Concept

I was obsessed with Norway and documentaries on Norway, and wanted to make an image that gives a similar feeling to that of the Norwegian fjords. (didn’t succeed but did learn a lot)

Process

I was making this while I was switching from Blender to more industry standard softwares like Maya, Renderman, Substance and Houdini, and since I had promised myself not to use blender, I challenged myself to make the terrain using Houdini.

It turns out, that just like any other software, Houdini is easy to learn if you just take up as many YouTube courses as you can.

After watching about 2 hours worth of tutorials, I figured out how to use Houdini’s heightfields, and admittedly, even though it is a little bit difficult, it is far more powerful than anything that blender has to offer.