BBH is live

After a few intense months from everyone at Sennep, BBH website is finally live !
I had some fun with the globe and sheep animations, especially with the R&D part.
Technically, pretty much everyone I knew was invited: Maya, Houdini, After Effects, MEL, Illustrator Javascript, Flash, JSFL, Python, Lightwave, Blender.

Some clever mix of 3D and video was used for the sheep animations.
For the globe, I did some 3D modeling in Lightwave for the main buildings, mixed with procedurally painted cities in Houdini - a total of 100,000 buildings, enough detail to do some moving image work with - as well as some fluids and particles R&D for the animated blobs.

I also started the development of a vector rendering engine written in MEL, which writes layered Postscript files directly from Maya. The features so far are animation ( frames exported as layers ), and backface culling. I'm still working on the Z-sorting.

Houdini 9.5 beta

Hell, they never stop working! Toronto's mighty Side Effects just released Houdini 9.5 public beta. It's now available for the Mac platform as well, and it's fully 64bits, unlike Maya. I will be very soon starting a new blog entirely dedicated to my studies at Bournemouth NCCA. I will be including some tips, files, and comments on my research on Houdini, Shake, Nuke, PFTrack as well as some Ubuntu stuff...

Bournemouth NCCA - MA Digital Effects

I'll be very busy for 12 months doing an MA in Digital Effects at Bournemouth NCCA ( starting this October ). That course involve intense use of Houdini and Nuke . You can see the showreel I submitted with my application - that involved the creation of a digital self portrait - that's why my 3D face is in it - oh dear ! :)