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Learn MoreHoudini Live Action Volume 1: Wall Destruction
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Houdini Live Action Volume 1: Wall Destruction
Learn Live Action and Houdini
Created byMatt Skonicki
Last updated 7/2018
English
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What you'll learn
- Learn how to Render and Composite a Wall Destruction in a Live Action Plate
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Course content
3 sections • 26 lectures • 7h 30m total length
- Introduction8:34
Master the full live action Houdini workflow for wall destruction, from raw footage to plate integration, using After Effects or Premiere, with Nuke, color correction, and roto.
- Camera Solve in Nuke13:25
Learn to solve camera motion in nuke with a 3D tracker, create a 3D scene, set a ground plane, and align shot geometry using focal length and lens distortion awareness.
- Prepping Scene11:23
Prepare rough geometry in Houdini, locking the camera to the model builder node, then triangulate to place geometry in 3-d space and export Olympic files and OJs.
- Camera Writeout1:30
Set up camera writeout for live-action wall destruction by exporting an fbx with scene and camera nodes, trackers as locaters, and stand-in geometry across frames 0 to 107 in Houdini.
- Scene Orientation12:54
Import and organize the scene in Maya, scale to five units, align and lock the camera, and verify overscan for a solid wall destruction setup in Houdini.
- Environment Build29:24
Align the worldspace camera and ground plane to prevent sliding, then build and extrude environment geometry in houdini for wall destruction, preparing collision geometry and future breaking pieces.
- Collision Proofings5:46
Extract the wall and stand-in geometry, then extrude the ground in worldspace to add thickness. Freeze transforms, delete history, and center pivots for clean, non-intersecting geometry.
- Wall UV Layout13:57
Learn to lay out wall UVs in Houdini by isolating geometry, matching normals, using planar and camera projection, unfolding shells, straightening UVs, and preparing textures for projection-based reference.
- Projection Baking14:27
Create projection textures in Maya, bake two camera projections into wall pieces, then composite top and bottom in Photoshop, with Houdini Voronoi fractures for interior and exterior cracks.
- Photoshop Merge10:27
Execute a Photoshop merge workflow to bake UV layouts, mask and blend textures, and refine color for a Houdini wall destruction scene, aligning textures with footage.
- Geo to Houdini16:00
Build a cookie cutter geometry in Houdini by extruding along voronoi fracture lines and smoothing normals. Export the geometry for Houdini and prepare a hdr image in Photoshop.
- 360 HDRI Build6:54
Assemble an hdr image from nine on-set exposures in photoshop, merge to hdr pro, disable normalization, keep 32-bit mode, then save as a radiance file.
- Houdini Setup12:20
Import your Houdini scene, set the start frame to zero, configure camera, resolution, and plate references, then prep geometry for a DOPs simulation pass and final render.
- Lighting Setup15:10
Set up lighting in Houdini for live action wall destruction by creating a texture-driven wall material with a principal shader and matching the background via color correction and HDR.
- Initial Shatter Setup13:50
Set up a DOP simulation for wall destruction using Voronoi fracture and packed objects, configure gravity and collisions with static blockers, and explore motion blur and rendering options.
- Impact Object17:06
Set up an impact sphere as an rbd object, keyframe its motion, and adjust timing for a dramatic wall destruction, then simulate with wall and glue networks, render with shadows.
- Glue Constraint13:40
Learn to use glue constraints in Houdini to bind shattered wall pieces, adjust normals for softer shadows, and configure a constraint network with wranglers for stable destruction.
- Spacial Constraints24:14
Lock down edge regions with a handle edge wrangler to set active areas for a Voronoi fracture, then transfer the active attribute through assemblage to control the destruction.
- Interior Detailing27:57
Detail the interior wall destruction workflow in Houdini: Voronoi shatter with ISO offset and scattering, normals adjustments, clustering, and caching to render from sim to wall render.
- Advanced Voronoi53:03
Master advanced voronoi fracture in houdini by crafting a wavering interior and exterior pattern, reducing artifacts, and enhancing realism with roughness, specular highlights, normals, occlusion pass, and HDRI lighting.
- Shard UV/Materials30:22
Master shard UV work and Voronoi clustering to drive interior texture projection, roughness maps, and realistic wall destruction in houdini, including baking and artifact-free simulations.
- Particle Instancing41:09
Explore particle instancing to turn debris dots into thousands of rock shards, using voronoi fracture, wranglers, and copies for varied scale, collision, and rendering.
- Creating Smoke20:00
learn to generate misty smoke from shattered geometry in Houdini by using a debris source to place emitters on separated shards, caching the sim, and previewing with a pyro solver.
- Pyro Shader12:33
Explore creating dynamic wall destruction effects in Houdini using a pyro shader to generate smoke, adjust density, noise, color, and render layers for believable destruction.
- Render Passes Setup15:40
Master render passes for wall destruction in Houdini, including beauty, depth, normal, occlusion, and lighting passes. Manage smoke, debris, and passes with takes and phantom or exclude to optimize compositing.
- 269:14
Explore composing a final wall destruction shot in Houdini, detailing rendering passes, color correction, planar-based masking, roto, edge blur, and gunk on the lens for a cohesive live-action result.
Requirements
- Houdini, maya
Description
In this video we cover the rare training for incorporating Houdini pyrotechnics effects with live action incorporation. We start with building out the camera and geometry. Quickly we move into advanced voronoi fracture techniques adding layers of debris. We then move into the composite layout in the end in Nuke.
Software Used.
Houdini FX 16.5.323, Maya 2018, Nuke 11.1V1, Photoshop
Who this course is for:
- Beginner Houdini