The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2017
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by our 125,000 Facebook followers.
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Houdini
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
Download SideFX's free Skinning Converter for Houdini
Neat free tool turns the output of sims to lightweight bone-based animations to use in game engines.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Weeds: the story of an indie short made by Disney artists
Discover how artists working in their personal time created a 3D short using the same tech as a Disney feature.
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
Download 11 free 3D scans from Megascans 2018
Get free scans of ground materials, rocks and vegetation from Quixel's newly revamped online library.
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
SideFX releases Houdini 16.5
Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
Discover how Disney artist Kevin Hudson created 'Weeds'
Explore the making of an indie short created with Disney tech at Gnomon's free event next week. Watch free online.
Friday, November 3rd, 2017
Get Xolotl Studio's Substance Painter Live Link
Updated: neat plugin live links Substance Painter to Blender, Modo or Maya - and now 3ds Max and V-Ray.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Houdini 17
Get started with Houdini with Psyop veteran Robby Branham's step-by-step guide to core workflows.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
Redshift team releases Redshift 2.5
GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Eye candy: SideFX's 2017 Houdini reel
See the best Houdini animation and VFX, from Alien: Covenant to mind-bending new J-pop promos.
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017