Adv. Certification Course in Houdini

INTRODUCTION

Houdini has emerged as one of the go-to tools in the FX industry.  Whoever wields its power is unstoppable! The only downside is, Houdini can be difficult to learn and the learning curve can be steep. This is where the Introduction to Houdini FX course comes in. We will build upon your fundamental Houdini skills to become an unstoppable force to recon with.

OBJECTIVE OF ADV. CERTIFICATION IN HOUDINI

Houdini FX is a visual effects and 3D animation software like Maya or Blender, but what makes Houdini different and unique is the procedural system and has a very powerful dynamic system that other softwares don’t have. Houdini is soon becoming #1 3D application that used in vfx, 3D animation studios and Game studios, Houdini can create high quality effects like water, explosions, fire and sand, Houdini now is used by Big Game studios, they save 100X of the time by creating tools that are used in their Game Engine or in unreal engine or unity.

COURSE OUTLINE OF ADV. CERTIFICATION IN Houdini

• You will learn how to create professional Explosions.
• You will learn how to Create full CG Commercials.
• You will learn how to make sand and snow effects in Houdini.
• You will be able to create other simulation in Dynamics

COURSE BREAKDOWN OF ADV. CERTIFICATION IN Houdini

MODULE 1

HOUDINI INTERFACE

• Overview Of Houdini Interface and Workflow
• New Improvements And Features
• Pathway of learning Houdini and become an FX Artist
• Procedural Modeling and FX creation
• Prometheus inspired drone scanning

MODULE 2

PROCEDURAL MODELING

• A deep dive into Houdini Proceduralism
• Creating The corridor
• Creating the SciFi Environment
• Creating the Cave scene

MODULE 3

POPs, Volumes, and VEX

• Introduction To Particles and Volume
• Introduction To VEX
• Creating Various Particle and volume-based FX
• Rendering and compositing

MODULE 4

Advanced Pops and Volume

• Introduction To Smoke simulation
• Introduction To Flip simulation in houdini
• Combining various solvers to create more complex fx

MODULE 5

USD And Karma

• What’s USD
• How to utilize it and get the most out of this workflow
• Rendering and shading environment and interior in Karma
• Shading and Rendering FX In Karma (Particles, volumes,etc…)
• Setting up passes
• Rendering and compositing in Nuke or Houdini Cops

MODULE 6

Destruction

• RBD simulation in Houdini
• Creating the cave collapsing scene
• Creating the bridge explosions
• Procedural system for bullets
• Creating the various layer for the bridge explosions
• Caching and optimisation for efficient rendering with USD
• Rendering the bridge explosions using Karma

MODULE 7

Simulations

• The dark energy fx
• Approach, layers, and how to combine multiple solvers together.
• Post-processing the data to create high res meshes and volume for rendering
• Advanced volumetric and rendering using Karma

MODULE 8

Kine FX & Vellum

• Introduction To Kine FX
• Working with mocap data
• Working with third party mocap data.
• Simple and effective Retargeting workflow.
• Parenting weapons and secondary items.
• Introduction To velum and soft body simulation.
• Adding secondary simulation to the soldiers using vellum.

MODULE 9

Water Simulation

• Introduction To Flip
• Creating proper and stable collision mesh.
• Various types of flip simulation and emitters
• Combining multiple solvers to enhance the flip details.
• Details, details, details.

MODULE 10

Water Rendering

• The dark energy fx
• Approach, layers, and how to combine multiple solvers together.
• Post-processing the data to create high res meshes and volume for rendering
• Advanced volumetric and rendering using Karma

MODULE 11

Various Topics

• Problem-solving with Houdini
• Recreating the coin dragon simulation inspired from
• “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
• Covering any topics that needs more in-depth explanation
• Covering any topics suggested by students in this first session.

BY THE END OF Houdini COURSE,  STUDENTS WOULD BE ABLE TO

• Create professional Explosions.
• Create a full CG chocolate commercial using Houdini.
• Make sand and snow effects in Houdini.
• Make rain effect.

CAREER OPTIONS AFTER COURSE IN ADV. CERTIFICATION IN Houdini

Students who complete this course have the following career options

• 3D Tech Artist
• FX Artist
• Simulation Artist

WHY TGC INDIA?

TGC India is a leading Visual Fx VFX Institute in Delhi with branches across the country. Among the numerous high level courses it offers Adv. Certification in Houdini course.

It provides an educational environment that houses both local and foreign students who share ideas to develop their visual communication skills.

It boasts of well trained and highly experienced staff who are both friendly and courteous and ready to train using Live projects and the interactive learning system whose benefits outweigh online tutorials or self help books.

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