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When you want to animate a train or a rollercoaster and like me, you do not want to animate everything by hand, you can make a setup in Houdini that does all the heavy lifting for you.

It's not overly complicated to make such a setup but there are a lot of little things where beginners could get stuck.

This video aims to help beginning Houdini users to build a setup where not only there are multiple wagons on a track, but where the weels rotate in the right direction, and the wagons bank in the turns as well.

It's a 7 part tutorial where things gradually get more interesting and also a little bit more complicated.


CREATED BY

RudiNieuwenhuis
RUDI NIEUWENHUIS

I started using Houdini when it was still in version 8, and I've been teaching Houdini at the Filmacademie in Amsterdam since 2011.

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COMMENTS

  • Enivob 1 year ago  | 

    The dropbox link to the files doesn't work. Please include the final if you can.

  • RudiNieuwenhuis 1 year ago  | 

    Thanks for the heads-up. I hardly ever used dropbox and I now see that you need a paid pro account to get it to work. I'll try google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RbLBS885pB33sxeH4S92u3n5oKjFTJTP/view?usp=sharing

    • Enivob 1 year ago  | 

      Yep, that link works!

      • RudiNieuwenhuis 1 year ago  | 

        Great, tnx for testing.

  • antoniovukovic_87 8 hours, 18 minutes ago  | 

    I'll just ctrl+v my youtube comment: Best teacher in HoudiniLand so far, and I saw a lot of tutorials. Thank you for your time and effort.

    Clear, concise, explains everything important, mini-project based,
    as a Houdini beginner that frequently feels lost in the woods I would pay megabytes in gold for more learning material from this man.

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