Theory Accelerated releases Axiom 3.3 for Houdini
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
Houdini Indie
Sharan Vaswani's IPOPs Toolset streamlines VFX work in Houdini
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
Free tool: Hextile for Houdini and Unreal Engine
Mohsen Tabasi's award-winning free tool minimises visible repeats by tiling textures using a hex grid.
Monday, February 13th, 2023
Matt Puchala releases Axiom 2.2 for Houdini
GPU-accelerated sparse gaseous fluid solver gets new profiling tools. Native Metal support now in beta.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Foundry releases Nuke Indie
'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
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
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
Side Effects Software ships Houdini 15.5
Update adds new modelling, retopo and UV options, Delta Mush system, better crowd animation, VR camera.
Friday, May 20th, 2016
Houdini Indie to get support for third-party renderers
Arnold, RenderMan and Octane coming with Houdini 15.5 next month; V-Ray and Redshift to follow.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
Side Effects releases Houdini 14
Check out the new crowd pipeline, grooming tools, revamped UI and spectacular multiphysics system.
Thursday, January 15th, 2015
Houdini Indie and Houdini Engine Indie hit Unity store
Low-cost rental-only editions now available in Unity Asset Store. Unity plugin for Houdini Engine also out.
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Side Effects releases Houdini Indie
Updated: new edition gives anyone making under $100K the full feature set of Houdini FX for $199/year.
Friday, August 8th, 2014