Houdini on the Spot - Power User Tips and Techniques

Informationen zum Autor has been a CG artist for over 25 years. During his 15 year tenure at CFX! one of Britain's first computer animation companies! Craig worked on over 500 commercials! title sequences and feature films. His responsibilities with CFX ranged from effects programming to animating to technical directing to directing full commercials. Craig has used Houdini since its inception. He has periodically worked for Side Effects as the manager of the Prisms software product (1997) and as a production consultant and a resident Houdini expert. He has enjoyed intervening stints with Silicon Grail! freelance production work! and most recently working for Digital Domain. Zusammenfassung Over 250 professional techniques to improve your Houdini workflow. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction-Why Houdini?; UI Tricks-Fully Exploit the Houdini Interface; External Tricks-Getting the Most from the Other Installed Tools; Modeling Tricks-Useful SOP Idioms; Particle Tricks-Using POPs for Fun and Profit; Dynamic Simulations-Things to Know; Digital Assets-Creating and Using Libraries of Neat Tricks; Rendering Tricks; Channel Tricks-CHOPs: The Most Under-used Part of Houdini; VEX and VOPs Tricks-Creating Custom Operators; Compositing Tricks; Miscellaneous Useful Obscurities

Product details

• Authors: Craig Zerouni, Zerouni Craig
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138133211
• ISBN: 978-1-138-13321-1
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; COMPUTERS / Optical Data Processing, Image processing, Graphical & digital media applications, Graphical and digital media applications, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools, 3D graphics and modelling