Horse Rig

In collaboration with Side FX we created a rig in order to demonstrate the rigging capabilities of Houdini. The unmatched flexibility of the node based soft allowed us to build an extremely complicated system. In the same time you don’t have to be afraid of changes as you can go back and edit all the nodes without breaking the entire rig. We are also planning to make a several rigging tutorial using Horse rig and Tommy rig (Soldier RIG). We are going to connect the softs like Softimage and Maya with our new experience with Houdini node based workflow. We will try to reveal the power of CHOPs recreate tools like "blend with", Gator, parent constrain, pos constrain and much more.

This tutorial is for beginners and gives some understanding for possible constraints and connections between objects in scene.

Point constrain and surface constrain in Houdini

Transferring the Bone Weights

Houdini lattice. Mirroring Bland Shapes