Popular highlights include: Particle-based Fluids; Volume-based Fluids; Ripple Solver; Viscosity; Fire, Smoke and Liquid simulations; Smoke Solver; Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics; Microsolvers; Visualizing Simulation Attributes; Rendering Fluids in Mantra; Source, Sink and Pump; Physical Properties; Rigid Body Dynamics; Gas Constant; Fuel and Temperature; Vorticles; Caching; Forces and Expressions; Creating and Painting Attributes.

Popular highlights include: Mantra Overview; Working with Shaders; Rendering Methods; Environment Lights; Rendering in Passes; Rendering Multiple Channels; Deep Raster Output; Rendering to Different Files; Micropolygon Rendering; Raytracing; Physically Based Rendering; Global Illumination Techniques; Path-tracing; Final Gather; Ambient Occlusion; Image-based Lighting; Caustics; Shadows; Geometry Shaders; Outline Rendering with Wren; Volumetric Rendering; Mantra Archive; Depth of Field; 3D Motion Blur; Transform Motion Blurs; Deformation Motion Blurs; Velocity Motion Blurs; Compositing Techniques.

Popular highlights include: Particle Simulation and Events; Particle Rendering; Rigid Body Dynamics; Paint-based Geometry Shatter; Rigid Body Fractures; Dynamics CHOPs; Particle Based Fluids; Fluid Emission and Interaction; Animated Sprites; Cloth Basics; Cloth Parameters; Fur and Guide Attributes; Wire Dynamics; Wire-driven Geometry; Groups and Partitions; Forces and Expressions.

Popular highlights include: Houdini Interface Overview; View Navigation; Object Transformations; Node-Based Workflow; Using the Network Editor; Building Various Networks; Using Shelf Tools; Parenting; Path Animation; Overview of Operators; Shading and Texturing; Rendering; Direct Lighting; Ambient Occlusion; Duplicating, Copying and Stamping; Particle Effects; Rigid Body Simulations; Modeling with NURBS and Polygons; Creating and Installing Digital Assets; Animating with Bones; Keyframe Animation; Animating with Expressions; Using the Channel Editor.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Opening the help browser; Bookmarking and Searching; Using the AppView for Houdini. Gain a complete understanding of Houdini with the Houdini Bundle, a great resource to learning intuitive workflows and time-saving techniques to modeling, texturing, rigging dynamics, and rendering in Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Creating a simple particle simulation; Learning particle replacement with Copy to Points; Adding forces. Learn more about Houdini with Fundamentals of Rigid Body Dynamics in Houdini, a complete resource to creating complex rigid body simulations and realistic effects in Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Creating a new shelf ; Changing the label of our shelf; Populating our custom shelf with tools; Deleting and removing a tab. To learn more about Houdini check out Introduction to Fluids in Houdini, an essential guide to creating realistic fire, smoke, and liquid effects in Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Scattering points across a surface; Copying one object to all the points on another object; Turning lines into polygons; SOPs Used: Line, Point, Copy to Points, Scatter, PolyWire, Sphere . To learn more about Houdini check out Introduction to Fluids in Houdini, an essential guide to creating realistic fire, smoke, and liquid effects in Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Using Copy's Stamp Attributes to randomize length and color; Randomizing stamp values per point used for copying; Learning how to use Stamp functions to derive values for copied parameters ; SOPs Used: Line, Point, Copy to Points, Scatter, PolyWire, Sphere. For a complete overview of Houdini check out Introduction to Houdini 9, an in-depth guide to learning the essentials of Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Changing the Group Operation; Using an expression to filter the selection; Changing the expression to find N-gons . Gain a complete understanding of Houdini with the Houdini Bundle, a great resource to learning intuitive workflows and time-saving techniques to modeling, texturing, rigging dynamics, and rendering in Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Changing values quickly using the Value Ladder; Learning various methods of attaching nodes together; Setting keyframes. To learn more about Houdini check out Introduction to Fluids in Houdini, an essential guide to creating realistic fire, smoke, and liquid effects in Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Creating Basic Objects; Learning Camera Shortcut Keys; Using the View Tool. For a complete overview of Houdini check out Introduction to Houdini 9, an in-depth guide to learning the essentials of Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Learning the basics of using the Network View; Changing the shape of primitives; Using the Tab Menu. Gain a complete understanding of Houdini with the Houdini Bundle, a great resource to learning intuitive workflows and time-saving techniques to modeling, texturing, rigging dynamics, and rendering in Houdini.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Importing an OBJ file; Searching through the TAB Menu; Connecting nodes together . Discover a comprehensive resource to learning Houdini with Introduction to Mantra in Houdini, a detailed guide to gaining a complete understanding of the powerful rendering tools available in Mantra.