FX Intern Sarah Hashem has recently showcased a magnificent use case for Houdini, employing SideFX's flagship procedural to animate a traditional Japanese painting, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Currently WIP, Sarah's project reimagines the 19th-century woodblock print as a FLIP (Fluid Implicit Particles) simulation, making the waves and the background move in a rather unrealistic yet incredibly mesmerizing way, resembling those eye-pleasing sand art toys. Additionally, the artist harnessed the power of Houdini's built-in renderer, Mantra, to render the simulation.
