Welcome to Volume 2 of Adams Learn Houdini Tutorial series. After covering the basics of the Houdini interface and general concepts in Volume 1, we are now ready to dive into some more complex setups. In this volume, we are going to go through three great examples, ranging from easy to hard, to add to your Houdini learning.

In the first example, we are going to use a lot of nodes and techniques to model a wooden step-stool in SOPS. It may sound simple, but there’s a lot of really nice techniques in here that will extend to future models you will build in Houdini.

Our second example dives into data-driven setups and procedural animation. We will import stock performance data generated from a CSV file, and create a setup that visualizes the data and animates the stocks’ performance from week to week.

And, finally, we’ll take a look at a complex space-filling algorithm that uses some tricky for-each loop setups. This scene will go all the way to a final render in Karma XPU in Solaris.

There’s a little something in here for all skill levels of Houdini!