{"id":4062,"date":"2014-08-10T13:14:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2014-08-10T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:18:36","slug":"learning-houdini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/learning-houdini","title":{"rendered":"Learning Houdini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13469390\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/13469390\">Simple Houdini pipeline.<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/zanozza\">Vlad Yudin<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Houdini recently released it&#8217;s fully functional and commercial &#8220;Houdini Indie&#8221; product for $200 (for companies making under $100k per year).<\/p>\n<p>With that annoucement, Zak had asked me, &#8220;<em>Where a great place to start learning?<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 Yes, it can be very intimidating, but if you have a specific use in mind it is TOTALLY doable without the years of experience that some expect. That being said, ya gotta know the basics and here&#8217;s some resources to get you started&#8230; starting with the free stuff!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Quint<\/strong>: This guy is my hero and his videos are priceless. Here&#8217;s a direct link to the &#8220;Basics&#8221;&#8230; but don&#8217;t forget the other 150 videos that he has online.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2030228\/videos\/search:basics\/sort:date\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2030228\/videos\/search:basics\/sort:date<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3DBuzz<\/strong>: Houdini Fundamentals for H9<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dbuzz.com\/training\/view\/houdini-fundamentals\/h9-fundamentals\">http:\/\/www.3dbuzz.com\/training\/view\/houdini-fundamentals\/h9-fundamentals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SideFX<\/strong>: Creators of Houdini have a huge selection of tutorials, including an introduction to the interface. Once again, don&#8217;t forget to check the sidebar to see the massive collection they have available.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidefx.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=855&amp;Itemid=254\">http:\/\/www.sidefx.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=855&amp;Itemid=254<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paid source for training include <a title=\"online training store\" href=\"https:\/\/cmivfx.com\/\">CMIVFX <\/a>and <a title=\"Digital Tutors - Houdini tutorials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltutors.com\/software\/Houdini-tutorials\">Digital Tutors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other sources include the <a title=\"SideFX's own forums\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sidefx.com\/index.php?option=com_forum&amp;Itemid=172\">SideFX<\/a> online forum or <a title=\"odforce online forums\" href=\"http:\/\/odforce.net\/\">odForce.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple Houdini pipeline. from Vlad Yudin on Vimeo. Houdini recently released it&#8217;s fully functional and commercial &#8220;Houdini Indie&#8221; product for $200 (for companies making under $100k per year). With that annoucement, Zak had asked me, &#8220;Where a great place to start learning?&#8221;\u00a0 Yes, it can be very intimidating, but if you have a specific use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,69,220,127],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-houdini","tag-learning","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}