Painting with Data | Will MacNeil | OFFF HIVE

Will’s talk looks at his weather paintings system, D’istral. Will will go through the process behind acquiring live weather data and using it to create generative images, all within Houdini. This will include a quick look at Python scripting as well as massaging data values and then connecting them a generative art system.
Will MacNeil is a filmmaker and digital artist currently working as a Design Director at The Mill in London. Will designs, directs and leads a broad range of projects from good old-fashioned TV to online, games, interactive and experiential. One of Will’s recent personal projects, called Stroke-it, is an oil painting tool that works inside Houdini. He’s now developing way to incorporate live data sources into Stroke-it using Houdini.

[@ezioauditoredafirenze1108]

Will MacNeil is a absolute beast, I remember his Mountains and peak stream a year ago and my jaw dropped. I hope he makes indepth tutorials some day. His terrain demos were best I saw in houdini.

[@willmacneil5419]

Thanks a lot!

[@jaigrant-williams7736]

This is by far the best hive week we've had! i've watched every hive today and they are all so good!

[@arupsan]

Today I get to know who is “Jason “… it’s big learning for me …. absolutely great class from the master of Mills …

[@DavidKahlVFX]

Thank you for the shoutout! ❤

[@evening8990]

Brilliant!

[@zephyr707]

very cool! is there a link to the previous talk about that mill heartbeat project? was that real-time?

[@willmacneil5419]

No that wasn’t real-time. I talk about how that worked in this talk. I’d love to make it again, in real-time.

[@willmacneil5419]

Sorry forgot to paste the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6vKgn6fqamHj6c

[@atomboi2028]

Did you have to use any special tricks to pip install packages within Houdini's python module?

[@willmacneil5419]

No, I just used the import command for each package.

[@regularmenthol]

Gotta change the name of 'Stroke It' lolllll nsfw

[@willmacneil5419]

I was going to call D’istral Blow It, but I lost the nerve.

[@regularmenthol]

@@willmacneil5419 hahahaaa i think you have to! It’s just good branding