Houdini is not just for visual effects. With the availability of
Houdini for all platforms and the variety of training materials now
available, Houdini is making headway into the world of motion graphics.
The procedural nature of Houdini, combined with its powerful dynamics
system, make Houdini an important player in visualizing data and
allowing graphic artists to express themselves in new and powerful ways.
In this tutorial series we are going to look at a current design trend -
data connections - and build a procedural system in Houdini to
accomplish this task while harnessing all the additional benefits
Houdini has to offer. We\'ll learn how to draw connections between
relational points of data (in this case, by proximity), create text
readouts of the data, and combine this system with Houdini\'s dynamics
network. At the end of the tutorial, the viewer will know how to create a
reusable digital asset to handle this effect, and hopefully learn a few
new tricks along the way!
