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Discover 13 lighting setups to transform your art from ‘Nice’ to ‘WHOAAA’, with essential theory and fun practice!

This is the second part of the Cinematic Clouds and Asteroids tutorial series, developed in collaboration with Gleaces Juvilian. In the first part, we explored how to create the scene in Houdini and handle rendering. In this tutorial, we will take the raw renders from Houdini and finalize the look development in compositing using deep data

In this course we will learn to create a cloud scape scene with Asteroids falling over it. This is the Houdini part of the course. There is also Part 2, which will cover the compositing part of it. This course is designed for ultimate beginners.

This comprehensive course offers a deep dive into Houdini’s Height Field tools, enabling learners to create sophisticated terrains for various applications. Whether you’re aiming to enhance environments for games, architecture, or digital art, this course equips you with the necessary skills to model detailed terrains.

In this course you will learn how to read clip data, play and blend clips in Vex, create digital assets, usable math concepts and some of the fundamental building blocks when creating non simulated crowds. This will give you the necessary skills to start building your own crowd tools in Houdini.

In this FX mania tutorial we are going to see how to achieve this Lava Monster shot, from an empty Scene to Final Comp.

Master the Basics of Unity 3D by Building a Car Game

Start your animation journey on the right foot with storyboarding—the easy way!

Copywriting Course is the fastest way to learn sales, copywriting, and get pro advice on all your marketing

Bring felted wool items to life, manipulate them frame by frame, and make your own short films.

From character modeling to rendering and animation, Blender course that is fun and easy to complete.

I’ll break down both basic and advanced techniques for creating frame-by-frame & 2D animation.

Learn the basics of animation using Pixel art as a base!

De-stress, refocus, and build coding confidence with guided meditations made just for Software Engineers, Web Developers, and those working in the tech industry.

Learn real-world inferential statistics with Python including confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and hands-on projects to build your data skills from the ground up.

Learn regression analysis with Python – linear, logistic, Cox, and more, all through hands-on projects and real-world data to build your job-ready from the ground up.

This hands-on course blends Python, LangChain, and investment theory to help you build an AI-powered finance app from scratch. Perfect for anyone looking to dive into fintech or level up their coding & AI skills.

Build real-time speech-to-speech agents from the ground up using Python and AWS Bedrock. This course walks you through the streaming architecture, audio debugging, and tool integrations that power modern voice AI.

We explore the whole way, from creating a source to visualizing created material.

Rigging is still a sought after position in the world of gaming, film and animation and I will share the techniques used in AAA productions.

If you find yourself wanting to create industry standard nodes but just not sure where to start then this course is a nonbrainer.

A series of lessons, showing destruction of the building, as a result of an explosion. They show the whole process from scratch.

how we can create an explosion with particles system in Houdini 17. Also, will simulate a dust wave.

You will get access to 29+ hours of video content as well as example scripts, cheat sheets and UIs built in Designer for use in Maya’s PySide.

Many Facial Rigging Vendors and Studios charge thousands of dollars to create a high level facial rigs either from scratch or to transfer multi-blendshape expression rigs to another character. We are going to change that!

This course incorporates years of research into Paper 2D and making 2D/3D Hybrid games in Unreal Engine to deliver you the full package!

This course is set to teach you the fundamentals of pixel art, from learning the different terms to setting up Photoshop to work specifically for pixel art. We will go through the pixel specific terms such as anti-aliasing, dithering, pillow shading, and outlining, to help better understand pixel art.

Throughout the course, students will learn how to be a dream intern for a fashion designer, the technical aspects of design and how to build your own world within your brand.’

AI Agents Masterclass from Nomad Coders is an in-depth, hands-on course dedicated to the development of modern AI agents: autonomous systems capable of reasoning, interacting with each other, using tools, and executing real business tasks. The course is structured to guide you on the journey from understanding the principles of how AI agents work to creating complex multi-agent systems applicable in production.

Boost your agentic engineering game by mastering Claude Code’s basic and advanced features

Writing code is the easy part. Knowing what to write—and being able to defend why—is what gets you hired and promoted.

Learn Intermediate German Language (B1.1) with fun lessons and exercises. Learn speaking and grammar. Pass the B1 exam!