Houdini Resources

Updated on June 26  2024


Houdini Webinars/Tutorials

Deborah R. Fowler



Houdini Webinars and Videos - Quick Summary and My Notes

Updated on Sept 2  2017
Updated on Sept 1  2022 - very briefly - there are a rapidly expanding source of resources (I plan to archive/integrate these and am now using the link below)


Please see Intro Tutorials (350/721)


Rapidly appearing - new tutorials:

Thanks to SideFX's Julie Lottering for sharing this fantastic digital library summary

Masterclasses: use this site and search instead for Masterclass instead of All Levels listed on SideFX
ILLUME Webinars come up on Vimeo and youtube, but more recently SideFX have been using the HIVE platform.


Entegma: Vex in Houdini: Space Colonization - (Aug 2017  H16.0)
This is an excellent tutorial on the implementation of Space Colonization as presented in the 2007 paper by Adam Runions/Brendan Lane and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
Notes of interest:


Len White has two excellent recent videos (wrangle nodes)  (Aug 2017  H16.0)

Procedural Realistic Tree R&D by Anastasia Opara - (Aug 11, 2017)
Illume Webinar: Pyro FX Tips and Tricks - Jeff Wagner - (July 17, 2017   H16.0)
Entegma: Niklas Rosenstein: Python In Houdini - Visualizing Satellite Data - (July 17, 2017  H16.0)
Create Motion Vectors for Time-Warping Image Squences - (July 5, 2017   H16.0)

VEX Circle Pattern exercise by Anastasia Opara - (Feb 20, 2017) - good VEX intro exercise

Procedural Fan Modeling in Houdini 16 Part 1 by Saber Jlassi - July 12, 2017 - good intro to modeling in Houdini
Procedural City - Houdini Engine for Unreal by Mat Suarez as SideFX intern

H15.5 Crowds in Houdini 15.5
H15 masterclass on Crowds

H15_masterclass on style sheets


H15 Masterclass - Loops - new way to do loops in VOPs and SOPs (Dec 2015)


H13 Masterclass - Lighting and Rendering (May 2014)

H13 Masterclass - Bullet with Cameron White
H13 Masterclass - Particles with Jeff Lait


On vimeo Go Procedural:

VR Lens Camera

Houdini Roadmap Presentation | SIGGRAPH 2016 (Robert Magee)

What's New in H15.5

Lighting Shading & Rendering (Kai Stavginski)  (Aug 22, 2016)

Jeff Wagner's Webinars - Flip Fluids (Sept 8, 2016)

Jeff Wagner's Webinars - Learning Houdini (July 21, 2016)

Jeff Wagner's Webinars - Houdini VEX (July 6, 2016)
Jeff Wagner's Webinars - H15.5 New Features (May 31, 2016)