Houdini Live Action Volume 1: Wall Destruction (Udemy.com)
Learn Live Action and Houdini
Created by: Matt Skonicki
Last updated July 2018
What you will learn
- Learn how to Render and Composite a Wall Destruction in a Live Action Plate
How it compares
Against the other 43 rated Udemy courses in Houdini on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 44% of them
- Reviews8#42 of 44 by number of reviews
- Length7.5 hourslonger than 62% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2018earlier than 95% of them
Course Description
In this video we cover the rare training for incorporating Houdini pyrotechnics effects with live action incorporation. We start with building out the camera and geometry. Quickly we move into advanced voronoi fracture techniques adding layers of debris. We then move into the composite layout in the end in Nuke.
Software Used.
Houdini FX 16.5.323, Maya 2018, Nuke 11.1V1, Photoshop
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
8 Reviews
Matt Skonicki
Matt has worn many hats in different industries. He started out working as a cinematics character artist at Warner Brothers/Netherrealm working on a dozen game titles including "John Woo's Stranglehold" and the Mortal Kombat series. He then left and began teaching Visual Effects at Columbia College Chicago and Tribeca Flashpoint College. Along with teaching part-time, Matt works as a freelance nuke compositor and has done numerous online training videos via Digital Tutors and Eat3d.com while VFX supervising feature films such as "Thrill Ride", "Chicago Rot", and "Head Games". Matt recently finished compositing work on three Capital One TV spots starring Samuel L. Jackson and director Spike Lee.
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Reviews
By Toula on 11/25/2023
I really admire Matt Skonickis work and his teaching style.
By Johan Erlandsson on 6/9/2020
I was hoping we'd do everything inside of Houdini, not maya. I don't use maya or nuke, so a good deal of the course I wasn't able to follow with. I will try to adapt the techniques to other software though
By Rohit Gupta on 11/6/2020
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Overall Score : 90 / 100






