Welcome to the DLF Houdini project.
The point of this project is to give us a piece to practise on while we learn Houdini.
It's also become a bit of an experiment in 'cloud collaboration.' :-)
We now have a collaboration space in Google Apps.
A storage space created in Microsoft's SkyDrive
And I'm looking into script collaboration with Celtex.
So I guess we've all downloaded the tutorial videos from Side Effects, and taken note of the Houdini forum...
www.odforce.net
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=14&Itemid=132
...and installed Houdini apprentice on our machines, which is where I've run into my first hurdle. Houdini crashes my graphics card.
This will take me a while to sort out.
The setting is a Refugee camp out in desert.
This is a pivotal scene where Hester (who is up till this point a child,) starts on her quest where she is tested and becomes an adult.
She has been interned in a refugee camp, but her life has reached an equilibrium.
Her father is injured in an accident and she is forced to flee the camp with the help of Nanna Joe.
Characters
Two female characters
One old, one young.
At some point characters need to be modelled
We don't need to wait for the characters to be modelled as I seem to remember from the presentation, that Houdini has a default character fully rigged that can be inserted into the scene.
Water tower
Needs to have three legs, so that it topples over when one of the legs is destroyed
Pump needs to be created at the base of one of the legs.
There needs to be a ladder allowing access to the tank at the top of the tower
Needs to be some sort of platform or access gangway at the top of the tower.
A fence to fall across
It would be nice if we could fill the tank with water, and have the casing split on contact with the ground, and spill water out. an explosion of water and metal fragments.
Training aims of this task
Refugee camp and airfield
Camp is established out in the desert.
It is the only human structures for miles about.
There is a fenced off camp
Next to the camp there is an airfield where the police aircraft are stationed.
Human characters.
It's also become a bit of an experiment in 'cloud collaboration.' :-)
We now have a collaboration space in Google Apps.
A storage space created in Microsoft's SkyDrive
And I'm looking into script collaboration with Celtex.
So I guess we've all downloaded the tutorial videos from Side Effects, and taken note of the Houdini forum...
www.odforce.net
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=14&Itemid=132
...and installed Houdini apprentice on our machines, which is where I've run into my first hurdle. Houdini crashes my graphics card.
This will take me a while to sort out.
The water tower gag
I'd like to table a suggestion for an initial task.The setting is a Refugee camp out in desert.
This is a pivotal scene where Hester (who is up till this point a child,) starts on her quest where she is tested and becomes an adult.
She has been interned in a refugee camp, but her life has reached an equilibrium.
Her father is injured in an accident and she is forced to flee the camp with the help of Nanna Joe.
- the pair sabotage a pump motor at the base of one of the camps water tanks.
- they climb to the top of the tower.
- the engine explodes, damaging one of the tower legs.
- the tower topples across the camps fences.
- the women then run to the airfeld where they steal a plane.
Characters
Two female characters
One old, one young.
At some point characters need to be modelled
We don't need to wait for the characters to be modelled as I seem to remember from the presentation, that Houdini has a default character fully rigged that can be inserted into the scene.
Water tower
Needs to have three legs, so that it topples over when one of the legs is destroyed
Pump needs to be created at the base of one of the legs.
There needs to be a ladder allowing access to the tank at the top of the tower
Needs to be some sort of platform or access gangway at the top of the tower.
A fence to fall across
It would be nice if we could fill the tank with water, and have the casing split on contact with the ground, and spill water out. an explosion of water and metal fragments.
Training aims of this task
- Modelling of assets
- Animation of two characters
- effects work destroying a water tank
Other modelling tasks if people feel that this is to great an initial step
At least three aircraft need to be designed and built- refugee blimp
- small police craft
- large police craft
Refugee camp and airfield
Camp is established out in the desert.
It is the only human structures for miles about.
There is a fenced off camp
Next to the camp there is an airfield where the police aircraft are stationed.
Human characters.
- Hester: (Animus) young woman, twenty one, dependant on her dad becomes independent. Innately capable, she must become a hero.
- Father: (hero) strong, mechanic. Sacrificed in first act.
- Nanna Jo: (sidekick) older woman, becomes mother surrogate
- Jed: (trickster) enters in second act. Becomes Judas.
- Mo: (Anti hero) enters in second act. Becomes love interest.
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