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Applied Houdini is a production quality oriented Houdini tutorial series created by Steven Knipping, currently a Senior Rigid Body Destruction / FX Technical Director at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic (Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, Avengers: Endgame, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Aquaman). Benefit from production proven workflows while also getting an in-depth explanation of why things work the way they do. Best of all - each tutorial is crammed with actual information and footnotes instead of gratuitous talking and dead space! Watch the sizzle reel above and then check out the currently available lessons below to become a Houdini master!

Ramen liquid simulation using Houdini vellum

December 27th, 2022: Newest lesson released - Liquids IV - Fluid Interaction released! Click the preview above to learn more!

All Lessons

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Liquids IV - Fluid Interaction

Use Vellum to make complex fluid interaction!

Liquids III - Ocean Flat Tank

Create an ocean with an integrated FLIP simulation and whitewater!

Liquids II - Rapid Rivers

Make a FLIP river simulation with whitewater, wetmaps, and more!

Liquids I - Fundamentals

Start making liquid simulations with the FLIP solver!

Particles VI - Programming Behavior

Use VEX programming to control particles!

Particles V - Grains

Make snow/sand effects with grains in the Vellum Solver!

Particles IV - Physical Instances

Simulate massive amounts of particles as though they were physical objects!

Particles III - Sparks and Lightning

Create advanced sparks and lightning energy bolts with custom motion blur!

Particles II - Velocity Fields

Create advanced particle flows using velocity fields!

Particles I - Fundamentals

Get started with particles now!

Rigids VI - Advanced Chains

Create, control, and break chains!

Rigids V - Dynamic Blasts

Rapid fire rigid and particle bursts!

Rigids IV - Terrain Destruction

Rapidly fracture and control terrain destruction!

Rigids III - Vehicle DEFORMATION

Metal deformation and joint articulation for destroying vehicles!

Rigids II - Structure Destruction

Rigid constraints and forces to break buildings!

Rigids I - Fundamentals

Get started with rigid body destruction!

Volumes VI - Controlling Magic

Create magical effects with volume deformations and custom velocity fields!

Volumes V - Explosions

All about explosion simulation and rendering!

Volumes IV - Interaction

Control complex volumes with particles and collisions!

Volumes III - Rendering and Sparse Simulation

Making efficient, high quality volume renders! (Plus the sparse solver!)

Volumes II - Simulation

Advanced smoke simulation techniques!

Volumes I - Fundamentals

Getting started with volumes, for free!

Discounted Bundles

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Liquids Bundle

All about Liquid simulations!

Super Bundle

Everything you need to know about particles, destruction, volumes, and liquids!

Particles Bundle

Particle simulation mastery!

Rigids Bundle

Master rigid destruction!

Volumes Bundle

Learn all about explosion simulation and rendering!

Free Lessons and Talks

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Talks IV - Import Rigid Body Sim to Unreal (Project Titan 2022)

Simulate a metal deformation sim in Houdini, then bring it into Unreal using vertex animation textures!

Talks III - Rigid Body Fracturing with Solaris (Houdini Hive 2020)

Ingesting a USD scene with Solaris, isolating and fracturing desired areas, simulation, and reintegration back into the overall USD scene for downstream use!

Talks II - Build and destroy wooden boats (Siggraph 2018)

Design, build, and destroy a typical wooden boat!

Talks I - Boolean Or Not Boolean (SIGGRAPH 2017)

All about the Boolean fracture!

Particles I - Fundamentals

Get started with particles now!

Rigids I - Fundamentals

Get started with rigid body destruction!

Volumes I - Fundamentals

Getting started with volumes, for free!