Thursday, October 14, 2010

Day 20: Houdini 11 for Trainers Day1

Sidefx LA has conducted a two days training session for trainers of Toronto. Around 20+ people from different schools had attended the session, some of them are freelancers, student from universities and professionals form companies.


Morning session conducted by "Debra" she covered the topics
1.An introduction to sidefx software, understanding Houdini work flow, creating scene, adding camera and digital assent creation

2. After the tea break she covered topics on  exploring Houdini concepts such as copy stamping, instance rendering and lighting the scene.

Afternoon session was conducted by "Lessly", he covered the topics
3. Modeling objects using SOPs (Surface Operator), Shader operators, material pallet and mantra surface node.

4. After the tea break he covered ROPs (render operators), creating basic particle animation- particle source, Emission types, particle attributes.



Session end by presentation by Rob about Houdini academic community and examples of the student works.

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