Houdini: Advanced Motion Graphics

Learn animation techniques using the strengths of Houdini: strand movement, audio-reactive motion graphics, a vine-growing system, and dynamic simulations for destroying objects.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What to know
• Exercise files

1. Wire Dynamics

• Intro to wire dynamics
• Geometry prep and procedural animation
• Creating our wire simulation
• Adding collision geo to our simulation
• Simulation caching and wire deforming
• Revising and iterating our simulation
• Exporting alembic files of our results
• Flipbooking our animation
• Importing our alembic file into Maya
• Importing our alembic file into CINEMA 4D

2. Audio Reactivity

• Audio reactivity intro
• Importing audio files into CHOPS
• Creating procedural animation channels
• Applying our animation channels to geometry
• Creating more animation channels from audio
• Finalizing our scene

3. Growing Geometry

• Overview of process
• Creating an initial vine source
• Animating vine growth
• Creating vine geo
• Creating attributes for leaf growth
• Creating leaf growth points
• Creating leaf geo
• Export our asset as an alembic file

4. Object Destruction

• Rigid body dynamics in Houdini
• Fracturing geometry with VDB tools
• Procedurally creating interior UVs
• Creating proxy geometry for simulation
• Setting up our dynamic simulation
• Exporting alembic files
• Flipbooking final results

5. Assembling Houdini-Generated Assets in Maya & CINEMA 4D for Final Scene Layout

• Importing Houdini files in to Maya
• Importing Houdini files in to CINEMA 4D

Conclusion

• Next steps