Hi All,

Coming from an XSi background (3 years) I'd like to had an extra 3D package to my knowledge. I wandering if any of you have any good link for beginners… I have been thru the Buzz VTM which were most helpful to help me navigete around, but now I'd like get right down to nuts and bolt of the software…

I thank you all for your input…
3djean

I'd advice the 3D buzz Videos and -the- houdini Book.. its great.

oh.. and the Houdini's Help which have lot of tutorials
cheers

The Magic of Houdini @ amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598630822/sr=8-1/qid=1153234506/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9942386-8542415?ie=UTF8 [amazon.com]

Hey,

I'm in the same boat. Coming from an almost 2 year background in 3ds Max. I've been trying to grok Houdini for about 2 months now.

I agree, the VTMs on 3d Buzz are great. I recommend starting off with those and reading the Houdini book. There's also a Houdini 101 DVD from the Gnomon Workshop. It's hit or miss with some people, but I found it very helpful.

cheers

I'm coming from a cinema 4d background (2 years), and the 3d buzz tutorials are great, I have the magic of houdini (I like it alot but it's just a lil too “bookish” for me… if that makes any sense, but Cunninghams occasional subtle jokes are quite funny). I also have the gnomon training dvd, I like it alot, unfortunetly I had some problems in the seventh lecture and it took gnomon pretty long to get me a response but when he started answerring me we actualy sent a few emails to each other so i guess he was really busy. But the best tutorials for me were the ones hosted on http://sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au/houdini_video/by_topic/compositing/index.html [sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au] but that link has been down for some time now.

buy book and houdini gnomon dvd
I learned sooooooo much from them in last two months it is really worth it!!!
and stick to it
z

Hey guys,
Thanks a lot for your reply… I have taken your advise and ordered the book… as a starting point, I will definatelly get the DVD as… Hopfully I should be able to show you all some stuff in a near future… And definatelly I will stick to it…

Thanks again…
3djean

Me again…
Here I have found some links that may be usefull to anyone:

http://www.odforce.net/ [odforce.net]
http://visualparadigms.com/ [visualparadigms.com]
http://www.techimage.co.uk/index.php [techimage.co.uk]
http://www.tarabella.it/Houdini/Houdini.html [tarabella.it]

Enjoy!