For this LAHUG David Torno will be presenting select highlights from two of his Mardini entries. He will focus on his Houdini work for “Fantasy” (tree trunks and swaying vines) and “Valley” (simple art directed mountains). Welcome to Mardini, the gauntlet that will push you to your limits daily. ItRead More →
[AGENDA BELOW] Welcome to Episode 5 of HEX, an ongoing series of interviews with people from the Houdini community – studio artists, indie artists, developers, event organizers – you name it! In this episode… 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:06 – Short Film: Stag – Motion Director and VFX Artist Dave WebsterRead More →
The Dawning is an animated short created by SideFX with a crew of external and internal artists. The production of this animation touched everything – from storyboarding, concept design, modeling and texturing of assets, creation of terrains and environment building, rigging, animating, FX, lighting, rendering, comp, colour grading and soundRead More →
[This presentation was previously shown during Unity’s Artist Digital Developer Day 2020] In this session we will be looking at how Houdini Engine can help game developers create procedural content in art-directable ways to use in Unity. Using the new SessionSync functionality, we’ll show how developers can work with proceduralRead More →
This video will cover how to use the Physical Lens shader and set your focus plane for rendering, so that you can set specific areas of your scene to get the depth of field in your render.Read More →
Over the course of one week game jammers used Houdini, along with other tools and game engines, to make games based on the theme of “Don’t Panic!” for the first-ever Houdini Game Jam. This video shows the games that were completed during the jam. All of these games can beRead More →
This year’s contributors: Alt.VFX Anima Blue Sky Studios Cantina Creative DNEG Electric Theatre Collective Framestore Goodbye Kansas Hybride Technologies JAMM Main Road Post The Mill Mr X Panoply Pixomondo Polygon Pictures Shirogumi Inc. Stormborn Studios Toei Animation UPP Walt Disney Animation StudiosRead More →
Barry Bacon is our character, which we will groom and render in Houdini. This is a short course, made up of two parts. Part 1 covers how to prepare your scene, comb guides and add parting lines. Part 2 goes over how to generate hair, clump them, add variations andRead More →
Games that were made with Houdini during Global Game Jam 2020 and entered into SideFX’s “Game Jam with Houdini Contest”. Get the full details here: https://www.sidefx.com/community/game-jam-2020-houdini-contest-winners/ Download and play the games for free below: 1st Place Winner – Breached https://globalgamejam.org/2020/games/breached-7 2nd Place Winner – Grandpa’s Little Memories https://globalgamejam.org/2020/games/grandpas-little-memories-4 3rd PlaceRead More →
“Houdini for modeling is just another way to model. You can model something and then drop in some code, it’s a really helpful tool for us” In this Houdini Connect video Thomas Otto of Spaceflower talks about the development of his new indie game, Let Them Trade. He shows hisRead More →