As my first cover art I decided to make into 3D was the amazing band called Ekkah. I know the base guatarist through my older brother and have been to see them many times. They realised their new song with their new cover art and I wanted to do something to show my appreciation to them.
Ekkah’s Cover:
I also thought this this was a create first album to work with as its simple and uses primary shapes which will be easy to build in Houdini.
The first port of call was to make this cover art into an outlined shape which I could import to Houdini in a file node as an eps file.
I came into an issue with the letters, that the inside parts of letters like A and D etc. were not deleting so this was once of this issues I wanted to bring up with Medhi.
Monday Meeting:
- convert to polygons
- split node
- convert node
- boolean with split
- $CEZ – pivot expression
- normals
- divide
- polyextrude after boolean
- attribute VOP needs to run on primatives
- random
- bind
- chop
- attribute – extrude primatives
- float to integer
- multiplier – time scale
- transform with expression
- make still image – ideas might pop out.
After this meeting watched back over the recorded session and I resovled my issue with getting rid of the middle part of the letter.
Once this was resolved I could start to poly extrude which was then linked to the Ekkah song using the CHOP network of their song called Wend’s Yard.
Here you can see how each letter is extruding at different height which was procedurally done depending on how their channel of music was playing. For example, if the music was at a higher pitch then the letter would be more poly extruded the letter would be.
Using the this system loop using a split, poly extrude, transform then boolean. This uses that shape to punch out the same whole. This was a system Medhi showed me which I then applied to the rest of the logo.
Thursday Meeting:
- Filter was too strong by pass
I had an issue when linking each letter to the CHOP network. The system was working and each letter extruded depending on the channel the pitch was assigned to but it was moving very slowly. Medhi figured out that this was because the filter in the CHOP system wasn’t actually helping it was making the movement slow and out of beat.