FILM & TELEVISION

Create more shots under tight deadlines while achieving feature film quality results with Houdini’s procedural Node-based Workflow.
Experience unprecedented levels of flexibility and control to enhance both your creativity and productivity. Go procedural to more easily respond to director or client feedback – with the ability to make changes at any time, even deep into production.

ATTRACTION | Main Road Post

DESTRUCTION FX

Create feature film-quality Destruction FX with Houdini’s award-winning particle and dynamics tools. Houdini is ideal for developing blockbuster VFX using particles, fractured rigid body dynamics, and more. Create massive simulations using tools such as packed primitives to optimize memory and take your work to the next level.

OCEANS & FLUIDS

Houdini includes many different techniques for making, shaping and bending fluids such as water or lava. Maintain total control as you deform fluid shapes, direct the look of a stormy ocean, or calm a water simulation. Add white water, ripples, dripping water, variable viscosity, bubbles and more to refine your simulation.

**IN THE EYE OF THE STORM**
Andreas Giesen | Rise Visual Effects

NOTRE-DAME, LA PART DE FEU | The Yard VFX

PYRO FX

Pyro FX lets you create high detailed fire, smoke and explosions using Houdini’s production-proven solvers. Houdini’s non-destructive workflow gives you control at every stage of the process as you generate simulations that get your shots approved.

Choose OpenCL for faster results or work at a huge scale using distributed simulations on a CPU-based farm. Use Viewport visualizers to analyse and refine your effects while clustered simulations offer further optimizations for smoke trails and fast-moving source objects.

PIPELINE IN A BOX

With Houdini’s procedural workflows, all the steps needed to set up a shot are represented by networks of nodes which are maintained deep into production. This lets you make last minute creative decisions that would be too costly in a traditional CG pipeline. Package up your networks into Houdini Digital Assets then share them with other Houdini artists or artists working in host applications such as Autodesk Maya or Unreal using Houdini Engine plug-ins.

**ANIME-CENTRIC PIPELINE**
Polygons Pictures

**PROCEDURAL THIS & THAT**
Nikola Damjanov

ONI | Megalis

LOOKDEV, LAYOUT & LIGHTING

Houdini Solaris provides a flexible and powerful environment for managing lights, building shaders and defining the look of a shot. This suite of look development, layout and lighting tools empowers artists to create USD-based scene graphs that go from asset creation to final render.

**WORLD BUILDING | USD**
Ingenuity Studios

RENDERING

Houdini now comes with the Karma render which works directly with USD and is integrated into the Solaris environment. Artists can also access third party renderers such as Pixar RenderMan, Autodesk Arnold, Maxon Redshift, and V-Ray.

**KARMA XPU HIGHLIGHTS**
SIGGRAPH 2023 | SideFX

**LEVEL UP WITH KARMA XPU**
Tim Van Helsdingen

CHARACTER FX

Bring your characters to life, with Character FX such as cloth, finite elements for muscles, and wire dynamics for fur. High quality CFX are becoming critical to achieve accurate, realistic results over long simulations. Houdini gives you complete control over these effects to add new levels of realism to your creatures and characters. Houdini is also the best tool for creating interactions between characters and elements such as water, dirt or snow.

CANARY | Rodeo FX

CHARACTERS & CROWDS

Quickly set up characters using the KineFX toolset to edit motion to work with rigs created in Houdini or retargeted from other applications.
Create characters using digital assets and reference them into multiple shots. Houdini’s crowd system uses artist-friendly shelf tools along with a new packed agent primitive type, a Finite State Machine solver and hardware accelerated display of instanced crowds.

Adrien Lambert

WORLD BUILDING

Houdini makes it easy to create large scale environments using its art directable procedural workflow. Rapidly iterate throughout a project’s lifecycle to bring your environments to life.

REALTIME & VIRTUAL PRODUCTION

Film studios are working more and more with realtime solutions such as Unreal. Houdini offers a wide range of tools for enhancing these pipelines. Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity create an effective path for procedural assets that can be used to populate virtual production sets.