SCREENGLOW Studio

Portal FX done using Houdini FX.

The movement and behavior is fully art directable using the custom velocity fields (HDA).

This was rendered using Mantra.

VDB export for smoke and ABC export for debris.

Procedural Sci-Fi Portals shots completed with Houdini 18.5 and rendered with Mantra.

Procedural fireworks system completed with Houdini 18.5 and rendered this time with Redshift. Once again, I took advantage of the wedging system which allowed me to generate an endless amount of variations from which I used the best ones. The setup is fully custom without any use of the existing assets from the shelf tool. I like to do it in this way as it provides me better control, in my opinion.

Large Scale Trail Explosions - Houdini 18.5. Final render was done using Arnold renderer / Houdini 18.5. Arnold is still KING for volumes :)

Tire Smoke Trail - Procedural effect done with Houdini 18.Basically, the asset take as input the animated tire along a curve,can have more inputs (btw - don't look on how the tire was animated - this was just a quick test for the smoke trail and not focusing on accurately animating the tire).Rendering was done with Redshift and tracking was done with Blender.I want to try Arnold renderer, as in my opinion, it's the best for volumes.

Dry Ice

Large Scale Explosion - Houdini 18 - rendered with Arnold which in my opinion is the best renderer for volumes.

This is a spin off scene from another project which I really love.All work was done in SideFX Houdini.Rendering was performed with Redshift.

In this case, the particles animation was achieved through some custom controls : curve forces for some areas and some additional velocity fields which added nice movement toward the end of animation.

The challenge here was in terms on how heavy the render geometry was.In this case we had like 50 million particles which increased the render times.

Procedural cloud generated in SideFX Houdini and rendered with Mantra.Houdini is really powerful while building amazing cloud shapes.For this,I was combining simulations and static noises using volume vops. I really like the fantasy look of these ones.

Procedural cloudscapes generated in SideFX Houdini and rendered with Arnold.All the cloud assets were generated in SideFX Houdini and placed in the scene based on a seed value which is positioning randomly the clouds in the scene.For this project we used 48 clouds assets.Bellow are renders for all the clouds and some random closeup renders.

Among the jobs I did beginning of the year, one was for spon.com.I created the clouds asset, most of the clouds layout (clouds positioning) and herocloud main simulation for clock landing.All was done procedural using SideFX Houdini.

Smoke and Fire

Procedural cliffs and rocks generated in SideFX Houdini.

Shading was done in Arnold using procedural textures done as well in Houdini cops.

OLD ROCK COLUMN v1 - Asset created for 3D integration and not only.Can be used for games,films,vfx and hero renders.The asset contains additional 4 progressive low res models.

Particle Madness