armflex with muscels

This is a project where I got to decide what I wanted to do for myself as long as it’s aimed at what I want to do when I graduate from visual magic.
I decided that I wanted to learn about muscle systems and make a small one myself in houdini to learn every part of the prosces. So I decided to do an armaflex where all the muscles moved realistically.

Unfortunately there is limited information on how you make a muscle system and I had a hard time finding any good or relevant information about it. Which led to me figuring it out too late on how to make a proper setup so I ended up doing a skin deformation instead.

It was a lot more complicated than I expected and I felt like the majority of the time I didn’t really know how to get to the finish line. but when I decided to go for skin deformation instead I started to get somewhere and I got a result that I am quite happy with.

I have learned a lot during this project but sadly I don't believe I will focus on muscle systems and CFX in the future. It was very interesting but not as fun as I had hoped for.