Logo: ScratchARTS, Philipp Kratzer, Houdini FX-TDLogo: ScratchARTS, Philipp Kratzer, Houdini FX-TDLogo: ScratchARTS, Philipp Kratzer, Houdini FX-TDLogo: ScratchARTS, Philipp Kratzer, Houdini FX-TD
  • PORTFOLIO
  • PROFILE
  • TEACHING
  • SHOWREEL
  • CONTACT AND CV
  • WIKI
✕
"I started teaching the listed basic and advanced VFX courses at SAE-Institute Germany in 2014, and it quickly grew into a passion of mine. I am convinced that professional work and teaching has to go hand in hand, because it allows to bring profound experience and production-proven workflows directly to the classroom. My goal is to prepare students in the best possible way for this amazing, but also demanding industry."

Philipp Kratzer

TEACHING

Introduction to Houdini

Unleash the procedural power of Houdini and it's unique, nodebased workflow. See what sets it apart from all other 3D-packages and why it is the number one tool for complex VFX-work.
VFX course poster for Houdini Particles showing a blue rubbertoy dinosaur in the rain.

Houdini Particles

Get comfortable controlling millions of Particles in Houdini by understanding Forces, Sourcing, Collisions, Caching, Rendering and how attributes can help to achieve the result you want.

TEACHING

Houdini FLIP-Fluids

Explore what it takes to create water drops or roaring rivers by diving into the basic workflows of FLIP-liquid simulations by understand the pipeline from important physical principles, to simulation, meshing and caching.
VFX course poster for Houdini Vellum-Hair showing a red and blue tribble.

Houdini Vellum-Hair

Learn what it takes to start grooming and simulating interesting hairstyles or furry creatures using Houdini's Hair-Toolset from Guide-Grooming to vellum-simulation, hair-generation and final rendering in mantra.
VFX course poster for Houdini Vellum-Cloth showing a semitransparent cloth-ghost.

Houdini Vellum-Cloth

A detailed look at Houdini's PBD-System "Vellum". While bringing a cloth-ghost (back) to life, basic workflows, constraint types, simulation-setup and SOP/DOP-differences are covered.

VFX course poster for Houdini Crowds showing a Houdini viewport screenshot showing a green zombies crowd standing around.

Houdini Crowds

Make Zombies chase Elvis-impersonators while exploring Houdini's crowd system! We go from agent setup to simulation with steering, triggers, transitions and obstacle-avoidance up to style sheets and final rendering
TEACHING

Basics Rendering in Arnold

Getting familiar with the basics of nature by understanding the ingredients of a realistic rendering: light, shadow, color and physical properties like reflection, refraction and translucency.
TEACHING

Advanced Rendering in Arnold

Stepping it up by jumping into production proven techniques and sophisticated topics like sampling, linear workflow, global illumination, render-optimization to utilize Arnold's full potential.

TEACHING

CG-Lighting & Cinematography

Essential techniques for lighting and lookdev to get familiar with different cg-light types and camera characteristics like depth of field or motion blur, enabling you to create a unique look for your project.
VFX course poster for Live-Action Integration showing man running from a spacechip crashing behind him.

Live-Action Integration

Seamles integration of CG-content into real footage is the main goal of VFX. This cours is dedicated to showing techniques to achieve that flawless illusion.
TEACHING

HDRI Workflows

Create your own HDRI’s, discussing equipment, shooting techniques, post-processing and useful tips and tricks until we end up with our own, customized light probe for IBL.


TEACHING

Industry Survival Workshop

You trained hard, you are skilled, and now you want to go places! But how is life in VFX, and what does it take to break into the industry? Let’s find answers and get prepared to make the move successfully!
TEACHING

Introduction to VFX

Taking a close look at how filmmakers started to create the impossible by exploring the history of VFX, deconstructing a modern CG-Pipeline, and finally learning basic greenscreen-techniques and matchmoving.
TEACHING

VFX Supervision

Essential knowledge about this important role, including a look at commonly used (on-set) equipment and the important things to watch out for during shooting and post to ensure a smooth production.
© 2021 Scratch Arts, Philipp Kratzer. All Rights Reserved. | IMPRINT | PRIVACY POLICY
This website uses cookies to give you the most relevant user experience. Only essential cookies are used and no personal data is analysed or tracked.
Read More
ACCEPT
Manage consent

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT