I just wanted to say hello and how much I'm enjoying teaching myself Houdini! - I came to it by finding work colleagues enjoyed my Powerpoint presentations and thought I could make some fun animations for youtube during my spare time. I can't draw too well and so I use a lot of graphics from CC0 images.
Here's a playlist of what you can do in Powerpoint with a lot of jiggery pokery:
Powerpoint is good and you can get instant good results but it started to become a bit limiting and so I moved on to Anime Studio Pro which is a 2D animation Package that includes Bone rigging - here's a bigger playlist:
My main interest is telling stories and so I'm currently learning Houdini and figure out ways that I can use it to tell more stories about old Grannies and Space Aliens!