Download Udemy – Houdini FX : Creating a Building Explosion 2021-11

Course description

Houdini FX: Creating a Building Explosion is a simulation course of a building explosion from a real photo using Houdini. This course is prepared at an intermediate level and to use this course you must have basic knowledge in working with Houdini, if you have completed the Master Houdini FX course, you will have no problem using this course. The speed of this course will be high, which means that the basics will not be explained in detail because we want to keep the course time to a minimum, and of course it is assumed that you know the basic knowledge in Houdini.

What you will learn in this course:

This course shows you all the steps involved in blowing up a real building from a photographic image.
I’ll show you how to break up the building geometry and create custom “chunks” to use as rbd objects.
We will see how to create different types of RBD objects that represent concrete, glass and window curtains.
We will use Vellum sims to create the bending geometry that will be deformed by the explosion.
And …

Who is this course suitable for?

Anyone interested in learning the steps involved in exploding and destroying any type of building in Houdini from an FX artist with over 20 years of experience in post production.
Aspiring FX artists and working professionals looking to learn new skills or see a method in creating building destruction FX.

Course specifications :

Publisher: Udemy
teacher : Eric Ebling
English language
Education level: Intermediate
Duration: 10 hours and 57 minutes
Number of courses: 46
File format: mp4

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Course prerequisites:

A working knowledge of Houdini is strongly recommended before starting this course.
A recent release of Houdini(18+) with sparse solving tools.
A computer with enough power to run Houdini and a decent internet connection for HD streaming.
This course will be using Houdini 18.5.499 on a Windows 10 based system throughout the videos.