Crowds for feature film in Houdini

On August 7, 2018

Release date:2018, May 6

Duration:02 h 11 m

Author:Mikael Pettersen

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Crowds for Feature Film in Houdini is a fast-paced guide to Houdini’s Crowd system by Mikael Pettersen who currently works as a Lead Crowd Technical Director at MPC. In this course, you will learn how to import your own characters into the crowd system, set up loops and transitions for your animation clips, set up a simulation without any shelf tools, set up behaviours and triggers, shade and finally render your crowds. The course is also split up inshort chapters so you can, with ease, find exactly what you are looking for when revisiting the videos after your first playthrough.

After finishing the course, you will have a deep understanding of Houdini’s crowd framework and a solid foundation that you can keep building upon.

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CGCircuit – Crowd for Feature Film_Part 1
01_Intro
02_Packed Primitives
03_Agent Primitives
04_Our First Agent
05_Importing and Writing Out Agents
06_Writing Out Animation Clips
07_Creating a Simulation
08_Using a Crowd Source
09_Clip Locomotion
10_Clip Properties and Foot
11_Terrain Projection
12_More Terrain Projection
13_Path Following
14_Import and Modify an FBX
15_Import Mocap
16_Foot Planting Revisited
17_Setting Up the Agent Prep
18_Setting Up the Layers
19_Adding Props
19_Clip Properties for the Warrior
20_Building the Warrior Layout
21_Orienting the Agent Along the Curve
22_Simulationa and Fixing the Orientation
23_Speeding up the Terrain Projection
24_Following a Curve and Avoiding Obstacles
25_Clip Alias
26_Simple Transitions
27_Transitions with Intermediate Clips
28_Using a Bounding Geometry
29_Using a Curve as Trigger
30_Material Stylesheets
31_Shading the Warriors
32_Setting Textures with an Attribute
chapter01.zip
chapter02.zip
chapter03.zip
Readme.txt