Hello,

Hopefully, this is the right place to ask but I'm trying to learn how to animate models within' Houdini and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction. I've been trying to find tutorials online to work out how to do this but I'm surprised how little I could find.

I Would like to animate a shark to interact with FLIP. I thought it would be a fun little project to learn the basics of Houdini as well as FLIP.

Any help would be appreciated

Hi,

Many tutorials in Youtube for the animation in general, one of them is animating a shark with a flip.

https://youtu.be/-OEzb249JS0 [youtu.be]

I can link you two tutorials which were published by sidefx in the past. Both tutorials might be a bit outdated but it should be possible for you to transfer the knowledge to the current version. The ideas of how something works shouldn't be too different.

An intro to procedural animation:
https://vimeo.com/41147232 [vimeo.com]

An intro to traditional animation:
https://vimeo.com/40596036 [vimeo.com]