Side Effects Software ships Houdini 13

Update adds cool new soft and hard body, particle and fluid simulation tools; more robust lighting workflow.

Thursday, October 31st, 2013

Blender's Cycles renderer released via Apache licence

Switch from GPL licence designed to attract big studios and software houses to contribute to development.

Monday, August 19th, 2013

OpenEXR 2.0 released

Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools.

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Side Effects Software ships Houdini 12.5

Major update adds better ocean-surface sims and cloud sculpting via DreamWorks' OpenVDB technology.

Friday, March 15th, 2013