Dessert Making in Houdini

by Rohan Dalvi

 
This training is an update to the Tea and Cookies training. It covers fairly similar topics such as modeling, shading, lighting and rendering. The primary difference is that instead of Mantra the training focuses on using the third party render engines, namely, Redshift, Octane and Arnold.

Part 1 of the training covers modeling and building the entire scene. This is done using a variety of methods including the basic poly modeling tools, VDB, fluid simulation, POP grains and also some basic copy stamping.

Part 2 is currently available in two variants, Redshift and Octane. This part focusses on lighting and rendering the scene however, the primary focus is on building all the various shaders required for the scene; you will build a majority of the shaders using procedural textures. The training also covers SSS, displacement and building fluid shaders using absorption. You will also build relatively detailed metal and plastic shaders.

Dessert Making in Houdini : Model / Build : LESSON PLAN

1. Plate : Model the plate.
2. Spoon : Model the spoon.
3. Raspberry 1 : Building the raspberry.
4. Raspberry 2 : Making the raspberry strands.
5. Cake 1 : Model the cake using basic poly tools to model the basic cake.
6. Cake 2 : Adding additional details to the cake model using VDB.
7. Ice Cream : Make the ice cream using VDB tools.
8. Sauce : Model the sauce on top of the cake.
9. Lava : Make the chocolate lava using a fluid sim.
10. Sprinkles 1 : Adding sprinkles on top of the ice cream.
11. Sprinkles 2 : Adding sprinkles in the spoon using POP grains.
12. Crumbs : Adding crumbs on the cake.
13. Layout : Final scene layout.

Duration : 205 minutes

Dessert Making in Houdini : Redshift / Octane : LESSON PLAN Set-up : Basic render and light setup including HDR. Cake Shader : Building the cake shader using a combination of noise maps and SSS and ambient occlusion maps. Ice Cream Shader : Making the ice cream shader. Chocolate Shader : Building the chocolate sauce shader using absorption and SSS. Sprinkles Shader : Making the sprinkles shader using Houdini attributes to generate random colours. Raspberry Shader : Making the raspberry shader. Metal Shader : Building a detailed metal shader for the spoon using a combination of noise maps and scratch maps. Strands Shader : Making the raspberry strands shader. Plastic Shader : Building a plastic shader for the plate. Settings : Final render settings. Duration : 163 minutes

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