Master Houdini FX: Create Stunning Visual Effects rigs

Create VFX rigs in Houdini from the ground up, go from beginning to advanced, Anyone can learn Houdini with this course

Created by: Eric Ebling
Freelance Visual Effects Artist, Photographer, Painter

What Will I Learn?

• Learn from an Award Winning industry professional with 22 years of experience creating visual effects for blockbuster feature films, Tv shows, and music videos.
• You will learn how to create basic rigs all the way up to advanced setups using VEX and Hscript to automate a lot of the setup process.
• Everything from Particles and Grains, Wires, RBD’s, Pyro and smoke, vellum, and Flip will be covered.
• You will learn how to create a particle rig to disintegrate objects, how to use and control grains, how to destroy anything with RBD setups
• You will learn how to create snow and rain systems that are used all the time in production.
• You will learn how to create smoke and explosions that can trigger the destruction of RBD buildings.
• You will learn about using flip to create realistic splashing water that interacts with animated objects.
• You will learn how to create tear-able cloth objects and how to squash and deform objects with vellum.
• You will learn how to create a final composite using Houdini’s built in compositing workflow.

Requirements

• No previous experience using Houdini is required with this course.
• A computer powerful enough to run the software, you can see the minimum hardware and software requirements at the sidefx website.
• An internet connection
• It is beneficial if you have used some form of 3d software in the past since there are similarities among all the leading software, but not required.
• General familiarity with using a computer, downloading and installing software will be a big help.
• We will be using Houdini 18.0.499 on a windows 10 based system throughout this lecture, although most examples are 100% compatible with Houdini 19.5 excluding a few of the pyro explosion examples( updates coming )

Target audience

• Aspiring and working FX artists looking to learn more about the power of Houdini.
• Anyone that is interested in seeing the techniques used to create FX rigs in production for professional film and television projects.