Excel Data For Animated Graphs & Charts With Houdini

If you are in the motion graphics biz, you will make animated graphs or an animated chart or two. Typically that data for the chart may come from a spreadsheet like Excel.

a simple tutorial on how to convert excel data into animated graphs or a bar graph in Houdini

Here, Houdini trainer, Rohan Dalvi, walks us through the process for creating animated graphs using Houdini’s unique procedural approach. It is interesting to see how a nodes-based setup can make the task much more flexible.

Rohan uses a simple tab delimited text file that was exported out of Excel and brought into Houdini, and then extrapolates the graph into a representation in the viewport.

Rohan has a great training series that shows how to create amazing looking user interfaces and motion graphics using Houdini. The series runs over seven hours of content, for around $40 per. Check out user interfaces and motion graphics for more information.