Learn How to Render and composite Z-Depth in Houdini

Опубликовано: 04 Апрель 2026
на канале: CGI Nerd
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In this Houdini 16 tutorial, I go over how to render a Z-Depth pass and then bring in a high dynamic range EXR image into a Houdini compositing node to create a 2D Depth of Field.

Video Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:21 Beginning of Tutorial
00:57 Extra Image Planes
02:00 High Dynamic Range Image
02:44 Accessing Point Inspector
05:28 Color, Alpha Channel, and Depth Channel
06:00 Adapt to Full Pixel Range
07:15 Defocus node
11:44 End of Tutorial & Outro

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