Houdini FX For Beginners (Udemy.com)
Production Masterclass, Houdini FLIP, Pyro, Destruction, Dynamics, Rendering and Compositing
Created by: Joel Berg
Last updated April 2021
What you will learn
- You will learn how to create FX that you will actually be doing when you get your first job!
- You will learn how to create explosions with Pyro
- You will learn how to use FLIP Fluids to create oceans and water FX
- You will learn Destruction and Dynamics
- You will learn how to render in Mantra
- You will learn how to composite in COPs
- You will learn how to composite in Nuke
- You will learn how to create FX used in the biggest films
- You will learn how to solve problems in real production scenes
How it compares
Against the other 43 rated Udemy courses in Houdini on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews34#35 of 44 by number of reviews
- Length10.6 hourslonger than 74% of them
- Last updatedApril 2021more recently than 65% of them
Course Description
Houdini FX For Beginners is a Production Masterclass, Houdini FLIP, Pyro, Destruction, Dynamics, Rendering and Compositing
These are REAL film examples of FX I still do all the time in production. Not only are these techniques important to learn, but also the mindset of problem solving, research, and the initiative required to learn by yourself and further yourself as an artist.
Learn Pyro FX, destruction, FLIP simulations, rendering and compositing. Most importantly learn how all these FX interact with each other and the problems that will happen in production.
Online training usually doesn't address the problems you will face in production, often artists can follow along with a tutorial but then will get stuck very quickly with a real scene, and so this training is a production style course that is very similar to the work you will do in the real world. You will take it from start to finish, and we will go over a lot of the bugs and simple things that will stop you from completing the training.
By keeping things simple you will learn how to get fast and efficient results. Become faster and better by using these techniques over and over again. All these techniques can be applied to different versions of Houdini.
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
34 Reviews
Joel Berg
I am an FX TD with 10 years of experience from Vancouver, Canada. I have worked on for many different VFX companies on some Oscar nominated films. Some of my work includes films such as Prometheus, Seventh Son, Sin City 2, The Expendables 3, and many freelance FX.
I am constantly creating and learning new FX and 3D techniques.
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Reviews
By Jorge de Ceballos on 1/2/2025
The content is excellent. However, the instructor uses an outdated version of Houdini, which makes it difficult to follow all the aspects of the course.
By Alex Pic on 8/8/2024
One of the best Introductory workshop ever made in Houdini, since 4 years to nowdays, I use daily this software and worklflows changes constantly, on of the best , spent and followed during my Journey, Joel knows his own :)
By Steven shilling on 1/26/2024
very clear, concise and to the point
By Amitha Suguna N on 7/25/2022
loved this course, helped me have a better understanding of Houdini for FX
By Shivansh Rawat on 4/23/2020
no help for beginners from Instructor ,i had to refund this course on midway,very bad teaching ,go for another good course on udemy,dont buy this bad course
By Anaïs Hauler on 1/25/2020
After 3 month following this course, believe me don't waste your money. I should have done some research about this instructor before buying this. His portfolio shows that he does not have expertise on Houdini. In this course he shows something and in the next video it's totally different and he does not explain what he did. I showed this course to Houdini experts and they say that's not a good way to use Houdini. So not recommanded and It's sad it's late for me to have a refund for this course.
By Serge Sansregret on 7/18/2025
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Overall Score : 86 / 100






