Houdini Crowds – a set of tools by SideFX that works out-of-the-box for creating, animating and simulating characters at scale.
It recently won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for “Cost Effective Crowd Simulation Tools”.
In this episode of Houdini Connect, we talk with the developers of the tools – Edward Lam and Cameron White. They share how this product can make your process of creating a lot easier.
We also talk to 2 studio artists who have used Houdini Crowds in their creative projects – Nile Hylton from The Mill NYC, who worked on Nike: Awaken the Phantom – and Lous-Philippe Clavet from Oblique FX, who worked on French feature film Junior Majeur.