Houdini and Redshift – Corrosive Acid Sim Tutorial

[Instructor] Tim van Helsdingen

In this in-depth tutorial, we’ll create a corrosive acid sim inspired by the awesome erosion effect by Dave Stewart using Houdini & Redshift.

Index:

1. Intro
2. Explaining VDB masks
3. Setting up FLIP sim + collider
4. Creating the corrosion solver: Step 1
5. Creating the corrosion solver: Step 2
6. Caching to disk & meshing
7. Creating the wet map solver
8. Cleaning up
9. Creating the steam using the smoke solver
10. Redshift scene setup
11. Corroded metal shader
12. Render + material settings
13. Using puzzle matte AOV for denoising in comp
14. Setting up motion blur
15. Rendering the steam
16. Adding depth of field

Final Preview:

Tutorial:

Download Project Files: gumroad.com/l/corrosiveacidtutorial