Tutorial: Creating Sci-Fi Electrical FX in Houdini
Master efficient workflows for creating professional visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level Houdini tutorial.
Saturday, August 30th, 2025
Karma
SideFX just released Houdini 21: check out its five key features
Read our pick of the changes in Houdini 21, from Copernicus and KineFX to new AI workflows - then see a list of all 300+ new features.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
Sneak peek: Houdini 21
Read our list of 300+ new features due in the next version of Houdini - from Neural Point Surface for liquids to the Otis organic tissue solver.
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Tutorial: Creating a Sci-Fi Sequence using Houdini Solaris
Master lighting and layout workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive guide to Houdini's Solaris toolset.
Saturday, June 21st, 2025
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
SideFX releases Houdini 20.5: check out its five key features
Discover the key changes in the procedural 3D software: from the revolutionary Copernicus framework to rigging, animation and simulation.
Thursday, July 11th, 2024
Sneak peek: Houdini 20.5
See all the key features in the next major update to Houdini, from modeling, animation and simulation to the COPERNICUS framework.
Friday, June 14th, 2024
AWS launches Deadline Cloud
Online service based around AWS's free Deadline renderfarm manager 'makes it easy to set up a cloud-based render farm in minutes'.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Discover the key features of Houdini 20
Read our run-down of the key changes in the largest ever update to Houdini, from character animation to rendering and machine learning.
Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Open-source VFX pipeline builder Prism 2.0 is now available
Promising tool lets you set up a USD-based VFX pipeline 'out of the box'. Works with Blender, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, UE5 and ZBrush.
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
Sneak peek: Houdini 20
See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, including updates to animation and simulation and the Karma renderer.
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
QuiltiX: a new open-source MaterialX material editor
Free node-based tool lets users author MaterialX materials for use in renderers like Arnold and Karma.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
Tutorial: Large-Scale Water FX in Houdini
Master production-scale fluid simulation with ILM artist Miguel Perez Senent's detailed tutorial.
Saturday, July 8th, 2023