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Complete Houdini FX Bootcamp

Name: Complete Houdini FX Bootcamp
Rating: 4.5 (4937 reviews)

Beginners guide to Houdini FX : The most powerful 3D application in the world. No prior knowledge required.

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Created byRaffi Bedross

Last updated 11/2024

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What you'll learn

You will learn how to create professional Explosions.
You will have solid knowledge on how to use Houdini.
You will learn how to create realistic oceans.
You will learn how to create Destruction.
You will learn how to Create full CG chocolate commercial using Houdini.
You will learn how to make sand and snow effects in Houdini.
You will learn how to use flip fluid solver inside Houdini.
You will learn how to make rain effect.
And much more....
You will fall in love with this software :).

Course content

22 sections • 194 lectures • 18h 10m total length

Promo Video1:29
Advice for you0:27
Quick Tour5:37
Shortcuts for navigating in the viewport0:08
Alt + left mouse = Tumble
Alt + right mouse = Zoom
Alt + middle mouse = track
Space + G or Space +H to frame the camera
Space + B to split the viewport
Creating objects8:38
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create objects and navigate in the viewport
Display and render flags2:37
Link channels6:13
In this Houdini tutorial we are going to learn how to link channels.
Creating Materials8:31
In this lesson we'll take a quick look at Materials inside Houdini and how to use them.
Homework8:51
This is your first Houdini Homework :)
Fixing the topology of the cheese model3:31
Creating your first animation6:38
In this lesson you will create your first animation inside Houdini.
Creating a Cup using curves9:14

Introduction5:03
Explaining the smoke nodes4:45
Caching the simulation4:31
Creating a coffee steam4:07
Candle effect8:56
Creating a flipbook1:20
Pyro fields and shapes Guide
Microsolvers4:56
Gas Axis Force16:03
I will show you how to create Tornado using gas axis force.
Wheel burnout: Prepare the geometry4:35
Wheel burnout: Creating the smoke7:48
Fire intro0:41
Aces color space5:12
Understand ocio color space inside Houdini
Creating the Fire8:22
Shading the fire5:57
Final touches in Nuke7:46
How to Download Aces OCIO0:03
Colored Smoke2:55
Create colored smoke in houdini by building a sphere, applying color via a noise pattern, rasterizing points to a volume, and adding a color source before the pyro solver.
Temperature diffusion and cooling6:12
Explore how buoyancy, temperature, and velocity shape smoke in Houdini FX, using temperature diffusion and cooling rate to control rise and decay.

Flip Fluids section Demo0:27
Intro to Flip Fluids7:03
Particle fluid6:13
Fluids Mix10:38
In this video I will show you how to mix 2 colors together in Houdini 19
Fluids Mix with one mesh3:03
Adding forces to the Fluids6:39
Learn to apply noise and curl noise forces to particles in Houdini's fluid systems, tweaking emitter and auto network setups, animating deformation, and controlling frame ranges for initial splashy behavior.
Viscosity5:48
Viscosity attribute3:05
Fixing issues caused by fast moving objects5:04
Preparing the emitters4:56
Creating the fluid6:21
Adjusting the particle simulation6:00
Adjust the particle simulation in Houdini by loading caches correctly, increasing particle count toward 1.5 million, and tuning viscosity to 40. Disable reseeding in the flip solver to avoid artifacts.
Creating and caching the mesh12:52
Setup the background and camera6:54
Setup the lighting and shading15:46
Set up environmental hdr lighting, shading, add spot and area lights, and create ground materials in Houdini; adjust roughness, subsurface scattering, and render settings to balance realism and render time.
Final touches inside nuke12:43
Apply final touches inside Nuke by loading the image sequence, setting RGB color space, and using cryptomatte for selections; refine noise, warm color correction, and z defocus for depth.

Creating your first explosion5:03
Enhancing the look of the explosion6:05
Compose a convincing explosion by establishing a reference scale with a character, then visualize smoke and flame with pyro bake volume settings, noise, frame expansion, and flame lifespan adjustments.
Adding velocity boost4:48
Pyro burst source5:22
Learn to generate realistic explosions with the pyro burst source in Houdini fx bootcamp, using density, temperature, burn, velocity, and volume restoration attributes.
Pyro burst source blurry explosion6:33
Creating Multiple explosions5:13
Shockwave8:47
Creating the barrel explosion6:01
Create a barrel explosion in Houdini using the shelf tool, loading textures automatically, adjusting color space, and animating turbulence from frame 10 with a 180-degree spread.
lighting and caching the explosion3:48
Shading and rendering5:02
Explosion final touches in Nuke8:15
Creating trails for explosions6:37
Adding fire to Trails2:56

Downloadable Resources0:02
Understanding RBD Objects6:19
In this tutorial you are going to understand how RBD work in Houdini
Packed Primitives3:00
In this lesson we are going to continue working on RBD and understanding the packed primitives.
Wall Destruction6:27
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to destruct a Wall
Adding more details to the wall destruction2:36
In this lesson we are going to use Voronoi to add more details to the wall destruction.
Tips for Destruction4:03
In this lesson I am going to show you some tips that you really need to know.
Pin Constraint8:09
In this lesson we are going to learn how to use Pin constraint in Houdini
Hinge Constraint4:13
In this lesson we are going to learn how to use the Hinge constraint in Houdini.

Requirements

You must have passion to learn visual effects and Game effects.
You must have passion to learn Houdini.
You should know how to use the computer.

Description

Updates:

New section: Big scale explosion in Houdini 19

Introduction to explosions in Houdini 19

This is the best selling Visual Effects Course.

No presentations No time wasting It's all about doing and creating effects.
This Course is Projects based Course so you will learn Houdini by creating effects!.
This course is continually updated.

Why you want to learn Houdini FX

Houdini FX is a visual effects and 3D animation software like Maya or Blender, but what makes Houdini different and unique is the procedural system and has very powerful dynamic system that other softwares don't have. You will be surprised about that.

Houdini is the number 1 3D application that used in vfx, 3D animation studios and Game studios, Houdini can create high quality effects like water, explosions, fire and sand.

Houdini now is used by Big Game studios, they save 100X of the time by creating tools that are used in their Game Engine or in unreal engine or unity.

Knowing Houdini gives you very big advantage in the Game industry and in VFX companies.

If you are Game developer you must know at least a little bit how Houdini works, this gives you very big advantage in Game studios. In my course I will just teach you how to use Houdini, not teaching you how to use it for games. After you watch my course then you will be able to learn how to use it for games and in game engines like unreal engine or unity. i,e: I will not teach you how to use it for games, I just will teach you Houdini.

This course is very special, I will teach you how to use Houdini software to create interesting effects.
I will make it fun to learn and I will simplify every thing for you.

Take the course now and I promise you won't disappointed

Q and A

Is Houdini free software Yes its free for non commercial use, and it called Houdini apprentice.
Is there any limitation in Houdini apprentice No, you Have all the tools that the paid version has ,and you can render your shots too, but the images output restricted to 1280x720 when rendering.
I am game developer, do I need to learn Houdini Yes, you must at least know a the basics of Houdini.

Who this course is for:

Anyone wants to learn how to create visual effects from scratch.
Game developers who want to power up their games using Houdini.
Any one who have passion to learn Houdini.

Complete Houdini FX Bootcamp

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Course content

Introduction12 lectures • 1hr 2min

Houdini Core (Groups)3 lectures • 14min

Houdini Core(Attributes)3 lectures • 8min

Some Modeling stuff6 lectures • 43min

Introduction to Pyro in Houdini 1919 lectures • 1hr 39min

Flip Fluids in Houdini 1916 lectures • 1hr 54min

Introduction to Explosions in Houdini 1913 lectures • 1hr 15min

Big scale explosion in Houdini 197 lectures • 35min

Introduction to Rigid Bodies8 lectures • 35min

Particles6 lectures • 53min

Requirements

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