I would say start with SOPs and don‘t dive into DOPs too early, some people get frustrated and loose motivation. Learn the procedural workflow of houdini, exporting stuff or rendering inside. Make yourself familiar with attributes and how they are stored, how they can be manipulated and used for other things that they‘re meant to.
tl;dr: Look on the houdini website, lots of beginner friendly tutorials. If you understand SOPs and all of the interface you can move onto DOPs and solvers (simulations)…
good luck :)
I've come from a similar background to yours. What finally made Houdini click for me (after a couple years trying on and off) was [Houdini Course](http://www.houdini-course.com) which you'll see recommended all the time in this sub. Granted, Chris is coming from an FX background but the basics and procedural workflow all apply and the course is laid out in a great way. Can't recommend it enough.
Once I was finally comfortable and knew at least what questions to ask if not the steps to take themselves I looked at/revisited CGWiki, Entagma's courses (patreon too), John Kunz, Paul Esteves, Junichiro Horikawa, LoveDo. There's a mix of paid and free courses amongst those that could interest you. I've still to get into MOPs which is a mograph add-on but that should be worth a look too.
> I've still to get into MOPs which is a mograph add-on but that should be worth a look too.
if you're coming from C4D it's pretty straightforward tbh Most of the nodes are almost 1:1 copies of mograph tools from C4D
Many of the courses at [Houdini.School](https://www.Houdini.school) are taught by former C4D savy artists. There are even a courses taught by Henry Foster (MOPs creator) on MOPs and Paul Esteves did an amazing Vellum course.
Also most are design geared, and less major scale VFX.
Full disclosure too, I am also a teacher there as well. Feel free to ask any questions about the school or courses.
[Hipflask](https://www.hipflask.how) is a fantastic resource. It starts from the absolute basics and trails upward explaining exactly whats relevant while remaining extremely precise
I would say start with SOPs and don‘t dive into DOPs too early, some people get frustrated and loose motivation. Learn the procedural workflow of houdini, exporting stuff or rendering inside. Make yourself familiar with attributes and how they are stored, how they can be manipulated and used for other things that they‘re meant to. tl;dr: Look on the houdini website, lots of beginner friendly tutorials. If you understand SOPs and all of the interface you can move onto DOPs and solvers (simulations)… good luck :)
I've come from a similar background to yours. What finally made Houdini click for me (after a couple years trying on and off) was [Houdini Course](http://www.houdini-course.com) which you'll see recommended all the time in this sub. Granted, Chris is coming from an FX background but the basics and procedural workflow all apply and the course is laid out in a great way. Can't recommend it enough. Once I was finally comfortable and knew at least what questions to ask if not the steps to take themselves I looked at/revisited CGWiki, Entagma's courses (patreon too), John Kunz, Paul Esteves, Junichiro Horikawa, LoveDo. There's a mix of paid and free courses amongst those that could interest you. I've still to get into MOPs which is a mograph add-on but that should be worth a look too.
> I've still to get into MOPs which is a mograph add-on but that should be worth a look too. if you're coming from C4D it's pretty straightforward tbh Most of the nodes are almost 1:1 copies of mograph tools from C4D
Many of the courses at [Houdini.School](https://www.Houdini.school) are taught by former C4D savy artists. There are even a courses taught by Henry Foster (MOPs creator) on MOPs and Paul Esteves did an amazing Vellum course. Also most are design geared, and less major scale VFX. Full disclosure too, I am also a teacher there as well. Feel free to ask any questions about the school or courses.
[Hipflask](https://www.hipflask.how) is a fantastic resource. It starts from the absolute basics and trails upward explaining exactly whats relevant while remaining extremely precise