Learning Grooming Material

Learn the entire grooming process in Houdini. In this course you will learn from the very best. Mario Reitbauer (CFX Supervisor, Groom TD & CGI Generalist)

Learn the entire grooming process in Maya and Yeti. In this course you will learn from the very best. Mario Reitbauer (CFX Supervisor, Groom TD & CGI Generalist)

In this online course, the viewer will learn how to create realistic fur or hair from a production standpoint. We will go over how to create guide curves for all lengths of hair. Using different techniques from the short eyelashes to the long mane. You will also learn how to create groups from the skin mesh to grow fur from and how to paint masks and adjust the values using vex code. And if you're not comfortable using the combing tools in Houdini you will also learn how to import guides or curves from another software package to continue grooming. We'll be starting with the scene basics and learning more technical production aspects like how to transfer hair to an updated model with different topology, shape, or uvs and also how to transfer hair to an animated model. We even look at how to simulate the hair with wind. You'll learn how to set up fur shaders with textures, and how to setup cameras and render with Mantra. This course has been designed for intermediate level. After viewing this course, you will be able to groom any animal, human or creature, using the same workflow and techniques with confidence.

This tutorial will give you the ability to convert hair cards to hair curves, which will could help you as an artist to make a strip of hair look right without moving endless points. It will also help those who download characters online, and need the hair to be ready for simulation and render without recreating the hair from scratch. This online tutorial will introduce a workflow to generate Houdini hair curves from cards and tubes. It also provides a couple of methods to simulate hair using vellum. In the end the hair will be rendered in Mantra. This course has been designed for intermediate who has some experience in Houdini. After viewing this course, people can expect to be able to generate hair curves from cards, or tube geometries. You’ll also know how to simulate hair and render hair using Mantra. You can also make your own HDA from it so you can use that in other applications that support the Houdini engine.

This masterclass introduces new fur & hair grooming features in Houdini 16.5. The new features are first introduced individually, then put to good use in an examples project that simulates wet fur, with the fur being driven by velocities of a flip simulation. This also shows manipulation of wire simulation attributes as well as modifications to the hair generation in wet areas.