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Become An FX Artist Using Houdini (Udemy.com)

Learn How To Create High-End Visual Effects Using Houdini

Created by: Shahzad Ahmad

Last updated November 2024

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What you will learn

  • Houdini Particles
  • Grains and Vellum Grains
  • Houdini Rigid Body Dynamics Bullet solver
  • Houdini Pyro and smoke Solver
  • More Advanced Houdini techniques
  • Houdini Vellum solver for creating softbody dynamics
  • Houdini Flip solver for creating water FX
  • Creating stunning VFX Shots
  • You will gain a comprehensive understanding of Houdini
  • You will learn what is required to create VFX Projects
  • You will become confident in using Houdini
  • You will learn Houdini through practical and fun projects
  • SOP-Based Dynamics in Houdini 18.5

How it compares

Against the other 43 rated Udemy courses in Houdini on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 44% of them
  • Reviews227#14 of 44 by number of reviews
  • Length13.8 hourslonger than 88% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2024more recently than 88% of them

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Course Description

Updates:

                  Houdini 20.5 (Update)

RBD Car Rig - Houdini 20.5(Update)

New Clip SOP - Houdini 20.5(Update)

Quad Remesh - Houdini 20.5(Update)

Planar Inflate - Houdini 20.5(Update)

Expect more updates...


                  Houdini 20 (Update)

Pyro Solver - Houdini 20(Update)

Rendering in Karma XPU - Houdini 20(Update)

Compositing in After Effects

RBD Cone Twist Constraint - Houdini 20(Update)

RBD Car Rig - Houdini 20(Update)

RBD Car Rig HDA - Houdini 20(Update)



We will start from the basics and once we got the fundamentals coverd we will be moving on to create some fun and practical projects. We will start from the houdini SOPs land and once we got the confident working with SOPs then we will jump into DOPs houdini dynamic operators land understand the basics of houdini dynamics and create more complex FX projects.

This is a comprehensive Course teaching you how to create stunning VFX Shots using Houdini

Here some of the techniques you will Learn:


  • Introduction to Houdini 18.5

  • Workflow And Tools.

  • Powerful techniques for grouping geometry

  • Implementation of Circumference for accurate wheel rotation

  • The new Chain SOP in Houdini 18.5

  • Procedurally Generating Tank Treads

  • The New Scatter and Align SOP in Houdini 18.5

  • Creating Smoke Simulation Network

  • Using Microsolvers

  • The New Pyro Burst Source SOP in Houdini 18.5

  • The New Pyropyro bake volume SOP in Houdini 18.5

  • The New Pyro Sop Solver in Houdini 18.5

  • Setting up ACES in Houdini

  • Using Smoke Simulation to Advect Particles

  • Rendering Millions of Particles

  • Particles Disintegration Simulation

  • Use Pop Grains for Sand and Snow Simulations

  • Setting up Attractionweight Attribute to creat Wet Sand

  • We'll cover voronoi and boolean fracturing,RBD Material Fracture

  • Working with Packed Primitives

  • Setting up Constraints

  • Understanding Soft Constraints

  • Setting up Vellum Solver From Scracth

  • Tearing Cloth

  • Using curves to define Tearing

  • Vellum Soft Body

  • Using Tetrahedron to create Soft Body Simulation

  • Using Vellum to create Chains and Rop Simulation

  • Working With Flip Solver

  • Understanding Viscosity and Creative ways of using Viscosity

  • Using Flip Simulation to melt objects

  • Efficient ways of Writing Flip Caches to disk

  • Generating Mesh From Flip Simulation Particles

  • Setting up Materials, Lighting, and Rendering Flip Simulation

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Instructor Details

Shahzad Ahmad

Hello, my name is Shahzad Ahmad. I am a Houdini FX Artist. I am passionate about creating the Visual Effects (explosions, smokes, fire, clouds, dust, particles, magic, etc.), as well as all kinds of destruction and fluids. I am a self-taught Artist. And i love watching science documentaries and Sci-Fi movies!

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Reviews

4.5

227 ratings on Udemy

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By Ximena Gonzalez on 10/1/2023

Más detalles de porque se está usando la herramienta o en que otro caso se podría implementar.

By Lukas Dimitroff on 12/30/2022

Some things are hard to understand, but he goes very in depth (even on just the first video) on tips and tricks to make using the software easier.

By Ana Graciela Vassallo Fedotkin on 10/4/2022

Excellent and wonderful course! I found it really amazing and helpful! Really great for beginners and covers a lot of beginner to advanced concepts and examples! Thank you!

By Kristina de Vries on 7/29/2022

It was very helpful so far, even the introduction taught me new things although I've been using houdini myself for 2 years now.

By Mohammad Omer on 7/16/2022

The best Houdini course on entire Udemy, this course was amazing it helped me a lot to get into such a difficult software easily, the difference of this course with others was that It covers what you need to know first, other courses was just covering a specific topic or just project based, but this course had the both, it covers the basics and with a lot of amazing practical projects, this course helped me a lot to transition from blender to Houdini, I really recommend this course if you are transitioning from another 3D software or just want to get more comfortable with Houdini.

By Savanah on 7/6/2022

Very thorough, easy to understand, amazing instructor! Explains all of the systems to you as well!

By Sutikno Arthur on 1/17/2022

so far the explanation is good. not finished yet, but look promising and good quality tutorial

By RAMKUMAR V on 11/16/2021

this is good explanations and easy to understand the concept detail , and audio quality and pronunciation is easy to understan .. well

By Muhammad Faisal Shah on 9/15/2021

One of the best learning Houdini experience, easy to watch, clear content and to the point, thank you, looking forward to next one, please!

By Jose Luiz Yohachi Deguchi on 8/12/2021

If you are not used to Indian English accent, it could be a little hard to understand all the explanations. Other than that, his knowledge is indisputable.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100