Houdini from scratch to PRO - free course from Skillbox, training, Date: November 29, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 06, 2023
For those new to animation
Learn to animate destruction, explosions, natural disasters and crowd movements. Gain practical skills and be able to participate in interesting projects.
For those who want to master Houdini
Master the Houdini program from scratch and put together a portfolio. You can get a job in the film and gaming industry.
He animated objects in the film “Time of the First” and the short cartoon “Azarkant”. Developing its own project Dragonia. Worked at MainRoadPost, Mail.ru and animation studio Parovoz.
Introducing Houdini
Get acquainted with the program interface. Learn how to create animation and learn what a node and a node system are. Create a model of a gun from Lego.
Working with basic nodes
Learn to export models from Maua to Houdini, create and copy objects. You will understand how to do basic wheel animation. Create a forest of trees on the mountain and car animation
Working in Houdini: importing a car, parsing it into manageable elements, animation and rendering
Learn how to use the Noise attribute to simulate natural phenomena. You will understand how to set the animation speed vector, work with normals and the built-in geometry editor. Create a car trail and an animation of the car driving along the ground.
Organization of the project and pipeline
Learn how to create columns, terrain, building steps and understand how to add a car to the landscape. You will understand how to customize materials and colors.
Insect robot rig in custom Digital Assets nodes
You will understand what model rigging is. Learn to create robot and human leg bones. Rigging a robot spider or moth model.
Destruction Effects
Learn how to create the effect of a 3D model breaking into pieces when falling. Learn to highlight areas of an object where damage appears stronger or weaker so that the effect looks realistic.
Digital asset node in destruction
Learn to create and configure a custom Digital Asset node to simulate destruction.
Simulation of smoke and clouds
You will understand how to create and customize the effects of smoke, clouds and tornadoes. You will understand how to set the dynamics of a tornado so that it looks impressive.
Export from Houdini to Unreal Engine 4
Learn how to transfer effects and characters from Houdini to Unreal Engine 4.
Creation of hairstyles and fur
You will understand how the hairline works. Learn to create fur and hair, indicate the direction of hair growth and connect it to the surface of the head. You'll figure out how to animate hair. Create a static human hairstyle based on a photo.
Animation and modeling using Python scripts
You will learn how to use Python scripts to create animations of flying leaves from trees and an opening flower.
Crowd animation and rendering
You will learn how to create a crowd and its behavior, and configure rendering. You will understand how to animate jumps.