Houdini: Core Skills

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Introduction to Houdini 15

In this Houdini 15 tutorial, you'll develop the skills you need to get up and running. You'll get the most out of this course when you're brand new to Houdini, but still have a...

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Introduction to Collisions in Houdini

We'll start with a general overview of dynamics in Houdini and discuss the key concepts behind working with simulations. We'll explore the idea of animation without keyframes and...

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Introduction to Particles in Houdini

In this Houdini tutorial we take a look at "Particle Operators", or POPs, as they're called. We'll start off with a discussion of the fundamental concepts behind Houdini's...

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Introduction to Materials in Houdini

In this series of tutorials, we'll take an introductory look at materials in Houdini. We'll start by setting up our Houdini session for a proper shading workflow. We'll learn...

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Introduction to Hair and Fur in Houdini 15

In this course, we will explore Houdini 15's Hair and Fur toolset. We start by examining the Hair shelf tools, taking time to understand how these tools work and how to use them...

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Introduction to Fluid Simulations in Houdini

This course provides an overview of the basic concepts used to create and control fluid simulations in Houdini. We cover the particle fluid shelf tools, but we also dive deeper...

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Introduction to Dynamic Oceans in Houdini

This series of Houdini tutorials explores the many different techniques used in Houdini's OceanFX toolset. We'll get started by using the shelf tools, but almost instantly dive...

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Modeling For Dynamics In Houdini and Maya

In this series of tutorials, we'll examine workflows for preparing geometry for dynamic simulations. We'll use various modeling techniques to create fast and efficient collision...

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Creating Custom Shaders in Houdini

In this Houdini tutorial, we'll explore under the hood of a shading network. We'll start by creating our first simple shader from scratch using the basic Surface Model. We'll see...

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Creating Cloudscape in Houdini

In this Houdini tutorial we'll use VDBs to utilize the latest technology and explore some new features. We'll create a cloudscape using particles as a base and then add cloud-like...

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Building FX Tools in Houdini

In this Houdini tutorial, we'll learn how to create in-depth procedural FX tools. Throughout the lessons, we'll look at the steps required to build these tools from scratch. In...

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Advanced Rigid Body Dynamics Using Proxy Objects in Houdini

In this Houdini tutorial, we'll examine multiple methods for accomplishing high resolution object simulation in Houdini using lower resolution proxy objects. In practice, when...

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Disintegration, Teleportation and Reintegration Effects in Houdini

In this Houdini tutorial, we'll learn how to combine visually complex methods to construct new effects. The first method we'll look at is the concept of a shader slowly...

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