Links 🔗

Houdini manual.

Great site with lots of real world and CG FX references.

Go-to place for community input.

Henry Foster's amazing blog. Some of the best guides for the stuff you really need to know about.

Really cool TD blog. HDA versioning and Rain Instancing write-ups are great. Also has an awesome GitHub.

Many great hip files.

The OG Houdini instructor. Best Gifs around.

Really great writeups on clouds.

Another amazing all-around Houdini learning site.

Super technical, way above my head. Really neat papers and implementations.

Very helpful python stuff here. Inspiration for my site's current PaperMod Hugo theme too.

Run Houdini setups interactively in a browser.

Cheat sheet for keyframe tangents.

A place with many high-quality HDRIs for lighting.

Lots of fun setups. Some cool locomotion stuff with RBDs and Vellum.

Cool channel, very vex-focused. His Algorithmic design lessons are top-notch.

Great instructor, amazing learning content.

Mindblowing setups. Check out what really goes on when you animate a cube.

So many useful snippets. Found myself visiting this frequently starting out.

Many implementations of ridiculously cool shaders. Not sure where all these people are, but there are tons of cool shaders to look at here.

Free e-book written to explore coding with Processing. Very interesting.

Great breakdowns of algorithms and whitepapers.

Another free e-book about writing shaders. Have only just started it.

Another book-style site that covers more of the artistic side of CG lighting.

Original creator of shaders.xyz! Now writing cool imagers for Arnold, including Lentil.

Interesting CG math coding tutorials and examples.

Another cool blog about VOPs.

Writeup about noise.

Cool blog from one of the Arnold devs.

Another blog from Arnold dev Steven Blair. Really useful writeups, especially the one about visibility bitmasking.

Go-to place for Nuke plugins and gizmos. Make sure you get an account so can you download stuff.

Various Nuke blog posts and tutorials.

Another blog with some interesting setups.

Very similar layout to Doctor Hou Doodles above, but more rendering-oriented.

Really cool write up about cloth tearing in Houdini.

Japanese blog with some useful info about Alembic.

Another Japanese blog with a lot of vex snippets.

Some cool rendering art.

Blog related to the above link.

Awesome youtube channel with tons of great Pyro techniques.