This two-part course is a straight-up deep dive into large-scale fluid FX in Houdini. Part 1 covers the heavy lifting: building ocean layers, flip simulations, white water,…
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A 5-hour workshop by VFX Artist David Silberbauer that walks you through building a swamp monster entirely in Houdini. No other software needed. You’ll set up a…
This course breaks down how visual effects actually work in big-budget cinema. Carolina Jiménez García, a layout artist who’s worked on The Hobbit and Star Trek Beyond,…
This course walks you through the full grooming pipeline for animated characters, using a cartoony hyena as the project. You’ll learn how to use Houdini for procedural…
This workshop is all about building cinematic particle FX from the ground up. You’ll work through four distinct projects, each one tackling a different challenge: magical energy…
This 24-week workshop, led by ILP FX Supervisor Corbin Mayne, teaches you how to reverse engineer three iconic film effects: the disintegration from Avengers: Infinity War, the…
This workshop is about taking control of your explosions. Instead of relying on luck and random sims, you’ll learn to build the emitters, shaders, and full shots…
This workshop is for artists who want to tackle procedural rigging in Houdini but never had a cool project to push them. ILM artist Mizuki Yamada walks…
This course teaches you how to build procedural 3D knitting inside Houdini. You’ll go from basic thread logic to wrapping knit around products and animating it for…
This course teaches you how to build a fully procedural quadruped rig in Houdini 21, starting from real horse anatomy and ending with a production-ready system you…
This is all about building sci-fi FX from the ground up in Houdini. You’ll work through real production-style shots, creating effects like cloaking, shields laser beams, and…
This course is all about getting past the basics and actually playing with noise in Houdini. You’ll learn how to stack, mix, and twist simple noises into…