Wood - animation

A piece created for Mardini 2025 - Day 9 Wood
Created in Houdini from start to finish. 24h time constraint
Simple cubes with bevel and RBD animation in SOPs
Procedural wood textures and letter overlays in Copernicus (+Grayscale Gorilla Grid texture)
Lighting, rendering and slight lens distortion in Solaris & Karma
Compositing in Copernicus
I had a bit of a hassle figuring out how to correctly apply procedural textures to the right faces of the cubes, in the end I decided not to pick only upward faces because it felt more organic, while still kept the word readable.