Magical Butterfly FX in Houdini
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- Mar 09, 2025

Magical Butterfly FX in Houdini, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.75, with 14 lectures, based on 28 reviews, and has 146 subscribers.
You will learn about We will learn to create Magical FX We will learn about Houdini Particles We will learn about Houdini Smoke Simulation We will learn about Particles Advection in Houdini We will learn about Solaris We will learn to Render using Karma XPU We will learn compositing in after effects This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who is looking to polish their Houdini skills It is particularly useful for Anyone who is looking to polish their Houdini skills.
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Summary
Title: Magical Butterfly FX in Houdini
Price: $49.99
Average Rating: 4.75
Number of Lectures: 14
Number of Published Lectures: 14
Number of Curriculum Items: 14
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 14
Original Price: $199.99
Quality Status: approved
Status: Live
What You Will Learn
Who Should Attend
Target Audiences
Hello and welcome to this magical fx course. We are going to create magical butterfly FX in Houdini.
Some Of The Topics Covered In This Course
Creating Geometry With Alpha Maps
Procedural Animation With CHOPs (Channel Operators)
Soft Body Simulations With Vellum
Forcing Vellum Constraint To Follow Animation
Particles Simulation
Shading Particles With Image Texture
Particles Advection
Smoke Simulation
Working Inside Solaris/LOPs
Working With MaterialX Shaders
Rendering With Karma XPU
Compositing In After Effects
First we will start with creating the butterfly wings and then we are going use the chops to create wings procedural flapping animation.
We will use vellum to simulate butterfly wings and after that we will use particles simulation to emit particles from butterfly wings.
we will learn how to color our particles with image texture.
we will create smoke simulation and use the smoke simulation velocities to advect our particles.
we will learn how to import all our scene in to LOPs Solaris for lighting and shading and for rendering.
we will learn how to use the Karma XPU to render our magical fx.
And we will finish our course of by composting inside of after effects.
we will learn how we can import our rendered sequence and passes in the correct OCIO color space.
this course is for anyone who is looking to polish their houdini skills and want to add magical fx in their portfolio.
We got lot to cover so without further ado let’s get to it
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction
Lecture 1: Magical FX In Houdini
Lecture 2: Project Overview
Chapter 2: Project Setup
Lecture 1: Setup New Project
Lecture 2: Making Butterfly Wings
Lecture 3: Procedural Wings Flapping Animation
Chapter 3: Settings up Dynamics
Lecture 1: Simulating Wings In Vellum
Lecture 2: Emit Particles From Wings
Lecture 3: Advect Particles From Volume Velocity
Lecture 4: Settings up Smoke Simulation
Lecture 5: Scene Preparation For Rendering
Chapter 4: Shading And Rendering In Solaris
Lecture 1: Import Into LOPs
Lecture 2: Materials And Rendering In Karma XPU
Lecture 3: Compositing In After Effects
Lecture 4: Project Files
Instructors

Shahzad Ahmad
Houdini FX Artist
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