Houdini Poremaker Tool - Technical Directing - Animationsinstitut Filmakademie BW

Houdini Poremaker Tool by Ramon Schauer developed in the Technical Directing post graduate course at Animationsinstitut of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg More information at: Application Deadline for courses starting in fall is May 15th 2021 The creation of realistic human faces is a very challenging process where even getting small details wrong can result in an uncanny looking digital face. Which makes the creation of digital humans so challenging and time consuming. A essential role in making human skin look believable are the skin pores and micro wrinkles which have a very specific directionality. Traditionally the workflow for creating those pores would consists of either projecting scanned displacement maps or manually sculpting the pores, both quite labor intensive workflows. Inspired by the workflow concept developed by WETA Digital for the Movie Gemini Man presented at Siggraph Asia 2019 the poremaker tool was developed. It simplifies the process of realistic skin pore creat