Eye candy: Kometh
Discover the alien life pulsating at the heart of a comet in Erik Ferguson's unnerving Houdini short.
Thursday, February 13th, 2014
Houdini
Science.D.Visions releases €499 version of 3DEqualizer4
Foundation edition makes high-end matchmover accessible to students. Full version gets an update, too.
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
Eye candy: Main Road|Post's Stalingrad VFX reel
Check out eight minutes of beautiful Houdini effects breakdowns from the epic Russian war movie.
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4.5
Update to the GPU-based renderer adds progressive rendering. Modo and Softimage editions mooted.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Side Effects launches Houdini Engine plugins for Maya, Unity
Free experimental versions of the plugins let other apps import Houdini Digital Assets in editable form.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
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
Navié releases Effex 2.0 for Cinema 4D
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Eye candy: the Houdini 2013 demo reel
Buckle up for three minutes of peerless fluid simulations, from Life of Pi to Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Side Effects announces Houdini Engine
API turns Houdini into "world’s most powerful plugin" for other DCC apps. Sign up to test the Maya and Unity plugins now.
Thursday, July 11th, 2013
Milan Suk releases BulletSOP 2.0 for Houdini
New free tool creates ultra-complex rigid-body simulations in Houdini using the Bullet physics toolset.
Thursday, June 6th, 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
How Gnomon is reinventing online training
Gnomon's new live online courses make its legendary VFX tuition available anywhere in the world.
Friday, January 25th, 2013