Creature Grooming Techniques in Houdini With Luis Cadavid

Learn how to create convincing creature grooms in Houdini with this 3-hour workshop by Groomer at Digital Domain, Luis Cadavid: Start your free 3-day trial to The Gnomon Workshop training library today: In A discussion of the concepts and tools that are used in this workshop takes precedence at the beginning before Luis jumps into Maya to explore his creature model. At this stage, the importance is on getting to know the volumes that will be used to create the creature groom and involves observing lots of reference materials before exporting the model to Houdini. Once in Houdini, Luis provides an introduction to how Houdini creates hair before he prepares all of the objects and creates the various VDBs, and separates the mesh to create the groom. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the tools that Luis widely uses, including the Curve Advect Tool, Guide Process: