Upon joining the Visualnoobs team at the beginning of the year I was tasked with creating the Feather System for a crow, for the upcoming "Pájaro Fantasma" short film. It was a very tough challenge as I had minimum experience with Houdini's grooming tools, let alone Houdini 20's feather system, which was just released, and there was little documentation about it.

After a couple of months, I managed to put it together and this is the final result. This is a Karma / Solaris render.

I'm planning on releasing a tutorial on how I achieved this so stay tuned.