Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In the Group Destruction formative, the third year students work in small teams to create a destruction scenario for a given environment. Previously, students have worked with environments such as fictional planets, but this semester's challenge was to calculate and produce a volcanic eruption using Autodesk Maya 2017 and Houdini 16 for the dynamics.
The teams are given the landscape terrain with an animated camera. They must choreograph the destruction to the camera and they can add effects, such as camera shakes, to make it more realistic.
Students are only given one week to create their eruption, so the output movie is what is called a high-quality previsualisation. It would take our students another month at least to finish the shot for final output.
This semester's best eruption was created by duo Yuya Hatori and Lenny Boucly.
In the Group Destruction formative, the third year students work in small teams to create a destruction scenario for a given environment. Previously, students have worked with environments such as fictional planets, but this semester's challenge was to calculate and produce a volcanic eruption using Autodesk Maya 2017 and Houdini 16 for the dynamics.
The teams are given the landscape terrain with an animated camera. They must choreograph the destruction to the camera and they can add effects, such as camera shakes, to make it more realistic.
Students are only given one week to create their eruption, so the output movie is what is called a high-quality previsualisation. It would take our students another month at least to finish the shot for final output.
This semester's best eruption was created by duo Yuya Hatori and Lenny Boucly.
