Free Houdini HIP: Animate Gaussian Splats with APEX (SOP Cemetery)
Original title: Animate Gaussian Splats with Houdini - Free Tutorial + Scene Files
Overview
SOP Cemetery released these free Houdini scene files with a tutorial on rigging and animating Gaussian splats through a proxy-deformation workflow. The process covers segmenting and surfacing the splat, building a KineFX skeleton, capturing and binding proxy geometry, adding APEX rig logic, then point-deforming the splat with spherical-harmonics look-dev before rendering in Karma.
The files are hosted on Gumroad as a pay-what-you-want product, so entering $0 gets them free. It is an advanced reference for character TDs and anyone experimenting with splat-based assets in Houdini.
What You Can Learn
- Rigging and animating Gaussian splats via proxy deformation
- Building a KineFX skeleton and capturing/binding proxy geometry
- APEX rig logic
- Point-deforming splats with spherical-harmonics look-dev for Karma
Access: Pay what you want ($0 allowed)
