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TOTAL DURATION: 1h 8m 23s

In this lesson, you will take your first steps into Houdini as you model a coffee cup then use dynamics to simulate a collection of gumballs falling into it. You will apply textures and materials, add lights and a camera then render out the finished sequence. By touching all aspects of this shot, you will begin learning how to navigate your way through Houdini and its node-based workflow.

This lesson includes a step-by-step PDF which you can use to follow along the lesson supported by video tutorials.

CREATED BY

ROBERT MAGEE

Robert Magee is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at SideFX who has been working with Houdini for 20 years. He has created lots of learning material and demos designed to help artists understand how going procedural with Houdini can benefit their work.

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COMMENTS

  • chrisabruce 6 days, 3 hours ago  | 

    This is a great set of beginner lessons. I like how it covers all the newer features like solaris and copernicus.

  • knockflakes 5 days, 19 hours ago  | 

    Thänx a lot for this great tutorial! So many useful tipps!

  • PerpetualZest 4 days, 15 hours ago  | 

    Just leaving this comment in case someone has a similar issue. I had an issue with shadows not displaying in the viewer in Solaris (Video #4). I realized that I only had "Full Lighting" enabled, but I needed the next button down, "Full Lighting with Shadows" to be enabled instead. They are small buttons on the right side of the viewer that look like a lightbulb with a "+" sign inside.

    Anyway, thanks for posting this series, I'm enjoying learning from it so far.

  • LuzidVision 3 days, 12 hours ago  | 

    Just as PerpetualZest said, to have the cup cast shadows on the ground in the viewport render, go to
    Scene view -> Display Options -> Lights Tab -> Lighting Quality: Full Lighting with Shadows

  • piumal89001 3 days, 5 hours ago  | 

    perfect tutorial.really good for beginners.❤️

  • ertemi 2 days, 1 hour ago  | 

    This is truly the best tutorial I have seen so far.
    You can see the effort put into explaining every detail.
    Thanks to Mr. ROBERT MAGEE

  • ashimialz163 1 day, 4 hours ago  | 

    very useful for beginner like me,thx a lot

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