This one didn't come out too well unfortunately. I tried recreating a sky kingdom environment from a shot I used to watch when I was a kid. The sky rig was unsuccessful due to my scene scale I think and I learned a for each loop with clouds can be a big no no haha Probably a bit too ambitious for a few hours work but I'll come back to it eventually.
another quick one, but had fun making this little guy. was gonna do an animated one and have him throwing lightning bolts while crying but work got crazy and i ran out of time, maybe at some point ill flesh him out. still having a lot of fun with octane for these stills at least
Really starting to get the hang of Houdini thanks to the Houly challenges. This is my 22nd straight entry!
Today I took on a big idea. I brought in images from the GOES-17 weather satellite showing the infrared and RGB cloud data. I wrote some vex to filter out the RGB values and converted them to scale the height of the clouds. Green data in the satellite images are the highest clouds (more likely to cause rain).
The loop below represents 110 images from today (from about 5am to 6pm EST).
I still want to refine this and make it better, but this is what I was able to pull off in one day! Looks like it was a sunny day in California….