Houdini Masterclass: Muscles Overview

The Houdini team has shared a new guide that steps through the basic workflow of adding muscles to an animated creature and applying them as a skin deformer. It is worth noting that this method does not require any dynamics simulation. You will start by creating simple muscle forms using Houdini’s Muscle Tool Shelf and learn how to adjust shape and placement, attach them to your character rig, and how to enable automatic secondary animation (jiggle). What is more, the video shows how the shelf tools easily set up your muscles as a skin deformer leveraging Houdini’s Muscle Displace operator.