Magical Energy Beam - Houdini and Nuke VFX Course Free Download

What is this course?
Volumetric Clouds
We’re going to start in Houdini by creating the clouds using geometry as a base, and then we will use Volume VOPs to remove density, twist and deform our volumes to animate the clouds.
Particle Shockwave
For the shockwave effect we’re going to create a pyro simulation and use the velocity to drive our particles. For the particles, we’re going to look into different ways to modify the velocity advection to create a more unique and magical look. I’m also going to show you some quick and easy ways to create more interesting colors with a lot of detail.

Volumetric Fog
For the fog we’re going to create custom noise patterns that we can layer together to get a more realistic result. Here we’ll also go over the best way to optimize our render by splitting the fog into separate parts.