Solving Cloth Simulation for Office Mischief

I've finally done it, I've figured out how to do accurate cloth simulation with tearing, and button popping in Houdini, that also looks fairly decent, on a proper animation.

This took a lot of work and I'm finally so glad I've conquered this crucial step in making this upcoming animation work. Everything after Code Blue has lead up to this and it's exhilarating to be over this hill, from the Woods Animation, learning Houdini, the Juicing Animation, and a lot of work behind the scenes like the improved mocap setup, facial animations, and some rendering improvements.

I'll have this in a watchable method soon, I still have a bit of work to get this from Houdini into Blender, but once I do, I'll drop the next test animation.

This still requires some work to get right, like some weird collision issues and tearing thresholds that I'll have to animate manually, but I'm really happy with how it turned out so far.

One of the other challenges I'll have to figure out is how to fit this over the final body shapes, but at that point, the clothes will be torn to shreds ideally.

Office Mischief will be finished, there's a few things I have to finish to finally get this thing out the door. I have to animate the ending portion, animate a few smaller portions like clipping corrections and when she actually eats the muffin, add extra characters with their own mocap (already recorded I just have to get the characters created and mocap re-targeted), get voice actor's lines recorded, improve and finalize the cloth sim, polish, render, add sound and edit. 

I still don't wanna drop a release date for this until it's close to ready to render, but if I had to estimate it, I still have a month's worth of work to do, so this is looking like an April release.