Hello!

I'm in the process of learning this wonderful software and implementing Houdini to my C4D workflow. One thing I've seen that Houdini does exceptionally great is procedural effects and manipulating/animate an existing object. But it comes with some downsides for someone like myself who haven't used Houdini to much and not comfortable modeling in it.

Let's say I want to make a commercial for a product and animate the product in Houdini.

My thinking for this was:

1. Model a product (say a flashlight for example) in C4D. Here I would model each part separately so, for example, I save the flashlight in 3 parts (the handle, the lens and a bulb inside).

2. I bring it into Houdini and split up the 3 parts of the flashlight into 3 different parts in Houdini.

3. Make a procedural effect (example; having the flashlight become larger, smaller, thicker, thinner and so on…).


Would this be a possible workflow? I'm sorry if this is a simple question but I haven't found any tips on how to do this yet.

I want to learn to model in Houdini as well, but I was thinking that this workflow could help new Houdini users coming from a program like C4D.

Thanks!