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TOTAL DURATION: 1h 51m 16s

An in-depth walkthrough of the tools, features and workflows for animating KineFX Characters that have been rigged using APEX in Houdini 20.5. You wlll start with the basics such as setting up selection sets, then move to more advanced features. By the end of the workshop, you will have the knowledge and understanding to animate in Houdini.

This workshop was delivered at the Houdini HIVE Horizon event held in Toronto. These are recordings of those lessons so that animators can work through to gain a deeper understanding of this toolset.

The Jimmy character is from the short film Turbulence by Tumblehead. You can learn more about this project from the HIVE Horizon talk titled Avoiding a Crash Landing: Finishing "Turbulence."

CREATED BY

warrenl
WARREN LEATHEM

Senior Animator

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COMMENTS

  • LukeP 2 months ago  | 

    This is amazing!

  • LukeP 2 months ago  | 

    Honestly, fantastic intro. Thanks so much for putting this together. Really looking forward to what the future of animation in Houdini holds.

  • Seyonce 1 month, 4 weeks ago  | 

    Thanks for the tutorial. Please will you be sharing the files for the Retarget and FX section. It's not included in the download file.

  • mackerBaehr 1 month, 4 weeks ago  | 

    Hmmm.. In the last lesson, although the title mentions "Build your own tools", Warren just quickly says he build his own and doesn't share how he did that. The HDA is also NOT included in the project files nor in the hip-file. Also the network view of it is so small in the movie that the structure is not readable. This is very frustrating because the subject is very important to me. Therefore this lesson 15 seems more a show off then something we can learn from. Can the (structure of) the HDA also be shared, please?

  • Mirko Jankovic 1 month, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Exactly what I was looking for!
    Next step or one of them is for SideFX to provide range of good rigged characters for people to work and practice on, until we get proper autorigging tool, like mgear for Maya or similar ones for blender that are more user friendly and straight forward :)

  • bskochii 1 month, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Wonderful series, thank you so much!!!

  • SHo0N 1 month, 2 weeks ago  | 

    Will the retarget tool not going to be shared? If not then that's a bummer. I really need a way to retarget animation to Apex since I'm not that savvy to create my own tools as an animator.

  • warrenl 1 month, 2 weeks ago  | 

    Part 15 was actually only intended to show other possibilities you could do when using houdini, and not part of the animation workshop per se, as retargetting and pyro are sections unto themselves. The HDA I have setup for myself is very rough, and built only for my limited needs and uses, and as such, not ideal for a retargetting tutorial. It was more to demonstrate that you can build tools for yourself, specific to your needs, and use them when needed.

    If you are interested in retargetting, a good place to start would be in the content library example :

    https://www.sidefx.com/contentlibrary/kinefxapex-workflow/ [www.sidefx.com]

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