Blender user tries Houdini for the FIRST time!

[@BadNormals]

Anyone got plans to test it out as well?

[@binyaminbass]

@@yokarra2 Yeah, maybe in 10 years. I'm not anti, it's just not a priority. If I were 20 years ago and had tons of free time...yeah, I'd try it out.

[@ahoybruw9517]

esimesel võimalusel

[@egorobidin4888]

Funny thing is I just started learning Houdini like a week ago, 4:31 sums up my experience so far pretty well

[@0.Andi.0]

Is it possible to render the things you make in houdini on blender cycles

[@egorobidin4888]

@@0.Andi.0 Depends on what you make and what license you have, with Houdini apprentice which is the free version you can export regular geometry and volumes pretty easily, so you can import those back into Blender and render them there

[@Mitch_Crane]

It's called Houdini because a good magician never reveals how his software works

[@BadNormals]

😄 This made me laugh.

[@SeanyKrabs]

So true

[@salmonsushi47]

I knew about the magician but now i get it why they named the software after him.

[@CMak3r]

There is a two hours long tutorial about how to learn to learn Houdini

[@TakudzwaThulani]

@@CMak3r please send the link

[@CallMeChato]

Nice. I hung out in the same building as the guys who developed Houdini in Toronto. Would see what they were up to occasionally. At the time it was 100% command line. It was so much fun to see hundreds of walking people as individual particles. After the rendering, of course.

[@BadNormals]

The most OG commenter here

[@outofrhythm9670]

I met the creator 2 months ago. He's awesome.

[@z-beeblebrox]

Houdini is what happens when a bunch of super-insider industry folks, spending every waking hour together, decide the string of inside jokes they've replaced their entire spoken language with is an acceptable way to identify the features in their software.

[@kevinkim8723]

Houdini cult is alive!

[@PrinceWesterburg]

That is the single best description of Houdini I've come across in 20 years - bravo sir!

[@MortalVildhjart]

I can't stop laughing xD

[@sismith5427]

Well the big reveal is that the op, in sop, vop etc stands for operator... sop is surface operator, and that works on the mesh, ie a box, its points, faces etc or model operations like to help scatter on a surface, transform etc... chop is a channel operator, dop is dynamics operator, shop is shader operator etc etc so say a pop solver is particle operator solver. So when you see a dop network it holds your node network that applies a specific forces, solves and dynamics that will be applied to the objects fed into it.

[@metasploitstudios2257]

@@MortalVildhjart what of point vop please?

[@StudioOriented]

14 years of Houdini here, its all about the mindset. Houdini is a visual programming software. When you stop thinking pure 3d and start thinking object oriented , you will have a AHA moment

[@TheHenryMedhurst]

I actually worked on one of the shots in your intro so cheers! Yeah Houdini is super hard when you’re going in blind. If your goal is to really go for it and learn it, definitely look up some people who have created amazing tutorials on how everything works (my recommendations are usually Rebelway and Applied Houdini for the FX stuff). Your crops joke got me too 🤣 Those networks are operator networks, so they basically contain different types of nodes for different parts of the process. So by default you’re in an object network, but as a cheat sheet here’s what they all mean! ROP - Render Operators - Basically anything to do with caching out some data from your setup. Rendering images, caching files, that kind of thing. SHOP - Shading Operators - If you’re working with most renderers you’ll be here. Houdini does have a MAT context for it’s Mantra shaders (Houdini’s default renderer) but both do largely the same things just for different renderers. COP2 - Compositing Operators - Nuke is a WAY better option for doing comp work, however you can use Houdini’s COPs to do some procedural texture work and throw a slap comp together for a supervisor! TOP - Task Operators - this was a context really built for people who wanted to run the same setup with slightly varied results. So let’s say you modelled a house and needed 50 variations for a video game. That kind of thing. There are ways of doing it in your standard object network, but it’s a different toolset for a different industry. CHOP - Channel Operators - Basically a way of driving a parameter with some other data. It could be noise, time, a game controller input or a combination of all sorts. LOPs (or Stage) - Lighting Operators - the industry is rapidly moving towards using USD (Universal Scene Description) for lighting and finishing shots. This is where that will be available in Houdini (and is in 19.0 and above, I believe) Look forward to the next video you do with Houdini! Keep pushing - it’s all doable!

[@smythee7835]

thank you magic man

[@nihilusedit1447]

thanks dude

[@lewistaylorFX]

This was enjoyable! I hope you continue on your journey. The acronyms do seem confusing at first, but here is the truth. A Houdini session/hip file is actually just a collection of folders and files on disk, it's actually an archive like a zip file. So OBJ, MAT, OUT, etc contexts are actually folders, and when you are in those folders the types of nodes/operations you can do are limited to the function of that folder. That's why certain nodes won't be available depending on the context you are in. The true power of houdini isn't that it's procedural/non-destructive, or that no solver or tool is blackboxed hidden away from you. It's real power comes from the fact that all geometry is just points, primitives, and volumes. And that houdini doesn't care what tool you use to manipulate the geometry. If there's a cool terrain deformer you can use that on your particles, if there's a tool that operates on particles you can use that on your normal geometry. So there's never a corner you are painted into, and if you are curious or want to change how a solver actually works you can dive in and see/change it. Nothing is abstracted away from you. But the learning wall is called the wall for a reason, it is the hardest piece of software to use, but that can be reduced if you focus on learning the contexts, the SOP = surface operators context (where most modeling and deforming geometry happens), and learning how attributes flow through the program.

[@baldoski]

Listen to this dude! Lewis is a Houdini Master!

[@UncleBurrito15]

You are making me want to give Houdini a second try. I know a guy who works in the industry. He told me that Houdini artists are rare so if I figure it out, I'll be able to land a good job easily. I'm not really looking for a job but being able to make stuff in Houdini has a very high rank in my bucket list.

[@psykoj]

@@UncleBurrito15 It's really fun! give it another try

[@021shaw]

I started to study houdini as my first contact with 3d software ever. I would watch tutorials to demistify this maze of a software. I almos given up a few times, i am glad i didnt. Houdini is the most amazing software i have ever seen. The only limitations are your machine, your creativity and your knowledge. If houdini doesnt offer you a tool to do something you can call a wrangle node and vex-code it to create a custom tool. Because of that, before i knew i was trying codes. Failing miserably at first but now i have a 30% success rate in vex and going up. After you learn houdini you will integrate with other softwares like Unreal or Gaea, but i really can'T see a way you would ever want to switch to other software unless you are sculpting or rigging.

[@guySchuleman]

I use Houdini every day now. When I first started out my head hurt for a week. But it is worth it. No other software comes close to the power you have in Houdini.

[@ysomadbeats]

My teacher at TAFE where i learnt 3d modeling basically told me that houdini has the steepest learning curve, but once you get to the top of it, there's nothing in 3d you can't do. You see most people approach learning houdini the wrong way, traditionally people manipulate faces, edges and vertices when making a 3d model, however in houdini, your manipulating, filtering and apply processes to data. The best way to get started in houdini is learn some basic programming principles like logic, mathematics, how to write pseudo code. Hell you don't ever have to write a line of code, just understand the basics, from there you can use that logic to basically build your models in ways that offer so much versatility and variance its mind blowing. Houdini also has decades of common nodes/tools already built by the community and included in houdini, this is what makes it so powerful, because most of the hard work has been done for you in most cases. It will take other software like blender YEARS to catch up to the houdini community in terms of proceduralism. And that's not to nock blender at all, blender is still one of my favorite software for general modelling. TLDR, get past the learning curve, and not only will you be ridiculously efficiat when it comes to modeling, but you will also be in a great position for a high paying career as a technical 3d artist.

[@TheLizardKing752]

After Softimage was discontinued I really struggled to find a 3D package I felt comfortable in until trying Houdini. Blender felt unintuitive and C4D was too expensive on an individual basis. Houdini really changed everything for me and re-inspired my love of working in 3D.

[@hayasoufi8359]

Hey! Can you please tell me what’s the best way to start learning Houdini? Or maybe recommend any tutorials/channels that might be worth watching? Thanks! ❤️

[@ysomadbeats]

@@hayasoufi8359 I haven't touched houdini in a while as I kinda lost my passion for 3d in general. I remember their tutorial series on their website were really good at teaching the basics. The best tip I could give is houdini is a program for making tools, not models, If your going into houdini with a specific vision in mind, your going to struggle achieving it(use sculpting or traditional 3d tools for that). Your not modelling a tree, your making tools to model a tree for you. Also i imagine ChatGPT could answer any question you have regarding it, I imagine you could also get started by asking ChatGPT to generate code to achieve more complex tasks.

[@gauffreaunutella]

The magic with houdini is that you can do so many things by different ways It seems very difficult at first but when you got the logic of the soft it’s very pleasant

[@AdorandoconlaIA-fg6tg]

You are making me feel hopeful after I've spend days attemping to learn the most simple concepts in Houdini.

[@Bullitain]

Great video, really enjoyed seeing a fresh perspective on how cryptic houdini is to new beginners. I’d still call myself a beginner even after 1.5 years learning it. Stick in there !

[@BadNormals]

I will!

[@thomashovgaard3134]

Been using it for years. When you get into the workflow its way more logic than any other package

[@blackheelsband]

You're going to be a big name in the blender community in no time. Your content is so engaging and your video quality is top notch.

[@BadNormals]

Thank you! It's very motivating to hear that!

[@drumboarder1]

As soon as he changes the fringe, somehow the fringe is distracting to the point that I can't follow along and there's no chance I'm the only overly pedantic asshole

[@christiansanchez7448]

If you want a good understanding of how everything works I cannot reccomend Steven Knipping's tutorials enough. He works for ILM and made some crazy effects for marvel and star wars. He has tutorials on pyro sims, particles, and rigid bodies

[@BadNormals]

Why have I never found his channel, it has some great stuff!

[@christiansanchez7448]

@@BadNormals I’m glad you checked it out! He is so good at explaining how things work too, so you get a really good understanding of what’s going on under the hood for your own future projects too

[@REOsama]

Knipping is the best, I took most of his courses and each one was a delight

[@Gadalac]

It's really nice to see someone so skilled struggling when they first learn something too. Great vid!

[@PetRatPro]

heck yeah! I've been wanting to try houdini, I'm excited to see how much transfers from Blender

[@kodidelasanjayreddy3427]

It's like a torture learning this software 😂

[@educate3d]

@@kodidelasanjayreddy3427 nah it’s not that hard. Now that depends if you have worked in node based flow. It’s geometry nodes on steroids but the same process of working with nodes applies

[@hans3437]

​@@educate3dWhat if im compelty new in 3d and programming at all? I want to create 3d VFX effect.

[@educate3d]

@@hans3437 vfx is a broad umbrella. Depending on what you want to do would dictate what you should use and where you should start.

[@DodaGarcia]

I fell in love with Blender at very first use back in 2.8 and it remains my favorite, ever-improving 3D suite. But (maybe for being programmatically-oriented) I felt the exact same love when I first opened Houdini. I’m still a bit confused by its rendering features but the procedural and simulation aspects blew my mind.

[@scriptyshake]

As a Houdini user seeing you lose your mind over the names (SOPs, CHOPs, LOPs, etc...) is so funny and I was the exact same too at the start

[@aaronjohnson4604]

Great video. I laughed so hard at your text messages. Very good Very cool. Music and slow downs 100% awesome. lol Cant wait to check out the rest of your channel.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

I knew a guy who employed a Houdini guy for six months at a name animation house in London. He said "His stuff was always amazing, incredible stuff. He never *actually* finished a shot though." LOL Love Houdini but I'm married to 'Blendini' now :o)

[@foxman4455]

Houdini is the most efficient 3D software in the market. It's procedural nature is unmatched and a lot of people think it's only for simulations, but that's so not true...

[@BadNormals]

It's definitely very capable, and all the parts work together efficiently which sets it apart in my opinion

[@spydergs07]

Efficiency is dependant on the user Blender is more evident for people that are familiar and comfortable with Blender

[@amamsurri5454]

@@spydergs07 I think he may have meant the programming of the software. but I could be wrong.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Its a program not 'a software' as much as a hammer isn't 'a hardware'.

[@0x1EGEN]

@@PrinceWesterburg ...But hammer is hardware? You buy hammers from the "hardware store".

[@Houdini123]

This was very entertaining :) Sums up pretty well how most of us feel when we open the software for the first time. Been there too a couple of years ago. But to anyone hesitating. I promise you it is worth learning. Houdini is very unique and can get you out of very tricky situations. Don't get scared by the supercomplicated, technical stuff. It is not as bad as it looks. And there are a lot of artist friendly approaches that you can use that go a long way.

[@SuperSuperka]

What can be more scary then pressing "G, Shift+Z" each time you need to move object in XY? - that is in Blender.

[@JustAGooseman]

@@SuperSuperka What, who uses G for their transform keybind lol

[@SuperSuperka]

@@JustAGooseman every Blender artist use G to move

[@hayasoufi8359]

Hey! Can you please tell me what’s the best way to start learning Houdini? Or maybe recommend any tutorials/channels that might be worth watching? Thanks! ❤️

[@vorrch]

Houdini artist here, good first try. If anyone wants to try Houdini the thing that you need to know is that there is a lot of tutorials and documentation in the sidefx webside

[@BadNormals]

I'll check them out, thanks!

[@koltscats]

ya Sidefx has the best support for it's software hands down.

[@prezent1979]

make a "Blender user tries Maya for the FIRST time".. i know its sounds easy but it's really hard lol... (great video btw)

[@matyasletacek4099]

I'm gonna have to use Maya at uni next semester. As a Blender user, I am scared lmao. Never touched Maya before.

[@mihailoveselinovic7151]

@@matyasletacek4099 modeling is not that hard, but uv mapping is a whole different convoluted mess

[@BadNormals]

Yeah I might make that with Sir Wade Neystadt. He's a Maya guru.

[@matyasletacek4099]

@@mihailoveselinovic7151 I mean, I was using 3Ds Max for a bit on highschool and yeah, same story there.. UV unwrapping was.. ugh.

[@mihailoveselinovic7151]

@@matyasletacek4099 Don't get me started on 3Ds Max

[@christianvolkner2028]

You cannot really compare Houdini to Blender, its a different game for different use cases. The more complex the job gets, the easier Houdini, and the harder Blender will be. If you just love to create in a direct manner, Blender is better suited. I use both and I like both, although Houdini is my favorite :-)

[@samduss4193]

I just start learning houdini, to me blender is fun to learn basic and discover a bit what is going on... but I believe that houdini help pushing to next level..

[@avatr7109]

did you buy houdini? does one require to go to vfx college if one wants to make a career out of it?

[@samduss4193]

If houdini would leave really acces for free and be able to render without marks i guess , It would be more interesting to learn... You can learn anything as long as motivated.

[@bhabhutiji1169]

​@@samduss4193 Houdini apprentice is free

[@iRaffale]

FX artist (Houdini) here, I would have given double the points to blender for launching a lot faster, just because, as an FX, there is always that moment where it just crashed again and again Jones aside, Houdini may be the toughest to learn, by there is a huge community always ready to help, either of différents forums, tutorials or more advanced masterclass. It will take time to learn Houdini, but it is so worth it

[@avatr7109]

Can we get a job if we learn Houdini ? do we need to go to vfx college? i mean no one mentions blender in job descriptions, its Maya 3DS max etc

[@iRaffale]

@@avatr7109 blender is a nice piece of software, but few compagnies actually use it as it's not part of their pipeline You can learn Houdini by yourself or in college, but you will need to be disciplined and really passionate about it

[@hayasoufi8359]

Hey! Can you please tell me what’s the best way to start learning Houdini? Or maybe recommend any tutorials/channels that might be worth watching? Thanks! ❤️

[@ezpepz]

Really nice video! I've switched a lot of softwares in the past 15 years (never went deep with Blender)and from my point of view, Houdini is the most intimidating one at a first glance. It has a reaaaaaaly steep learning curve, and it's very different from other 3d Packages. It might be more familiar for a Touch Designer user than a Maya/Blender one. But it is really powerful, and honestly, I couldn't work without seeing all my data flow of attributes and all anymore.

[@BadNormals]

I'm excited to learn it!

[@themilkmon]

You should be careful. BlenderGuru might see you exploding a doughnut and take it as an act of war 👀 Would be a shame if an all out Blender civil war would take place

[@BadNormals]

This would be Ragnarök^2

[@BlueGuy078]

I've never been so entertained in my life this is so fun to watch 😆

[@etta777]

Never? You grew up in Afghanistan?

[@DodaGarcia]

Have you ever seen like, a movie?

[@garymcderp1146]

I opened Houdini for the first time, started mashing Shift+A and gave up immediately.

[@vipergx]

As everyone says, Houdini has a steeper learning curve, but once you get the basic principles right, it's easier to search for the right answers online and in time you just remember the most important nodes and attributes. After a while it's super satisfying to get desired results. Plus it goes great with blender.

[@lucas_sapa2985]

5:00 "Why there is no like, explode an object" - "explode an object" literally popping in screen that second. Thanks for the video, i also use Blender and wanted to try Houdini

[@bobcharlotte8724]

Houdini is a great name for the software because once you learn it you feel like a magician. Just the learning curve is effing extreme. As game artist with 20 years of maya experience, going to Blender is interesting but the interface is extremely difficult for me... so many shortcut you need to know (something about photoshop I hated until I happily cut it out of my workflow), but it also hasnt been widely adopted by the industry yet. Which I think will change in the next few years since Autodesk doesnt add significant features to Maya or Max anymore. But by far the biggest win for Houdini is Houdini Engine. To be able to edit or even simulate Houdini assets within the UE4/5 editor is next level.

[@sqwert654]

Houdini has the steepest learning curve I have come across. But it's also the most feature packed and versatile tool I have. No other tool has the power that HDA's provide .

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Houdini is definitely NOT a program a new user can generally jump into right away and make sense of it, but to be fair, neither is Blender (especially versions before 2.5). It eventually _does_ make sense but it can take time. This is true for most complex software. There is no doubt that Houdini is super powerful though because every major special effects company uses it with only a few exceptions (Pixar probably has their own in-house simulation system).

[@3dbob891]

yeah, but it is the software that should be started with first. It teaches you so much on a fundamental level most software can't To my knowledge Pixar also use Houdini (they also use Maya)

[@pogo575]

@@3dbob891 Yup. They do use it.

[@FlashPaperGrind]

@@3dbob891 Pixar use a HEAVILY customised version of Maya(all in-house and nearly entirely different from the Maya we have access to).

[@3dbob891]

@@FlashPaperGrind is that inside knowledge? Otherwise i doubt that Autodesk allows to customize their software that much. You sure that they don't just use many plugins? If the latter, well almost any company uses much plugins.

[@testacals]

@@3dbob891 They probably allow to modify the source code if you pays them . Unreal engine also does that.

[@StylizedStation]

Love your editing ;D

[@BadNormals]

Thanks! I did spend some days on it 🙂

[@niko_x_zero]

Your title reeled me in. Your sense of humor wins my subscription. Good work young sir!

[@Thesierrashow]

As a blender user that UI is so hard to look at. Houdini looks nuts lol

[@BadNormals]

Yeah, I'd say Blender has a very nice UI after the 2.8 update

[@memespeech]

UI elements look more user-friendly at a glance for a new user, blender is just grey empty space with maybe some grey icons, unless you already know what you're looking for and where it is - you'll be clueless

[@noneofyourbussines8080]

They didn't call the Program Houdini because of the surreal results, they called it Houdini because nobody knows how it works

[@AscensionX-uq1mk]

Man you got lucky that you found a relatively easy "explode" tutorial. There's one on here that I was watching - the dude had over 30yrs experience and was demoing "explode" as a keynote speaker at some function. Well I guess the explode wasn't working and he was getting frustrated. Bro... this dude went into the coding screen and started typing like The Flash!! He went TOTALLY OFF SCRIPT and wasn't even talking to the people anymore about the little baby shyt he was showing them lol... He shifted into HARDCORE G.O.A.T. MODE and went off into his own little world... mumbling as he hammered out code on a level Bill Gates couldn't touch. It was like he wrote a whole new gottdamn script in 1 minute, then plugged it into his "explode" routine and NOW it blew up properly and was quite impressive. But what this showed me is that - all those flying dragons, flaming meteors and glowing eyes LOOKS AMAZING, but you need to be a HIGH LEVEL PYTHON CODER to reach the full potential of Houdini. If you're not a MASTER PYTHON CODER, then it seems you will only get about 75% of the power out of Houdini just using the basic point & click interface. NONE of those cool effects you showed were done just using point & click. There's another demo on here of a guy turning that pig-head into smoke. It's really cool, but in the end he couldn't get it to look right, so he had to plug in a series of nodes someone else compiled, and THEN it looked amazing. So yeah Houdini is the best of the best, but you have to put some SERIOUS time, effort and money into reaching those highest levels. If you're not interested in mastering Python, then I think a Blender-Pro or C4D-Pro would be able to do comparable or better work than a mid-level Houdini user who can't use the coding abilities. Personally, I'm not a coder and I don't enjoy writing code. I started getting rather familiar with "Adobe Flash" years ago which used (AS3) code.I couldn't write AS3 from scratch, but AS3 snippets were all over the web and I became an expert at scrounging & utilizing the code snippets I needed to make cool things happen in my projects. Then BAM - after a few years Flash was shelved, killed & banned by Microsoft. all that AS3 code - USELESS, and every webpage written with it was now INACCESSIBLE. Python reminds me of that fiasco. 🙄.. An artist shouldn't have to write code to do the cool stuff you showed in your intro-clip. Personally, I'm going to still try and learn Houdini on the side just because they have a free version. But my focus is going to be Blender, which is quickly becoming the hottest & most advanced 3D program out there. At this rate, it will surpass Houdini one day soon because it's got too much love & 3rd party support, it's much easier to learn, and it's growing wayyy too fast - while Houdini remains stagnant "Kryptonite" because of it's bank-busting perpetual pricing & Rubiks Cube difficulty level. ✌

[@BadNormals]

What a novel! I'm sure Blender could catch up if it was specialized into one field but since it's a do it all software it needs much much more developers to achieve that. But let's subscribe to Blender Cloud and we'll get there one day :)

[@AscensionX-uq1mk]

@@BadNormals - Ha! Sorry about the encyclopedia, I like to write and I type fast on this computer... so sometimes I forget people really only wanna see a few sentences at most - my bad! 😇 I'll keep this one short and just say... Blender is only on 3.1 right now and has already made Lightwave obsolete and made many 3D Studio users already converted over. Maya users are starting to convert now also and it's currently neck & neck with Cinema 4D but pulling ahead because of "Grease Pencil". So I'd say by version 5 or 6 it will be a Houdini killer🔥💀🔥but without the ultra-complexity and it doesn't mandate Python to get it's top abilities; nor does it cost $3,000... That's pretty bad ass! 🤗

[@SamMorseBrown]

Man, your production quality is improving massively! Awesome stuff. 👍

[@BadNormals]

Yeah, I've been investing a lot of ressources there! Thanks!

[@chr1st0pher]

Hahaha! Funny watching this as a Houdini user. Maybe I should make the opposite video

[@ColdBegant]

More Houdini videos! Absolutely fun in Blender-artists clear see vision))) :D

[@JuanPabloVFXART]

Senior houdini artist Here Great video,laug a lot with the lop top sop part,keep learning,it becomes easier after the 3th year

[@adilmughal3039]

After 3rd year??😢😢 I'm a blender artist and just wanted to learn Houdini it's been just 4 days started on houdini isn't scary playlist and I can't do any shit yet 😭😭😭😭

[@resilientpicture]

Haha,😁, Love how the sun sets whilst following my tutorial. Very funny. You got a sub brother.

[@ChillieGaming]

Your friend is really a professional Houdini artist 💀

[@GabrielsLogic]

This is exactly what I felt like when using Houdini first

[@BadNormals]

Good I'm not the only one

[@jagz888]

Houdini you have the added bonus of being highly sort after in multiple industries = rarer skillsets = higher demand = more money

[@dvkerns]

I love your channel... nicely edited + fun / positive vibes, ...please keep it up!

[@BadNormals]

Motivating to hear that!

[@VladimirRez]

I love your positive approach! thank you for the video )

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

It has a place in our pipeline since its initial release in 1996. We don't know what we would do without it. 😉

[@cgfactory1901]

Once you get into it it’s quite simple the only DCC that is close to blender is Houdini but blender wins as always in $$ love the blender community Respect

[@thezbschannel1961]

OMG this is SHOP TOP CHOP LOP ROP COP2 PRO NEXT LEVEL!!

[@man_art_man]

3:48 🤣🤣 the Sound of fans was so funny 🤣 hahahahahahahah . Thanks for your Humor sense ! Love it!!! 👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻

[@chidiebere2376]

As a blender user, one thing about houdini is that what you can do in an hour in blender can be done in a second in houdini.

[@bhabhutiji1169]

Wtf

[@moonrunner009]

First video of yours I’ve seen. Dude I was rolling.

[@KennyPhases]

When that cube fell for the first time, i nearly lost it. hahahah

[@GudXM]

Lol made me laugh with the sound design at 4:40. Nice video - Thanks for the insight.

[@resilientpicture]

Woah, didn't realize my channel featured here. Awesome, thanks dude.

[@BadNormals]

What a pleasant surprise to see you here!

[@resilientpicture]

@@BadNormals :) I stumbled upon this video when looking for some stuff in Blender as I am in the process of creating realistic smoke tutorial :). I guess, I should also thank google for bringing up my video. :) Keep up the good work brother.

[@thehattedhedgehog]

He had to explode that screaming emoji, that goes AAAAAAAAAAHH

[@EdLrandom]

I'm way to lazy to try anything new, so thank you for doing this so I don't have to.

[@advaitchougule242]

I laughed so hard at CHOT, TOP, etc 😂😂😂

[@furynotes]

Yeah. Lest get through this amazing forest of Houdini. More like big dark and scary jungle with monster node hierarchies.

[@BadNormals]

The forest is amazing but has a lot of traps

[@nothanks4317]

Thanks for sharing your experience with Houdini ! I find it unreasonable to complain so much of it since you're expected to look up a tutorial before making a simulation in the most complex CG software in the world ;)

[@BadNormals]

For sure. I had high hopes 🙂

[@Kain-wk6xk]

i feel like im learning more from this video than an actual tutorial.

[@liv69420]

looks like a very cool program, that i’ll probably never use

[@septuleptum]

Houdini is not that hard, this program is rather just deep. But there are reasons for all this, and as soon as you get to the task in which Houdini is useful to you - you understand why everything is arranged this way and not otherwise. Suddenly things begin to make sense.

[@yusrighouse]

Video quality is getting better mate! Love Houdini. Super beginner, but still avoiding the DOPs. Just slowly struggling through SOPs right now. I had no idea you were a 5 year blender user. Makes a lot of sense since you're really good.

[@BadNormals]

Good to hear that! I started using Blender in 8th grade. Started with the tutor4u coffee cup tutorial.

[@noxlupi1]

Most beginners in special FX creation, think that Houdini is overwhelming, because they do super simple things in vary advanced software. It is also, vary impractical to drive a formula 1 car to the grocery store. The node system in Blender is a new borne baby, and it is extremely premature. Houdini was borne a node based system almost 30 years ago, and has never tried to be anything else, but the best at being exactly that. It is like reviewing a pencil on your ability to draw.

[@DrMerle-gw4wj]

Interesting subject, as best I can determine just what that subject is. I find this fellow completely incomprehensible.

[@sherlan1886]

You are hilarious 😆. Love this video

[@CallousCoder]

Kids these days think that everything is fine easily and quickly. The don’t seem toename to take the time to actually read through the basics. Houdini documentation is actually pretty good and you need that basic foundation in order to understand how to do stuff. And when you’ve read it, it actually makes tons of sense.

[@tsegulin]

Any serious 3d package is complex and takes time to learn. If you come from experience with a previous 3d application, you at least know what you're looking for. In the end, they all create, light and shoot animated objects or simulations and render them to 2d sequences or movie files. I think of Houdini has having a different mindset. It feels foreign to someone familiar with Maya or Blender because of that. Not so much harder as just different. If you can master it you can do just about anything you might ever need. Yes, Houdini does about the best sims out there but it's a full 3d animation package including a built in basic compositor. However it deserves more than 3.5 hours to begin to appreciate the power of its procedural design. Take a look, but do give it a chance. Also, unlike Blender (AFAIK) it will accommodate world Z-up, but you're not trapped in it!

[@motiondeshahil]

I started using houdini about 1 year ago. Finally i can transform cube into another cube.

[@BadNormals]

Morphing at it's finest

[@MortalVildhjart]

I used to be a Hardcore maya user, and after working with Houdini for years now it's like treading through sticky water.

[@JayTheMachine]

Sooo... I searched hudini explosion object tutorial.. Clicked this video.. And he searched hudini explosion object tutorials and now i am watch a tutorial of the host watching a tutorial... And its 2am... 🙂 I don't if this is a dream... 🙂

[@pxrposevfx6421]

Houdini is the only software that is just a king in its software

[@Jham3D]

Love your channel man! Super inspiring!

[@nickthechen]

Been really enjoying your videos, keep it up!

[@brandoncyoung]

What's great about Houdini is you don't really need to be an add on jockey. You can't make whatever you need inside the program.

[@blackfangwolf7340]

ROP - Rendering Operators POP - Particle Operator VOP - Vector Op SOP - Surface Op SHOP - Shading Op DOP - Dynamic Op COP - Composite Op Basically Operators...

[@tkplayz4672]

Installed, everything works, thanks!

[@kokoze]

Checkout the axiom gas solver. It is an addon thing and it makes gas simulations a lot more readable and faster since it can use GPU

[@BadNormals]

I will!

[@jefferz4148]

Had me laughing with the rops crops trops lol

[@alexachua2613]

I enjoyed watching this video and the way u talked! 🥰❤

[@andythebouncer]

Houdini makes easy things hard, and hard things possible.

[@nxone9903]

This is how i feel opening blender

[@ExerCaswen]

4:21 The "-op" stands for "operator" (for example DOP is dynamic operator and SOP is surface operator)

[@BadNormals]

Thanks for the information!

[@cambodiacitytour2503]

Great video brother 👍👍

[@PopPopPop666]

When software is simple the trade off is lack of control - which is fine if your a hobbyist but limiting in production. Houdini is complex because you build your own tools. However, in order to build good tools you need a deep understanding of CG. That's the learning curve everyone complains about. As someone who's used this software almost everyday for around 15 years- your video made me laugh. Funny to see it from your perspective.

[@vvvorlds]

This sounds hilariously like me when I look in to Houdini every other year.

[@yoonsiklevijoo9255]

I am trying to learn myself Houdini, but as like you, the LOP COP SOP things are not understandable. Please share what you will learn in near future not just tutorial. I bet you can get the principles and logic of Houdini much faster. :) Peace.

[@orangebananaaaa]

SOP = Surface operators, it's for modifying static geometries(This is the most important context as everything starts from SOP) DOP = Dynamic operators, it's where simulation can happen COP = Composit operators, it's like Nuke in Houdini. (It's very old and outdated though) CHOP = Channel operators, it's for animating parameters procedurally ROP = Render operators, it's where you can set up render nodes and render LOP = Lighting operators, this is kinda new but it's basically USD authoring context.

[@BadNormals]

Thanks for the insight!

[@brandoncyoung]

They are just different contexts.. comparable to the different areas in blender.

[@kubolor1234]

Houdini just announced native Metal support.

[@rewis3d]

Cool video, though it took me days just to get used to the viewport in Houdini after Blender, and to be able to do just some rigid body sims that were half decent. Beats me how there are people out there that can learn so much in just a couple of hours, and I'm quite dedicated.

[@Volt64bolt]

Do another comparison once the everything nodes update in blender releases

[@BadNormals]

Sure.

[@w1lliam532]

I'd like to see more Houdini stuff ʘ‿ʘ

[@BadNormals]

Why not in the future...

[@akashelangovan6924]

HQ ultra pro Max level work

[@DerLattenrost]

i need to say i only open the video because the guy looks amazing beautiful

[@Jiwan_DMT]

As a vfx student using houdini. No, definetly not usable in a reel. The effect doesn’t work with the concept, because there is no concept. If you want to destroy something you got to tell what material is this thing made of. Here its just a torus with no indications of what make it explode,what is the intention of the sim / purpose. To be clear. For a real demo reel, you would need to make it fall from a certain point or make something interact with the object to get the understanding that there is something creating the sim. Also for indication of what material you use, make dust, smoke, debris, how light or hard it falls off and etc. 9but that isi9f you are seriously making a demo reel, for the purpose of that video, it is good.

[@ShawnFerrell]

All I ever see from Houdini users is premade assets and premade effects posted as if they created something.

[@orangebananaaaa]

Wow, I would be so impressed if you can make Hollywood movies with premade assets and premade effects!