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This was my final in a shake compositing class from a few years ago. Unfortunate my footage was bad, so the green screen key was a big challenge – ended up doing a lot of unnecessary roto. I also had to recreate the shadow cast on the wall also. I reshot myself on location and extracted the shadow that way. I guess I was half successful at that. The floor crack, anvil, debris, and smoke simulation was all done with Houdini Rigid Bodies.

Tools Used:
Houdini, Shake

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A simulation of a bee swarm – all done using Houdini particles. The background plate is just an image. Final camera shake and composite in AE.

Tools Used:
Houdini, After Effects

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This is a quick simulation of rockets flying through the air. I used sprites and a custom vex shader in houdini to create the trailing smoke.

Tools used:
Houdini, After Effects

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This is a still to life or day for night shot. I took a picture on a Vegas trip from a few years ago, and brought it back to life. I didn’t plan on it, but the washed out highlights on the buildings give it somewhat of a sin city feel. Originally I had snow in the foreground that I made using Houdini, but I changed it to rain now (done in Maya). For the sky, I used two images rotating on top of each other to create a more surreal sky scene.

Tools Used:
Shake, Maya, Houdini

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This was made with Houdini and copy stamping. Actual video footage was mapped onto plane geometry and then some expressions applied to it to extract color and give it a rolling look. Copy stamping was used to replace the points with disc geometry. The final composite was all done in After Effects.

Tools Used:
Houdini, After Effects