Hi all! I am loving every single day of Houly challenges because I get to challenge myself as well into learning new skills! This piece is a short animatic. Its janky and needs tons of refinement as I spent my time learning rigging for the goat and doing animation for the first time in Houdini!

I call this short animatic style piece “The goat that became the G.O.A.T”. Still needs tons of work and much much better editing but I figured for this topic of Peak I wanted to start a short narrative piece of mountain climbing goats which attempt to climb the highest peak. They all fail and die in their pursuit until one goat seeks to achieve this goal to prevent further death rather than personal glory (by now you should realize how sleep deprived I am ). So the goat succeeds where others have failed and has achieved the peak of the mountain and its own ambitions.

The last frame is just a small reference to Wanderer above the sea of fog

I do plan on refining this some day and rendering but there is a lot more work to be done… I bit of more than I can chew haha as always, hope you guys enjoy!

19 PEAK

hey guys, here's my submission. hdri from hdri haven, rendered with redshift.

Day#19, Peak:

The Long Journey

Edit: Attached HIP file. I didn't include the Tommy Autorig file because of its filesize. The cached Tommy geo is in the zip though.
The viewport proxy geo for the 2 mountains is there too, but the hires erosion steps need to be recached for rendering.

Extras used: HDRI Haven for env light, everything else is Mantra.

Day 19 - Peak

Also day 19 of stretching the daily topic definition

tried out some heightfields today which was pretty fun, found a bug with redshift volumes so i switched over to octane last minute which was also fun to play with.

too tired to fix this mountain of broken materials :/

Peaks abound.

Houly Day 019 - Peaks

hey guys , day nineteen

Day 19 : Peak pencil

Day 19 - Peak

Day 19 Worlds Peak

For some reason Octane kept crashing with the clouds so I eventually gave up and turned them off. I used find shortest path to generate a railing from the ladder down the mountain avoiding the steeper slopes. The observatories are procedural as well

Peak. Learnt about terrain nodes

Here is my entry

SOft ice peaks - it counts

Day 19 - Peak, still playing catchup.

My entry for day 19!