User Guide  

Quickstart Tutorials

Houdini offers an ideal environment for the creation of computer animation and visual effects. To begin developing your skills it is important to touch on different aspects of the package in a project setting. The following set of lessons will let you learn how Houdini puts a project through a simple production pipeline that involves modeling, shading, animation and visual effects.

  Discovering Houdini
In this tutorial, you will create a rocket ship being launched from the surface of a moon. This four part tutorial takes you through the modeling, shading, and animation of this scene. You will learn how to turn the rocket into a Houdini Digital Asset and finish the lesson by adding particle effects.