A breakdown of a shot from the Creature Integration workshop I ran in 2016 at the Animation Institute in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The snail is created completely procedurally in SideFX Houdini, all comping done in BMD Fusion. This demo serves as a good illustration for many of the techniques covered in my articles at www.the-working-man.org

1. Pixel Is Not a Color Square

2. Bit Depth - color precision in raster images

3. Storing masks in RGB channels

4. Packing Lighting Data into RGB Channels

5. Render Elements: Normals

6. Render Elements: UVs

7. On Wings, Tails and Procedural Modeling