Making of Lotto Max Bear

Montreal’s SHED tackled the challenge of creating a beautiful family of bears with ‘bigger than life’ personalities – finding a balance between stylization and realism.

SHED used Houdini in a wide variety of ways, including character FX (fur creation and grooming, sliding skin using a cloth solver, etc), environments, lighting/lookdev, etc.

One of their key highlights was that it was ‘great to have a software where the fur and snow sim could interact together’.