floating islands of houdini

part 1 – island and grass

Content Details – 11 Video Chapters (with Audio)

Duration – 3 hrs 2 mins

lesson plan

• The main Island – modeling the main island using a displacement, sculpting and noise maps
• The Druid Circle – modeling the stone circle using VDB tools
• Druid Circle wall – building the wall around the druid circle
• Curve Primitive – understanding how the various attributes required to render curves
• Fur Procedural – Understanding the basics of Fur procedural shop
• Island Grass – Using techniques learnt in the previous 2 chapters to create grass for the island
• Hanging vines – creating vines for the islands
• Vine Leaves – adding leaves to the vines
• Creepers – adding additional creepers and ivy on the island and the druid circle
• Island base details – adding roots and stuff to the base of the island

part 2 – l-systems, plants and trees

Content Details – 10 Video Chapters (with Audio)

Duration – 2 hrs 30 mins

lesson plan

• Cloverfield – modeling a three leaf clover and creating a field of it
• Design correction – Just correcting the design of the main island
• L-systems Basics – Learning the basics of L-systems.
• Flowers – Modeling a flower and using L-systems to model the plant.
• Leaf – Using L-system to model a custom leaf
• Fern A – Making a complex fern using L-systems and creating multiple variations to scatter on the island
• Fern B – Creating a second variety of Fern
• Tree – Modeling a complex tree using L-Systems
• Island Color – Building the island color using slope and noise maps
• Island Moss – Adding moss at ground level and basing it on the slope map

part 3 – debris field, clouds, waterfall and final render

Content Details – 7 Video Chapters (with Audio)

Duration – 2 hrs 19 mins

Lesson Plan

• Smaller Islands – complete procedural modeling of the smaller islands and adding vegetation on them
• Clouds – Modeling and lighting the cloud at the base
• Debris Field – modeling a fully animated debris field around the island using RBD and custom VOP forces
• Debris particles – adding additional details to the debris field using particles
• Waterfall – Creating a waterfall using the Houdini fluid systems
• Materials light and render – adding simple materials, building the lighting and setting up takes for the final render
• Final Look – Building the final look of the image in After Effects