Free Tutorial: Create Plastic Bottle Houdini Melting Simulation

Andrew Sutherland of VFX school Rebelway released a new extensive YouTube tutorial on the process of melting a Coke bottle with a fireball. As the plastic heats up, it changes viscosity and color. The sphere dynamically interacts with the plastic, emitting both smoke and liquid.

Designed to provide you with practical skills and insights into advanced Houdini techniques, this guide focuses on transferring attributes, a powerful concept in Houdini that allows for precise control and art direction of simulations. It covers creating, transferring, masking, and overriding attributes, adding Pyro elements, and implementing a small-scale liquid simulation using Vellum fluids.

Additionally, you can download project files by clicking this link. See more of Andrew Sutherland's various Houdini tutorials below:

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