For awesome Houdini courses, tutorials, and resources, visit www.cgforge.com Welcome to Houdini for the New Artist! This course is perfect for Houdini beginners who want tutorials that are simple, thorough, and straight to the point. Some of the topics we'll cover include: * Exploring the interface * Understanding node-based workflows * Organizing your node tree * Knowing what the shelf tools do * Changing the frame rate and range * Setting your project directories * Transformation tools (translate, scale, rotate) * Moving the pivot * Snapping * Understanding Attributes * The geometry spreadsheet * Visualizing attributes, * The poly reduce node * Adding lights * How to apply materials, shaders, and texturing * Tri-planar projections * Exploring the Render View * ROPS & SOPS * Moving and creating a camera * Changing the transform handle orientation * Soft selections * The principled and standard shaders * Mantra render settings - Max samples, min samples, noise threshold * Light linking * Coloring your nodes * And knowing about great additional resources for your future studies! Thanks for watching, and be sure to visit www.cgforge.com for more great content. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnJ1k27kD-w

The CG Forge Artist Showcase celebrates the fantastic work made by various members of the community. All shots use techniques that were taught in the courses and videos found at CG Forge while using @houdini3d. Learn more by visiting www.cgforge.com Last but not least, thank you to all the artists who shared their excellent work. If you would like to be featured in the next artist showcase, send an email to tyler@cgforge.com with your name, project link, and description of how CG Forge videos aided you in the process. Featured artists: Janis Cudars Michael Da Breo Abdo Hamdy Derek Fite Marcus Litterer Hoang Anh Nguyen Ke Wang Vu Pham Emiliano Iozzo Jeff Wolverton Sebastien Terme Beka Baratashvili Damien Lagadeuc David McNicoll-Tardif Arjun Ghimire Ihor Lazar Hoang Nguyen Caue Rodrigues Akash Dutta Carlo Alleva ------------------------ Copyright Disclaimer ------------------------ All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.” ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FTH8VtPBg