Houdini in the Watchmen

Watchmen opened this weekend in the box office at $55 million.

We've posted a terrific story on this on our homepage explaining how Intelligent Creatures used Houdini on the project.

CGSociety also did an article explaining how long time Houdini customer Sony Pictures Imageworks did the Glass Palace.



“Once we got that idea, we found we could procedurally animate them, instead of using traditional keyframe animation,” explains Travers. “We relied heavily on Houdini for the Glass Palace. It was easy to do two rings intertwining; but as soon as you add a third ring and a fourth ring it got more complicated, and when a fifth was introduced, the math just got crazy.”