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Got into the Houdini software lately to start realizing some of the effects concepts for my project. I built my own crowd simulation tool for the koi fish that works with RenderMan and RIB archive to distribute hundreds of them without sacrificing computing efficiency. They have basic behaviors to react to characters' movements as directed, avoid bumping into their surroundings and each other. When in motion, a small library of swim animations is accesses and randomized.

The rocks use a similar concept as the fish to distribute data with RIB archiving on RenderMan. This enables me to distributes hundreds of thousands (half a million in this case) of rocks, each scaled and rotated randomly, and render in may be a couple minutes at HD resolution. Upon further development, I will like use a couple versions of rocks to a little more variation. I was mostly concerned with efficiency but ended up very pleased with the short render times. When in motion, the bed of rocks will wave in an ocean-like way (hence why they are blue).

Description
Got into the Houdini software lately to start realizing some of the effects concepts for my project. I built my own crowd simulation tool for the koi fish that works with RenderMan and RIB archive to distribute hundreds of them without sacrificing computing efficiency. They have basic behaviors to react to characters' movements as directed, avoid bumping into their surroundings and each other. When in motion, a small library of swim animations is accesses and randomized.

The rocks use a similar concept as the fish to distribute data with RIB archiving on RenderMan. This enables me to distributes hundreds of thousands (half a million in this case) of rocks, each scaled and rotated randomly, and render in may be a couple minutes at HD resolution. Upon further development, I will like use a couple versions of rocks to a little more variation. I was mostly concerned with efficiency but ended up very pleased with the short render times. When in motion, the bed of rocks will wave in an ocean-like way (hence why they are blue).