Houdini

The procedural nature of Gaea by Quadspinner empowers 3D artists and matte painters to craft impressive and realistic environments with its powerful tools

Environment Artist Wojtek Piwowarczyk teaches how to create a 3D environment entirely using Houdini, the industry-standard animation tool by SideFX

Creating a large ocean simulation doesn’t need to be daunting. This 3.5-hour introductory workshop by Danny Barnhart provides an overview of the Ocean Toolset in Houdini and reveals how to...

In this tutorial, Generalist James Miller takes an in-depth look at designing, lighting and compositing a landscape environment from beginning to end

Particle motion, simulation, behaviour, and theory are at the core of the FX artist’s skillset. This course will challenge the learner with various particle and motion exercises and the construction...

This course covers the basics of VEX, Houdini’s expression language, as well as how to use Houdini’s Python API

This course, taught by Andrew Lowell, introduces rigid body dynamics in Houdini. Houdini’s entry into realistic physics started with rigid body dynamics, and it has remained one of the most...

This series of short lessons is designed to get a new Houdini user up and running with a set of core fundamentals

This course, taught by Jeronimo Maggi, builds on the fundamentals taught in Introduction to Houdini VEX & Python (HOU217), focusing on creating a tool using mostly Python and some VEX

Solid geometry foundations are the key to being an efficient junior artist, a solid mid-level artist, and diving into advanced setups as a senior