Houdini Essential Training
There's a multitude of tools for 3D content creation on the market, and each has its own advantages and merits. Houdini—a leading package for 3D content creation—offers a procedural workflow that allows for powerful experimentation, system reusability, and overall process efficiency in building an array of assets and animations.
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While known for its VFX strengths, Houdini has powerful tools for end-to-end 3D production for projects ranging from photorealistic visual effects to stylized motion graphics. In this course, Scott Pagano starts from the ground up to provide you with a solid foundation in Houdini. First, he takes you through the interface, covering topics such as global animation options, nomenclature, and viewport and display nodes. Next, he covers core geometry and animation concepts, followed by lighting, shading, and rendering techniques using the Houdini Mantra renderer. Once you have those primary 3D skills under your belt, Scott moves on to particles and volumes—some of the package's most lauded strengths. He wraps up with an overview of the package's compositing context, where you can create procedural imagery useful for processes across all contexts.
Topics include:
- Global animation options
- Viewing standard attributes
- Copying SOP with template attributes and stamping
- Caching geometry
- Exporting and importing Alembic
- Applying copy stamp channels
- Importing animation into CHOPs
- Caching animation data
- Rendering, shading, and lighting
- Setting up rigid body dynamics
- Collision geometry fundamentals
- Emitting particles from objects and attributes
- Rendering particles
- Emitting smoke from an object
- Refining smoke simulation
- Compositing layers
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| # | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome | 01:19 |
| 2 | What you need to know? | 01:40 |
| 3 | Exercise files | 00:49 |
| 4 | Navigation | 01:36 |
| 5 | Viewport and display modes | 03:10 |
| 6 | Panes | 03:02 |
| 7 | Desktops | 02:45 |
| 8 | Preferences | 02:57 |
| 9 | Display options and visualizers | 03:07 |
| 10 | Global animation options | 02:07 |
| 11 | Nomenclature | 03:30 |
| 12 | Network view | 07:54 |
| 13 | Node flags | 06:36 |
| 14 | Geometry spreadsheet | 02:51 |
| 15 | Tree view | 01:55 |
| 16 | Shelf Tools | 02:56 |
| 17 | Object vs. suface context | 04:14 |
| 18 | Geometry types | 05:38 |
| 19 | Viewing standard attributes | 03:12 |
| 20 | Selection | 03:02 |
| 21 | Grid and snapping | 02:26 |
| 22 | Basic box up modeling | 04:03 |
| 23 | Polysplit and edge loops | 06:18 |
| 24 | Clip and mirror | 03:36 |
| 25 | Polybevel and divide | 04:52 |
| 26 | Curve SOP | 03:06 |
| 27 | UV unwrap | 03:31 |
| 28 | Creating groups | 06:31 |
| 29 | Creating attributes | 07:49 |
| 30 | Copy SOP | 02:43 |
| 31 | Copy SOP with template attributes | 04:39 |
| 32 | Copy SOP with stamping | 06:55 |
| 33 | Packed feometry | 04:59 |
| 34 | Geometry with VDBs | 04:01 |
| 35 | VOP SOP | 06:42 |
| 36 | Subnetworks | 07:46 |
| 37 | Caching geometry | 05:19 |
| 38 | Export Alembic | 04:51 |
| 39 | Import Alembic | 02:04 |
| 40 | Keyframes | 03:22 |
| 41 | Animation editor | 03:16 |
| 42 | CHOP networks | 06:57 |
| 43 | Expressions in parameters | 03:49 |
| 44 | Noise and filtering | 07:03 |
| 45 | Copy stamp channels | 08:09 |
| 46 | Apply copy stamp channels | 07:50 |
| 47 | Channel SOP | 03:23 |
| 48 | Importing animation into CHOPS | 04:23 |
| 49 | Cache animation data | 02:23 |
| 50 | Cameras | 07:02 |
| 51 | Flipbooks | 03:43 |
| 52 | Mplay | 02:43 |
| 53 | IPR rendering | 05:05 |
| 54 | Basic mantra settings | 05:58 |
| 55 | Mantra quality settings | 12:01 |
| 56 | Render passes, AOV | 04:44 |
| 57 | Open GL ROP | 02:57 |
| 58 | Geometry ROP | 01:49 |
| 59 | FBX ROP | 01:55 |
| 60 | Alembic ROP | 02:26 |
| 61 | Assigning materials | 03:33 |
| 62 | Principled shader | 07:28 |
| 63 | Using textures | 03:25 |
| 64 | Displacement | 04:10 |
| 65 | Basic custom shader | 07:51 |
| 66 | Subdivision settings | 04:26 |
| 67 | Light types - Point and spot | 05:55 |
| 68 | Light types - Distant | 04:51 |
| 69 | Light types - Area | 04:19 |
| 70 | Light types - Environment and HDR | 03:19 |
| 71 | Sun and sky lighting | 04:29 |
| 72 | Light bank and light linking | 02:47 |
| 73 | Rigid body dynamics setup | 04:49 |
| 74 | Adding objects to the simulation | 03:21 |
| 75 | Changing dynamic object types | 02:46 |
| 76 | Collision geometry fundamentals | 05:49 |
| 77 | Refining dynamics network | 08:00 |
| 78 | RBD active node | 04:57 |
| 79 | Caching simulation results | 05:46 |
| 80 | Applying lo-res sim to hi-res geometry | 09:43 |
| 81 | Wire simulation setup | 07:54 |
| 82 | Refining wire simulation | 06:42 |
| 83 | Deforming geometry with wires | 06:34 |
| 84 | Creating velocity attribute on objects | 04:04 |
| 85 | Emitting particles from objects | 04:33 |
| 86 | Emitting particles from attributes | 06:15 |
| 87 | Refining particle simulation | 03:43 |
| 88 | Caching particles | 03:55 |
| 89 | Post-simulation color modification | 08:48 |
| 90 | Rendering particles | 05:11 |
| 91 | Emitting smoke from an object | 05:08 |
| 92 | Refining smoke simulation | 07:08 |
| 93 | Key fluid simulation nodes | 09:40 |
| 94 | Caching output | 08:32 |
| 95 | Pyro Shader | 06:04 |
| 96 | Render scene overview | 01:40 |
| 97 | Compositing layers | 05:50 |
| 98 | Rendering output | 02:24 |
| 99 | Next steps | 01:03 |
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