Fire Aura VFX - Houdini & Nuke - Full Course

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In this course we're going to learn all about controlling particle & smoke simulations.
We'll start off by splicing together multiple particle simulations that we can use as a pyro source.
We're going to source in all particles to create density and velocities inside a pyro simulation.
We're also going to create custom velocity fields and use divergence to art direct smoke.
Using the pyro sim we can advect the particles in the final simulation. Here we leverage the power of SDFs to further control the movement in a natural and organic way
I'm going to show you some quick and easy way to color the particles and get a cool magical look
I'll also show you a quick and easy setup to create embers, and also a fire wall that serves as a background layer
In the comp section we'll bring all our renders together.
We'll go over best practices and some of my favorite nodes and workflows that I use on a daily basis.
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This download contains the Houdini and Nuke project files. You can also grab the renders from the link provided in the zip archive!
► Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00:00:46 : Trailer
00:00:46 - 00:08:36 : Overview
00:08:36 - 00:16:58 : Demo - SDF Divergence
00:16:58 - 00:25:33 : First Sim - Simple Wind
00:25:33 - 00:35:49 : Second Sim - Particle Flow
00:35:49 - 00:40:58 : Third Sim - Head Source
00:40:58 - 00:48:43 : Final Sim - Goal Vector
00:48:43 - 00:55:52 : Final Sim - Pull Vector
00:55:52 - 01:02:34 : Refine Sim & Fuse
01:02:34 - 01:09:25 : Pyro Setup
01:09:25 - 01:16:27 : Pyro Refine
01:16:27 - 01:24:00 : Divergence with SDF
01:24:00 - 01:31:36 : Advect Particles
01:31:36 - 01:38:33 : Guide Particles
01:38:33 - 01:45:06 : Color & Final Touches
01:45:06 - 01:54:18 : Embers - POP Simulation
01:54:18 - 02:01:36 : Embers - Base Shape & Attributes
02:01:36 - 02:09:12 : Embers - Randomize Shape
02:09:12 - 02:12:29 : FireWall
02:12:29 - 02:22:03 : Materials & Render Settings
02:22:03 - 02:30:59 : Background & Character AOVs
02:30:59 - 02:38:03 : Adding Fire & Glow
02:38:03 - 02:44:35 : Embers & Post Process

[@raneemFX]

You're doing an amazing job - keep up the great work. I'm impressed that you're covering every aspect, even including the compositing. Thank you! 👍

[@voxyde]

Ofcourse! Compositing is half the work!

[@ChrissyChrisHansen]

Love your tutorials man! I’m learning alot! Thanks!! Keep em coming

[@user-wz5wv5yl1t]

So amazing work, thanks for sharing your awesome work!

[@animhaxx]

I love Bleach, and it's amazing to see you do this

[@ondudengrund]

Amazing tutorial, keep up the good work. So many great tips and tricks in there and on top of that its very well explained at a good tempo.

[@dantom6850]

Awesome!

[@massimobaita7178]

Superb, Ciobanu!

[@voxyde]

Thank you! Hope you enjoy it :)

[@user-gj7hg2yw3f]

Hey man I love your tutorials, thanks for this one!!

[@voxyde]

My pleasure!

[@kawaiinoodle21]

Best fire tutorial! :D Thank you so much.

[@voxyde]

You're welcome!

[@rajnishsharma7899]

I can't believe this. Oh my God thank u brother. Houdini is considered as the most difficult software but u my mate made it fun. I wish u made a new begginers course for nuke too just like houdini cuz I have almost searched every platform but none of them explains like u. Please dude ponder on this too 🙏

[@voxyde]

Intro to Nuke is definitely something one day!

[@eru8934]

Can not believe this content, its free to watch. Thats hot. Always love your tut. very impressive.

[@voxyde]

Thank you brother hope its useful!

[@mikestan8353]

Excellent tutorial. looking forward for new tuts :)

[@dalelinney8437]

Dropping knowledge bombs as per usual

[@voxyde]

Thats how we do it

[@StephaneSOUBIRAN]

Merci !

[@utubeparpankaj]

awesome Bro

[@solanzhang6616]

and you,my friend,are the real hero🥰

[@voxyde]

Thank you sir!

[@wewantmoreparty]

Great knowledge thanks

[@voxyde]

Thanks and welcome

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

I can't wait to see you using H20 with mtlx, solaris, karma and revamped COPs

[@voxyde]

Revamped COPS? Interesting. I'll have to start using solaris eventually haha

[@zhivu-vopreki]

Hi, is it possible to make myself burning like that in Houdini? :) Or it can do this only to 3d model?

[@voxyde]

All you need is a bit of gasoline and a lighter

[@andyschkeind_]

1:03:20 when i type density in attributes in my Volume rasterize attribute my character doesn't show up. Maybe i haven't renamed something as density in my noise tabs? I rename my bind 2 into density after i simulated. Any workarounds?

[@voxyde]

maybe the density is too low, drop down a pyro bake volume and set the density really high and check if that shows you the density. otherwise maybe you mispelled density when you exported the attribute or somewhere else

[@isancreates1258]

Hi ! Hope u reply to this , i wanned to ask you if this works with animated characters, does it stays hooked to the animated mesh? Big love man and this tutorial is FIRE ! :))))

[@voxyde]

Its hard to maintain this shape if the animation is super fast. Thats the nature of pyro simulations in general, Probably the best way would be to animate at rest state and point deform to animated geometry :)

[@enriquecastillo6501]

Where did you find the character?

[@DejenAbraha]

I have a quick question as someone who's been learning VFX and wants to do this stuff with live action, how long are render times to create these kinds of effects in Houdini? I'm still new to this stuff and I ask because I don't know whether to create and use 3D effects or to carry on learning 2D and the kinds of effects you can make in After Effects. Super interested and look forward to any insights.

[@voxyde]

It depends on the shot/fx you're working on. Smoke/fire/volumes are usually super fast to render, especially with GPU renderers. Anything between 30 sec to 2-3 min per frame at 1080p I would say. Particles are pretty fast as well. The slowest are water FX, or anything with objects that have refractions or are see through. There are things you can do to optimize but you can very well spend 10-20 mins on a frame.

[@DejenAbraha]

@@voxyde Appreciate the speedy response!

[@soyringo180]

can you make tutorials with mantra? i love your tutorials but I can't follow the redshift part

[@voxyde]

waiting for houdini 20 release so we can get the cool karma stuff

[@soyringo180]

@voxyde thank you😁

[@bUildYT]

r u doing anything that is not possibl with the non commercial/ free versions?

[@voxyde]

You can follow along with the apprentice versions as well. There will only be some exporting/rendering limitations (this is why I included the renders)

[@bUildYT]

@@voxyde (sorry if thats a dumb question, im bloody new...) but cant i render in non comercial version?

[@voxyde]

@@bUildYT You can but I believe you have some limitations

[@navmeetsingh7816]

When I right click on attribute vop for colour Promotes parameter does show please guide

[@voxyde]

Use middle mouse click instead of right click (weird I know)

[@peng0402]

Do you have a fluid tutorial planned

[@voxyde]

Yes there are ideas! But there's still a lot of on-going projects that need adressing and a lot of information left to cover until I get to flip :(

[@peng0402]

@@voxyde Looking forward to your flip teaching

[@learner6010]

Is this for absolute beginner?

[@voxyde]

Sorry definitely not absolute beginner! I would say you need around 2-3 months of introductory courses first

[@learner6010]

@@voxyde how can i learn all fundamentals or basics then i can become intermidiate?

[@voxyde]

@@learner6010 Hey brother! There's a beginner tutorials playlist on my channel, start there!

[@learner6010]

@@voxyde ok

[@sunitjoshi3573]

@@voxydeWill you updating the beginner series for V20? Also, is a MacBook M2 16GB enough to run Houdini?

[@onkarbhade7277]