Full House for Python In Houdini

Lots of interest in this topic led to a full house for our first class of 2010. Oliver Palmer will be teaching Python in Houdini II tonight to another sell out crowd. For more 2010 workshops (including John Courte's RBD Survival Guide) check out the Side Effects Training page.

Goodbye 2009

Happy New Year! We've had a great wrap up for the last of 2009, Loads of great events, super training through our Santa Monica office, and wonderful customer stories we loved to share with our readers.

Rounding out the year, a few of us went to SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, Japan. There, Senior Houdini Artist John Courte gave several Houdini technical talks about the workflow in Houdini.


To start off the new year, please check out our latest customer story about the new Clint Eastwood movie, Invictus!

SCAD's Houdini Bootcamp

Savannah College of Art and Design's Visual Effects faculty signed on for a custom "Houdini Bootcamp" this month and came through with flying colors. Veteran Side Effects trainer Peter Robbinson put the educators through their paces. Kudos to bootcampers Bridget Gaynor, Kenneth Huff, David Kaul, Malcolm Kesson, Joe Pasqual, Stuart Robertson, Clarke Stallworth and John Rauh.

Fall 09 Training Recap

Wow! 13 classes and 2 bootcamps in 3 months. Time for the Holidays!
Your ideas for 2010 training are welcome. Please contact aliza@sidefx.com.

Houdini and Nuke Synergy

Brian Burke and Dan LeTarte of Method Studios teamed up to show how Houdini and Nuke can work together to create a highly flexible procedural system. This class filled very quickly and brought up many great areas to explore, so we plan to have another soon.

Training For Trainers

Side Effects Production Consultant Judith Crow shares her special techniques in this workshop designed to help studio training heads and educators learn how to get their teams and students going procedural in Houdini quickly and effectively.

In the Clouds!

We've had to keep a really cool thing tight under wraps at Side Effects for the past few months. And now we're allowed to talk about it!

Check out our HQueue Cloud Computing for Artists using the Amazon EC2!

Beta testing has officially begun and we're already getting tons of great input. Make sure you check out the really expansive Userguide on the link above and learn more about it!