Tutorial: How to Create PRO QUALITY Scene with Blender & Houdini

[@arcangeel4828]

This blender/Houdini video is fire! So happy to have just discovered this awesome artist 😄

[@KabeeshS]

Rendering time : Universe

[@tomiviitanen]

Haha, it wasn't actually that bad. Frames took 3-5mins to render with my CPU. Unfortunately the scene just exceeded mine GPU VRAM for 1-2GB and thats why I had to use CPU.

[@KabeeshS]

@@tomiviitanen Its pretty cool ♥

[@QwecySlim]

​@@tomiviitanenwhat cpu are you using?

[@tomiviitanen]

@@QwecySlim Intels 13900k

[@QwecySlim]

@@tomiviitanen Oh ok great

[@JeanYanb]

Bro it's a masterpiece. I stopped learning Houdini, but now I'll try again thanks to you brother.

[@renderengine6573]

Hello ! jean Yan ! I love your Work too and this Video was Amazing too. Plz Make tutorials For Houdini too , and to use Blender and other Softwares for Realistic Animations and Little efforts plz.

[@Void_rift_disconnect]

Thank you for this bro! It is hard to find good solid info on Houdini and Blender working together on youtube. I have had to read into docs and things myself, so it is a pleasure to see someone put it together nicely for beginners.

[@mistery3dify]

You're an amazing person and teacher, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@mehyarzarathoustra3604]

more houdini / blender workflow plz, thanks for this tutorial

[@HUNTERRRR]

Your tutorial is industry standard, and I thank you so much for it. It seems like I should be paying for quality. I appreciate you sharing this, Tomi! Keep up the great work!

[@tomiviitanen]

Thanks man! I appreciate it.

[@josecasimiro2811]

Damn!!! You are incredible as a 3D Generalist/VFX artist! Please do more of this VFX using all Blender + Houdini + AE/Nuke. You're got yourself a new subscriber.!

[@tomiviitanen]

Thanks man! People seems to like this so I will definitely continue to share the knowledge of cool 3D-stuff here. Thank you for the sub:)

[@danisulat6762]

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS EXACT SHIT FOR A YEAR NOW. THANK YOUUU

[@ElijahHamilton]

This is insane!!! It's nice to see more people making tutorials :)

[@skipatreep]

Bro, this is amazing! After studying the blender, I will teach Houdini. I couldn't figure out for a long time where to do such simulations, thank you very much for the video, I wish you further productive development, if this is not the ceiling, of course)

[@TruthSurge]

pretty amazing but my brain says that the pulling being done by the arms is not 100% causing the body to move forward. The body is moving forward too much in spots almost as if it's being pulled forward but not by the arms alone. but that's just what my brain sees. The particles of sand were pretty amazing. that one towards the camera was really good. very nice!

[@Yeove]

Bro thank you so much for this tutorial, I watched the whole thing twice. There's so many little things I had no idea were possible. 22:08 Like the backface culling on a sky dome to be able to see through it. 42:03 And tracking an empty on an actor's face to automatically keep it in focus.

[@tomiviitanen]

Glad you learned something new!

[@Juzzi9]

I doubted myself seeing Finnish flag on the preview. Then I noticed your name. Cool to have Blender pro from Finland! Gotta delve deeper into your stuff

[@beaustine6093]

Amazing! Please do more Blender/Houdini tutorials.

[@phamtheanh9101]

wow i found golden quality video here. Thank you so much!

[@KKsinsa]

Your brilliant ideas truly shone throughout the course. I enjoyed it greatly. Also, you seem to have a sharp mind. However, I observed that you put a lot of effort into using the unstable blender. I believe you could have resolved the issue and achieved higher quality simply by using Houdini.

[@dude3d]

I really love this video my friend. This is so great. I’m eagerly waiting to watch more from you. Please make that post processing workflow video. Thank you so much for the amazing work 🫡❤️

[@NaqashAfzal]

Its absolutely amazing ❤

[@someoneedits]

this is insane

[@samisiukola2772]

Hyvä tutoriaali, kiitos tästä!

[@tomiviitanen]

Hienoa jos jaksoit katsoa!

[@الرياني-د8ك]

this is absolutely amazing you have so many tricks in blender i never knew they exist Thank you 🖤🖤

[@AlexisRivera3D]

Insane work! please make more content about Houdini + Blender

[@Sigmalife5]

O Really you're Great animation... Amazing please next video... ❤❤Thank you so much making video..

[@mohsinali965]

Thanks a lot bro ❤ this is what I'm searching for

[@bram_gunst]

Amazing tutorial! I just discoverd your channel and it is a goldmine thank you so much!!! Keep it up!

[@ramanrafiq7888]

I am guessing this took no less than 10 days to create, this is absolutely beautiful and awesome!!

[@clausbohm9807]

Thank you for making the wizardry less wizard like ...

[@utsavsinhzala]

Awesome scene. Please make more tutorials on blender and Houdini.

[@zepnr4741]

Absolutely astonishing 🎉

[@CSC-g4v]

You're hired.

[@Tweedledee__]

Never felt this entertained while watching a tutorial. Mad props dude! Subscribed and activated notification :)

[@Thies_Gruenewald]

Great Content! A lot of work went into this! Good luck for the channel! :)

[@filmweaver2013]

My gooddd! Thatt iss amazingggg!! Wowww!

[@blizzsoft5910]

i always hope to know how to make sound effects properly like sand sound in this video

[@MohdAsif-dc9ic]

Dop sop lop top pop mop ballalalaalah burrrh As a blender user, houdini is going above my head 😂😂

[@Xenoqf]

amazing tutorial hope you do more tutorial in the future

[@camelbyte626]

This is amazing !

[@seikodelic439]

best man ever

[@ryuanim3494]

my computer will cry after watched your video XD

[@matthewaina4234]

This is awesome!

[@purpleparkstudios4124]

Great video! For the Eevee users if you import images as planes and want shadows and reflections make sure the image as planes is set to Alpha Hashed and Alpha Hashed before you import or you can change it in the material properties. Obviously enable screen space reflections and ambient occlusion.

[@oscarcutmore]

Could do make a Houdini water sim tut? It’s hard to find them for beginners? Thanks

[@RanjithKizhakkey]

this is gold

[@MrCasabotella]

Wow good job

[@FinalComp]

Very nice, I just subscribed to your content after this video. There should be more tutorials and videos about the workflow between blender and houdini. Houdini is a life saver related to simulations. Thank you!

[@djibessvideos]

you're the goat

[@ChilligerHund]

Why are you not using the HDRI the "normal" way over the Shader Editor > World ? For more realistic reflections and lighting ?

[@rsunghun]

amazing stuff! even though I'm not going to go near to the Houdini XD

[@WatchWorthyClips-yx6og]

i am unable to save to disk when exporting it says" Error Alembic export is only supported in Houdini Core and Houdini FX versions" what do i do?

[@tomiviitanen]

You need licensed version of Houdini. Unfortunately you can't export alembic with apprentice version.

[@Joyzful]

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing

[@TheJautja]

Whatever the quality of the render, you made metal that bends. It's all here.

[@MaitrayaRai]

Awesome :) :)

[@KensyFTW]

Thank you ! This is insane ! Wonder if you could do Hodini x Maya tuto next time ? Really appreciate your work !

[@tomiviitanen]

Thanks, glad you liked it. I haven't touched Maya since 2018, so unfortunately I have no idea how to do stuff in Maya anymore.

[@liikala_]

Mielenkiintoista 😇💪💪

[@TheRealMonstaa]

Absolutely fantastic tutorial. Thank you for this! I would be very interested in seeing the AE tutorial as well :D

[@samduss4193]

I watch this video i did not get all i blender and now start houdini so i did not undertand the houdini part and the transfer also back and forward... On top i feel Like my computer will just never render anything lol...

[@AstroTrain100]

Just curious can you do it using just Houdini or Blender? or do you need to learn both? Which would you recommend learning first?

[@tomiviitanen]

You can do all this in Houdini for sure. It's just not the easiest software to learn. Blender is lacking top notch quality simulations but other than that it's a great software to learn 3D fundamentals. I would say Blender is all you need at least for the first year or two of your 3D journey.

[@AstroTrain100]

@@tomiviitanen Thanks!

[@fazorgameryt8970]

Love the video, I've been looking for a tutorial like this in forever, keep it up man :) Tyy

[@sanjaysolanki97721]

I should book flight to jupiter. This gonna take forever in my potato PC.

[@hintme1385]

i am not capable to expoet alembic rop export beacaue of aprentics verstion of houdini please help

[@tomiviitanen]

Yes, unfortunately thats one of the limitations of apprentice version. You'll just have to get licensed version of Houdini.

[@islambelal7248]

Amazing, can I do it with unreal engine 5 ?

[@relexelumna5360]

Comparing Rtx 4070 vs Rx 7800 xt which one is better for rendering and content creation?

[@toopzie261]

when trying to get the high render sand simulation i get the error 'could not open alembic archive for reading, see console for details, do you know how to fix

[@supriyo3610]

Woow😮

[@BrunoPereira-tt8pi]

Can i use Unreal instead of Blender?

[@tomiviitanen]

I haven't used Unreal, but I assume you can import alembic there as well. Unfortunately I can't help you how to texture the simulation in UE, sry.

[@ROYSMoGraphDesign9900k]

need motionblur on the object, looks more realistic Composite ! 🙂

[@Scouty]

Awesome stuff! Dang though .003 is so small, I also have a 4090 and I hit a openCL crash anytime I go under .004, maybe a binning thing? Or did you possibly have a smaller sim size than whats in the default project?

[@tomiviitanen]

Damn, I can't remember if I used the exact same size simulation than the default is in the project file. It was really close to that size anyway. Could it be so that the other pc specs plays some role in that process too? I dunno. Yeah and .003 was really on the edge with the hardware in my case so hard to say. Maybe you have some other programs open at the same time to eat resources?

[@edwydennytwins]

Great Tutorial. My specs: Ryzen 7 5800 and RTX 3070 😂

[@eklavyatech8588]

How to set houdini GPU rendering

[@marlonabbas8171]

what is that soundtrack?

[@theshadow6273]

Hey pretty sweet tutorial. Any chance you can show us how to import a blender scene: objects, cameras, lights, materials, animations etc into houdini and render it all with karma xpu?

[@AlexisRivera3D]

I think you can export the whole scene using USD but not sure, I don't use Houdini

[@tomiviitanen]

Yeah, like Alexis said USD might work, but I'm not experienced with that. If not, then there's probably no way to do that. Alembic would probably work also excluding materials and lights.

[@theshadow6273]

@@tomiviitanen thanks for the response! Ill try and see if I can figure it out on my own! USD seems like the way to go honestly since thats the language karma uses. I'll look around and see what I can find

[@TheAndrizone]

Please, do the post process in AE, it could be helpfull!!

[@rajnishsharma7899]

Redshift renderer

[@indianfilmrockers9069]

how to create those sand particles tutorial please

[@tomiviitanen]

You mean the ones at the very beginning? It's just a photoscan which is hided from the render right when hand hits to the ground.

[@indianfilmrockers9069]

@@tomiviitanen I MEAN THAT TV SAND TUTORIAL WHICH YOU INCLUDED IN YOUR DISCRIPTION AS PROJECT FILE

[@youtubeadmin1357]

What is the name of the second program?

[@barscakr3104]

whait is your monitor with toucscreen model?

[@tomiviitanen]

Wacom Cintiq 27 QHD Touch

[@BlueprintsTo3D]

what was the render time ?

[@tomiviitanen]

3-5min / frame depending on the scene.

[@BlueprintsTo3D]

@@tomiviitanen not as bad as i was gussing

[@JeanYanb]

Hey Bro, do you know this "Mesh to points" node, now remove the points on screen? Any idea please? Cheers

[@keriatin5338]

This man is struggling with a 4090 and im trying to make an ocean in houdini with my i5 and 1050ti, great work though,also imttersting way of creating the enviroment

[@ematise]

You just proved the earth is flat 😂😂😂

[@JvOeditorR]

someone's having trouble with the render too ? know how to fix it ?

[@JvOeditorR]

on my viewport it show a correct way but sometimes in render it gets messy, position and scale of my particles (idk how explain, it just goes wrong, but in just some frames, not all)

[@tomiviitanen]

I think this is a bug in Blender. I had to rerender some of the frames because of this as well. I think I had something around 7 frames out of 250 to render incorrectly. I think it has something to do with persistant data and motion blur. Usually it renders correctly on second try, if not then try to deactivate persistant data from performance settings and do the same for the motion blur.

[@MagicalStudiosjm]

100k sub by december

[@AKASwayam]

Can anyone give me Houdini sand simulation file pls

[@tomiviitanen]

Link to the simulation file is in the description

[@mustafadede571]

Damn

[@jameejamshid9921]

WHy did you prefer blender has render engine ? can you also do houdini render (mantra or karma)

[@tomiviitanen]

I'm so familiar with Blender, and also consider myself as a beginner with Houdini, so it would of just took way too much time to me learn making materials, environment, render settings and basically everything else besides the simulation to build this scene inside Houdini.

[@endizero]

did it work with maya>?

[@jasonj3952]

Why use Blender + Houdini? Can't this be done with just Houdini?

[@tomiviitanen]

Definitely could be done with just a Houdini, I just dont know how. :) I'm not really familiar with lighting, animating and rendering in Houdini.

[@MirxVisuals]

Anyone got that licensed Houdini hook-up?? 👀

[@moushiwake-nice]

地球に隕石が落ちるCGの作り方を教えて下さい。 宜しくお願い致します。

[@VFxArk]

15:54 save to disk not working. Why ?

[@tomiviitanen]

Could be more precise? How and why it's not working?

[@VFxArk]

I think , it's not working on non commercial version

[@tomiviitanen]

@@VFxArk You're right. It's a limitation of the free version

[@fabianoperes2155]

AMAZING video, but sand is not THAT sticky!

[@huntressartemis9575]

i just want to ask, waht are the specs of the pc you used to make this ?

[@tomiviitanen]

Check the description :)

[@huntressartemis9575]

@@tomiviitanen my bad sir

[@SvenCheddar]

2gb per frame for bake? Oof

[@zekedabomb3343]

Did you use reference videos of sand to determine the simulation parameters?

[@tomiviitanen]

Actually did not, even though thats like the first rule of CGI. :) I just played with the settings before I got bored waiting every calculation. There is few things I would change now if I only would be interested baking the simulation another 30hrs again.

[@nicolasreia]

Can I only save this project with paid Houdini?

[@tomiviitanen]

I believe you can do all this with free Houdini Apprentice version except exporting the simulation out from Houdini.

[@nicolasreia]

@@tomiviitanen The problem is that the non-commercial version does not export the alambic project

[@tomiviitanen]

1:03 Yeah, I actually mentioned about that in here

[@o.w.l3433]

I want be like you😢😢

[@simplyVIRTU4L]

wow. just wow. youtube really treats actually good ad useful youtubers bad.

[@goldstick3D]

I like how your video card isn't good enough. The best consumer card ever made is not good enough :D

[@tomiviitanen]

Hah, yeah. Although we've been stuck with 24GB VRAM the last 3 years already.

[@3DMVR]

why not just do it all in houdini?

[@tomiviitanen]

The main focus in this tutorial was basically trying to tell people how to use houdini simulation in Blender.

[@3DMVR]

@@tomiviitanen forsure I was wondering if there was any benefit to going back to blender to render

[@3DMVR]

other than comfort

[@3DMVR]

@@tomiviitanen while you're answeringn why agent instead of fbx character import? wondering if theres benefits couldnt figure out how to blend and trigger animations after each other with agents was easy with fbx character is it done using the same nodes?