This is DAY TWO of a two day series of educational presentations.

Day Two provides you with an in-depth workshop where we take you from the basics of what a Houdini Digital Asset is, and how to use it (beginner level) - then show you how to create and optimize HDAs for Gamedev (intermediate level) - and finally, important workflow tips when developing a procedural pipeline (advanced level).

More Info on SideFX.com:
https://www.sidefx.com/houdini-hive/houdini-hive-gamedev-2021/


Today's Lineup

Getting Started with Houdini for Unreal Engine  |  Robert Magee  |  SideFX

Building Game Friendly Assets  |  Simon Verstraete  |  SideFX

User-Friendly Production Tools for Procedural Pipelines  |  Erwin Heyms

This is DAY ONE of a two day series of educational presentations.

During Day One you will learn from top industry professionals how they use Houdini in game development for both AAA and Indie games.

More Info on SideFX.com:
https://www.sidefx.com/houdini-hive/houdini-hive-gamedev-2021/


Today's Lineup

Xuan Yuan Sword Franchise  |  Solomon Temowo  |  PLAYERIUM

The Environments of Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!  |  Miguel Mendez  |  King

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales / Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart  |  Xray Halperin & David Santiago  |  Insomniac Games

Prototyping Stylized Landscapes in Houdini  |  Patrick McAvena  |  Moving Pieces Interactive

SideFXLabs 2021  |  New and Improved Workflows for Artists  |  Paul Ambrosiussen  & Mai Ao  |  SideFX

To be Procedural, or not be, that is the Question  |  Diogo Guerreiro  |  CG Imagine

Howdy Guys!
In this video we are going to walk through the process of creating an HDA that generates Unreal Volumes for us in Unreal Engine 5.  This HDA will allow us to assign any number of actors in the level and will generate a volume around all the selected actors.   Another quick tip for Houdini Engine!


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This 2021 games reel highlights another year of outstanding work from game studios of all sizes, from Indie to AAA.

Want to learn more about how Houdini is used in games pipelines? Join us for the Houdini HIVE GameDev - July 7-8, 2021 - more info here: https://sidefx.co/2021-hive-gamedev

This year's contributors to the HOUDINI GAMES REEL include:

Blizzard Entertainment
CD Projekt Red
Counterplay Games
Darewise
FIFTYTWO
Get Up Games
Glass Bottom Games
Goofy Gamer
Heats Inc
Hillcrest Games Inc.
Insomniac Games
King / Activision
KLab Games
Moving Pieces Interactive
Ninja Theory
Penryn Games
People Can Fly / Square Enix
Pixel Reef
Playerium
Realtime
Sega
Sparx* A Virtuos Studio
The Agency of Wargaming
Ubisoft
Valve
VRBN Solutions

For this LAHUG David Torno will be presenting select highlights from two of his Mardini entries. He will focus on his Houdini work for "Fantasy" (tree trunks and swaying vines) and "Valley" (simple art directed mountains). Welcome to Mardini, the gauntlet that will push you to your limits daily. It will force you to find solutions, ANY solutions to get it done. You are creative, skilled, and ready to tackle it all. Then five days into this challenge you realize that you foolishly signed up yet again for 31 days of no sleep, crazy builds, rendering nightmares.... basically absolute mayhem for a month straight. At the end of it all you achieve Iron Heart status, find yourself pleased, waiting for your free T-Shirt, and ready for the next one. That is, once you finish sleeping for about a week.

David Torno is a self-taught visual effects professional with a passion for the technical and educational sides of VFX. He has worked on films, commercials, music videos, and large scale multimedia projects. In 2008, he…

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