Patrick Woo

A Visual Effects Artist and music composer

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The Final Return Teaser from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

This is a teaser to my newest track The Final Return. It features the newly released Sonic Underworld Frost 2 for u-he Dark Zebra.

Listen to the full track on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/patrickwoo/the_final_return

Listen to the Naked version (sounds from Frost 2) on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/patrickwoo/the_final_return_naked

If you enjoy the video or the track, please "like" it and subscribe!

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Witness Teaser from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

This is a teaser to Witness, my newest track that uses the newly released Sonic Underworld Frost 2 for u-he Dark Zebra.

Listen to the full track on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/patrickwoo/witness

Listen to the Naked version (just sounds from Frost 2) on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/patrickwoo/witness_naked

If you enjoy the video or the track please "like" it and subscribe!

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Original Music Teaser: Grow (Remaster) from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

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Original Music Teaser: Skyward! (Remaster) from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

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Original Music Teaser: Grey Moments (Remaster) from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

Here is a video teaser to a remastered track, Grey Moments. I wrote this track 10 years ago. Today I decided to take it out and give it a new sheen of polish.

I will distribute this track to my usual streaming platforms under my profile later in the month.

Listen to the full track here soundcloud.com/patrickwoo/grey-moments-remaster

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WeRemember(Naked)_Teaser from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

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Tailed_Teaser from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

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WeRemember_Teaser from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

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Echoes in the Deep from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

This latest piece started from a isolated test, and grew into its final form rather unintentionally. This piece is mainly done in Houdini, rendered in Karma, composited in Nuke.

This piece may also be the one with the most number of experimental components I have put into a single piece so far. A few of these are: - The main "bubble" object used a distance evaluation on a pre-existing cloud. This was the initial test I set out to do. - Using a ramp to semi-procedurally control expansion and contraction that happens in repetition, with the potential to have some variation in each repetition - Illuminating geometry per-vertex/per-point by custom coding a spotlight in VEX. This was used in the lightning - using the false illumination to affect and illuminate the bubbles and floating particles in the water.

In the sound effects department, I built a sound-scape around the visuals to support the immersion of the piece.

Last but not least, I wrote a music track just for this! The track is a bit truncated in its duration in this edit, but I am going to release the audio track in it's entirety as a standalone music track shortly. You heard this first in this audio + visual piece!

As usual, I will write an article on LinkedIn in more detail. I'll post the link here shortly.

I hope you enjoy it!

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20240511_h_radialDisplace_02_comp from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

In this latest piece, I take a circular shape and attempt to form some interesting futuristic / sci-fi disc shapes by displacing line segments outwards and inwards from the original lines. I was able to mark out and visualise lines that were pushed outwards, inwards, and not displaced with Red, Green and Blue respectively. Using my background colour shifting set-up from the Splash Dancing 2D piece, I added a constant colour shift background for this piece as well.

The music is created by SoulProdMusic on Pixabay pixabay.com/users/soulprodmusic-30064790

I hope you like this piece!

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Splash Dancing 2D from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

In this newest piece made with Houdini, I use rotoscoped videos to generate and particles, simulate with collisions all in 3D. I knew it was not as straightforward, hence I made this into a piece in itself.

The video would not be possible without these people who contributed their works: - The 2 videos of moving silhouettes are created by the amazing patw64 (pixabay.com/users/patw64-16142356 ). - The excellent and groovy music comes from moodmode (pixabay.com/users/moodmode-33139253 ).

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Pulsing Ball of Lines from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

I present to you my latest piece which I quite literally name it, the Pulsing Ball of Lines.

The reference that inspired me to (re-)create this was the ending sequence of the anime My Hero Academia (season 4 episodes). I show it as a reference in my breakdown.

When I first saw this, it had a visceral feel to it, and it inspired me to think about how I can create this. I did all of this in Houdini and Nuke. For this first time, I created even the background (vignette and medium sized noise) in Houdini COPs.

Let me know what you think, or how you would go about doing this!

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Pulsing Ball of Lines from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

I present to you my latest piece which I quite literally name it, the Pulsing Ball of Lines.

The reference that inspired me to (re-)create this was the ending sequence of My Hero Academia (season 4 episodes). I show it as a reference in my breakdown.

When I first saw this, it had a visceral feel to it, and it inspired me to think about how I can create this. I did all of this in Houdini and Nuke. For this first time, I created even the background (vignette and medium sized noise) in Houdini COPs.

Let me know what you think, or how you would go about doing this!

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Procedural Jelly Worms from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

This piece started as a proof of concept procedural jellyworms set-up in 2022. Recently, I added an expanding trail of liquid and rendered it.

I apologise if the piece causes feelings of disgust.

The worms are created, textured and animated procedurally in Houdini. Each worm starts out as a point, becoming a curve that finally turns into geometry.

There are intersections between worms. I did not account for that.

I hope you like it.

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Maya Expressions10 - Combining Waves from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

In the 10th video of Maya Expressions we finally graduate into working with more than one waveform at a time. In this video I explore the various things we can do with multiple waves so they look more organic and less mechanical, regular and repetitive. I also show how we can visualise the results of our expressions in the viewport beside relying only on the graph editor. With multiple sine/cosine waves in expressions we open up a truly wide range of possibilities in what we can do.

I have set up a Patreon page so those of you who truly appreciate and support my work. (Send me dollar every month!).

My videos in this series will remain free to all, so thank you for all your continued support and viewership!

Here is my Patreon link: patreon.com/patrickwoo

0:00 - 0:46 - Introduction and greetings 0:47 - 3:39 - Setting up 2 cubes that have exactly the same expressions 3:39 - 4:26 - Using a single expression to drive multiple attributes vs multiple expressions to drive multiple attributes 4:27 - 7:36 - Setting up a third cube and assigning the sum of the first 2 cubes to the translate Y, then observing the result. 7:37 - 10:42 - Creating custom attributes and linking them up in the expressions 10:43 - 11:52 - How to format an expression so it can be easily "repurposed" and pasted into another object's expression. 11:53 - 12:44 - setting up custom attribute values so cube 3 reinforces and doubles when adding cube 1 and 2. 12:45 - 15:18 - making perfectly out-of-phase waves that cancel each other out 15:19 - 16:33 - observing curves with different frequencies, one of the keys to breaking the sine/cosine wave pattern. 16:34 - 17:19 - visualing the path of travel with a motion trail 17:20 - 19:43 - using various values for frequency and seeing the path update interactively 19:44 - 22:23 - trying out even more similar frequencies to further break up recognisable patterns repeating. 22:24 - 23:31 - how to detect repetitions in composite/compound curves (curves that are made up of multiple smaller curves), looking for the zero-crossings. 23:32 - 26:11 - how curves are affected if frequencies are multiples of each other. 26:12 - 27:41 - using offset to break up repetitions and reduce the number of both curves crossing at the same point 27:42 - 29:44 - show how curves can slide and swim across each other to achieve vastly different looks. 29:45 - 32:25 - animation control: setting keyframes on cube2 frequency 32:26 - 33:20 - updating motion trail after changes in keyframes 33:21 - 34:19 - completing the keyframe animation on top of the 2 combined sine curves 34:20 - 35:02 - adding an additional noise curve to the entire waveform 35:03 - 36:11 - breaking up a single line of expression into multiple lines so we can comment them out for controlled testing, easier troubleshooting and visualisation. 36:12 - 37:29 - create another custom attribute for the additional noise amount and connect it to the noise expression. 37:30 - 38:48 - keyframe the new additional noise attribute to alter the later part of the animation curve 35:49 - 41:53 - something that remains a mystery for now on the initial pCube2's reducing of frequency 41:54 - 42:30 - notifying of my Patreon account. If my videos have added value to your work, learning and understanding, please support! 42:31 - 43:29 - end

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Houdini Cactus-Maker from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

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Alternating Circles from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

This was a weekend exercise to get Houdini flowing in my blood.

If you are interested in visually breaking this down, here's what's happening. There are radial lines (from the centre outwards to the edge of the frame), and there are concentric circles.

For the radial lines, there are 2 alternating sets rotating around the centre of the frame oscillating in a sine wave (left, right, left, right) at different speeds, frequencies and time offsets. On top of this, the outer ends of the line are also processed differently in speed and displacement amplitude from the inner ends of the lines. There is also a uniform colour gradient running along the radial lines.

As for the concentric circles, they are expanding in a loop, and also have a gradient of transparency running through each ring in a loop. There is yet another transparency noise running along the length of each circular ring. The points on the rings run through a positional noise, so they are not perfect circles.

Finally, the visuals here are not renders. They are flipbook captures.

The visual breakdowns mentioned are easier to spot when I show the progressive tests building up to the final version. When everything is put together, the average person does not have enough time to visually break things down. It gives depth and visual detail to the overall piece.

I hope you like it :)