Reel Breakdown
Maya, Katana, Houdini, Nuke used on the following productions:

Ghostbusters:

• Houdini rig used for beam, lightning, smoke and sparks.
• Maya particles used for debris motion. Final geometry was attached at render time.
• Maya used for background fire and portal elements.

Sully:

• Maya particle and volumes for multiple breath shots.
• Flowline cache offset for splash shot.
• Additional work on a show with a pending release date.

• Wrote internal workflow documentation for Houdini rigs and Katana in the production pipeline.
• Worked directly with Senior Artists to test Houdini fire, interaction and rigid body rigs.

Rigid Body Destruction:

• Houdini project with multiple fracture types including bools and Voronoi.
• Intricate custom Glue and Constraint system to simulate material failure strength patterns.
• Multiple RBD simulations where completed simulation data fed into additional simulations.
• Reference used as a blueprint for the final look.

Procedural Geometry:

• Houdini procedural workflow.
• Art directed noise pattern used for both placement and height.
• Most point attributes transferred to lines and final geo placed on lines.
• Bark and pebble systems utilized lookup curves for random variation in scale and rotation.
• Reference used as a blueprint for the final look.

Crowd System:

• Custom Houdini setup that used a particle system to define movement direction and velocity.
• Geometry assigned to point ID procedurally.
• Geometry animation of a single agent with the resulting movement data fed into CHOPS, and assigned a custom output per agent based on particle ID velocity.