Training > Houdini

SideFX has released a free ebook for users who want to get up to speed with Houdini. Houdini Foundations starts with a chapter about the fundamental principles of Houdini before losing at 3 lessons focused on building simple projects from scratch including importing them into Unreal Engine.  Project files are also available so users can follow along. Find out more on the .

With videos still trickling in from SIGGRAPH 2017, SideFX is the latest company to post their presentations online. These are generally educationally oriented covering a number of areas of the latest version of Houdini. You can watch all the videos on .

SideFX has posted another presentation from this year's GDC where artist Robert Magee demonstrates how you can create procedural assets in Houdini that can then be loaded into Unreal Engine 4 using the Houdini Engine plugin. You can watch the presentation on SideFX's Vimeo channel.

SideFX has announced an upcoming webinar that focuses on flip fluids inside of Houdini. Jeff Wagner will show you the key concepts of flip fluids, small scale simulations, oceans, and more. For more details and the enroll in this webinar, you can visit the SideFX website.

Saber Jlassi has posted a intro video for his 'Volume rendering using Houdini & Arnold' course that is being released on CG Circuit. For more information on this course, you can visit the CG Circuit website.

Proteus VFX School is set to offer a comprehensive online training course that focuses on fluid FX in Houdini 14. The course is 3 weeks in length, and will take you through the Houdini UI, the basic concepts behind fluids, creating various simulations and much more. For full details on this course, you can visit the Proteus VFX School website.

Rohan Dalvi is a 3DS Max user who has been using Houdini for over 2 years. He is primarily a trainer and started making free tutorials for Houdini from a 3DS Max point of view, so that they would be helpful to other Max users who would like to add Houdini to their skills. He has also created a number of thorough and affordable commercial tutorials. More on Rohan Dalvi's website.