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How I made two love bird's on a branch for the Mardini daily challenge.Build uses KineFx, VEX, and some good old fashion keyframe animation.

This year I was fortunate enough to have five wins during the Mardini challenge. I took two 2nd place, three 3rd place wins, and finished in 10th overall. I decided to make breakdown / tutorials of all of these winning entries, as well as some of my other entries that I enjoyed making. Even if they didn't win.

Some highlight points of the breakdown video:

  • 00:00:00 - Entry overview
  • 00:05:51 - Bird body build
  • 00:17:28 - Bird KineFx build
  • 00:32:21 - Source feather build
  • 00:37:34 - Feather population build
  • 01:00:00 - Bird eyes build
  • 01:02:24 - Bird beak build
  • 01:04:12 - Branch build
  • 01:08:29 - Geo breakouts for render
  • 01:09:34 - Lighting
  • 01:10:35 - Redshift3D materials
  • 01:18:02 - Render settings

CREATED BY

VFXMAN222

Houdini Educator, Tutor, and Consultant

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COMMENTS

  • mpgoes 2 years, 11 months ago  | 

    Thank you for these great tutorials! I really appreciate how you explain your approach and the reasoning behind each node that you use.

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