Udemy - 20+ Hrs of 3Ds Max: From Beginner to Professional Level

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Learn 3D Modelling, Lightning, Rendering, Animations, Pheonix FD Simulations, Tyflow Simulations and Post Process in AE

https://www.udemy.com/course/3ds-max-from-beginner-to-professional-level/

Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons (Acoustic and Electric) for Every Beginner. Fingerpicking Exercises, PIMA, Timing and More!

Prepare for the Autodesk AutoCAD Advanced Certification exam with training videos and practice files

Learn the fundamentals of Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints to start making your own games today with easy, hands-on lessons!

“Velocity Forces 2.0: Advanced” is an in-depth class expanding on “ Velocity Forces 1.0”. It delves deeper into creating velocity fields, exploring the differences between Houdini Standard Volumes and OpenVDB volumes.

The course focuses on techniques to help you refine velocity fields, blend multiple fields together, and use alternative simulation outputs for unique movement. You'll learn how to create vorticles, enhance simulations with wake turbulence forces, as well as injecting extra detailed motion into low-resolution smoke sims. Additionally, this class will cover volume optical flow fields on both 2D planar and 3D geometry, plus utilizing the Potential Flow node for 3D surface advection.

This class will also show how to move beyond volume-based fields into dynamic VEX coding, reducing the volume caching overhead, while also tackling advanced mathematical concepts, from matrices and quaternions to cross products and vector math.

In this recorded course, students will be shown how to build and process Protein Data Bank data inside of Houdini. They will learn how to understand atomic values, visualize atomic elements, bonds between elements, information about residues and binding sites, as well as other protein information. There will also be a visual element for breaking down the different systems inside of biological proteins.

This recorded course provides an overview of the MOPs workflow and how it integrates with the rest of Houdini, shows concrete examples of how MOPs can be used in both motion graphics and visual effects workflows and dives into some of the fundamental math concepts that drive MOPs (and 3D animation as a whole!).

https://www.houdini.school/courses/hs-234-mastering-constraints 

The all-in-one stop for all things constraints. This recorded course will dive into understanding the purpose, construction, manipulation, application, and destruction of using constraints in the RBD context. Topics will cover both traditional and custom ways to create constraints to fit the needs of the scene, including building constraints from scratch to achieve full control to art direct behaviors in your simulations.

https://www.houdini.school/courses/hs-235-small-scale-fluids 

You will leave the course with a better understanding of FLIP simulations for unique shot cases, including the advantages and disadvantages inherent in these scenarios.

This recorded course provides a way for artists to learn and develop an intuition for utilizing mathematical tools in their work using industry-standard programs and methods. This course will not only showcase ways of utilizing math in Houdini but also focus on developing a mindset to solve new problems using math. Students will also learn some math-related tips and tricks to optimize their pre-rendered or real-time projects.

Students will leave this class with a fundamental understanding of different ways in which tools from Mathematics can be utilized for Motion Graphics, Shader Building, and Gameplay Programming. Students will learn to optimize some of their existing setups using Mathematics.

Do you want to expand your skillset and broaden your CG horizons? Want to dive into Houdini but don’t know where to start? Then this recorded course is for you! We’ll be walking through the foundations of Houdini, referencing Cinema 4D as we go. Once we’ve mastered how to use attributes to manipulate geometry, we’ll look at how to recreate some of C4D’s Mograph with procedural setups by leveraging the new tools in Houdini.

This recorded class is a technical session on working with various different scientific data types in Houdini. Topics covered include data wrangling, Houdini-friendly formats like Geo/Bgeo and OpenVDB, Houdini-unfriendly but common scientific data representations like Adaptive Mesh Refinement, and spatial and temporal data interpolation. This will be an introduction to the data and programming side of Houdini, with less focus on design or rendering.

This recorded course introduces students to the history of Houdini and how the software has developed over time. Learning how the software operates is a huge part of becoming a VFX artist. But understanding how the operators and the networks evolved over time is a plus. In this course, we will discuss certain tools inside of Houdini, and how they grew into the SOPs, DOPs, and other functions we know today.

Solver Madness is a Houdini course focusing on creating sophisticated dynamic effects. Students will explore methods for chaining, layering, and combining simulations using Sopsolvers, FLIP fluids, Pyro, VDB advection, and multiple POP simulations. The course covers techniques for transforming geometry into effervescent bubbles and shaping FLIP fluids through surface advection. Participants will learn to build efficient, art-directable simulations that leverage a wide range of Houdini's solvers. This hands-on course emphasizes practical application and creative problem-solving in design and visual effects creation.

Learn procedural ways to mimic liquids without diving into DOP simulations. This class will show slimy drool, bloody trails, surface water droplets, and a flowing river.

All of the builds in this class will be made entirely with SOP nodes, and will showcase various techniques using common SOP nodes, primitives, curves, VOPs, and VEX to allow you to art direct your creation.

This course will cover multiple ways you can direct cloth inside Houdini. We’ll be walking through some projects and also setting up some projects from scratch. In doing so, we’ll discover the different nodes so we can achieve the exact effects we’re after.

Understanding Attributes is fundamental to successfully building projects in Houdini. In this recorded class, you will focus on building your core knowledge, demystifying Attributes, discussing how to create them, and most importantly explaining how they are integrated into Houdini. Class topics include basic Geometry components, clarification of the terminology, different creation & management methods, as well as exploration of differences between VEX, HScript, and Python. After this class, you will have a clearer understanding of how to build attributes, troubleshoot common issues, and extract the data you need for your projects.

In this recorded class get familiar with VEX and reduce the barrier of entry into algorithmic thinking - whether you are a visual or a linguistic thinker. Learn to break down problems into bite-sized algorithms and chain them to form a bigger system.

https://entagma.com/courses/ahtya-2-adding-houdini-to-your-arsenal-2-0/

 

This course is meant for 3d artists proficient with a different piece of software (Cinema 4d, Blender, Maya, etc.) who want to add Houdini to their skillset or transition to Houdini as their main DCC. Through this series you will learn everything you need to know to jump into any of our other Premium Courses, most of our free content on Youtube and most other Houdini content in general online.

In this tutorial, you will unlock the secrets of lighting, texturing and look development to bring your sci-fi environments to life.

I'll guide you through professional project planning and organization, ensuring you stay motivated and efficient in tackling such a large environment scene.

Learn precise techniques like the UDIM workflow, PBR texturing and the powerful ACES workflow.

Create complex smart materials in Substance Painter and automate tasks with Python scripts.