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This Houdini Illume is geared towards those new to KineFX who are comfortable in Houdini. All those too busy to dive in. This covers all you need to get up and running to using characters anywhere.
There are now so many great KineFX tutorials available to get into this amazing new framework for rigging and animating in SOPs. Getting into KineFX and using its various features all live recorded so you can see every step, at the same time discussing the toolset as we go.
Getting up and running with KineFX rigs and retargeting motion all live so you can get your characters moving for any FX tests or other purposes.
Then moving to what is a joint and building out basic rigs using custom HDAs and Skeleton SOP while looking at the full body IK solver.
With this knowledge we capture and rig Flippy the test geometry as easily as it should be.
Next up is taking a rough skeletal rig from a tutorial and with the houdini help we fix joint orientation and build a basic hand rig with all joint rotations predictably on the X axis with Y axis for finger splay.
Finally we take a look at constraints in KineFX. Building a look at rig simply as it should be followed by a deep look at the IK solver, building a 4 joint t-rex leg joint using rest angles both inherited and using a third joint setup to hint the rest angles for predictable results.
AGENDA
00:00 Introduction to KineFX
03:12 First go at KineFX intro with Erik discussion
05:35 Content Library and getting the correct Erik rig Antennae Vellum setup
06:43 Mixamo web site fetch the motion files
07:59 Carnegie Mellon Motion Library and nod to Luca's tutorials to download with TOPs and apply to rigs
08:59 Applying Thriller Mixamo Motion to Erik rig setup
11:39 Adding Bone Deform SOP
12:33 Look at Rig Match Pose and Map Points to retarget motion to rig
14:07 Full Body IK covered
15:47 Fetch the Thriller Mixamo motion and apply it to Erik
17:19 Motion Clips used to work with motion, and mixing thriller and nervous motion
25:35 Copying multiple dancing Eriks using copy to points
27:47 Recap of motion retarget with download links
28:09 Recommended links to video tutorials on KineFX Motion Retargeting
29:55 Working with Joints and Skeletons intro
32:52 Turning add SOP to a KineFX locator joint
36:58 Using Add SOP to take three locators and add primitive joints
37:53 Build out a rig using Reparent Joints, IK Chains, and Rig Pose SOPs
46:07 Using the custom locator HDA to quickly build out joints
51:48 Rigging an l-system tree with KineFX and full body IK
59:45 Rigging Flippy the Rubber toy with Skeleton SOP and the Rig Tree pane
1:07:40 Mirroring the rig using Skeleton Mirror SOP
1:10:37 Improving a Character Rig from an excellent Parker Coleman rigging tutorial
1:21:37 Using the Construction plane technique to orient joints for good rig setup
1:30:10 Another look at the FullBody IK SOP and locator pose rig setup
1:31:10 Rigging up the jaw and painting capture region weights
1:24:17 Fixing and rigging the hand to close with rig pose sop
1:39:53 Rigging the hand with Rig Pose
1:45:54 Introduction to Contraints in KineFX
1:47:41 Building a LookAt constraint in Rig Attribute VOP
2:02:20 Building a 4 joint IK t-rex leg constraint in Rig Attribute VOP
REFERENCE FILES
1) Download Eric Vellum Antennae file from Content Library
www.sidefx.com/contentlibrary...
2) Get the 'Nervous' and 'Thriller' motion files from Mixamo - www.mixamo.com/
3) Download Scene Files: sidefx.co/2021-kinefx-illume-f...
ADDITIONAL KINEFX RESOURCES
1) Houdini 18.5 Quickstart | KineFX Motion Retargeting - Fianna Wong:
www.sidefx.com/tutorials/houd...
2) KineFX for Games covering everything on motion retargeting beyond games as well:
www.sidefx.com/tutorials/kine...
3) Introducing KineFX Hive by Henry Dean:
www.sidefx.com/tutorials/intr...
4) Houdini KineFX 101: Motion Clips // Blending Motion Clip Animations by Parker Coleman:
www.sidefx.com/tutorials/intr...
5) Introducing KineFX Hive by Henry Dean:
www.sidefx.com/tutorials/intr...
6) Retargeting Animation using KineFX | Bogdan Zykov on motion retargeting from intro to intermediate:
www.sidefx.com/tutorials/intr...