Create an Amazing Pulverize Effect with Houdini – Initial Setup

Create an Amazing Pulverize Effect with Houdini – Initial Setup

on Jun 21st 2012 with 15 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Houdini
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 3+ Hours

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Pulverize Effect with Houdini

In his second amazing Houdini tutorial, Alvaro Castaneda walks us through how to completely pulverize characters and objects using Side Effect’s Houdini 11. Today’s section deals with setting up the basic node-network whilst the next part will look at how to finish the effect and art-direct the dynamics to ensure we get the look we want. Look no further if you want to see just how creative Houdini allows you to be…

Republished Tutorial

Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site. This tutorial was first published in October of 2010.

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Hi! I'm Alvaro Castañeda, best known as "varomix". I lost a little of my self back in 1993 at a Jurassic Park screening, and that totally changed my life. Toy Story finished the job in 1995 - there was no turning back! I started my way in 3D back in 1998, first using 3ds Max, then Cinema4D and finally in 1999, I met Maya 2.0. Since then I've done CGI for print, web, TV, Film, DVD, I guess anything that has pixels in it!  

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  • http://ace5studios.com Aleksey

    wow, these tutorials are looking awesome!

    Don’t use houdini, but these are really tempting me to try.

  • http://www.raubkopictures.de/ Scott

    Would you like to know how to do that in Blender? ;)

    • Carl

      Yes, Please.

  • Lucas Fowler

    omg ads ahhhhhhhhhhhh but sweet tut but it would be cool if you could do this in blender…!

  • Elvert

    wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuouwwww
    that bolean operator it´s really delicius.
    boolean + animated mesh have never been sooo funy.

  • Abojung

    is it a must that the advertisement has to play everytime i play replay. jeeez!! frustrating. and the ads are longer than the preview

    • http://www.badgrenola.com Matt Brealey

      Hi Abojung!

      Sorry about that, the ads were mistakenly enabled for the preview video and have now been turned off!

      Thanks,

      Matt

      • Abojung

        woot! so i thought there was something fishy, lol
        cheers

  • http://www.markokacanski.com katanec

    Thanks on tut. but, where is third part?
    Cheers and keep going Alvaro.

    • http://varomix.net varomix

      Thanks to everyone for the nice comments

      Part 3 and 4 are on the next tutorial DAY 2, stay tunned for that.

      thanks

  • memo

    I have to confess to all Blender users who unfortunately can not do some of the things that Houdini performed decades ago.
    They are 2 distinct and complementary systems have in common that everyone can access them.

    the sop ” object merge” es soñado.

    el tutorial estuvo muy bueno, las explicaciones muy precisas y entretenidas, se hizo muy divertido ver a donde querias ir.
    Espero que tus tutorias sean constantes, ya tengo un un blog de hojas exclusivamente para tus enseñanzas.

    saludos

  • larrywa

    Oh man, many thanks for this excellent Houdini tutorial. I’d love to see more Houdini tuts and would certainly re-up my premium subscription in support of that.

  • Potado

    I really love Houdini’s node-based workflow. It’s just so cool!

  • query

    I guess parts 3 and 4 are not going to be posted at this point?

    • http://www.badgrenola.com Matt Brealey

      Hi! Part 2 was actually posted the following week, and is available now to all Premium Subscribers :)

      Here’s the link : http://cg.tutsplus.com/?p=5428

      Thanks,

      Matt