SideFX cuts price of Houdini Engine
Cost of monthly rentals down from $195/month to $100/month; new $35/week option added.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
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Eye candy: SideFX's 2017 Houdini games and VR reel
Two minutes of the best games work created in Houdini, from Uncharted 4 to amazing cinematics.
Sunday, February 26th, 2017
Redshift devs release Redshift for Houdini
New integration plugin for the GPU renderer supports Houdini's native primitives, instancing and volumes.
Saturday, February 18th, 2017
Side Effects Software unveils Houdini roadmap
New features in Houdini 16 likely to include guided fluid sims, new muscle system, 'ground-up rewrite' of the node networks.
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
The best new CG software from Siggraph 2016
We round up over 30 of the key new tools to be announced at the show, from full 3D packages to plugins.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
Eye candy: Side Effects' 2016 Houdini showreel
See four minutes of the best VFX and animation created in Houdini, from San Andreas to Dawn of War III.
Sunday, July 31st, 2016
Side Effects cuts Houdini educational pricing
Education edition now available to colleges for $75/year, and free to high schools and instructors.
Friday, July 15th, 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
Side Effects releases Houdini Engine Indie free
Edit Houdini content inside Unity, UE4, Maya, Max or C4D with the indie game dev tool, previously priced at $99/year.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016
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
Side Effects ships Houdini 15 and Houdini Engine 2.0
Wide-ranging update adds new modelling, animation, simulation tools; native support for RenderMan RIS shaders.
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
Eye candy: the 2015 Houdini demo reel
See the world's best new work created using the software, from Inside Out to Japanese animation.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
Maxon unveils Cinema 4D plugin for Houdini Engine
Updated: Free plugin to make Houdini's VFX tools accessible inside C4D now out in public beta.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015