Houdini 101

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN ONLINE CLASS

Houdini 3D artists are some of the most sought-after in the industry. And for good reason: Houdini is both the most powerful tool for digital effects and also notoriously difficult to learn.

The good news is that we’ve designed this course as a gentle introduction to the fundamentals of Houdini, creating a solid foundation from which to launch into Houdini’s specialized feature sets: pyro, fluids, oceans, explosions, crowds…the list goes on.

We’ll also take a look at Houdini Engine, Houdini’s revolutionary platform for developing content that can be automatically incorporated into production platforms such as Unreal Engine and Unity as well as 3D animation packages such as Blender, Maya, 3DS Max and Cinema 4D.

In this class you’ll learn:

• The various context networks through which Houdini works
• Houdini’s unique node-based architecture
• Scene assembly and the Mantra render system
• Procedural modeling
• The fundamentals of Houdini’s particle system
• Creating impressive effects you can use in VFX shots today thanks to the preset shelves
• Creating a terrain plugin for use in Maya and Unreal Engine

Prerequisite: Basic understanding of digital 3D is helpful (e.g. using the 3D camera in Unreal Engine, After Effects or knowledge of another 3D DCC package like Blender, Maya, modo, 3DS Max or Cinema 4D) but not required.

Class Length: 30 hours

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