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Dokai (or Dokai Tutorials) is a tutorial website publishing free content on the subject of procedural generation for films and games, using the software Houdini, created by SideFX Software.

Houdini is most commonly used in FX departments for the creation of visual effects in film and game. It is used by major VFX companies such as Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Double Negative, ILM, MPC, Framestore, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Method Studios, The Mill, and others.

History
Dokai is the initiative of Ivo van Roij and Feike Postmes, both former award nominated students at Breda University of applied sciences (previously know as NHTV). The website's first tutorial came out on August 31st, 2018, gaining a lot of momentum with the Complex Roads series being reviewed and published on multiple media, including SideFX's homepage, facebook, instagram, etc. and 80 Level.

Content
Dokai covers a wide variation of some of the majoy areas in 3D production, momentairely including/focussing mainly on these:


 * Modeling – Procedural generation of geometry.
 * Digital Asset creation – Generating custom tools (HDA's) that construct highly detailed geometric or organic objects in comparatively very few steps to other software i.e. Unreal Engine and Unity.
 * Problem solving – Approaching problems of content generation in multiple areas.

Houdini is an open environment and supports a variety of scripting APIs. Next to VEX, Python is increasingly the scripting language of choice for the package, and is intended to substitute its original CShell-like scripting language, Hscript. However, any major scripting languages which support socket communication can interface with Houdini.