In this episode, we will be making a procedural random ice cream extrusions on a cube. It’s basic but I am comparing the process of thinking with Houdini nodes, and there are a few of other things for beginners.

I also stated my disappointment with SideFX, my personal reason on really learning Blender and nodes like SVerchok and Animation Nodes. I am just a small indie artist and I was not happy with my $5000 investment on Houdini Full FX license years ago that is gone wasted. Have I kept that $5000 maybe I could donate it for Blender 10-20 years more. Or actually get latest Houdini for next 5 years via yearly annual license.

Anyways, to pay my disappointment, I will use Houdini Apprentice for free.

When thinking procedural workflow and nodes and if you are a self taught artists on this, you will have to know a few things. You definitely need to have some basic programming and coding ability if you want to go far using Nodes etc. But it’s worth it.

Things with coding and noding is that you will learn about it forever, the rabbit hole is so much deeper than you might think.