Rohan Dalvi – Character Design in Houdini

File Name:	Character Design in Houdini
Content Source:	https://www.rohandalvi.net/character
Genre / Category:	3D Tutorials
File Size :	7.6 GB
Publisher:	rohandalvi
Updated and Published:	November 29, 2025

The purpose of this training is to take a base human model from Daz and then build a detailed character in Houdini. We will add clothing using vellum , model jewelry and build a full hairstyle and eyebrows in Houdini. In the end we will make shaders using materialX and light and render the model in Solaris using Karma XPU.

Content Details – 23 Video Chapters (with Audio)

Duration – 6 hours 25 minutes

lesson plan

Modeling

1. Daz to Houdini – Import the character model from Daz into Houdini via FBX and setup a highres version using point deform.
2. Shirt – Start modeling the clothing for the character
3. Shirt Cloth – Add cloth to the lower half of the shirt using vellum
4. Gloves – Model gloves using the vellum brush
5. Shoulder Pads – Make shoulder pads and add details using images, Trace SOP and VDB
6. Cape – Add a cape to the character using vellum
7. Shirt Pattern – Adding ornate designs to the shirt using Particles
8. Cloth Pattern – Adding designs to the lower cloth using particles and attaching it to the simulation via a UV deformer
9. Pant Pattern – Making a design on the pant via shortest path and VDB
10. Belt – Modeling and detailing belt for the character
11. Eyebrows – Making eyebrows using hair generate and painted attributes
12. Long Hair – Making the character’s hairstyle via guide groom and hair generate.
13. Shaved Hair – Build the other half of the character’s hairstyle
14. Earring – Making a simple earring for the character

Rendering

1. Solaris Setup – Setting up groups for material assignment and importing the model into Solaris. Also setting up the basic lighting
2. Material Setup – Applying Basic materials to all the groups and setting a simple look for the character
3. SSS setup – Setting up the basic Skin shader
4. Cloth shaders – Making textures in Substance Sampler and Adding the textures to the various cloth shaders to finalize the look
5. Wrinkles – Adding wrinkles to the cape using a point vop
6. Skin Texture – Building the final skin texture in Substance painter and making the final shader in Houdini
7. Hair Shader – Adding a colored gradient to the hair using attributes
8. Eye shader – Applying textures to the eyes
9. Final Thoughts – Looking at AOV setup and color grading in Photoshop

DOWNLOAD LINK: Character Design in Houdini

Rohan_Dalvi_Character_design_in_Houdini_combined.part1.rar – 3.0 GB
Rohan_Dalvi_Character_design_in_Houdini_combined.part2.rar – 3.0 GB
Rohan_Dalvi_Character_design_in_Houdini_combined.part3.rar – 1.6 GB

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