Hey!
With the desire to contribute to this community, I will use this thread to collectively post some of my setups here, in an attempt to help others learn Houdini. My experience was that going through established setups was a great way to learn - and that breaking working setups and learning what breaks them, teaches things that tutorials never really touch. So whenever I found a page sharing advanced setups like that, my heart lit up, and this thread will be an attempt to recreate this feeling in others. Being a current student at Filmakademie BW, this thread is also an hommage to the work of my (just graduated) great colleague Juraj Tomori - and his "Juraj's Playgound". (Here is the link)
Enough babbling about, let me start off by showing my reel of the works that accumulated over the past two years in which I worked with Houdini. The first post will also be sharing the first setup shown: The arena shot of the plasma cannon destroying a concrete pillar.
The entire first sequence was my bachelor thesis about "Procedural 3D for Film Using Houdini" where I tried explaining a procedural approach in written form and detailing my setups. If anyone is interested, I will also be sharing it here.
The arena environment was also procedurally modelled in Houdini, which I will also be sharing a setup on in the next couple of days.
I hope you will like it,
Cheers,
Martin