本视频教程是由cmiVFX机构出品的Houdini中Python天气工具使用视频教程，cmiVFX Houdini Python Weather Widget，时长：2小时52分，大小：788.64 MB，MP4高清视频格式，教程使用软件：Houdini，作者：Alvaro Castaneda，官方发布日期：2012年11月1日，语言：英语。。
最近我们遭遇了严重的气象灾害，它破坏了我们的城镇，造成好了好几天的断电，让我们处于寒冷中，并且到处是火灾与洪水泛滥。感谢那些在这里帮助我们的人，我们正在从灾难中恢复。我们感谢大家在这里困难时刻给予我们的忠诚与宽容。我们一位住在西海岸的导师想到通过创建一个非常棒的Houdini Python工具来为影视工作者生成动态的天气图像。只需要一点想象力，你就能够将它转换为基于政府与卫星服务机构提供的数据来重建天气情况的工具。
Houdini Master（电影特效魔术师）是Side Effects Software的旗舰级产品，是创建高级视觉效果的终极工具，因为它的横跨公司的整个产品线的能力，Houdini Master为那些想让电脑动画更加精彩的艺术家们空前的能力和工作效率。许多电影特效都是由它完成：指环王中“甘道夫”放的那些“魔法礼花”，还有“水马”冲垮“戒灵”的场面，后天中的龙卷风等等，a52的汽车广告，反正只要是涉及DD公司制作的好莱坞一线大片，几乎都会有Houdini参与和应用。。
Houdini 是一个特效方面非常强大的软件，主要面对的是电影工业的特效制作与合成。与其他如3DS Max/After Effects等三维动画、特效合成软件不同的是，Houdini是一个节点软件，节点的操作具有非常强的逻辑性，同时它也是一个动态的建模软件，通过一个个节点和命令将各种对象组合在一起，在应对含有非常多的视觉元素的影视特效合成时通过节点的操作更加容易管理成千上万的视觉元素，而其它通过层来操作视觉元素的特效合成软件如After Effects在面对成千上万个视觉元素时显然是不现实的。许多电影特效都是由它完成:指环王中“甘道夫”放的那些“魔法礼花”还有“水马”冲垮“戒灵”的场面......后天中的龙卷风的场面等等，a52的汽车广告.反正只要是涉及DD公司制作的好莱坞一线大片，几乎都会有Houdini参与和应用.
cmiVFX Houdini Python Weather Widget
cmiVFX has been leading the forefront of Visual Effects Methodology And Training for the last decade by creating unique video titles that can’t be found anywhere else. Our videos are an extension of heavy research and development as well as experience. Recently, we suffered a major weather event that destroyed our town as well as cut our power for days leaving us in the cold as fires and flood waters ran rampant all around. We are still recovering from this devastation, and are thankful to all the supporters out there. We appreciate your loyalty and demeanor during these hard times. One of our mentors living on the west coast sought out an opportunity to potentially help others seeking weather information by creating a brilliant Houdini Python tool that lets you have live weather graphics for Motion Graphics work. With a little imagination, you could potentially turn this into a way to reconstruct weather events based on data given by government and satellite agencies. This is a full feature video with a personal touch. Varomix keeps his video live in a window while he records so that everyone can meet him on a more personal level. We would like to extend this new type of service as a way to better see what you as the consumer might want from us in the future. We are really proud to be able to produce this entire video during the Hurricane Conditions and aftermath with extremely limited technology. It’s actually quite amazing, an testament to how efficient the cmiVFX production workflow really is.