by Felipe Amaya | Apr 5, 2021 | Thesis, VFX
After kickstarting the whole design process for the creatures of the ecosystem, I have been engaged on a back and forth process of iterating through the weak aspects of the designs and upgrading them. Starting with the mechanical hunters, after showing the design...
by Felipe Amaya | Mar 28, 2021 | Houdini Trickery, VFX
Dealing with Alembics in Houdini is, for the most part, very straightforward, but sometimes there are times in which you wanna do something very specific that you can do with zero difficulty in SOPs, and turns out that if there’s an Alembic involved, it gets...
by Felipe Amaya | Mar 26, 2021 | SCAD, Thesis, VFX
When proposing a thesis at SCAD I had some concept temp. creatures included in my presentation. They were there to illustrate the intent and convey how they should feel like (hunters were gonna be mechanical and menacing while prey were rather organic and soft) rather...
by Felipe Amaya | Mar 26, 2021 | SCAD, Thesis
Hello everyone. This section of my blog will be dedicated to everything related to my Visual Effects M.F.A. thesis development. For those of you who don’t know what my thesis is about, let me give you a broad overview: In as few words as possible, my thesis...
by Felipe Amaya | Jan 5, 2021 | Houdini Trickery, VFX
This blog post is my attempt to collect and unfiy some of the useful stuff in Houdini I have picked along the way. Feel free to comment or contact me regarding any of this. Here we go! Using the Textport to Update Paths in Any String Channel If you need to update a...
by Felipe Amaya | Nov 4, 2020 | SCAD, VFX, VSFX728
For the final project of the VSFX 728 class, I decided to tackle something that involved somewhat large destruction, since, I need to challenge myself, and It’s something that I’d like to have on my reel and I’d learn a lot from it. One of the main...
