Vellum projects for Houdini: 19 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
19 free project files
This free Houdini 20.5 file by Muhammad Ali Imran comes from a beginner tutorial on creating a peel effect with Vellum. It shows a thin, flexible film, wrapper or protective layer peeling away naturally, covering the…
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Misa Motion offers this free Houdini .hip file from a beginner tutorial on a mercury effect built with Vellum. Mercury-like droplets roll and interact across a cloth surface, and the video explains almost every node in…
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Entagma's Christopher Kopic shares this free Houdini 21 project file from the New in Houdini 21: Gaussian Splatting tutorial.
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Christopher Kopic of Entagma shares this free Houdini 20.5 file, a remake of Entagma's very first tutorial, Endless Blossom.
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Falling Books Using Vellum and Solaris is a free Houdini 20.5 scene by Dmitrii Vlasenko in the SideFX Content Library. It simulates a pile of falling books with Vellum cloth, then assembles and lights the shot in…
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Indyzone Channel distributes this free Houdini 20 hip file with a Japanese-language tutorial on recreating a dam break. The simulation combines Vellum grains standing in for soil with a water simulation (FLIP) to depict…
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Model What You See offers this free Houdini 19.5 hip file with Part 4 of the channel's Vellum series. The lesson takes a Vellum simulation all the way from its initial setup through to a finished Karma render, so the…
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Zombie Crowds is a free Houdini 20 scene by Jessica Daoud and Wuraola Fagbamiye in the SideFX Content Library. It lays out a complete zombie crowd pipeline: skeleton setup and mocap retargeting with KineFX, an…
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Wind Shadow is a free Houdini 20 demonstration scene by Andrew Muron from the SideFX Content Library. It showcases the Vellum solver's Wind Shadow feature, which lets objects occlude wind so that cloth in their lee…
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This free Houdini 19.5 hip file comes from a Japanese YouTube channel devoted to USD and VFX pipeline explanations, accompanying a breakdown of a Shorts clip in which a spaceship rises out of desert sand.
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RMA FIRE shares this free Houdini project file from a quick Inflate 101 tip. The scene shows how to set up basic inflation effects using Vellum Balloon constraints, so a flat or deflated mesh puffs up under simulated…
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RMA FIRE provides this free Houdini project file with part 1 of the Vellum stretch goo tips. The setup uses pin-to-target constraints on Vellum cloth with custom color ramps driving stretch stiffness, so a gradient…
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RMA FIRE shares this free Houdini project file from part 1 of a tutorial on activating Vellum grains. The technique controls where grains become active by transferring color from another geometry object and using that…
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RMA FIRE shares this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on Vellum struts. The struts constraint setup deforms arbitrary geometry into odd, abstract shapes, and the video covers the key parameters for controlling…
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Entagma provides this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on abstract particle animation inspired by Maxim Zhestkov.
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Think Trix shares two free Houdini project files, made for Houdini 17 or later, in a POP walkthrough video. Particle Dance places abstract particles on a dancing character animation and Easy Particle Disintegration…
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Think Trix offers this free Houdini 17.5 hip file for a tabletop CGI shot of mini pancakes falling and stacking. The pancakes are simulated with Vellum cloth and soft-body dynamics, and the network is built so any…
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Fabric Samples is a free Houdini 18.5 scene by Andriy Bilichenko for SideFX, hosted in the SideFX Content Library. It contains eight Vellum cloth setups (silk, velvet, wool, leather, jersey, raincoat, tulle with…
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KineFX Jump Rope is a free Houdini 18.5 scene from SideFX, available in the SideFX Content Library. It animates a KineFX character rig with a jump rope, combining the rigging workflow with Vellum rope dynamics so the…
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