Rich Lord
Rich Lord
freelance artist and animator. Houdini user and how to tutorial maker
 
 

Our Pleasures. 2020. Music Video for Plus Device on Hefty Records. Got a lovely Vimeo Best of the Month.

 
Music video for the track Hesperius Draco by Alessandro Parisi - https://alessandroparisi.bandcamp.com/ All done in SideFx Houdini. All the creature walking is done with a procedural puppet system, made with rigid body dynamics.

Hesperius Draco. 2019. Music Video for Giallo Disco Records, Alessandro Parisi. Pleased to say it got a Vimeo Staff Pick.

 
Calm vid to some beautiful music by Kreng - https://krengmusic.com/

Infection. 2020. Sound by Kreng.

Music by https://twitter.com/gutterboxaudio

Procedural Architecture. 2020. Sound by Daniel McCagh.

 

Paper Creatures 2021. Sound by FRKTL

Vertebrae Collection 2021.

 
Procedural eye test. Eyes everywhere, anytime, and any size. Accidental trypophobia feel. Glorious sound design by Daniel McCagh - http://www.facebook.com/gutterboxaudio

Procedural Eyes. 2019. Sound by Daniel McCagh.

Thanks to Andy Theakstone for the sound design - https://vimeo.com/andytheakstone . It adds some proper dread to the proceedings. Otherwise there's some strobe lights, particles, and a bunch of odd procedurally generated underwater creatures. Animated in SideFx Houdini with Vellum.

Biostrobe. 2019. Sound by Andy Theakstone.

 

Unity Compute Shader Experiments. 2020. Sound from the wonderful world of 1950’s exotica by Frank Hunter and Les Baxter.

 

Procedural Gears 2020. Music by FRKTL.

 
2006 animation of a bunch of robots. Really started as an experiment in rigging that got out of control. Done in Maya.

12 Robots. 2006. Maya dynamics sim meet hand keyed mess.

 
Some animated growth. The hip file is shared here :- http://richardlord.tumblr.com/post/183749579176/finally-i-did-animations-of-this-system-hip

Black Growth. 2018.

 
A test of some animated growth. You can get the hip over here: http://richardlord.tumblr.com/post/183775410961/green-growth-heres-the-previous-growth-file-used Music is a snipet from the Death Ambient album Drunken Forest: https://www.discogs.com/artist/381015-Death-Ambient

Green growth. 2018. Growth solver creeps along the ground to some screeching.

 
Experiment to drive rigid body motors with sound waves. Sound edited by Gobblebit - https://soundcloud.com/gobblebit #houdini #tutorial #sidefx #vex #vfx #visualeffects #procedural #procgen

Wave Physics. 2018. Experiment to make sine waves drive motors.

 
Animated concepts for the Portal 2 puzzle editor. Trying to get a really simple, super clean look.
 

Portal2. 2012. Puzzlemaker concepts.