If you haven’t watched the video, you might be thinking right now “How to animate a cube? Why is this even a tutorial?” Just watch the video, it will be well worth it.
Created by Anatolii Iudanov who is a Lead FX TD at PuppetWorks Animation Studio, the breakdown clearly shows a path taken that was purposely opposite of Occam’s Razor. The breakdown is practically the manifestation one of my favorite latin phrases, Ignotum per Ignotius, which sort of translates to a situation where the explanation was much harder to understand than the thing that it intended to explain.
Obviously not the best or easiest way to animate a cube. It does show off the absolute power of Side Effects Houdini, and the steadfast determination of an FX TD to make something simple by really complex means. Fantastic!
