Learn all techniques to create amazing full cgi shots from scratch

Follow our step-by-step lessons to elevate your skillset and understand how a blockbuster production works

LIGHTING & LOOK DEVELOPMENT WITH KARMA

UNDERSTANDING HOW TO USE SOLARIS IN PRODUCTION

PREPARE RENDERS FOR POST PRODUCTION

GRADING AND COMPOSITING FOR YOUR RENDERS

DEEPLY UNDERSTANDING HOUDINI IN A SIMPLE WAY

WORK WITH HEAVY FX SETUPS

SHOT BREAKDOWN

Primal Predator project is based on full cgi shots, each session will add new shots and lessons. Here you can find some informations showing the storyboard idea, final look you will reach and what you will learn following all course lessons shot by shot. For all scenes we'll take care about naming convention, layering, scene and asset management in a efficient and professional way. We'll update it step by step.

SHOT 01

It is out 1st shot, we are moving down to the ground slowly with the camera to arrive to the land where dinosaurs lives

SOME TOPICS COVERED

• Preparing camera animation / scene layout and animatic / understanding pipeline & workflow management

• Terrain modeling with Heighfield features

• Exporting and optimizing terrain mesh / Exporting and creating textures with COPs

• Daylight lighting / Realistic athmosphere and rendering setup with Karma

• Scattering plants and rocks using different techniques in SOPs and with Solaris instancing system, masking and variation techniques

• Clouds setup, variations & wedging, understanding volumes and VDBs

• Shading techniques with Karma for volumes

• Multipass compositing techniques and AOVs setup / Look tuning and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

SHOT 02

In this shot we are going to follow the dinosaur swimming in calm water

SOME TOPICS COVERED

• Preparing camera animation / scene layout and animatic / Playblasts and Slapcomps for preview and review

• Water simulation with FLIP solvers in Houdini, dynamic interaction with animated dinosaur, whitewater setup and optimization, rendering tweaks to find best speed VS quality setup, optimizing sim data and caching, meshing techniques

• Wet mapping simulation with a custom solver, how to use wetting data in Solaris shading system to control water/skin interaction

• Creating a custom setup for Look development in Solaris

• Multiple Light rig setup

• Believable dinosaur material setup / SSS shading techniques, displacement optimization

• Multipass compositing techniques and AOVs setup / Look tuning and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

SHOT 03

Dinosaur is moving thru the forest. hunting, and we see it interacting with a small waterfall

SOME TOPICS COVERED

• Preparing camera animation / scene layout and animatic

• Creating simple but effective BG environment setup using free assets and Chaos Scatter, tweaking materials and textures

• Small scale waterfall setup with Chaos Phoenix, dynamic setup and optimization to avoid artifacts and strange behaviour, wet mapping simulation and material setup

• Rendering setup optimization, Multilayer rendering with splitting techniques

• Motion blur and depth of field optimization, 2.5D, 2D and 3D techniques

• Lighg rig setup

• Advanced multilayer compositing techniques

SHOT 04

SOME TOPICS COVERED

A dramatic meteor rain falling from the sky, we follow some of them passing at high speed between clouds

• Preparing camera animation / scene layout and animatic

• Scene management with multi-layer FX assets / splitting scene in two sub-shots

• Working with multishot setup in Solaris

• Creating realistic large scale clouds and cloudscape

• Creating a hero meteor pyro setup with additional particle layers

• Exporting VDB data

• Creating a meteor shower pyro setup

• Procedural modeling techniques

• Render setup optimization to render large volumes and FXs / Optimization techniques for sparse pyro solver

• Multipass and multilayer complex setup techniques, AOVs, additional look dev and FX in DaVinci

SHOT 05

Small meteors falling down, a bigger one collides behind the mountain generating a large scale explosion

SOME TOPICS COVERED

• Preparing camera animation / scene layout and animatic

• Creating a new environment using procedural techniques

• Managing caches in animation

• Working with demolition FX, grain system and MPM

• Large scale explosion setup / Creating and optimizing a multi-layer explosion system

• General theory about creating explosions and large scale debris

• Tweaking shading, lighting and rendering setup for large scale Pyro FX

• Complex multilayer setup and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

BONUS SHOT "AGENT EDITION"

We are in space, earth planet is on the background and we see a large scale meteor approaching the planet

SOME TOPICS COVERED

• Preparing camera animation / scene layout and animatic

• Creating a realistic planet earth asset with a volumetric cloud/athmosphere setup

• Large scale meteor procedural modeling

• Creating gas, dust, particles and tons of FX assets

• Creating additional small scale debris flying away

• Outer space light rig

• Multipass and multilayer complex setup techniques, additional look dev and FX in DaVinci

Dinosaur hunting in a rainy forest, macro camera on foilage and then we discover the complete environment

• Preparing camera animation / scene layout and animatic

• Working with Vellum and seconday dynamic techniques in animation

• Dynamic simulation for Dinosaur / Plants interaction

• Mud and terrain simulation setup / MPM multi material system

• Massive scattering techniques

• Creating a complex light rig setup

• Multipass compositing techniques

SOME TOPICS COVERED

BONUS SHOT "SWARM EDITION"

CREATING COMPLEX SHOTS WITH HOUDINI IN A SIMPLE WAY

Following one of the most complete VFX masterclass around the world to learn Houdini from scratch

Learn how to manage complex tasks in a simple way

Create amazing shots working like in a big studios

Follow lessons at your pace when you have time

Learn advanced compositing techniques for full-cgi shots

Work like a professional FX artist creating fire, smoke, dust, water and explosion simulations

Learn from an high skilled artist and instructor with more then 25 years of experience in production

Primal Predator Houdini Edition is the perfect course for anyone who wants to learn Houdini from scratch in a simple and deep way, learning more about scene assembly, set dressing, populating procedural environments, look development with Solaris/USD and Karma, creating complex dynamic setup, adding amazing particles, working with pyro FX, water FX and volumetric assets, managing data between shots, learning how Houdini can be powerful and how to use it in production following a step-by-step series of lessons simulating the entire creation and production planning process.

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PRIMAL PREDATOR HOUDINI EDITION

With Primal Predator for Houdini we are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible to learn in a beginner/intermediate VFX Masterclass. If you’re interested to become a VFX/CG Artist, or you'd like to learn advanced techniques, you should definitely grab this course.

This is an incredible way to learn how to use Houdini starting from zeo like a PRO! Lessons are extremely easy to follow, you will learn step by step, creating amazing stuff in a simple way.

Primal Predator Houdini Edition is definetely a great learning resource for everyone.

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