Applied Houdini是Steven Knipping所创作的一个产品级制作教学系列。Steven Knipping当前是卢卡斯影业工业光魔的资深刚体破坏/特效技术总监，参与制作的电影包括了《星际大战7部曲：原力觉醒》《复仇者联盟2》《明日世界》。本教学教授了Steven Knipping所熟悉的成熟的制作流程，并且深入的研究了技术背后的原理。每个视频都包含了实用的信息与笔注，而不只是没来由的讲解。

在第三部分中，我们将来研究下为了快速得到高质量的渲染结果，你需要做哪些Mantra，照明，着色器的设置。在制作过程中牺牲很少的质量而节省大量的时间也是非常重要的，它能让你在规定时间内得到很棒的图像。我们还会大致讲解rest texture noise与着色器。没有它们，我们是无法得到照片级的制作结果的。最后我们还会来学习不同图像中如何分布与查看不同的灯光特效。

Applied Houdini is a production quality oriented series created by Steven Knipping, currently a Senior Rigid Body Destruction / FX Technical Director at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tomorrowland). Benefit from production proven workflows while also getting an in depth explanation of why things works they way they do. Best of all - each video is crammed with actual information and footnotes instead of gratuitous talking and dead space!

In Dynamics III, we will target exactly which Mantra, light, and shader settings you will need to know about in order to produce quick, hi quality renders. Being able to sacrifice minimal quality while gaining massive time savings will be critical to iterating quickly on shots through development, and then switching over to making a great image when you're done without running out of time. We will also talk about rest texture noise and the shader in general, without which we will not be able to produce photoreal results. Finally, we will learn about scattering and viewing the effects of individual lights in different images, for use with debugging and more importantly later, compositing.