Instructors: ANDREW LOWELL | 4 Lessons | Duration: 2h 8m
Video: MP4 1920x1080 44 KHz | English | Size: 1.9 GB
This course is a follow-up of HOU221: USD and LOPs for Houdini Artists which was released using Houdini 18.5. One year later, Houdini 19.5 was released and with it, a lot of changes have been introduced in Solaris and Karma. This course will cover some of the new workflows that were introduced as well as changes in previous workflows that were modified since the last course was released.

FXPHD: Height Fields in Houdini, Part 1
English | Tutorial | Size: 1.7GB

FXPHD - USD and LOPs for Houdini Artists
English | Tutorial | Size: 4.4GB

FXPHD - Shotgun in Production
English | Tutorial | Size: 1,006.7MB

MP4 | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080 | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz | Duration: 1h 57m | 3.52 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Houdini height fields have many useful nodes to be able to quickly create a realistic terrain which can be use in Houdini or exported with a displacement map. You can simulation eruption, isolate areas to create water, and many other terrain conditions. This two part course, taught by Charles Chorein, will get you up to speed on using the features in Houdini.
This course, part two of the duo, focuses on shading, lighting, rendering, and other technical aspects of Mantra aspect to enable us to render this shot. It includes an exploration of NVIDIA OptiX technology in Mantra for denoising renders, as well as the use of LPEs,and utility AOVs to help in creating the composite in Nuke.

MP4 | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080 | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz | Duration: 1h 59m | 1.71 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Houdini height fields have many useful nodes to be able to quickly create a realistic terrain which can be use in Houdini or exported with a displacement map. You can simulation eruption, isolate areas to create water, and many other terrain conditions. This course, taught by Charles Chorein, will get you up to speed on using the features in Houdini.
Creating a random terrain from scratch without any context can be quite straightforward. Matching a terrain is much more complex and this course shows how to match a reference image using methodology that has been proven in multiple projects in production. By the end of the course, you'll have a base understanding of some of the most useful height field nodes and be able to create a terrain.

Video: h264, 1920x1080, 1137 kb/s, 24.00 fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 187 kb/s
Genre: eLearning | Duration: 3hrs+ | Language: English | File size: 10.1 GB
This course, which follows up on SIL102, consists of seven classes, five 16 bit EXR sequences and four diverse and complex shots that explore various manual and procedural painting techniques and workflows.

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1198 23.976fps 1223kbps | Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo 159kbps
Genre: eLearning | Duration: 3hrs+ | Language: English | File size: 5.5 GB
This course is aimed at giving you a thorough introduction of Clarisse, from the basics of how to use the software to render an image, through to creating bespoke AVO's using the recently implemented light path expressions, as well as touching on many other features new in 3.5.

FXPHD - Introduction to Silhouette and Paint Part 1
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | 3D Tutorials | MP4
In our new course, taught by Katie Morris, you will learn the fundamentals of Silhouette Paint. The course begins with an introduction of the paint interface and an overview of the Paint Tools and Auto Paint. The subsequent five classes focus on two shots, one a facial dot marker removal shot and the other a wire removal and plate reconstruction shot.

Duration: 2h 55m | Project Files Included | Video: 1920x1080, 48kHz | 9.999 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
CLASS 1: INTRODUCTION TO PAINT MODULE