Houdini - Tron Ares Cube Effector

Decided to recreate this effect from Tron: Ares trailer, huge fan of the style, so I thought I’d share how I approach it here.

I drove everything using a propagation attribute, then applied transformations and orientation to give each cube some rotation before it settles into place. You could probably achieve a similar effect using MOPs tool as well.

As for the look, it’s done with Redshift materials along with some of the built-in bloom post effects in Redshift.

Curious to see how you might reapply this in other contexts, excited to see what you come up with!

This setup is made using Houdini Indie 20.0.751 and render with Redshift 2025.2.2

INCLUDES

• Houdini Indie file
• Texture file
• otls