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Tutorials

Sea & Wave (Water)

VFX Studio Oriented / Masters of The Sea
https://gumroad.com/l/MASTERSOFTHESEA

Waterfall Effects
https://gumroad.com/l/FeUTe

FLIP Simulation Collisions with Complex Geometry in Houdini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40epzYcvtuQ

Houdini Tutorial: Add velocity to FLIP fluids (only once or over time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVDUaqSeQL0

Houdini Hip File | Shoal and Wave | VFX Grace
https://vfxgrace.gumroad.com/l/HSSJc
https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/YPLy/houdini-hip-file-shoal-and-wave-vfx-grace

Ocean Boat | H19.5
https://jorditorcalexr.gumroad.com/l/ocean_boat

High Quality Water in Unreal Engine 5 via Alembic Caches | Part One (Recommended)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayUuApKuaz8
High Quality Water in Unreal Engine 5 via Alembic & Houdini | Part Two | Whitewater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfmLXfWKJ0c

Liquid Splashes (Blood, Fluid)

Houdini Adventure - Control Liquid Splashes (Custom Velocity) (Recommended)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53XGSf3Kn-c

Simulating Blood Splatters in Houdini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWy4ig0BEE

Boiling Blood in Houdini Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLMV7cty2P4

UE4 VFX For Games - How to create blood textures, shaders and particles!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3pVQrElBcE&t=2286s

Efficient techniques for realistic small scale Tendrils, Droplets and Sheets in Houdini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxxR3hFYqLg

Abstract Fluid FX In Houdini | Pro Karma & Houdini Tutorial (Recommended)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfea1t8I344

Cloud

Houdini Tutorial | Realistic Dynamic Clouds
https://vfxgrace.gumroad.com/l/sFTCY
https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/LlD5/houdini-tutorial-realistic-dynamic-clouds

Tornado

Houdini Hip File | Tornado | VFX Grace
https://vfxgrace.gumroad.com/l/nMPwH

Smoke

Intro to Smoke Simulation (Recommended)
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/intro-to-smoke-simulation/

Fire and Smoke Ring Effect in Houdini - Simulation | Pro Houdini Tutorial (Recommended)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9vJ5W6qP0

Houdini Elements - Smoke. Simulating real world phenomenon in Houdini (Recommended)
https://www.cgcircuit.com/tutorial/houdini-elements---smoke

Ship Landing Fx | Houdini Fx | Houdini Zone |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sntdK_CTT-A

Smoke and Sparks in Houdini | Basic Houdini Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlG9NyI62ic

Houdini for Beginners - 006 - TIMJ - Smoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOHU8_rwZY4

Pyro for Beginners: Smoke Emitters in Houdini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQkAisr2_3E

Introduction to smoke simulation - 1A - Basic Setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJfv0P2iwj0

Creating Smoke from scratch in Houdini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_WErTEvAic

Gasoline Fire Tutorial - Houdini - Axiom - Karma - Aftereffects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLaK1C2MQZQ

Production Setup Walkthrough: Color Dust Explosion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TuN3Cx1wk

Pulverizing

FXGURU – Pulverizing Character Effect (Recommended)
https://www.mixtrn.com/fx-guru

Explosion

Pyro FX in Houdini Tutorial , Part 02 | Shockwave,Trail Explosion | For Beginner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj9ADuLHFe8

Houdini Tutorial | Chalky Colorful Explosion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsiOsgaJTnM

Houdini for Absolute Beginners
https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/jrqDO/houdini-for-absolute-beginners

Explosion FX in Houdini | Week 1 Lessons from a Pro FX Artist (Recommended)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgfJhJgW3kU

Ink Simulation

LMS - Houdini VFX - Ink Simulation - Pyro Advection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYtwf1Fmp2A

Cigarette Smoke - Houdini 19
https://pepefx.blogspot.com/2022/01/cigarette-smoke-part-3.html

Morphing

Morph Objects into Other Objects in Houdini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsI2ARFv04

Cube Maps - Houdini For MoGraph Ep0015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8BtmnOT10A

Volume Advection

Volume Advection Part I: VDB Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkaJKZpDG5E
Volume Advection Part II: Basic Setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDTkjbEwdOM
Volume Advection Part III: Shaping Advection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPXyWsmBnD4

Looping

Looping Grains Teaser
https://www.patreon.com/posts/08-looping-71294606
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU1LLd5BSFQ

UnrealEngine

Welcome To Niagara Fluids
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/orJv/welcome-to-niagara-fluids

Realtime FX with Niagara | UE4
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/realtime-fx-with-niagara-ue4/

UE4 - Six Point Lighting Material (Expand Your World With Volumetric Effects) (Recommended)
https://mohsent.gumroad.com/l/SixPointLighting

Examples

Soft Body Simulation

Houdini Flip - Chocolate Tutorial
https://vfxmagic.gumroad.com/l/xAYXw

Houdini Smoke Trail | Unreal Engine (Recommended)
https://vfxmagic.gumroad.com/l/WBQWF

Houdini Dust Interaction
https://vfxmagic.gumroad.com/l/vWjnD

Houdini Metal Bending
https://vfxmagic.gumroad.com/l/mbRyz

Magical Shield FX in Houdini. Shield and Particle attack VFX.
https://madaralein.gumroad.com/l/uIYpU

Nick Medukha
https://nickmedukha.gumroad.com/

Cloud

Houdini 20 Cloudscapes. This demo scene is meant to help you get started rendering clouds in houdini 20 through Solaris… rendering via Karma.
https://www.bunnylever.io/learning

Tricks

Smoke

Houdini: Reduce rendertime by simulating fire and smoke in DIFFERENT resolutions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Fsw2ZUREY

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