This first part looks at volumes - creating them using the volume and IsoOffset SOPs, and adjusting their values.

submitted: 2 years and 183 days ago

In this amazing Houdini tutorial, we will walk you through how to completely pulverize characters and objects using Side Effect’s Houdini 11. Today’s section deals with setting up the basic node-network whilst the next part will look at how to finish the effect and art-direct the dynamics to ensure we get the look we want. Look no further if you want to see just how creative Houdini allows you to be…

submitted: 2 years and 187 days ago

This video tutorial is an introduction to using attributes and local variables in Houdini. It covers:
Different types of attribute: vertex, point, primitive and detail;
When attributes and variables can be used, and when not;
Vector vs 3 value float attributes;
Converting between point and detail attributes etc.

submitted: 2 years and 189 days ago

This is a video tutorial covering how to enable motion blur in Houdini, the difference between standard and deformation blur, motion blurring dynamics simulations, motion blur quality settings.

submitted: 2 years and 190 days ago

This video tutorial is a look at one of the basics of Houdini : Polygons - point, vertex and primitive data, smoothing and faceting, subdivision, removing inline points, orienting polygons and making polygons planar.

submitted: 2 years and 190 days ago

This is a video tutorial showing how to create object trails in Houdini, and then add a turbulence effect to them.

submitted: 2 years and 190 days ago

This is an introduction to what is going on behind the scenes when the Mantra micropolygon renderer renders a scene. This tutorial also explains the different sampling controls available in Mantra: Pixel Samples, Shading Quality and Ray Samples.

submitted: 2 years and 196 days ago

This is a video tutorial on how to create your own lighting model using an illuminance loop in a vop network in Houdini.

Note that this only works for standard Mantra renders, not for PBR. We create a velvet lighting model, including shadows using a illuminance loop.

submitted: 2 years and 196 days ago

in this tutorial we'll have a quick look at how to instance lights to particles in Houdini.

submitted: 2 years and 196 days ago

This video tutorial looks at how to create a zdepth pass, and then goes through examples of how to use the pass to create a fake depth of field effect and a fog effect using the compositor.

submitted: 2 years and 223 days ago