Five Steps to Learning Houdini Quickly
Channel: Indie-Pixel
Date: 2019-09-03

I get a lot of individuals who ask me how long it takes to learn Houdini and how I went about learning to use it.  Well as always it’s different for everyone.  Some learn Houdini in 6 to 7 months and for some it can take years.  I have been using Houdini for over 9 years now and I can honestly say I never became completely comfortable till about after a year and a half. 

Now there’s a reason that it took me about a year and half to become fully comfortable in the software package.  That is because I would use it on and off. I never fully dedicated myself, in the beginning, to use it fully on a project.  I would switch back and forth between Maya and Houdini, using tools that I knew I could use well and that was mostly fueled by deadlines.  If I didn’t have the time to fully learn something in Houdini, I would switch back to Maya and get the job done, because I was more comfortable there.  

Many years later I now only use Houdini and have ended my Maya Subscription.  So for me it took around 4 years to become sooo proficient with Houdini that I could do anything with it.  So what was the catalyst, what drove me to finally make the leap?  I want to give you the 5 steps to learning Houdini Quickly based off of how I went about learning the massive application.