Softimage to Houdini transition references

[Rork]

Hi all,

This thread will hopefully become a small set of useful links to help out with the transition to, or addition of Houdini in your pipeline ;-)

First of all the unofficial 'SI to Houdini' transition Vimeo channel for the unofficial Softimage community ;-)
Second, the excellent SideFX Vimeo channel https://vimeo.com/goprocedural

- Intro/Basics:
Jordi Bares Transition PDF's on the Houdini Forum
Lynda.com has a great Houdini 14 introduction course commercial training
Rohan Dalvi's Tea and Cookies project. Modeling, shading and rendering is covered here. commercial training

- Modeling:
Rohan Dalvi's floating islands project This will also go into L-systems and dynamics. commercial training

- Animation:
Rohan Dalvi's gears training. Creating assets from animation. commercial training

- FX (ICE a like....):
ICE to Houdini tutorial from Javier Meroño

- Shading & Rendering:
Rohan Dalvi's texture building in Houdini commercial training

More to come in this list, and on the Vimeo channel.
If you have great reference, or videos to share, just add to this thread.
Also, if you want to contribute in a growing list of videos on the Vimeo channel, be our guest!

cheers,

rob

[Rork]

Non commercial Houdini stuff:

Misc. Houdini training tips and notes from SideFX forums|user mestella


Video tutorials:
https://vimeo.com/user2030228 Vimeo - Peter Quint
https://vimeo.com/user2030228 Vimeo - Atom
https://vimeo.com/myshli Vimeo - Danil Krivoruchko
https://vimeo.com/eosacro/videos Vimeo - eosacro
https://www.youtube.com/user/Khermah/videos Vimeo - Khermah
https://vimeo.com/user13041808/videos Vimeo - Yanci Lindquist
https://vimeo.com/bwdesign/videos Vimeo - BW Design
https://vimeo.com/122274907 Vimeo - Neon Sign Pt. 1 - Keith Johnson
https://vimeo.com/125116427 Vimeo - Neon Sign Pt. 2 - Keith Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/user/FXHIVE/videos Youtube - FX Hive
https://www.youtube.com/user/toolcribtv/videos Youtube - toolcribtv (not just Houdini stuff)

http://www.pskull.com/2015/05/learn-houdini-fast/ PSkull - Join the Dark Side....

small print: as is the nature of the web, these links can disappear or change at any time ;)

[Rork]

and yup, reserved again ;-)

[NNois]

maybe this one is a candidate too

[MauricioPC]

I stumbled at this guy ... he has some fast short tutorials for sims in Houdini.

https://vimeo.com/user13041808/videos

[SamHowell]

There is Peter Quint and his hundreds of short tutorials. I have learnt more from this guy than anybody else.

https://vimeo.com/user2030228

[NNois]

ok, but isn't that about "transition videos" like a particular SI task transposed to houdini, just like Jordi Bare has done.

[SamHowell]

ok, but isn't that about "transition videos" like a particular SI task transposed to houdini, just like Jordi Bare has done.

Good point. My apologies. I thought of including Peter Quint's stuff as a whole as he has short 10 minutes tutorials covering individual topics. This isn't the place for that it's true.

[Paulrus]

I am a big fan of the Chrome extension called Dragdis. I have a folder with some Houdini training I've found. I'm not sure if this'll work or not, but here's the public link to my Houdini Dragdis folder:

https://dragd.is/dmahFIsJnbmLZYl8

What's nice with Dragdis is, you're able to mix YouTube, Vimeo & other sites into a single location.

Just be careful with that link - I'm fairly certain that once I made the link public, it made it possible for anyone with the link to modify the collection.

-Paul

[Rork]

Never heard of Dragdis before, but seems nice.

Thanks for adding these videos, the more the better

rob

[druitre]

Good idea Rob, I'm sure Houdini will be part of my toolset sometime. Useful to have this reference list here.