Timothee Chalamet as Willy Wonka, in his chocolate factory
April 19, 2024

Everything Procedural 2024

From Monday April 15 to Friday April 19 2024 Breda University of Applied Sciences will host the Everything Procedural Conference for a variety of lectures, talks, demonstrations and masterclasses in the field of procedural content generation for games on our beautiful campus. The event offers many opportunities to meet and share knowledge with fellow developers.

Framestore and Wonka’s Procedural Chocolate Factory

For the final sequence of Wonka, we had to create his Chocolate Factory popping into existence in the ruins of a castle. We used Houdini procedural modelling and layout techniques in combination with traditional VFX workflows to allow us to achieve this in the relatively short time allowed and to give flexible creative control to the client for the ending of the film. In this talk, Environment Supervisor Simon Carlile will show the various procedural tools we created and show some of the unique challenges of procedural workflow in a film VFX context.