Houdini – Creating Tea and Cookies Tutorial

[Instructor] Rohan Dalvi
[Level] Intermediate

This tutorial covers creating the “Tea and Cookies” image, all the way from modeling to render and even the final color grading entirely in Houdini from scratch.

Part 1 lesson plan:

1. Modeling the Jam bowl – Basic Introduction to poly modeling in Houdini
2. Modeling the spoon – Using attributes and ramps to control poly modeling
3. Modeling the Cup – procedural modeling of the cup. In 3b we will model the saucer
4. Modeling the Tea – Extracting the tea liquid surface from the cup geometry
5. Modeling the Cookie – Painting Attributes and adding displacement using VOPSOP to add details
6. Copy stamping and Cookies – Understanding the basics of copy stamping to creating copies of the cookie
7. Modeling the Tray and the Crumbs – Using scatter and voronoi fracture for modeling
8. Modeling the Jam – Using RBDs and VDB toolset for modeling

Part 2 lesson plan:

1. Lighting the scene – Adding lights and setting up the camera and the render engine
2. HDRI – Adding an HDR for reflections and additional information about lights
3. Material Basics – Understanding the capabilities and limitations of the Mantra Surface Shader
4. Steel Material – Using the Material Shader builder to create the Steel shader and using textures to control various channels
5. Plastic Tray – Making a plastic material for the tray. Learning how to use multiple UV channels. Adding bump mapping
6. Porcelain – Using SSS to create a porcelain shader
7. Flooring material – Learn how to mix multiple texture maps to create complex surfaces
8. Tea Material – Controlling material properties via Geometry Attributes. Using Absorption to create liquid shader
9. Jam Material – Creating a shader for the jam. Using Caustics for better lighting
10. Cookie Shader – Creating complex displacement to make the cookie material
11. Color Grading – Defining the look of the final render by using the compositing section of Houdini

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