Houdini building destruction vfx pack

Collection of video tutorials on creating building destruction visual effects in Houdini 17.5
This material is deprecated and discontinued.

A series of lessons, showing destruction of the building, as a result of an explosion. They show the whole process from scratch. Starting with the geometry preparation, ending with the render settings. The fragmentation techniques, creation of forces, constraints setup, activation and dynamics are studied also. Work with windows destruction. In addition to the main simulation, we will learn how to create secondary elements such as debris, dust trails and explosion simulation.

Technical specifications

  • Year: 2019
  • Author: Andrew Zamorskij
  • Language: English
  • Software versions: Houdini 17.5, Nuke 10
  • Number of lessons: 20
  • Total duration: 12 hours
  • Video specifications: file-type .mp4, frame size – 1920*1080 pixels.

Watch the video presentation and the content of this Houdini VFX pack:

Materials will also be provided for repeating lessons.

What will we learn in the Houdini building destraction VFX Pack?

You will learn the whole process of creating destruction from scratch. Work with imported geometry. Different types and methods of fragmentation. Also work with constraints and clusters. And as an addition – the creation of debris and atmospheric effects, such as an explosion and dust tails. We also study the render settings for later compositing in Nuke.

These lessons for you if you want to:

  • learn how to work dynamic and fragmentation in Houdini
  • create different types of constraints and cluster setup
  • optimizing controls
  • create debris and glass simulation
  • add an explosion and dust trails using Pyro
  • setup render for each element

Where I can download Houdini?

For training you will need a non-commercial license, which you can download for free from official site after registration:

https://www.sidefx.com/download/

About the author

Andrew Zamorskij is a vfx artist, freelancer.

Works in CGI since 2007.

IMDB

Worked in the Kiev production studios: Kinotur DI Lab, Levaleo, Camaradas, 35 mm production. Took part in creation computer graphics and visual effects for different brands, TV shows and commercials. 

Also is a teacher and author of lessons in Cg-school.org. Created lessons for application like Nuke, Rayfire, Fumefx, Vray, Houdini, Realflow, Naiad.

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Houdini building destruction vfx pack content

1. Import (14:49)

2. Geometry optimization (23:27)

3. Fragmentation (57:55)

4. Dynamic (16:27)

5. Constraints (14:44)

6. Deactivating fragments (07:57)

7. Explosion force (33:51)

8. Clusters (21:51)

9. Adding groups (27:18)

10. Add control (12:47)

11. Tweaking explosion(17:00)

12. Add second constraints (15:41)

13. Add details (1:02:17)

14. Merging cache (10:47)

15. Glass (2:15:16)

16. Debris (26:01)

17. Dust trails (29:55)

18. Explosion (55:36)

19. Render setup (1:09:03)

20. Compositing (54:44)

  

Purchase process

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What is the price?

Price depends on the date of a purchase.

If you buy after the sale (after July 01, 2019): price is 99$.

All material will be available for download after the release day (July 01, 2019).

FAQ:

I am a beginner. Can I understand the lessons?

Yes. The lessons are designed for users both beginners, intermediate and advanced levels.

I want to buy all VFX packs. Can I have a discount?

Yes. You can get our Subscription. It includes unlimited download, new training every month, access to all materials: project files, 3ds max scenes, Nuke projects.

What is the difference between your courses and the rest of similar content on the Internet?

Our lessons are made by the experts, who have completed a lot of projects in the CG industry (check) At the present time we are working in the studio of computer graphics (check).

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