Houdini: Essential Learning Resources

Long-form Houdini learning hubs.

• Applied Houdini Paid. Stephen Knipping's FX-focused course series (ILM).
• Assorted Houdini Demos (jakericedesigns). Assorted Houdini demo scenes and setups.
• CGWiki (tokeru.com). Matt Estela's CGWiki, the deepest Houdini reference (Joy of VEX, LOPS, particles).
• educational-hips (pedohorse). Educational Houdini .hip files explaining techniques.
• Entagma (site) Freemium. Advanced design and mograph tutorials. Also Unreal and Blender.
• example_hips (dchow1992). Collection of example Houdini .hip files.
• Farmfield (Vimeo). Setups and hip files from Johnny Farmfield.
• hip-files (lightReachers). Shared collection of Houdini .hip files.
• Houdini Blueprints. Browsable library of Houdini node setups and techniques.
• Houdini Escapades (3Dmattias). Example .hip files from the 3Dmattias tutorial series.
• Houdini Gubbins. Blog of Houdini tips and workflow notes.
• Houdini Hive. SideFX presentation recordings from artists and studios.
• Houdini Kitchen. Tutorials and articles, including L-systems and procedural setups.
• houdini-sandbox (K240). Sandbox collection of Houdini scene files.
• HoudiniHowtos (jhorikawa). Example .hip files and how-to setups.
• John Kunz (site). Weekly streams. FX, coding, Redshift (Twitch | YouTube).
• OdForce Tutorial .hip Library. Community thread collecting tutorial .hip files.
• SideFX Tutorials. Official tutorials.
• sipiLib example-hips (SiposAttila1995). Example .hip files from the sipiLib toolset.
• SOP Quick Reference. Quick-reference index of Houdini SOP nodes.