Houdini is a 3D procedural software for modeling, rigging, animation, VFX, look development, lighting and rendering in film, TV, advertising and video game pipelines.

With Houdini Apprentice, you have access to virtually all of the features of the award-winning Houdini FX to develop your skills and work on personal projects. Apprentice lets you save to disk and render out …

Houdini is built from the ground up to be a procedural system that empowers artists to work freely, create multiple iterations and rapidly share workflows with colleagues.

He explores a variety of full CG applications, including how to use Houdini for adding VFX elements to live action plates. This is a great lesson for people who are still figuring out how computer graphics …

Houdini 19 reflects our ongoing effort to place artist centric workflows at the heart of every new feature, and to inject realtime tools and realtime physics into the full fabric of Houdini.

The Houdini Engine Documentation gives you information about Houdini's compact Engine API which extracts Houdini's core technologies into a procedural engine for film and game studios to integrate …

Houdini is ideal for prototyping in-game experiences using particles, fractured rigid body dynamics, fluids and more. Export to vertex caches, sprites, vectors, and flow maps to create optimized FX for your …

Getting Started Learn about the latest tools and techniques found in the most recent versions of Houdini

Aug 12, 2025 · SideFX is proud to bring you the Houdini 21 Keynote straight from SIGGRAPH 2025. This presentation explores some of Houdini’s most recent improvements and workflows.

Houdini 20.5 includes hundreds of new workflows and improvements including the MPM solver for solid mechanics, Copernicus for image processing, Quick Surface Materials for access to Material X and …