Houdini Essential Training

7h 44m 21s
English
Paid

Course description

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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#1: Welcome

All Course Lessons (99)

#Lesson TitleDurationAccess
1
Welcome Demo
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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