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TOTAL DURATION: 1h 53m 39s

KineFX is Houdini’s toolset for rigging, animation and motion editing. Within the KineFX rigging framework, APEX graphs are used to represent the rig logic. APEX (All-Purpose EXecution) is a graph evaluation framework that builds and runs graphs and then fetches their results.

Starting with a review of KineFX, this course will cover topics such as geometry/skeleton prep, parms, properties, tags and APEX Auto Rig Components.

COMMENTS

  • madrenderman 11 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

    Great!

  • vstevenson 11 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

    This is really wonderful and the way I wish nearly all of the Houdini learning material was presented. Very clear, no umms, no uhhhs, no goofups (yet). Explanations that are thorough and fundamental are very welcome. This would have been GOLD when I was first starting out. I'm sure many others feel the same way. Thanks, Michael.

  • Eroc999 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    so good! looking forward to more.

  • theshizon 11 months, 1 week ago  | 

    Box doesnt move in the example file Houdini 20.5.278. So frustrating trying to learn animation in Houdini and the example file doesn't work. From the autorigcomponent_DEFORM node. Any ideas why?

    • theshizon 11 months, 1 week ago  | 

      I was using an older version. I guess a lot of functionality was lost between. I updated to the version that he's using in the tutorial and it works. "shrug"

  • DarrynRogers 11 months ago  | 

    This was very clearly explained. Thanks!

  • evanrudefx 10 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    Hello, pretty sure there is a mistake in video 6. when he sets the guide properties he sets the attribute name as "parm" but it should be "properties". Otherwise it has no effect.

    • Almantas 6 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

      Thanks for the comment. It was very helpful! I spent too much time asking why it had no effect! :)

  • nikolaibalashov71 10 months ago  | 

    it's amazing!!!!!!!!!!

  • Manuko 8 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

    Very helpfull, thank you.

  • ForcyCMLT98n 5 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    nice turtureals

  • Yann_P 3 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    Hello Michael,
    Thank you so much for this presentation !
    It gives an good idea of the "philosophy" behind Apex - which is kind of intimidating at first, but less so once one gets a clear view of the overall concept.
    I had watched the Entagma Apex introduction before, which helped to get a glimpse of what's going under the hood.

    I followed your videos while rigging my own simple root n' leg robot model, had to brush the dust off my ageing rigging knowledge :) but after a few hit and miss I got everything working fine.
    I found the use of tags for the lookat setup for my robot's eyes a bit misleading, but that mainly came from the fact that my skeleton wasn't set right to begin with.

    Now I'm moving on to Warren Leathem workshop to learn some posing techniques and try to make a few cycles and assemble them.

    Kudos again for your work on those videos !

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