The Rose Homage | Houdini x Unreal

I recently was shown the monumental artwork, The Rose, by Jay DeFeo. After seeing it the thought of creating a similar type of form in Houdini stuck in the back of my mind.
I decided this would be a great project to dip my toe into rendering in Unreal. This is the first time I have experimented with Unreal and I was very happy with the results. I’m looking forward to trying more rendering experiments with UE in the future. Stay tuned!
Visuals and Music by Damian Thorn-Hauswirth.

[@taireb]

Love the music. So goooood

[@blackswann]

Thank you :))

[@rosethorn4433]

This is amazing! I feel it through my whole body as I hear and see. Thank you!

[@i20010]

Very interesting, guess we all need to check Unreal now with this nanite thing.

[@blackswann]

That’s what I was thinking…I feel like it’s always easier to just stay in Houdini (or whatever software you use) for rendering, but there’s been so much Unreal news I figured I should start taking a look at it :p.

[@i20010]

@@blackswann It looks awesome!. I tried Unreal 5 a couple months ago, I agree with you. But I got bogged down trying to understand how to do a quality render, with the path tracer, it eventually got as slow as Redshift... so I left it.

[@blackswann]

@@i20010 I feel you - there’s definitely a bunch of random check boxes and switches you have to press. I’m trying to figure that out myself if it’s worth it to incorporate into workflow for personal projects…may be better or worse depending on project or shot I think