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Become An FX Artist Using Houdini
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1,709 students

Become An FX Artist Using Houdini

Learn How To Create High-End Visual Effects Using Houdini
Created byShahzad Ahmad
Last updated 11/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Houdini Particles
  • Grains and Vellum Grains
  • Houdini Rigid Body Dynamics Bullet solver
  • Houdini Pyro and smoke Solver
  • More Advanced Houdini techniques
  • Houdini Vellum solver for creating softbody dynamics
  • Houdini Flip solver for creating water FX
  • Creating stunning VFX Shots
  • You will gain a comprehensive understanding of Houdini
  • You will learn what is required to create VFX Projects
  • You will become confident in using Houdini
  • You will learn Houdini through practical and fun projects
  • SOP-Based Dynamics in Houdini 18.5

Course content

11 sections103 lectures13h 46m total length
  • Course Trailer1:19
  • Course Overview5:09
  • Getting familiar with Houdini user interface15:08
  • Attributes9:31
  • Transferring Attributes10:10
  • Attributes from Pieces14:28
  • Understanding Groups18:46
  • Match Size5:40

    In this tutorial you are going to learn very useful geometry aligning techniques

  • Scatter and Align13:06

    In this lesson we are going to learn about scattering the Geometry

Requirements

  • Houdini 18.5 And Above
  • No Prior Knowledge of Houdini is Required

Description

Updates:

                  Houdini 20.5 (Update)

RBD Car Rig - Houdini 20.5(Update)

New Clip SOP - Houdini 20.5(Update)

Quad Remesh - Houdini 20.5(Update)

Planar Inflate - Houdini 20.5(Update)

Expect more updates...


                  Houdini 20 (Update)

Pyro Solver - Houdini 20(Update)

Rendering in Karma XPU - Houdini 20(Update)

Compositing in After Effects

RBD Cone Twist Constraint - Houdini 20(Update)

RBD Car Rig - Houdini 20(Update)

RBD Car Rig HDA - Houdini 20(Update)



We will start from the basics and once we got the fundamentals coverd we will be moving on to create some fun and practical projects. We will start from the houdini SOPs land and once we got the confident working with SOPs then we will jump into DOPs houdini dynamic operators land understand the basics of houdini dynamics and create more complex FX projects.

This is a comprehensive Course teaching you how to create stunning VFX Shots using Houdini

Here some of the techniques you will Learn:


  • Introduction to Houdini 18.5

  • Workflow And Tools.

  • Powerful techniques for grouping geometry

  • Implementation of Circumference for accurate wheel rotation

  • The new Chain SOP in Houdini 18.5

  • Procedurally Generating Tank Treads

  • The New Scatter and Align SOP in Houdini 18.5

  • Creating Smoke Simulation Network

  • Using Microsolvers

  • The New Pyro Burst Source SOP in Houdini 18.5

  • The New Pyropyro bake volume SOP in Houdini 18.5

  • The New Pyro Sop Solver in Houdini 18.5

  • Setting up ACES in Houdini

  • Using Smoke Simulation to Advect Particles

  • Rendering Millions of Particles

  • Particles Disintegration Simulation

  • Use Pop Grains for Sand and Snow Simulations

  • Setting up Attractionweight Attribute to creat Wet Sand

  • We'll cover voronoi and boolean fracturing,RBD Material Fracture

  • Working with Packed Primitives

  • Setting up Constraints

  • Understanding Soft Constraints

  • Setting up Vellum Solver From Scracth

  • Tearing Cloth

  • Using curves to define Tearing

  • Vellum Soft Body

  • Using Tetrahedron to create Soft Body Simulation

  • Using Vellum to create Chains and Rop Simulation

  • Working With Flip Solver

  • Understanding Viscosity and Creative ways of using Viscosity

  • Using Flip Simulation to melt objects

  • Efficient ways of Writing Flip Caches to disk

  • Generating Mesh From Flip Simulation Particles

  • Setting up Materials, Lighting, and Rendering Flip Simulation

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone want to learn Houdini and create amazing VFX.
  • FX Artist
  • Anyone interested in learning more Advanced Houdini techniques