Chris Keegan Tech Art 2026
 

Over the last couple of years, I created a cinematic.  I learned Houdini wave simulations using Ocean nodes and USD Solaris in tandem with Redshift for rendering.

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I set up camera rigs, lighting, material data, I did all of the modeling, fire sim and vellum fabric sim for the sails.  I used a boids setup to control the fish.  

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I have rendered and re-rendered a few different times.  The first part of the video is the final result, the last part of the video was an iteration before, which does a clearer job showing the fish.