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Houdini FX - How to add Visual Effects in Real Videos (Udemy.com)

Learn how to add and compositing special effects and simulations with live footage

4.6
61 reviews

Created by: Stefano Cotardo

Last updated November 2021

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What you will learn

  • How to add simulations and visual effects in real videos
  • Camera tracking
  • Simulations in Houdini: fire, smoke and water
  • Rendering in Mantra
  • Compositing in After Effects

How it compares

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

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 58% of them
  • Reviews61#27 of 44 by number of reviews
  • Length3.6 hoursshorter than 72% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2021more recently than 72% of them

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Course Description

The goal of this course is to teach how to create simulations in Houdini for the compositing with real footage.

The workflow involves recording the video, then the match moving process in order to extract the virtual camera movement, the creation of the simulation in Houdini and the final compositing.

This is an important technique behind video production with visual effects or virtual backgrounds.
In this way you'll learn how to create simulations specifically designed to be inserted in a real video.

This is a course for beginners that only requires some basic knowledge of Houdini, such as interface navigation and basic nodes manipulation.
If you are an absolute beginner, I suggest to first take a look at my previous course, "Houdini FX step to step - Visual Effects made easy", that explains the basics of the software.
However, each step is exposed in great details so that you can follow every exercise in an easy way from start to end.

For each lesson, you also have access to the related resources that include the final project and also a starting project, with the basic setup of camera tracking and background, so that you can focus on building the simulations.
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Instructor Details

Stefano Cotardo

I worked on graphics and videos for scientific purposes at the University of Biology of Milan.

My career continued in the field of web and multimedia, and I worked for some advertising agencies in Milan.

Later, I opened my own company, for the production of multimedia content for large companies.

I followed several courses in photography and I opened my own photography studio.

Currently I am a consultant for an important company for which I deal with the production of videos, photos and graphic communication.

I also work on training projects in the field of video compositing and 3D graphics, through the “UnreaLab” portal.

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4.6

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By Romain GRAS on 9/5/2023

Very nice, thanks a lot for this :)

By Johan Erlandsson on 6/14/2022

It's great so far, enjoying the presentation and explanation. It's clear and concise. I will have to do this course a few times for it to sink in properly but highly recommended

By Tilak G on 5/1/2021

This is a good course,which shows a basic workflow of live-comp. Its fine to get you started.It was pretty good for a beginner like me. Thanks.

By John Smith on 12/30/2020

Awesome instructor

By Carlos Lorite on 10/1/2020

Ha sido un curso muy ilustrativo, bien explicado y con ejemplos claros, mostrando todo el potencial de este software

By Natasha de Bakker on 8/20/2020

The course is pretty good. You can learn a lot from it, however i do think there are some areas where things arent really explained, like when using custom expressions to drive the simulations. Sometimes they haven't worked for myself, but because they are not always explained, its hard to understand how the expression works and how to troubleshoot. It would also be something that I would love an explanation on as it's an area I don't understand.

By Craig wright on 7/2/2020

Brilliant Houdini course, this would be one of the best ones on Udemy. The instructor is easy to understand and explains things very well. He also goes over things that most other courses skip such as how to build simulations from scratch instead of using presents. A++

By Shreedhar Tipanna Sangam on 5/16/2020

I really expect this ....the video very helpfull for me

By Rene Fosdal-Griffin on 5/4/2020

Thanksfully I have access to Blender and have done camera tracking before so I don't need AE :)

By Andrés Mauricio Villacob Garrido on 10/26/2024

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