KineFEST 2025
RECORDINGS NOW ONLINE | In Viborg Denmark, SideFX, The Animation Workshop, and VIA University College hosted Houdini KineFEST 2025, a unique and free event featuring expert-led HIVE Presentations from leading studios across the industry. Whether you're just starting out or you're an experienced artist looking to refine your skills, KineFEST 2025 is the ideal platform to expand your knowledge, stay ahead of the latest trends, and connect with professionals from around the world.
OFFF 2025
Join us at the Houdini HIVE at OFFF Barcelona where you can connect with a community of Offline/Online designers, Motion Designers, Thinkers, Sound Designers, Graphic Designers, Theorists, Developers, Professionals, and Students.
Ignite Workshops in Korea
SideFX is pleased to bring three workshops available over multiple days to Seoul Korea. Learn from industry experts as they dive into topics such as Copernicus, Destruction FX and Realtime FX. Register now to secure your seat to this great lineup of workshops.
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Muscles Masterclass | Advanced
These videos build on the concepts covered in the Essentials part of this Houdini 20.5 Muscle masterclass series. Although this section is described as “advanced” - it is still aimed to be accessible to users of all levels. What differentiates this from the Essentials section is that none of these approaches are critical for getting a muscle setup up and running. However, these videos cover topics that can help speed up your workflow or push your results to the next level. The example files will be available for download to follow along.
Muscles Masterclass | Essentials
This comprehensive Houdini 20.5 Muscle masterclass series is for both new and seasoned Houdini users. The masterclass covers geometry preparation for your muscles and bones, thorough walk-throughs of all the Houdini muscle nodes, and advanced specialty topics. Along the way, you will learn common pitfalls and problems to look out for and how to deal with them. Furthermore, you will learn tips to make your setup easier and less confusing. The example files will be available for download to follow along.
Fur Look Development
Explore a shot that includes fur creation and Karma rendering using Houdini. Learn how to configure a melanin node for accurate fur shading and coloration. Set up Karma Fur shading properties for realistic fur rendering. Learn how to prepare the properties and camera settings for optimal results.
Blackhawk Destruction FX
This course guides you through creating a VFX shot from start to finish, including integrating CG elements into live-action footage. Picture yourself as an FX artist in a studio, and join us as we navigate every step – from interpreting the brief and strategizing your FX scene to crafting each element and seamlessly blending them into real footage.
Solaris Essentials
In this video series by Adam Swaab, you will learn how to bring in an animated scene from the OBJ/SOPs context, into LOPs and render it out with Karma and MaterialX. The point of this series is not to get into a technical breakdown of USD and USD concepts. Instead, it is a distilled set of videos that aim to simplify rendering in Houdini and demystify rendering for artists working solo or in a small pipeline.
Character Workflow | Rig, Animate, Secondary Motion
The following videos will cover character workflow using KineFX. We will be going over an elephant rig, keyframing a quadruped animation, running a ragdoll sim and applying secondary motion to give added detail to the elephant "for free". Download the free rig and elephant scene file to follow along!
SIDEFX SNACKS V2 | Mojito Magic
This is a full course from Tim Van Helsdingen, where you will be doing Vellum fluids, RBDs, texturing, lookdev and lighting in Solaris and rendering in Karma. Then you will composite all passes in Fusion, to make your very own fake drink ad. Full project file download is included!
Complete A-Z Terrain Handbook
This tutorial series covers everything that you will likely ever need, to understanding how to create terrains in Houdini. Starting from foundation layer of HF nodes and their functions, to using generated masks to create textures in COPs, to scattering geometry using said-masks, to applying and rendering them in a LOPnet with Karma.