I'm breaking up

Fracture Testing from Matthew "Rick" Shaw on Vimeo.

Well, I'm not, but poor old Pearse is taking quite a beating. I wonder if he regrets letting me make his head?
Oh well, too late now!
So, rather than just let Houdini fall by the wayside having completed the course, I decided to sink my teeth further into the voronoi fracturing and dynamics system. Of course, it helped that digital tutors had a very recent video on the subject. Rather than play along with everything he did, I decided to use my own files and simply pick up some pointers here and there (Most importantly, how to layer voronoi fractures safely and how to make the blasted glue network do what I want). Anyway, this was the result of my first attempt.

No, in no way do I consider this close to being finished, but I thought I'd best keep some updates on here before I forget about it altogether. Now that I know what I'm doing, it's time to scrap this fall and start over with a clean slate for a proper piece.

Now if only ANY of my hard drives had any space left... Smoke simulations will be the death of my computer.