is the moment I need to give Houdini a proper look before I fall down into the abyss of Maya. On Tuesday, 17 March 2015, Jordi Bares Dominguez <[email protected]> wrote: That certainly is a great approach but even better is if you go in the other direction, use Houdini as the backbone and render from Mantra/Arnold/Octane/PRMan/3Dlight/whatever as the FX live inside Houdini and therefore it is the natural backbone. Ultimately you will be using a myriad of tools that will funnel “dumb” cached data (just baked geometry, particles with attributes and little more) to Houdini and from there you are free to assemble your scenes as you need to. Furthermore, if you need to scale you will find Houdini excels at that so imho it is a no brainer. hope it helps jb On 17 Mar 2015, at 18:15, Manuel Huertas Marchena <[email protected]> wrote: I am wondering if any of you guys working in film use houdini for digital asset production, or is it still more of a fx tool for most part? (having said that I do realize that houdini is not and end to end solution or all kinds of assets, but still I feel that there is a lot of stuff that could/can be created using a procedural approach,ex: buildings, concept modeling, snow, rocks, trees, props...etc..) -- Simon ReevesLondon, UK [email protected] www.simonreeves.comwww.analogstudio.co.uk
