Course Description

Crowds for Feature Film in Houdini 2 is the fast-paced follow up from
Mikael Pettersén, who is a Lead Crowd Technical Director at MPC, and this time
the focus is on ragdolls. With many years of experience from working with crowds
and ragdolls in feature films Mikael will, in this course, share his knowledge of
how to set up ragdoll simulations from scratch.

In this course you will, among other things, learn how to prepare your
agents for ragdoll simulations by setting up collision layers and constraints,
how to add dynamics to your crowd without using any shelf tools, how to access
the agent rig, how to work with agent attribute arrays, different methods to
trigger your agents into ragdolls, how to use motors and how to set up partial
ragdolls.

Language: en