Learn How to Craft Game Effects using Houdini & UE4

Learn How to Craft Game Effects using Houdini & UE4, available at Free, has an average rating of 4, with 10 lectures, based on 650 reviews, and has 31605 subscribers.

You will learn about take visual effects knowledge you've gained through working with Houdini in the motion picture industry, and understand the basics of how to apply it to the video game industry. understand the importance of optimization in real time visual effects. This course is ideal for individuals who are Experienced visual effects artists who have worked in a professional film environment. or Those who are looking for a transition from film to video game visual effects. or Those who are looking for a broad introduction without the slow step-by-step procedures typically offered in tutorials. It is particularly useful for Experienced visual effects artists who have worked in a professional film environment. or Those who are looking for a transition from film to video game visual effects. or Those who are looking for a broad introduction without the slow step-by-step procedures typically offered in tutorials.

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Summary

Title: Learn How to Craft Game Effects using Houdini & UE4

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4

Number of Lectures: 10

Number of Published Lectures: 10

Number of Curriculum Items: 10

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 10

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

take visual effects knowledge you've gained through working with Houdini in the motion picture industry, and understand the basics of how to apply it to the video game industry.
understand the importance of optimization in real time visual effects.

Who Should Attend

Experienced visual effects artists who have worked in a professional film environment.
Those who are looking for a transition from film to video game visual effects.
Those who are looking for a broad introduction without the slow step-by-step procedures typically offered in tutorials.

Target Audiences

Experienced visual effects artists who have worked in a professional film environment.
Those who are looking for a transition from film to video game visual effects.
Those who are looking for a broad introduction without the slow step-by-step procedures typically offered in tutorials.

This 45 Minute Lecture was originally given to the Vancouver Houdini User Group in August 2016. It is a talk that was designed for an audience familiar with feature film visual effects workflows, specifically those which use Houdini. The goal is to increase awareness of limitations in real-time game environments, and to help film makers take steps towards transitioning into interactive media.

Feature film effects artists are typically used to working with millions or particles, polygons, and voxels. While it’s acceptable for a render farm to chew through heavy data over the course of several hours for film; current game platforms are not designed with this kind of geometry in mind. It’s up to the effects artist to understand this and produce visuals that are as light-weight as they are beautiful so that game engines can spend their efforts on more than just the visuals.

This is not designed to be a step-by-step tutorial for making a “pretty” effect, but rather a general purpose guide geared at introducing a broad topic. If you are interested in transitioning from film to games, this talk may be useful as a primer as we’ll introduce concepts such as: sprite sheets, power of two dimensions, texture packing, particle trimming, letting the GPU handle transformations, and vertex animation. Topics are introduced in a way that should build upon concepts that are already familiar to those with training in the motion picture discipline. All examples in this lecture are given using Houdini 15.5.523 and Unreal Engine 4.12.5.

The example files may be downloaded and examined at the student’s own leisure.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Start Here

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Example Files

Chapter 2: Real Time Visual Effects using Houdini and UE4

Lecture 1: How do sprite sheets work in Unreal Engine?

Lecture 2: Creating a sprite sheet in Houdini

Lecture 3: A basic "power-up" particle in Unreal Engine

Lecture 4: Creating Geometry and Animating in Houdini

Lecture 5: Vector Math Basics

Lecture 6: Exporting Vertex Animation From Houdini

Lecture 7: Using Vertex Animation in Unreal Engine

Chapter 3: Thank You For Watching

Lecture 1: Outro

Instructors

Stephen Tucker
Visual Effects Artist for Film and Games

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2 stars: 16 votes
3 stars: 91 votes
4 stars: 201 votes
5 stars: 327 votes

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