Houdini for Absolute Beginners

Houdini for Absolute Beginners, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.45, with 77 lectures, based on 66 reviews, and has 509 subscribers.

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Title: Houdini for Absolute Beginners

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.45

Number of Lectures: 77

Number of Published Lectures: 77

Number of Curriculum Items: 77

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 77

Original Price: $89.99

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What You Will Learn

Create smoke and pyro simulations.

Create procedural geometry in houdini.

Create particle simulations

Create soft body simulations

Making fire effects

Who Should Attend

I have designed this course for beginners who want to learn Houdini Effects.

Target Audiences

I have designed this course for beginners who want to learn Houdini Effects.

Are you a beginner and want to learn all the Houdini effects?

Then I welcome you to Houdini for Absolute Beginners course.

WHY SHOULD YOU LEARN FROM ME:

Hello, my name is Shahzad Ahmad. I am a Houdini FX Artist. I am passionate about creating Visual Effects (explosions, smokes, fire, clouds, dust, particles, magic, etc.), as well as all kinds of destruction and fluids. I am a self-taught Artist. And I love watching science documentaries and Sci-Fi movies!

By the end of this course:

You will be able to work in Houdini with confidence.

You will be able to create procedural geometry in houdini.

You will be able to create smoke and pyro simulations.

You will be able to create particle simulations.

You will be able to create soft body simulations.

WHAT WILL I LEARN:

Houdini procedural workflow

Geometry Attributes

Geometry Grouping

Scattering multiple objects

Working with VOPs

Writing VEX Code

Geometry data types

Houdini volumes

Building smoke simulation network

Building pyro simulation network

Working with ACES color space

Create particles FX

Working with grains

Create rigid body simulations

Geometry fracturing techniques

Working with RBD Constraints

Working with vellum solver

Create vellum soft bodies

Vellum constraints

Creating flip fluids

Rendering flip fluids

Rendering with Karma XPU

COURSE PROJECTS:

We will start with the basic houdini navigation and get familiar with the user interface. And then we will talk about geometry grouping and geometry attributes and create two procedural projects. First we will create a procedural spiral staircase and then procedural nuclear reactor cooling tower. After that we will learn about VEX and VOPs working with VOPs and writing VEX code and we will create projection deformers both in VEX and VOPs. After we have good understanding with houdini SOPs then we will dive into houdini DOP land and create dynamics simulations we will learn about volumes and voxels and build a smoke simulation network. After that we will learn about pyro solvers and create fire simulations to generate sparks for fire and then we learn about explosions and create an explosion project. After that we learn about particles, setting up particle simulation networks to work with particle forces and we will create our own custom forces to drive particle simulation. And then we will learn about grains, how to activate grains and create sand simulation. After that we will learn about rigid body simulations and setup RBD simulation networks and we will learn different geometry fracturing techniques and we learn about constraints, how to create constraints and different constraints types. And after that we will learn about vellum to create soft bodies simulation and learn about different vellum constraints and how to dynamically adjust constraints while simulating. And we will finish this course out with flip fluids and we learn how to set up a flip simulation network. We will learn about flip viscosity to create viscous fluids. And we will render all our projects in Karma renderer. We will learn how to import geometry in Solaris for rendering and we will learn about Karma XPU for rendering.

IS THIS COURSE RIGHT FOR ME:

I have designed this course for beginners who want to learn Houdini.

WHAT SHOULD I KNOW OR HAVE FOR THE COURSE:

I expect you to have some sort of basic 3D knowledge.

You should have Houdini installed on your computer.

JOIN ME NOW:

So if you want to learn Houdini and want to create procedural geometry and FX, then join me now. Hope to see you in the course.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: 01 Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Download Project Files

Chapter 2: Chapter 02 – Getting Started

Lecture 1: User Interface

Lecture 2: Import Geometry

Lecture 3: Geometry Grouping

Lecture 4: Attributes

Lecture 5: Attribute Transfer

Lecture 6: Attribute From Pieces

Lecture 7: Scatter And Align

Lecture 8: Orientation Along Curve

Lecture 9: Working With Chain SOP

Chapter 3: Chapter 03 – Procedural Modeling

Lecture 1: Procedural Staircase

Lecture 2: Create Houdini Digital Asset

Lecture 3: Procedural Nuclear Cooling Tower

Lecture 4: Tower Railings

Lecture 5: Tower Base

Lecture 6: Nuclear Cooling Tower HDA

Chapter 4: 04 Intro To VEX And VOPs

Lecture 1: Intro To VEX And VOP

Lecture 2: Geometry Manipulation With VOPs

Lecture 3: Noise And Ramps in VOPs

Lecture 4: Importing Attributes In VOPs

Lecture 5: Writing VEX Code

Lecture 6: Projection Deformer In VOPs

Lecture 7: Projection Deformer In VEX

Chapter 5: 05 Smoke And Pyro

Lecture 1: Volume And Voxels

Lecture 2: SDF Volume

Lecture 3: Clouds With Fog Volume

Lecture 4: Smoke Simulation

Lecture 5: Exploring Pyrosolver

Lecture 6: Divergence Field Demonstration

Lecture 7: Large Scale Smoke

Lecture 8: Write Smoke Cache

Lecture 9: Setting Up ACES

Lecture 10: Rendering Smoke

Lecture 11: Creating Fire Simulation

Lecture 12: Volume Deform

Lecture 13: Adding Sparks In Fire

Lecture 14: Rendering Fire And Sparks

Lecture 15: Pyro Burst Source

Lecture 16: Setting Up Explosion Sim

Lecture 17: Adding Smoke Trails

Lecture 18: Create Blast Rings

Lecture 19: Rendering Explosion

Chapter 6: 06 Particles

Lecture 1: Intro To POP Network

Lecture 2: Particles Forces

Lecture 3: POP Axis And Curve Force

Lecture 4: Custom Particles Forces

Lecture 5: POP Replicate

Lecture 6: Particles Advection

Lecture 7: Rendering Particles

Lecture 8: Setting Up Growth Attribute

Lecture 9: Particle Simulation

Lecture 10: Render Setup

Chapter 7: 07 Grains

Lecture 1: Setting Up Grains

Lecture 2: Activating Grains

Lecture 3: Render Grains

Lecture 4: Grains Soft Bodies

Chapter 8: 08 RBD Dynamics

Lecture 1: Setting Up Basic RBD Sim

Lecture 2: Fracturing Geometry

Lecture 3: RBD Cluster

Lecture 4: Boolean Fracture

Lecture 5: RBD Activation

Lecture 6: RBD Constraints

Chapter 9: 09 Vellum

Lecture 1: Vellum Basics

Lecture 2: Vellum Soft Bodies

Lecture 3: Vellum Pressure Constraint

Lecture 4: Vellum Shape Match

Lecture 5: Vellum Hair

Lecture 6: Vellum Cloth Tearing

Lecture 7: Vellum Brush

Lecture 8: Vellum Grains

Chapter 10: 10 Flip Fluids

Lecture 1: Basic Flip Simulation

Lecture 2: Flip Tank

Lecture 3: Flip Viscosity

Lecture 4: Meshing Fluid

Lecture 5: Rendering Flip Fluids

Chapter 11: 11 Conclusion

Lecture 1: Thank You

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