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In House Tool Building for Houdini TD's
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In House Tool Building for Houdini TD's

Learn To Create Sophisticated Tools with Houdini
Highest Rated
Created byTolga Ersel
Last updated 8/2025
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Pure VEX and Python programing with real life scenerio for solving complex problems
  • Fully Dynamic Vellum Feathers
  • applied vectors,applied matrices
  • Python
  • Vex
  • Digital assets
  • tool building
  • problem solving
  • vfx
  • TD skills
  • master Sops....Master Houdini.

Course content

13 sections • 75 lectures • 11h 41m total length

  • Welcome and Intro1:33
  • Warm Up17:46
  • Setup Hair system3:14
  • Creating Vectors8:54
  • Rotating Vectors3:17
  • Creating the barbs8:52

    Build barbs by generating points on curves, drive scaling with a user parameter and ramp, add curve-based randomness, propagate attributes, and group the new primitives as Barb group.

  • Ribbon Feather Foundation4:15
  • Ribbon Feather4:12

    Implement a ribbon feather effect in Houdini tool by adding a wrangle after rotation, introducing random frequency and weight variations, and exposing parameters to drive profiles and set red color.

Requirements

  • Sidefx houdini 18.5 or beyond. Non Commercial Edition of the software is absolutely fine.
  • If you are comfortable with Houdini UI, you are wellcome to join the course.
  • The course is designed as hands on all the time. Each concept, has its own warm up lecture.
  • We are going to build the tool step by step from scratch.

Description

The Goal of this course is, to give you the knowledge, to be an effective Technical Director.

The aim of this course is,not to give you recepies,but to give you the perspective to deal with daily production problems.

As  a Technical Director, our very first responsibility is solving a problem to never face it again.

As this is an life time journey, I hope this course gives you some practical and functional point of view.

If you master the SOP's, you master  Houdini.

"As  Feather tool is not just a feather tool", it is a perfect topic to cover, to give one, all the necessary arsenal to be  a  sharp TD.

Besides to cerate a good loking feather sytem, the topics to be able to create it is huge;

And we cover all of them step by step  from scratch, together.

Such as ;

*applied Matrices, applied vectors

*Extensive usage of VEX and Python

*Designing algorithms

*Solutions for, creating faster tools.

*Creating Clever Digital Assets

*Clustering systems, to be able to use system resources without trouble

*Multi functional caching utulities  ...and many more


at the end of this course, you will not only have an ready for production tool, but also you will get your skills to the next level.



Who this course is for:

  • Anyone, who wants to build their own tools for production.
  • Anyone, who wants to get their skills to the next level.

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