Houdini - TUTORIAL CHANNELS

https://www.sidefx.com/learn/collections/houdini-in-5- Minutes/
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/ The sidefx website has a ton of tutorials and is probably best choice for a first look since they'll be varied and relatively up to date have checked those They have mountains of free content to start digesting.

https://houdini-resources.netlify.app/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Houdini/
https://github.com/wyhinton/AwesomeHoudini
https://github.com/CSSHoudini/awesome-css-houdini
https://deborahrfowler.com/HoudiniResources/HOUDINI-RESOURCES.html
https://tokeru.com/cgwiki/
It's like a Houdini bible.

https://www.google.com/search?q=houdini+resources+site:www.reddit.com
This list of site is a great source of information and resources for anyone new to Houdini.

https://www.sidefx.com/community/foundations-book/  downloaded this and read through a good bit of the pdf highlighting things as I went that I found curious and want to learn more. A good start but the idea recommend video tutorials as it’s hard to explain a technical and complex program like Houdini with only text and images

https://chrisbrejon.com/cg-cinematography/introduction/  Not Houdini specific, but Chris Brejon’s CG Cinematography book goes deep on cameras, color theory, composition, and some technical stuff too

https://www.sidefx.com/buy/  It offers a free non-commercial version for students, hobby artists, and others. can download the “Apprentice” version after signing up on the official website.

https://www.orbolt.com/  It also has its own asset store, where it sells nodes, models, and more created by other users or companies.