Tutorial: Creating Tire Smoke FX in Houdini

Discover how to use Houdini's sparse Pyro solver in production with The Gnomon Workshop's essential tutorial.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023

Tutorial: Large-Scale Cinematic Destruction in Houdini

Master professional procedural techniques for VFX and animation with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive Houdini tutorial.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Discover the key features of Houdini 20

Read our run-down of the key changes in the largest ever update to Houdini, from character animation to rendering and machine learning.

Thursday, November 9th, 2023

Sneak peek: Houdini 20

See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, including updates to animation and simulation and the Karma renderer.

Thursday, October 19th, 2023

Tutorial: Create Disintegration VFX in Houdini & Nuke

Discover how to turn a character to ash with The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

Eye candy: SideFX's 2023 Houdini Film & TV Reel

See the best motion graphics and VFX created in Houdini, then follow our links to technical breakdowns.

Thursday, August 3rd, 2023

Tutorial: Large-Scale Water FX in Houdini

Master production-scale fluid simulation with ILM artist Miguel Perez Senent's detailed tutorial.

Saturday, July 8th, 2023

F12 releases The Grove 2.0 for Blender and Houdini

Big update makes the popular 3D tree-generation tool available to Houdini as well as Blender users.

Wednesday, July 5th, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini Update 2

Check out the latest changes to the Houdini edition of V-Ray, including a new unified installer, and updates to the Hydra render delegate for Solaris.

Wednesday, June 14th, 2023

Free tool: Stable Houdini puts Stable Diffusion in Houdini

Use generative AI inside Houdini to create matte paintings or concept art based on simple 3D scenes.

Wednesday, May 10th, 2023

Tutorial: Create a Waterwheel Simulation in Houdini

Master procedural modeling and fluid simulation with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Sunday, April 23rd, 2023

Get Sharan Vaswani's free Populate Toolset for Houdini

ReDefine FX supervisor's free tool helps users art direct instances of simulation caches like explosions.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2023

SideFX releases Houdini for Apple Silicon

New build of the procedural 3D software with native support for Apple's M1 and M2 chips is now production-ready.

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023