Learn Houdini the accessible way with Adam Swaab as he breaks down the fundamentals and gets you creating your first procedural images. Build confidence with this powerful tool and start making striking, dynamic visuals fast.
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Houdini is one of the most intimidating pieces of software out there, but it doesn’t have to be! Industry-leading artist and creative director Adam Swaab breaks it down for you in an easy and accessible way. He’ll take you through the foundations of the program, getting you started on making your first mind-blowing procedural images in Houdini.
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A guided path through every stage of the course, broken down into focused lessons you can work through at your own pace.
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Lesson 3
Continuing on our theme of complexity, now you'll learn how to build a proper greeble tool. Adam will show you how to turn each primitive of your mesh into a placeholder for a complex piece of geometry, which can be randomized and iterated for insane levels of complexity.
Lesson 4
Now that our environment is complete, we will focus on rendering strategies. Adam will demonstrate the various techniques behind creating shaders and materials in Houdini. To wrap things up, you'll break your scene into render layers and create multi-channel EXR’s to rebuild in Nuke and refine the look of your image.
Adam Swaab is a creative director and Houdini artist with over two decades in film, television, and commercial production. His work spans VFX, design, and real-time pipelines, with credits including Tron: Ares, Twilight: Breaking Dawn, and campaigns for Apple, Nike, and Honda. Known for his intricate procedural workflows and motion-driven visuals, Adam’s art has even been acquired by LACMA as part of its digital collection.
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Continuing on our theme of complexity, now you'll learn how to build a proper greeble tool. Adam will show you how to turn each primitive of your mesh into a placeholder for a complex piece of geometry, which can be randomized and iterated for insane levels of complexity.
Now that our environment is complete, we will focus on rendering strategies. Adam will demonstrate the various techniques behind creating shaders and materials in Houdini. To wrap things up, you'll break your scene into render layers and create multi-channel EXR’s to rebuild in Nuke and refine the look of your image.
Check out some of the amazing work Houdini Procedural Foundations students have created by doing their homework.
