本教程是由Fxphd机构出品的Houdini影视特效技术高级教程，包含工程源文件。

Houdini 是一个特效方面非常强大的软件，主要面对的是电影工业的特效制作与合成。与其他如3DS Max/After Effects等三维动画、特效合成软件不同的是，Houdini是一个节点软件，节点的操作具有非常强的逻辑性，同时它也是一个动态的建模软件，通过一个个节点和命令将各种对象组合在一起，在应对含有非常多的视觉元素的影视特效合成时通过节点的操作更加容易管理成千上万的视觉元素，而其它通过层来操作视觉元素的特效合成软件如After Effects在面对成千上万个视觉元素时显然是不现实的。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......后天中的龙卷风的场面等等，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.

当今大型电影绝伦的特效，不禁让你要惊叹其合成的逼真与强大！fxphd 教育机构出品的教程,相信大家都知道,都为业界的高端教程。

Fxphd HOU201 Houdini Production Techniques

Genre Video Training

al Cripps and Lori Smith are teaching the course, two Houdini fx artists who have worked on their share of fx for film. Val will be presenting the class, and Lori will be working with Val behind the scenes to get the material together.

The topic for HOUD201 is debris, a staple, bread and butter type of fx work that happens on many films and commercials, and that you will do at least once in your fx career. This could include pieces of glass kicked by a cg character’s foot, for example in The Incredible Hulk, or bits of dirt crumbling down a roof from a character climbing, like some shots I worked on in They Came From Upstairs Aliens in the Attic, or many other situations where debris helps set the CG into the live action, or must help to tell the story.

Content

Class 1 In this first class for Houdini 201, we very briefly touch on what’s new in Houdini 10. Check out httpwww.sidefx.com for complete information, and for the apprentice version of Houdini we’ll be using in class. We discuss our topic for class, which is Debris in fx production. We then begin with an introduction to DOPS (Dynamic Operators), How to Get Covering Started with a few simple examples, a Look at the interface and a few Key Points to Keep in Mind.

Class 2 In this second class for Houdini 201 we continue our introduction and overview of DOPs. We cover the following Topics Creating and Tweaking rotational movement in DOPS, Friction and Dynamic Friction, Collisions, and Interaction and Animated Objects.

Class 3 FX Shot for HOU201. We’ll introduce the shot we’ll be working on this term, and delineate the elements needed to create a shot similar to the pirates shot. We’ll highlight some typical issues in production, including naming conventions, director changes, digital assets for working on many shots, and more. We’ll Get What’s Needed INTO Get Started on to Our shot, Including Creating the chunks That Will be flying INTO the scene.

Class 4 Blowing chunks. We’ll finish up any modeling for our chunks, get them moving and tweak things, and discuss topics such as moving chunks and interacting with ground (rotation and sliding), volumes and adjusting resolution for additional control and static vs animated geometry and more.

Class 5 We’ll Discuss Workflow issues, such as preroll, Sims (Creating, Saving and importing Sims), and fps Playback, troubleshooting, and consolidating tools INTO Digital assets for Production.

Class 6 Setting up lights, shaders, and render passes for the Chunks.

Class 7 In this class We continue to Develop Our Digital Asset as We work through the Look of Our shot, making Exploding chunks, and Fine tuning the Control Panel of Our Debris tool.

Class 8 In this class We continue to Add to Our Digital Asset, using a magnet force to Improve Our explosion, Adding a element clumps Which includes using the stamp Along with Other POPs tips, and Get Ready to render next week.

Class 9 In this class, we set up all of Our render objects and outputs and related issues to Discuss rendering all of Our Elements.

Class 10 In this class, we finish up our class with a final look at the settings and add in some dust impact elements as a final bonus.