Gears of Houdini tutorial

part 1 – making a digital asset

Content Details – 4 Video Chapters (with Audio)

Duration – 56 mins

lesson plan

• Gear Basic – We start by creating the basic gear design.
• Gear Holes – We create the second type of gear required. We use the basic elements that we created in the previous chapter to make the process faster.
• Gear Spokes – We create the third and final gear type required for the project.
• Digital Asset – We create custom parameters required to control our Gears and finally convert it to a Digital Asset.

part 2 – animation, lights and materials

Content Details -4 Video Chapters (with Audio)

Duration – 1 hr 2 mins

lesson plan

• Animation – Creating a a simple keyframe animation for the gears and then controlling the rotation mathematically.
• Lighting – Setting up the lighting and the HDR required for reflections and setting up Mantra.
• Plastic Shader- We create a slightly old looking plastic shader using the occlusion node.
• Metal Shader – We create a brushed metal shader and again use the occlusion shader to add dirt.