Applied Houdini is here with a spectacular new version of Rigids III - Vehicle deformation! In this lesson we'll tackle everything that goes into making high quality vehicle destruction, from deforming metal to spinning axles. Along the way, demos and breakdowns make advanced topics easy to understand before they are implemented in practice. Constraints in particular will be explored in depth, especially understanding how they're working under the hood, as well as strategies for keeping a complex rig of various physical materials organized on a higher level. We'll bring it all together in a rain of helicopter mayhem, that we'll then shade, light, render, and finish off with a simple composite. Master high and low level rigid body deformation tools and workflows today with Applied Houdini!
Please note: Rigids III is a 5 hour ultra-lesson, essentially 2 in 1! Plus, it comes with a free high resolution helicopter for you to keep and use however you want!
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Applied Houdini is a production quality oriented series created by Steven Knipping (vimeo.com/161576184), currently a Senior Rigid Body Destruction / FX Technical Director at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic (Rogue One, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron). Benefit from production proven workflows while also getting an in depth explanation of why things works they way they do. Best of all - each video is crammed with actual information and footnotes instead of gratuitous talking and dead space!
In Rigids III we will tackle the complex task of destroying a vehicle! Included with the lesson is a high resolution helicopter that we will smash into the ground. We talk extensively about the mysterious "hard" and "cone twist" constraints, as well as strategies to combine them with the "glue" constraint in order to achieve the looks of different physical materials under stress. Perhaps most importantly, an efficient workflow is described in order to keep this complexity manageable as well as art directable. As a bonus, we will also render our final work in Mantra as well as export to the Alembic file format in order to read into other packages if we desire.
Rigids III - Vehicle DEFORMATION
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