Learn Houdini From The Ground Up
An Ongoing Course on Lighting, Rendering, and Material Creation with Houdini.
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Learn Houdini From The Ground Up
Learn Houdini From The Ground Up
Learn Houdini From The Ground Up will take a new 3D user to an intermediate user in Houdini. Learn the fundamentals of 3D the Houdini way from an expert with over 18 years of Houdini experience. For the last five years, Jordan has been teaching Houdini users at a top ten university in Los Angeles and has a track record of teaching new students Houdini.
Our First Day in Houdini
Lesson One introduces the Houdini Interface. We learn how to create simple geometry. This lesson teaches Houdini functions like Channel Referencing and grouping. We learn how to create simple geometry in Houdini. We review the basic primitives in Houdini and look at the Poly Extrude Sop.
Houdini Curves – The Basics
Lesson Two is the first in a multi-part introduction to creating curves in Houdini. This lesson teaches how to use the various Houdini curve tools, Bezier, Polygon, and Nurbs, We look at how we can clean up the resolution of the curve. Then we see how we can use the Poly Extrude Sop. We then create a procedural beveling system with Groups and a Poly Bevel Sop.
Lessons
- Learn Houdini From The Ground Up | First Steps
- Learn Houdini From The Ground Up | Curves 01