Create an Amazing Pulverize Effect with Houdini – Initial Setup

Create an Amazing Pulverize Effect with Houdini – Initial Setup

on Oct 5th 2010 with 15 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: SideFX Houdini
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Completion Time: 3-4hrs
  • Tutorial Files: Click to download

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

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…

Video 1

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Video 2

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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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Discussion 15 Comments

  1. Aleksey says:
    October 5, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    wow, these tutorials are looking awesome!

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

    Reply
  2. Scott says:
    October 6, 2010 at 7:21 am

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

    Reply
  3. Lucas Fowler says:
    October 6, 2010 at 8:47 am

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

    Reply
  4. Elvert says:
    October 6, 2010 at 10:45 am

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

    Reply
  5. Abojung says:
    October 6, 2010 at 11:08 am

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

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  6. katanec says:
    October 6, 2010 at 12:21 pm

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

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  7. memo says:
    October 6, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    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

    Reply
  8. larrywa says:
    October 6, 2010 at 10:25 pm

    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.

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  9. Potado says:
    December 29, 2010 at 11:37 pm

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

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  10. query says:
    January 6, 2011 at 5:59 am

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

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