Intro to Vops
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Intro to Houdini VOPS by Adam Swaab

If you’ve been wanting to get a better handle of VOPs in Houdini then the time has come! Adam Swaab is back with all new training devoted to VOPs. Eighteen chapters to get you up to speed with one of Houdini’s most powerful features. He even throws in some VEX to wet your appetite. This tutorial goes through the ins and outs of VOPS, going through many short examples to get you ready to harness the full power of VOPS. We also do a quick intro to pure coding in vex, as vex is the underlying language of VOPS. In the final […]

Hard Surface Modeling in Houdini
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Hard Surface Modeling in Houdini

As teased in Rohan’s interview, his latest training series is out! This four part series will take you through poly modeling, NURBS, VDB and some VOPS. Oh yeah! He is also throwing in a chapter on how to render the scene in Octane Standalone by exporting the scene using Alembic. This training will also help highlight the advantages of having a procedural system while building complex models and environments. The final chapter will take a look at how to render the scene in Octane Standalone by exporting the scene using Alembic. He is offering a discount until May 28th so […]
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Houdini Procedural Vehicle Modeling

This training demonstrates how to use Houdini to create a parametric vehicle. Over the course of this training we will see how to use Houdini’s basic polygon modeling techniques to create a fully controllable and procedural Vehicle model and also set up all the various parameters required to control and animate the vehicle.
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Houdini Engine 2 Thin Client Masterclass

This masterclass describes a new RPC feature introduced in Houdini Engine 2.0, called Thin Client. Thin Client extends the reach of Houdini Engine by moving Houdini simulations to a separate server process and helps to solve dependency problems, utilize multiple concurrent Houdini simulations, distribute computations on the network and integrate Houdini Engine with hosts on a wider variety of platforms.
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Freezing Effect in Houdini 15

In this tutorial I show you how freezing or ice effect can be created inside Houdini 15. There are many ways for creating this effect and this training shows one of the simplest methods. I hope you enjoy this… For more information please visit vfxhomeland.com

Houdini 15 Rendering Masterclass
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Houdini 15 Masterclass: Mantra Rendering and Texture Baking

Here is another great Masterclass from Side Effects getting into all things technical with Houdini’s native renderer Mantra. Houdini 15 introduces many enhancements to the Mantra renderer, adding exciting new features and building on existing strengths. New features include quality metrics, adaptive sampling, texture & surface baking and render check-pointing. This class provides a mix of the theory behind the new features and practical techniques to help get you started using them in production. Sample files for this masterclass: bit.ly/1Gtfi92

Procedural Modeling and Animation
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Procedural Modeling and Animation and Houdini

What is procedural modeling and animation anyways? Here is a great video to get you started in understand the Houdini workflow. Brought you by none other than Rohan Dalvi. This video aims to explain what exactly is Procedural modeling and animation and how it applies to Houdini.  
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Tea and Cookies with Houdini

The aim of this commercial training is to take you through the process of creating the “Tea and Cookies” image, all the way from modeling to render and even the final color grading entirely in Houdini from scratch.The aim of this commercial training is to take you through the process of creating the “Tea and Cookies” image, all the way from modeling to render and even the final color grading entirely in Houdini from scratch. This should help you gain a better perspective towards using Houdini as your primary tool for creating 3d content.