Project 1 Trailer

A sneak peak of an ongoing passion project I started in January. I used Houdini for the assembly, FX, surfacing, lighting and rendering.

Originally I tried rendering using Cycles in Blender, but it kept crashing due to the complexity of the scene. I ported everything to Houdini and rendered with Karma XPU, which was a new experience. Despite being a new renderer, Karma was fast and stable which made lookdev fun. The new subsurface feature was great for the flaps on the character and the hand pit.

I made everything in this trailer from scratch, except for the good looking artwork in the middle drawn by Ben Poate. I did the animation using a Rokoko Motion Capture Suit, with cleanup in Blender.