Rookies Weekly Drills 036 - Skateboard

Houdini Demo

Houdini Network

Demo of Generated Skateboards

Trucks

Spent some time making the trucks realistic in Maya with all parts built to make a functional and working skateboard truck. This included the kingpin and individual bearing components for the inner and outer of both wheels.

I simply trace the dots using Houdini from the Photoshop layer to then position them using expressions to align based on the boards extrusion thickness.

Summary

https://discover.therookies.co/weekly-drills/weekly-drills-036

Gave myself the challenge to start learning some Houdini for the first time as will be starting it in Term 3 of the current CGSpectrum course I am doing.

Generate new skateboard model designs from a single photoshop file. Simply update a the template and feed it into Houdini. Created the complete Houdini system from scratch during the week. Only part I did not do which was from my Creative Cloud subscription was the awesome dog used for the decal on the bottom of the board.

High / Low Poly Modelling & UVs:
Houdini / Maya

Texturing:
Substance Painter

Rendering:
Renderman