Houdini FX for 3d Artist Course

Create a new Houdini project with organized folders and save location. Build the wave of destruction using Mixamo Maria, great sword casting animation, and Poly Heaven 4k textures.

Explore procedural rock modeling in Houdini FX, converting polygonal geometry to VDB, sculpting with volume warp, unified noise layers, and adaptive remeshing, then cache as rock geometry.

Create a procedural growing rock animation in Houdini FX using line, copy to points, scatter and align, normals, and a growing p scale driven by an animated mask and keyframes.

Learn to create ground lightning in houdini that strikes the ground and triggers rock growth, using line nodes, noise deformation, and attribute-driven animation.

Scatter points on the main ground lightning and copy a line to create branches, using randomization, resampling, and noise to shape width, color, and orientation.

Learn to build a ground blast glow by shaping a glowing sphere, applying noise and volume tricks, and using pyro source and volume rasterize to animate lightning hitting the ground.

Create a sword lightning effect in houdini by scattering points on the blade, snapping them to the surface, and animating noise to drive electric arcs and branches.

Create a sword arc lightning in Houdini by scattering points along the blade, starting at frame 47 and ending at 60, then shaping with trail, ends, resample, and noise.

Learn to create a sword slash glow in Houdini fx by building a trailing arc using a trail, resample, poly extrude, and gradient shading controlled by an edge group.

Explore creating lightning arcs inside rocks by building a lightweight proxy geometry, adding normals and attribute noise, scattering points, and animating with keyframes to form branching lightning.

Learn to create particles in Houdini FX by emitting from rock growth areas using proxy geometry, object merge, and bounding objects to isolate the leading group for emission.

In houdini fx for 3d artists, build a ground dust simulation by converting particle data to a vdb volume, then refine with pyro, noise, buoyancy, and ground collision.

Create a debris simulation in Houdini by spawning particles, fracturing geometry, copying pieces to points, and simulating with the RBD Bullet solver with ground collision, velocity, friction, and caching.

Learn to import and organize assets in Solaris using soft import, merge them into a scene with a background and camera, then set up materials, HDRi lighting, and Karma render.

Create and configure materials in Houdini FX for 3D artist course by building a material network with Karma, standard surface, textures, normals, emission, and linking textures from Mixamo.

Adjust material settings and create rock and dust materials in Solaris, assign to geometry, enable glow, set up dome light HDRI, and configure render passes for emissive effects in Karma.

Learn to composite in After Effects by importing render sequences, setting ACES color flow to Rec 2020, extracting glow passes, applying Deep Glow, vibrance, tint, and color correction before rendering.

Thank you for joining the Houdini FX for 3D artist course; I hope you enjoyed the course and learned something from it.