Butterflies
The Shamsa butterflies sculpture is one of the final showpieces in the Alif: Mobility Pavilion at the Dubai 2020 Expo.
I was tasked with distributing the butterflies in Houdini, then producing plans and a spreadsheet of measurements and instructions to assist with assembly. I automated the spreadsheet production in Houdini and learned a great deal about how you can use this VFX software to provide construction documents. Learned about coding with strings, to describe measurements of strings ;)
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Creative Director: Andrew Thomas
Production Designer: LiWen Choy
Project Supervisor: Jack Taylor
3D Modelling: Hannah Dockerty
The final sculpture was eerily similar to my Houdini plans.
Nizaad Shah shown here attaching one of the 1200 butterflies to the sculpture.
Hannah Dockerty did a beautiful job sculpting the transparent falling girl.
The installation finally at home in the Alif: Mobility Pavilion.