Waving Tentacles

After consulting with John at SideFX software, I decided to play around a little more with the motion of the tentacles. His advice was to apply the Twist Expression several different groupings of Primitives on the tentacles. I found this distorted the tentacles buy I may not be applying his advice properly. I prefer earlier version of the wavy tentacles. I will we need two on this more and try some other techniques.

Just for my knowledge and mnemonic edification, here are some important expressions to remember:

1*abs(2-(2.3*PCT))) ------ Scale on the SWEEP to get a tapered tentacle
sin(($F*5)*10)*10 ------ Strength of the TWIST on the SWEEP

Angled Geometry animated with UV Camera Projection

Here is the angled view of the quick time below. I should do a another version with better lighting but I think this version illustrates how the Camera Projection is functioning. The animation is temporary for now - sin($F*4). I will tie the animation to a CHOPS network eventually (so the buildings behave like an audio meter). Or randomize the animation of the COPYsop. Any opinions on this? I do like the angling of the geometry and will angle the set in the final version. BTW, the texture being projected is a photoshop collage of various cities.

UV Camera Projection on CopySop Network

Animatic Version 1

Storyboard

The Lastest Tests:

Motion Test 1

first test

Rough Idea

I want to create a "music video" with the concept: landscape as character.

I want to build an organic landscape with a sequence of images.

The images will be anthropomorphic. The theme will be dark and whimsical, but I'm not sure of an exact theme at the moment (death/joy, war/utopia, erosion/peace, infection/unity,destruction/comedy, etc....)

I will use HOUDINI to convert the images to geometry.

I will also use CHOPS in HOUDINI to animate the geometry with sound.

As for the sound, I'm thinking HIP-HOP.

Here is a sketch of one of the images in the sequence.

...more notes

notes for project

inspiration

Thursday's Monster

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------------- IDEAS ------------

I have a pot of coffee telling me I have work to do.

Rythmic splashes hit the curb.

I keep thinking about threshold inhibition.

Subtle twinkles audio hum.