本教程是关于Houdini影视级角色群集特效动画实例训练视频教程，时长：4小时，大小：3.5 GB，MP4高清视频格式，教程使用软件：Houdini，共57个章节，作者：Kenny Lammers，语言：英语。

Houdini 是一个特效方面非常强大的软件。

许多电影特效都是由它完成：《指环王》中“甘道夫”放的那些“魔法礼花”，还有“水马”冲垮“戒灵”的场面，后天中的龙卷风等等，a52的汽车广告，反正只要是涉及DD公司制作的好莱坞一线大片，几乎都会有Houdini参与和应用。

Houdini不光只适用于视觉特效的制作，随着HOUDINI适用于各种平台，并且出现了很多的HOUDINI培训教学，HOUDINI开始进入了动态图像设计领域。

因为其自身的流程化特性，加上其强大的动力学系统，让HOUDINI在数据可视化方面占有一席重要的地位，让图形设计师能够通过它表达自己的观点。

！Crowds for Feature Film in Houdini is a fast-paced guide to Houdini’s Crowd system by Mikael Pettersen who currently works as a Lead Crowd Technical Director at MPC. In this course, you will learn how to import your own characters into the crowd system, set up loops and transitions for your animation clips, set up a simulation without any shelf tools, set up behaviours and triggers, shade and finally render your crowds. Everything is taught in the same fast paced manner as the free tutorials that you can find The course is also split up inshort chapters so you can, with ease, find exactly what you are looking for when revisiting the videos after your first playthrough.After finishing the course, you will have a deep understanding of Houdini’s crowd framework and a solid foundation that you can keep building upon.A big thanks to Centroid who captured all the motion capture for this course.Tools used: HoudiniPrerequisites: Basic Houdini knowledge