FOUNDATIONS 20.5 | MODEL, RENDER, ANIMATE
TOTAL DURATION: 1h 39m 30s
Welcome to Houdini. In this lesson you will start from scratch to model, render, animate, and simulate a soccer ball, also known as a football in many parts of the world. You will create a classic bouncing ball animation using the principles of squash and stretch, apply textures and materials, add lights and cameras, and explore the use of dynamics to simulate a group of soccer balls.
These tasks will introduce you to many different parts of Houdini as you create your first Houdini scene, explore the interface and discover some of its most important tools. You will learn how to work interactively in the Scene View and how to use the Network View to manage your nodes as you refine your model and build your animation rig. You will also set up materials and textures on the Solaris Stage then you will render using Houdini’s built-in renderer Karma, and finally create a Rigid Body Simulation.
This lesson includes a Step by Step PDF document to help guide you.
COMMENTS
Laura-89 1 month ago |
Hi Robert. I am stuck on getting the sphere (create) tab. When I type in sphere, my options are Sphere (polygons), Sphere (primitives) and VDB to spheres...... I'm autistic and the PDF doesn't specify which one to choose. Also when watching the video, we don't actually see which sphere tab you click on. Please help.
Laura-89 1 month ago |
It's ok. I figured it out. Go me haha! There was a sphere tab along the top, so I dragged it across and it gave me what I need :)
rmagee 1 month ago |
Glad you found it. Next time include the Section # and Step # or the video # and timecode in the video - it makes it easier to pinpoint where you are in the lesson.
LukeP 1 month ago |
That k you for doing this Rob.
Laura-89 1 month ago |
Houdini keeps crashing every time I try to change to Karma XPU :(
Lookdev Studio 1 month ago |
My soccer ball's UV project it isn't correct.
GuyFawx 3 weeks, 6 days ago |
Hey Robert thanks for these tutorials I just wanted to give you a heads up and your probably already aware but this video ends at 9:15 and still goes on for about another 2 min of black. Dont fix it if you dont feel like it just wanted to give you a heads up in case thats something that would bother you. Thanks again for the tutorials keep them coming
GuyFawx 3 weeks, 6 days ago |
Video six is the one i was referring too
rmagee 3 weeks, 3 days ago |
Thanks - I fixed it on Vimeo
Angelman609 2 weeks, 3 days ago |
Hello Robert, thanks for the tutorial!
Everything seems to be ok except that when I render my scene it comes without the Motion Blur. I double checked the render settings and can't find why.
Any chance you know what's going on here?
I appreciate you help :)
Angelman609 1 week, 1 day ago |
I fixed it, it's all good now.
Thanks.
hanksan 1 week, 1 day ago |
Thanks for another great tutorial series! Karma XPU is very slow on my dual GPU setup. Is there a setting I need to adjust or does Houdini just work on single GPU cards?
henkeblomman 6 days, 12 hours ago |
For some reason, I can't place the shadow thing. Like it just doesnt show up when i press shift + LMB
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