KineFX gives us a far more flexible rigging and export pipeline than the object based rigging system. This system gives us a lot more control but this means that the initial setup is less intuitive than

A basic reverse foot setup in KineFX

A rigging update for the spine

Creating custom spine rotations with Houdini Kinefx

Getting your FK bones to match the IK is very important when animating a rig. Here I create a system to achieve this.

KineFX makes it a lot easier to visualise the rig. Here I update the basic Dog-leg rig and discuss some of the problems you will encounter when rigging.

This is a short examination of very basic IK setups for 3 Bone legs.

One of the most time consuming aspects of working with Houdini Engine is moving HDA to the correct directories. In This video I build a simple radial menu system to allow for fast export of HDA's to multiple

Here we implement a basic spine using the Rigging VOP node.

Recently I was asked about muscle systems in kineFX. There is currently no native implementation of a muscle system in kineFX but as KineFX is part of SOPs it is pretty simple to set up a system. This

In this video we create an HDA for the rig and connect the controls so that we can manipulate the rig without the need to select the pose nodes. The customization of the controls is limited at the moment

This video covers a very basic IK/FK system in KineFX.

An overview of the basic rig setup in KineFX.

I have released a basic auto-rigging course on Udemy. It is based off the system I made for my game, this system will be more complex though. Currently the course covers the basic prototype, now I will

This might be a little esoteric but it is something which is pretty fundamental to rigging. This is one of the more difficult things to figure out how to do in Houdini and I do not know anyone who covers

The intersection will now allow for and arbitrary number of roads.

This was a bit of a mess and everything that could go wrong went wrong,

Sorry for the delay our internet was down (cable theft).

Making the most stripped down road intersections I can think of.

Toonboom Rig 02 - Turnaround Cleanup