Stroke It
Motion Graphics
Check out Procedural Oil Painting in Houdini.
Stroke-it replicates real-life oil paintings in a CG application. All the geometry is created inside Houdini using a custom sweep object, with controls for things like stroke width, bristle height, stroke smoothness and color mixing. This is paired with an auto-trace system which can read in images and generate stroke patterns that mimic the way an oil-painter sees islands of colour in a scene. The result is a direct photo-to-painted-image system which works well on a variety of source images.
Oh, and it's really fun.
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Malcolm Wright 1 month ago |
Hi Will, I'm excited you've offered this to the community!
I'm studying Houdini and this was a side project I wanted to take on during my coursework, but admittedly it would probably have turned out to be a bit advanced for me at this juncture. Thanks to you, I'll get to see the approaches you took. I'm very grateful.
All the best
Malcolm
willmacneil 4 weeks, 1 day ago |
Hey Malcom, I’m very glad to hear it’s been helpful. Good luck with Houdini and please let me know if you have any questions or ideas for the tools!
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