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TOTAL DURATION: 7 h 41m 23s

This course guides you through creating a VFX shot from start to finish, including integrating CG elements into live-action footage. Picture yourself as an FX artist in a studio, and join us as we navigate every step – from interpreting the brief and strategizing your FX scene to crafting each element and seamlessly blending them into real footage.

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msah
MSAH

I am passionate about computer simulations and technical training development. My recent visual effects work includes "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga", "Dune: Part Two", "Shazam! Fury of the Gods", "Meg 2: the Trench" as well as multiple TV series across Netflix, Amazon, National Geographic, and Epix. I am also a visual effects educator, delivering masterclasses and courses focused on SideFX Houdini in collaboration with VFX Mojo's partners across South East Asia, Sweden, Norway, France, and India.

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COMMENTS

  • coolbreezeDW 6 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    I wish I could give this a glowing review the shot concept is great and both are very talented artists. I was excited to dive into this "tutorial" but found it was more just a tour of the Houdini script and everything was pre-built. Based on the description "This course guides you through creating a VFX shot from start to finish, including integrating CG elements into live-action footage. Picture yourself as an FX artist in a studio, and join us as we navigate every step – from interpreting the brief and strategizing your FX scene to crafting each element and seamlessly blending them into real footage." This is not what I was expecting to see. I'm a compositor already and know how to use nuke, but found that portion was done more like what I was expecting. I'm trying to learn more about Houdini, not take a tour of it. Did I learn a few things from this? yes I did, it would have been better to have at the very least a step-by-step creation walkthrough of the dust and explosion instead of Here's this node and this is what I did. The other major issue is that the Houdini script didn't work as shown, I had to copy all the nodes out and paste them into a blank Houdini file to get it to work. I found that by doing this not everything was working as it should making this very frustrating that what she was showing wasn't what I was seeing. I tried two different machines and different versions of Houdini 20 but she wasn't clear as to what version of 20 she was using. When I learn more about Houdini I might circle back to the script and try to make my own version. Again great idea just poorly executed.

  • Arvan 6 months, 1 week ago  | 

    SideFX, A 20GB download is extremly unreasonable to expect users to download - not everyone in the world has unlimited data/bandwidth much less a stable enough connection to download a single 20GB volume at once.

    Please revise the files and split out the actual .hip file(s) and geometry from the massive cache/texture/etc. data

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