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Houdini FX - How to add Visual Effects in Real Videos
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(61 ratings)
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Houdini FX - How to add Visual Effects in Real Videos

Learn how to add and compositing special effects and simulations with live footage
Created byStefano Cotardo
Last updated 11/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • How to add simulations and visual effects in real videos
  • Camera tracking
  • Simulations in Houdini: fire, smoke and water
  • Rendering in Mantra
  • Compositing in After Effects

Course content

5 sections • 40 lectures • 3h 35m total length

  • General notes and course project files0:45
  • How to shoot a video to add visual FX3:37
  • The tracking process in After Effects5:35
  • How to import the tracking data in Houdini6:35
  • The meteor and the collision with the ground - part 17:28

    In attachment, you can find the network setup of the ball that hits the ground and breaks.
    As exericise, you can add the mountain node to deform the ball into a meteor.

  • The meteor and the collision with the ground - part 24:33
  • The fire and explosion8:56
  • Debris, materials and rendering10:35
  • Final adjustments and compositing3:11

Requirements

  • No special requirements, only a basic knowledge of Houdini interface.

Description

The goal of this course is to teach how to create simulations in Houdini for the compositing with real footage.

The workflow involves recording the video, then the match moving process in order to extract the virtual camera movement, the creation of the simulation in Houdini and the final compositing.

This is an important technique behind video production with visual effects or virtual backgrounds.
In this way you'll learn how to create simulations specifically designed to be inserted in a real video.

This is a course for beginners that only requires some basic knowledge of Houdini, such as interface navigation and basic nodes manipulation.
If you are an absolute beginner, I suggest to first take a look at my previous course, "Houdini FX step to step - Visual Effects made easy", that explains the basics of the software.
However, each step is exposed in great details so that you can follow every exercise in an easy way from start to end.

For each lesson, you also have access to the related resources that include the final project and also a starting project, with the basic setup of camera tracking and background, so that you can focus on building the simulations.

Who this course is for:

  • Houdini students interested in simulations and visual effects

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