Fantasy Creature Grooming in Houdini
Grooming Techniques for Film VFX with Sohrab Esfehani
Description
Discover the entire process of creating a fantasy creature groom in Houdini for film-quality visual effects, with professional techniques and insights from Sohrab Esfehani. You’ll begin with the fundamental principles of grooming and learn the importance of gathering and analyzing reference materials to ensure your groom is both creative and grounded in reality. From there, you’ll move on to creating a solid template to build the groom upon, ensuring that your scene is structured in a way that makes sense for a production environment.
Sohrab explains how to manage your Houdini workflow efficiently, allowing you to create a groom with a wide variety of details, from fine strands of hair to more complex patterns and textures that bring the creature to life. He will also share the same workflows and techniques that he has personally used on several blockbuster films, providing you with an insider’s perspective into the process of making a realistic, hero-level Hollywood VFX creature.
By completing this workshop, you'll have a sound understanding of the knowledge and skills needed to apply these techniques to any creature or project.
Duration: 4h 29m
Format: HD 1920x1080
Sohrab Esfehani
Freelance CG Supervisor
Sohrab Esfehani started painting and drawing when he was 8 years old. He has 20 years of experience in the industry as a CG artist, and started working in film and VFX in 2013 on Guardians of The Galaxy. He has worked in several studios including Framestore, MPC, Cinesite, DNEG, and Scanline VFX, to name a few. He has created hero VFX work for several departments including modeling, grooming, texturing, lookdev, CFX and lighting. Some of his credits include Guardians of The Galaxy, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Jungle Book, Avengers: Infinity War, and many more. Sohrab understands and loves all the elements that go into creating world class VFX.
