Particle Growth with MOPs & Redshift in Houdini

A free, beginner-friendly Houdini tutorial: animate particles after they're simulated using a spread / infection algorithm, then light and render them in Redshift — start to finish. What's covered: • Creating a spread mask from a static point cloud • Animating particles with noises • Building a multi-shot rig and optimising the scene • Deleting particles outside the camera frustum • Redshift lights and AOVs Software: Houdini + MOPs + Redshift. Aimed at anyone learning the basics of particle simulation, shot rigging, optimisation, lighting and rendering. The companion Houdini .hiplc scene from this video is in the project-files card above — grab it to follow along or drop the setup straight into your project.