[TUT] Use Animated Textures and Videos in Houdini

Wonder how to use image sequences to animate your textures in Houdini? Or perhaps bring videos in Houdini so that you can add CG elements? In this tutorial I show you how.
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[@phillipcarpenter3312]

Yes please. I’d love a tutorial on camera tracking in Blender and importing to Houdini. Thanks for the awesome tutorials!

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

Coming soon!

[@cityshakestudio]

That would be great indeed that you explain a bit throughouly your workflow from Blender to Houdini with camera tracking. Thank you.

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

I am planning on it.

[@cityshakestudio]

@@RightBrainedTutorials Great, looking forward. Thank you Sir!

[@MB-J]

I'm using houdini 20 and i'm still learning. this was rlly helpful

[@SavedByScience]

Wonderful tips. I'm in the process of learning Houdini and have found your tutorials extremely helpful, often hitting on points I have not seen made elsewhere. Appreciate your effort. Keep up the excellent work!

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

Glad you like them!

[@StevenLarson]

This tutorial answered an issue I was dealing with - Thank you! ...and YES please do a video tracking tutorial if you can. That would be much appreciated

[@loganpenciu7317]

Something to note, very important: If you see Warning Cannot have channels which depend on time. When you put in a image sequence with $F. This error will show up, but it apparently does not effect Redshift according to the dev's. Info found on the redshift forums.

[@giorgioolivero8003]

yes to camera track from blender to houdini plz!

[@umardaha692]

Please do a tutorial on tracking footage from blender to adding CG elements in Houdini. thanks

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

It's coming for sure....I just need to figure out just how complex I want to make it.

[@ABlackbirdCalledSue]

Was just looking for something like this! I'm from the Blackmagic Fusion world, but slowly learning Houdini and tutorials like this are extremely helpful!

[@smullersjourney]

Thanks for the awesome tutorials! You are a great source of infos that the majority of Houdini tuts somehow circumvents!! Pleeeaaaseee do one on camera tracking in blender!!! I've been searching for importing tracking data to Houdini without having to buy additional software for a while now and found nothing so far.

[@maximostromogilsky188]

very nicely detailed video. Thank you!

[@RodpartRu]

I suffered all day and only your video helped me. Respect.

[@DimaShishkov]

Very useful tips. Thank you.

[@kir11]

Nice! very nice! Thank you!

[@mjparent222]

Really interesting. I looking forward learning more about video and audio in Houdini. Thank a lot. I'll be following your work for now on.

[@TobiasSchoenke]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial - you saved me a lot of time! I am really interested in your Blender to Houdini Tracking tutorial!

[@jonald2010]

The last part, how do you render it with the background image sequence? I tried rendering mine but background is black

[@saebr]

3 years late, but thanks a lot for the tutorial. I actually got to this video cuz I was searching exporting camera tracked footage from blender to houdini and the entire Workflow... So please please make such a tutorial, maybe including how project textures (so the grid has the road texture as an example) and how to add shadow catcher in houdini.... Please consider that... As I really couldn't find a single tutorial on KZbin that covers this. Thanks a lot

[@craig26study]

Hey buddy, I am really loving your stuff. I have subscribed to your channel and seen a few of your videos. I really appreciate your work, you are a real inspiration. I love houdini and have the indie version. This is my favourite software. Also if you can, I would love to see some vfx Blackmagic fusion tutorial as I use it on a regular basis. Cheers buddy. awesome stuff

[@pbdionet]

Useful! thanks heaps

[@kloyder]

Thanks a lot!!!very useful material and good tutorial!!tell us please more about footafes and works with them

Super Thanks

[@shivdholakia]

Great tutorial, very informative. Definitely learnt a few new things. Btw, I wanted to know how to slow down a texture sequence so it is moving at half or quarter the speed or at a certain pre-defined rate?

[@gillesavraam1496]

Very great tutorial ! i will love to have a camera track tutorial in blender to houdini 😍

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

I'm planning to do one. I'm just waiting to have the right video example to show. I need to go out and shoot something, and then decide to do some cool CG with it. I'm working on it but it's been a bit on the back burner due to some more pressing projects lately.

[@pgjohnson5504]

Great tutorials! I’m definitely interested in your Houdini / Blender work flow. I have Houdini Indie. Thanks

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

I think my next video will be about Blender!

[@daocgi5905]

Your hair is looking ten times better than mine. Ha-ha )))

[@tomreiner8676]

Thanks for the Video. When I want to timeshift a Image Sequence than it doesn't work, maybe you have a solution?

[@jorge.gancho]

Good English. Thank you. Magic `$F`

[@Adenomamusic]

Thank you for the tutorial. You can do maybe more like fundamentals in houdini for the beginners and redshift too.

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

I decided early on to focus on creating tutorials for things that I don't see anyone else doing tutorials for. There are already some excellent Houdini-beginner tutorials out there....but stick around, I have something coming up that will interest you!

[@karolinasereikaite8233]

Hey! thanks! Any chance you know how to add sequence images into Redshift texture? as it shows error "cannot contain channels which depend on time". Thanks!

[@TobiasSchoenke]

I have this problem as well with several redshift nodes. I just ignored the error and everything works fine

[@photoindra]

Nice tutorial. Thanks. I've seen that lot's of people use Cinema 4d for tracking video shots. Is there specific reason why you choose Blender for that task? Other than the price :) I would love to see more video on integration videos and camera tracking. But would be nice if you can target it for people that have zero knowledge of Blender.

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

Honestly Blender gives most high-end camera trackers a run for their money. I think it's very competitive with something like PFTrack or SynthEyes...and yes, it's free!

[@ZHatArt]

Hi! I have a question: how you make it possible with redshift? i'm actually can't make it work! I'm trying to put my img sequence as a emission but it doesnt work with rs material (as any texture as reference by the way) when you plug img sequence into texture it shows an error that it coannot contain channels which depend on time. Also i cant see really glow even with static texture (my guess that problem with render settings, or maybe enviroment ?) I'm using houdini 19 and RS 3.0.62. Can you make a quick tut on same topic but with redshidt workflow? Thx!

[@ZHatArt]

A little bit of poking rs nodes and i figure out what to do. But still, dont rly understand what to do with color profile and how to propperly set up a gamma. Anyway, thx for your tutorials!

[@Rock7skate]

Hii! What did you end up doing?

[@ZHatArt]

@@Rock7skate I sent same sequence in diffuse channel and tweak both emisson weight and gamma parametr in order to achive propper glow effect. I believe that particular case have somthing to to with ACES -color profile. But i'm failed to understand that whole thing)

[@karolinasereikaite8233]

@@ZHatArt hey! I was about to ask the same thing, how did you manage to add sequence into color RS? it gives same error to me : depend on time issue. thanks!

[@ZHatArt]

@@karolinasereikaite8233 You can ignore that error, it's a bug that SideFX already fixed, but somehow forgot to erase message.

[@lookatthewind]

Thanks a lot! Please, tutorial for the camera tracking in Blender 🙏

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

Coming soon!

[@Renat.K]

Animated texture Emission in Principle Shader working nice, but not working in Layer Mix (Principle Shader + Principle Shader + Alpha(animated in after effects texture). How to make it work? (frame not changing, it's stopped on the first frame)

[@midphase]

Which render engine are you doing this in?

[@Renat.K]

@@midphase houdini 17.5 mantra

[@weiwang5763]

blender to houdini ohhhhh thanks

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

😀

[@nobody-u-know]

the first thing I've found that Maya does better. XD Seriously SideFX, just add a keyable frame number to textures. Duhhh....

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

Yeah, I agree....it should be easier! Here's hoping to 18.5 solving this.

[@18bovende]

Time Warp COP?

[@18bovende]

Or just Extend COP for looping. (Watched a bit of the video now)

[@NathanApffel]

i wanted to watch but the hair was just to much.

[@Cladius76]

Houdini is a absolute nightmare why people insist to using this software!?

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

There are things that you can do in Houdini that you simply can't in other software. Also, some people actually prefer the whole node-based way of working.

[@maximostromogilsky188]

dude, houdini is awesome, just a longer learning curve.

[@recfilm1883]

I started learning Houdini when it was H9. It was a real nightmare I agree. During those years I kept quiting learning it and after some time I started learning again. My main software was C4d, but since version H16.5 I devoted myself only to Houdini and after a while (a big "while) I began to have a feeling that its "node-based-vex-based" procedural approach is the most natural, that all other DCCs (C4D, Max, Maya, Modo, Blender) are so much limited and awkward, but I agree Houdini doesn't have to be for everyone. For my vfx work it is all I need (and after installing Modeler for Houdini I use it for modelling on a regular basis). (Just a side note: all other 3d software is like a very good tool that makes cool stuff - Houdini is like a brain that makes a factory that makes tools that make cool stuff)

[@hved]

2 minutes are usefull. rest is garbage.

[@user-hl5zx1qh7s]

so do you have a job like him?

[@RightBrainedTutorials]

Be nice guys. My tutorials are not for everyone, but I'd rather be thorough and take my time, than to race through important stuff and leave viewers more confused than they were before watching it.

[@velcrolog]

@@RightBrainedTutorials Can't believe people take the time to make such gratuitous and useless comments. Your tutorials are amazing, with details no one else covers. Please keep them coming and don't listen to trolls like this. Cheers!