HOUDINI
DESTRUCTION COURSE


ART OF DESTRUCTION IN HOUDINI


Houdini Destruction Course

Learn how to create destruction Effects and simulations with this Houdini destruction Course.

Are you looking for more than just another Houdini destruction tutorial?

Welcome to our destruction with Houdini training program. In this course, you will learn all the techniques and tricks you need to destroy and smash things using Houdini’s powerful simulation engine.

Learn how to build, fracture, and create destructions using some of the most effective sets of tools inside Houdini. Take complete control of how your geometry looks and feels when breaking walls or destroying buildings.


DETAILS:

  • STARTS: JANUARY 10th
  • CATEGORY: BASICS VFX
  • OFFICIAL CARDAN CERTIFICATE
  • DURATION: 12 WEEKS

HOUDINI DESTRUCTION COURSE OVERVIEW

Start using different methods to shatter glass, wood, or even concrete. Learn how to use the Voronoi Fracture family nodes and the Boolean Fracture SOP. Use these nodes to make beautiful simulations and take complete control of your destruction scenes by making them look realistic and physically correct.

Build efficient walls, glass, wood, and other assets emulating different materials to help you achieve professional results during your Houdini destruction sessions. Learn how to create realistic procedural assets and destroy them using different methods of shattering geometry. Not everything is about Voronoi and fractures. After that, complement your pieces with constraints, debris, dust, and the new material options available in Houdini.

Learn how to take advantage of new RBD simulation tools inside the Geometry network and start building and testing mockups, templates, and proxies right away without leaving your network. This makes your workflow very efficient.

Are you ready? Learn Houdini Destruction at Cardan.

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Our job is to make sure that you gain all the necessary knowledge required to succeed. We take care of our students and want them to become the best in their field. Be completely confident that you will be entirely equipped with the skills and techniques that you need to tackle any destruction simulation project using Houdini.

Learn how destruction and Houdini Simulations are used in the Film Industry and take your creativity to the next level and create stunning demolition, earthquake, or collision destruction visual effects.

Carlos Lara has more than 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry and more than 15 years of teaching visual effects and animation in different universities, VFX studios, and many other facilities in the world. Feel confident that you will be in great hands.

Learning destruction or simulations goes beyond learning software tools. You need to gather a lot of information to create realistic results. At the end of this course, you will have a map to help increase your skills even further.

This is the Houdini Destruction Course for you if you are the type of person that always wants to have someone behind you (just like a supervisor in the visual effects real world), call us, text us or send us an email. We will be there always with you.


INCLUDES:

  • On Demand Sessions
  • HD Video Classes
  • Files and Necessary Assets
  • Personalized Feedback
  • Premium Support
  • Certificate Of Completion (Houdini FX Fundamentals)
  • 30 days money back guarantee
  • Your key to success!

HOUDINI DESTRUCTION
MASTER COURSE

PROGRAM

MODULE I UNDERSTANDING THE ART OF DESTRUCTION

HOUDINI BRICK & WALLS DESTRUCTION

Brick-walls destruction is one of the skills that are a must for every visual effects artist in the field of simulations. Here you will get a brief introduction to RBD objects in Houdini and learn the basics of the RBD and Bullet Solvers and how simulations work.

HOUDINI BRIDGE DESTRUCTION

This second session of the course will show you about dealing with constraints and make them look good. Knowing this, you will achieve realistic results depending on the type of material you want to simulate. Constrains are especially important when trying to create realistic simulations for visual effects scenes. Therefore, you need to learn how to use them to master destruction in Houdini completely.

DESTRUCTION PREPRODUCTION

To destroy a building the right way, you need the right building. This section of the training course will be dedicated to model destroyable and optimized objects ready to be used in any destruction simulation. Art direction plays a key role here, so we have to make sure you know some of the most useful tricks to create amazing Hollywood destruction simulations in Houdini.

MATERIAL BASED DESTRUCTION

Now we are ready to start working with different types of materials inside Houdini. I am pretty sure that you have seen a couple of simulations where you say: Hey! That doesn’t look right. That is because not all materials break or shatter the same way. Glass, Concrete, Wood, or Metal all have completely different densities and physical properties. This part of the course will help you identify and manipulate fracturing, shattering, and shading techniques so you can accomplish any destruction requirement inside a Houdini simulation.

MODULE II MASMASTERING DESTRUCTION IN HOUDINI

LETS DESTRUCTION BEGIN

Now that we’ve some fractured buildings, assets, and everything is set for a perfect dynamic’s destruction. We are ready to start calculating our rigid body simulations using Houdini’s RBD and Bullet solvers. Here we will discuss Simulation setup and important parameters to avoid all complications possible in the future.

CONTROLLING FRACTURED PIECES

Let us talk about different options for controlling your destruction simulations using velocity attributes, activation, relationships, and other attributes. In this class, you will learn how to work with proxy geometry and create organic deformation and rigid object colliders. Learn how to develop artistic passes for the first layer of RBD simulations and learn some of the most efficient & flexible ways for caching your simulations saving time and unnecessary frustration.

SIMULATING DESTRUCTION CONSTRAINS

Time to learn how to set up constraints to control destruction in your simulations. Now you will use some of the knowledge learned previously to create a fusion between manual and auto-generated constraints, focusing on glue constraints and soft constraints. With this, you can create more realistic destruction setups and relationships between pieces in your simulations but learn some other techniques for art-directing your destruction simulations.

DETAILED DESTRUCTION IN HOUDINI

The final destruction of well-polished shots that you see in movies are carefully crafted and choreographed using some other traditional CG methods. I mean, just a little tiny bit of details that you can spot on-screen are simulated. In this part of the course, we will focus on adding more detail to our scenes and recreate some assets to help sell our shots with increased drama and realism. After this post-simulation process, you will start adding some procedural construction detail, always keeping in mind real case scenarios of destruction. Add dramatically damaged objects to enhance the performance of your scene without having to re-calculate the entire simulation. Remember, our goal is to make it real but cool, well… really cool.

MODULE III THE GOD OF DESTRUCTION

DEBRIS DESTRUCTION SIMULATION

Debris is an especially important part of every destruction simulation, there is no point in trying to simulate destruction on Houdini without remains and those little pieces found in demolition events. The debris Houdini tool is used to emit particles from our fractured objects as they start to separate from each other. Using debris in Houdini, you can quickly add this effect but using some other particle tricks as can help to create a more realistic destruction simulation without compromising performance in our system.

GLASS DESTRUCTION

Now it is time to start dealing with windows and glass destruction in Houdini. Breaking or shattering glass (or wood) has been a little tricky in Houdini, but nowadays we have new tools that allow you to quickly obtain incredible results. The downside of using the RBD Material SOP in Houdini is that it can slow down your workflow and resources considerably. But do not worry because, in this class, we will examine some glass shattering and breaking techniques that will make your simulations run smoothly without compromising the quality and detail that you always wanted.

DUST IN DESTRUCTION

A Houdini FX destruction scene can not be called great without a dust simulation. Dust is always there, even if you do not see it when a static object has been sitting there for a long time. But what happens whit all the dust that appears when you shake off that object?
Simulating dust can be a pain if not done correctly because there are too many things to consider, and adding them correctly into the choreographed destruction scene is just one of them. In this lesson of the course, we will explore different ways of generating and simulating dust collisions keeping in mind system resources and optimizing our workflow using some caching techniques.

COMPOSITING A DESTRUCTION REEL

This is the last class of the training course, but that doesn’t mean that the class is not important. Now we will start working towards making our scene look amazing on every screen using shading, texturing, lighting, render, and compositing techniques to export our final shoot.
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Learn How To Use Houdini’s Destruction Workflow

In this Houdini FX Master Course, you will develop specialized knowledge that will give you a great advantage within the industry and the professional world of visual effects.


Fire, Destruction, Explosions And More

Cardan Institute students have exclusive simulation lessons created by experienced professionals in some of the world’s leading visual effects studios.


Develop Vital VFX Techniques

Know and learn how Houdini FX works with other tools that allow you to create an efficient workflow to work without complications in any production.


Learm How To Create Crowd Simulations

Design and Develop scenes with crowds and digital actors to create an impressive portfolio. A portfolio or demo reel that will open the doors to you as Technical Director of Visual Effects without any complications.


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STUDENT PROFILE

Creating blockbuster destruction simulations in Houdini can be a very time-consuming task, but it also needs too many resources from your system.

This program has been designed whit the average learning student in mind. Obviously, you are learning, and getting an expensive computer only to learn can be difficult.

This program will make you become a professional VFX TD regarding your PC requirements. Forget the excuses! Start learning Houdini VFX TD Tricks NOW.

You can Download Houdini Apprentice from this link


REQUIREMENTS:

  • Basic Understanding of Visual Effects And 3D
  • PC/Mac, intel i5 Processor, 16 GB of RAM
  • Be a super fan of Coding, Physics, Numbers and simulation effects
  • You will need at least 10 hours every week

THE MOST COMPLETE HOUDINI DESTRUCTION TRAINING !

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