Side Effects Houdini


Houdini 4.0 Houdini was used to create the bird particle systems. The screenshot shows the Particle Operations editor with my birds (the blue spheres) taking off from a meadow. The network to the left contains all the nodes which controlled the movement of the birds.

   Houdini is particulary well suited to this kind of task and other effects based projects since virtually every aspect of an animation can be controlled by mathematical formulas and/or any number of specialist control nodes.