SideFX ships Houdini 17.5

Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.

Wednesday, March 13th, 2019

Master Houdini Randomization and Scattering

Learn key set dressing techniques with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new Houdini 17 tutorial.

Saturday, February 23rd, 2019

Z Tools for Houdini live links Houdini and ZBrush

Handy add-on transfers geometry and paint changes between the two apps without manual export.

Tuesday, December 18th, 2018

SideFX ships Houdini 17

Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018

SideFX ships Houdini Reality Capture plugin as free beta

New photogrammetry plugin lets artists use RealityCapture's popular toolset directly inside Houdini.

Wednesday, August 29th, 2018

Sneak peek: Houdini 17's new PolyDraw tool

See the new direct modeling system coming up in the next major release of SideFX's 3D animation software.

Tuesday, August 28th, 2018

Get SideFX's free Sketchfab Uploader for Houdini

New free add-on lets artists export 3D models to their Sketchfab portfolios directly inside Houdini.

Monday, June 18th, 2018

Download free Houdini motion graphics toolset MOPs

Neat set of open-source assets streamlines the creation of common motion graphics effects.

Saturday, June 16th, 2018

SideFX gives all Houdini Indie users a free extra licence

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

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Houdini gets new UV Flatten and FBX export tools

Latest production build adds new UV unwrapping and packing tools, plus support for LODs in FBX files.

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Alexey Vanzhula ships Direct Modeling HDA for Houdini

Neat hard surface modeling toolkit adds MeshFusion-style real-time Booleans, new insert mesh system.

Monday, January 8th, 2018

Nuke and Houdini developers win technical Oscars

Four Scientific and Technology Awards in total, including an Oscar statuette for SideFX's Mark Elendt.

Friday, January 5th, 2018

Download SideFX's free Physics Painter tool for Houdini

Neat free tool lets you scatter objects across a terrain and have them settle naturally under the influence of gravity.

Tuesday, December 26th, 2017