Cinematic Lighting In Houdini is the perfect course for anyone wanting to master shading, lighting, and creating production-ready assets and scenes using Solaris and render them using Karma XPU & CPU or Arnold.
This entire trailer was fully assembled and built-inn Houdini Solaris and Rendered using Arnold and Karma.
Nick has been working to refine and master this workflow over the last 5 years and we think this course would save a lot of production time for studios wanting to migrate to a Solaris workflow and build high-quality assets to be rendered in Arnold or Karma or other engine supporting materials.
Introduction To Solaris and USD basics: What is USD and why is it beneficial. We’ll learn cinematic lighting principles as we light our first scene.
Basic Assets: The basics of constructing an asset in USD the manual way. The underlying concepts of building an asset in USD.
Advanced Assetization: Creating our own asset template and customizing the component builder for our needs. Procedurally processing and shading a large library of assets.
Establishing shot part1: Laying out a large scene with solaris tools and instancing workflows. How to lookdev many lighting setups quickly.
Establishing shot Part2: Adding water and Additional FX to our establishing shot. How to approach completing this shot as a single artist vs a team.
Lighting with Footage – HDR: The complete technical workflow to correctly light with HDRs, Spatial lighting concepts.
Lighting with footage – No HDR: The proper workflow for lighting shots without an on-set photography to help.
Sequence Lighting and Compositing: How to use solaris in a sequence and how to add photo-realism to renders via compositing.
