Point Render recreates Dürer and Doré in Houdini
Now shipping: Chimney VFX artist Jan Białek's Houdini plugin renders 3D models in striking classical graphic styles.
Saturday, July 9th, 2016
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Laubwerk makes procedural plant kits available for Maya
1.0.20 update makes the render ready tree models compatible with Maya as well as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Houdini.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Esri ships CityEngine 2016.0
Powerful procedural city modelling software gets new Alembic exporter for use with visual effects pipelines.
Monday, June 27th, 2016
Get the new Substance plugin for Houdini
Allegorithmic's free add-on lets users edit textures in Substance format using Houdini's native tools.
Thursday, May 26th, 2016
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
VFX Forum releases 'living wage calculator' for Nuke
Free tool promotes UK trade union BECTU's campaign against unpaid overtime in the creative industries.
Friday, May 6th, 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
Autodesk buys Solid Angle
Acquisition of Arnold renderer will help drive a 'more aggressive' move to the cloud, firm tells CG Channel.
Monday, April 18th, 2016
Fabric Software releases Fabric Engine 2.1
Update extends tools dev platform's Canvas visual programming system. Long-awaited Modo plugin now officially in beta.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 3.0 for 3ds Max
Updated: New extension release gives the multiphysics plugin support for variable viscosity fluids and a new foam solver.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
Side Effects ships Houdini Engine for UE4
New plugin enables games artists to edit procedural content created in Houdini inside Unreal Engine 4.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
Download Houdini Engine for 3ds Max
Get the binaries of Hideki Suzuki's free plugin for importing and editing Houdini content inside 3ds Max.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
Solid Angle releases Arnold 4.2.11
Update increases render speed by 'up to 4x' on interior scenes, adds new global shader override option.
Thursday, November 12th, 2015