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Master character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

Master professional production workflows for managing complex simulations with The Gnomon Workshop's Houdini masterclass.

Friday, January 17th, 2025

Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver, including support for height fields as collision sources.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

Former ReDefine FX Supervisor's set of HDAs speeds up shader and AOV development in Houdini's Karma and Mantra renderers.

Friday, July 12th, 2024

Mohsen Tabasi's award-winning free tool minimises visible repeats by tiling textures using a hex grid.

Monday, February 13th, 2023

GPU-accelerated sparse gaseous fluid solver gets new profiling tools. Native Metal support now in beta.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

'Lightly restricted' new $499/year edition of Nuke Studio is aimed at freelance compositors. Find out how it compares to the full version.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Maximum resolution of rendered output also raised to 4K, although the yearly rental price is up slightly.

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Update adds new modelling, retopo and UV options, Delta Mush system, better crowd animation, VR camera.

Friday, May 20th, 2016

Arnold, RenderMan and Octane coming with Houdini 15.5 next month; V-Ray and Redshift to follow.

Tuesday, April 26th, 2016

Check out the new crowd pipeline, grooming tools, revamped UI and spectacular multiphysics system.

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Low-cost rental-only editions now available in Unity Asset Store. Unity plugin for Houdini Engine also out.

Friday, October 3rd, 2014