Shaun Fontaine

VFXHive
Nice tutorials sites for learning the amazing Houdini Software…Thanks for sharing them.

You can look here to have more sites to learn this impressive Houdini Software (like Lynda, Digital-Tutors), more sites links will be added as soon as I found more, you can also learn a lots of others incredible softwares on the sites listed here : VFX Hive learning section [vfxhive.com]

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Thanks, I'll look at those, yes it is an amazing piece of software.

Netvudu
As a Houdini instructor myself, I recommend that whatever topic you get into to learn about, be sure that learning is always project-based.
If you´re not forcing yourself to get a good render at the end of each project, not only you will never be sure on how strong your grasp of the software is, but you won´t have anything to put into your demo reel.
Understand that for the rest of the world, you are as good as your demo reel.

I see many people around both message boards (this one and odforce) playing with Pyro, Flips, etc…and it´s all cool, but you can tell from their questions that most of the time they haven´t yet grasped the basics of Houdini, specially SOPs. This is WRONG and doesn´t build the correct foundation.

Even though I work at a place where we teach VFX, I´m not going to affirm you necessarily need to go somewhere to learn, but if you learn on your own, you still need a STRUCTURED learning. Mark your own intermediate goals, make those goals project-based, and build a demo reel around those.

After that…go get a job

Sorry for the extreamly late reply, but I just wanted to say thanks Javier for such an amazing reply, I really appreciate it. I've taken onboard what you said and hopefully I'll begin to progress from there.

Wish I had of discovered Houdini a long time ago but was always put off by it's reputation as being incredibly hard to learn compared to other 3d software. But I'm glad I took the plunge. I sent you a private message but not sure you got it. It was just saying thanks for the advice.

Shaun

tinyparticle
I also highly recommend Rohan Dalvi's tutorials.

Great, I'll get some of his tuts. Thanks