Animate food and win a seat of Houdini Master

Enter Side Effects' Cook-Off contest to win Houdini licences, plus content from Stash and cmiVFX.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Video: free 90-minute Houdini networks tutorial

Includes 66-page PDF, scene files and best user comment ever: "It is pleasure like sex with beautiful wife"

Friday, November 12th, 2010

Houdini 11 Released

New fracturing, rigid body solver, shader building workflow and more.

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Houdini 11 Sneak Peek

New version coming this Summer. Major performance improvements.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 3.4

See the new features in the Maya and Houdini crowd animation tool. Now free for low-budget projects.

Thursday, June 11th, 2020

Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 2.0

Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool gets big render speed boost, new behaviour modules, Python plugins system.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2018

Q&A: Atoms Crowd co-creator Daniele Federico

We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool.

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

New pricing for Unreal Engine, Twinmotion and RealityCapture

Epic Games has announced new subscription-based pricing for its key software products. See who the changes affect, and when they start.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

Check out neat new procedural tree toolset GrowInfinite

Set of 37 HDAs generates detailed tree growth animations in Houdini or Houdini Engine-compatible apps and game engines.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020

AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.1

Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.

Thursday, October 17th, 2019

SideFX unveils Solaris

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

Realsoft ships Realsoft 3D 8

One of the oldest 3D applications gets updated for current Hi-DPI displays and multicore CPUs, and gains a photon mapping system.

Friday, December 28th, 2018

Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22

Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.

Monday, September 10th, 2018