Emily Abele
animation light/comp lead, senior animation compositor
Houdini Bar Scene - Light/Comp practice
I haven't used base Houdini in years, mostly working in Maya while at DreamWorks TV. Getting back into it and seeing what has changed in the ~5 years I've been 'away' is a lot of fun...even if I manage to break textures along the way.
My goal here was to look at the scene at provided, remove the lights, and then re-create the setup to the best of my ability. I then brought a rendered still into Nuke and gave myself 5 minutes to 'play'.
Post work done in Nuke to mimic the pipeline I'm familiar with from feature animation.
Assets from SideFX's Bar Scene, sample file.
Re-building the lighting in the scene file, using the base file as a guide when I hit a stumbling block with a setting or feature.
Assets from SideFX's Bar Scene, sample file.