V-Ray for Houdini in the Walking Dead

Chaos Group has shared an interview with Ingenuity Studios’ Grant Miller on how they used V-Ray for Houdini to render a pile of 9,000 zombies for The Walking Dead. 

The artist states that over 9,000 bodies were scattered on the field to generate multiple layers of corpses. The team was able to make intelligent use of instancing to keep render times low as the opening shot was several hundred frames long.

The Walking Dead. Images courtesy of Ingenuity Studios

“Characters ranged from 500k to 900k polys, depending on their outfit and hairstyle. The bodies were posed by the animation team and then their clothes and hair were simulated into place and touched up in ZBrush,” added Grant Miller. 

Make sure to read the interview here. 

Published 24 December 2018
Arti Sergeev
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