Procedural Volcano – Houdini Personal Exploration

This personal project started as a technical test, aimed at exploring Houdini’s terrain generation (Heightfields) and texturing capabilities using the COPs (Copernicus) system.

What began as a simple scene quickly evolved into a cinematic volcanic landscape — combining procedural terrain, volumetrics, and instanced vegetation into one cohesive composition.

Key features include:

• Procedural terrain built with Heightfields

• Texturing and color control via COPs

• Volumetric smoke and fog simulation

• Instanced tree scattering with custom masks

• Rendered with Redshift

The volcano theme was unplanned — but turned out to be the perfect playground to test multiple systems at once.

Black hole

A personal project that originated from commercial work, I decided to take it further and make some video showcasing gravitational lensing inspired by Interstellar movie.

Rendering Nebulas

Still Images

Blue Marble

Alien world project

Art by https://www.uraga.lt/

A project that I was part of as shading/rendering and look development artist. Models and textures by Andrius Gricius aka Uraga.