Houdini Fun: Animate a “Simple” Cube

Animate a cube in Houdini? What could be more obvious than a fully functional four-stroke internal combustion engine? Anatolii Iudanov presents his simple solution.

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Anyone tired of constantly having to find complex solutions and who also has no time for elaborate keyframe animations finally gets a sense of relief from Anatolii Iudanov. In our eyes, he has found a very intuitive way to animate various primitives without much effort. The project files are also available here.

Houdini in the Current DP

In our current DP issue 04 : 17, our first thematic focus is “Simulation”. Among other things, we build a dust devil and show how the Filmakademie team realized the four elements of the FMX Trailer 2017 with Houdini. You can see a short preview here.