This talk walks through the making of Rocket Boys, a six-second competition entry created entirely in Houdini 21. We’ll cover the complete animation pipeline...

When working on an Animation movie with a lot of furry characters and a limited number of CFX Artists you will quickly want to keep the artists' focus on Gro...

Learn how to bring your creatures to life using new Houdini 21 CFX features. Starting from a basic KineFX rig and animation, discover how tools like Shot Scu...

Discover how Goodbye Kansas leverages Houdini’s powerful crowd and CFX tools to bring large-scale cinematic sequences to life. then go behind the scenes of G...

Over the past few years, Houdini's adoption in Netflix Animation Studio's (formerly Animal Logic) Assets pipeline has steadily increased. From migrating esta...

Discover Houdini’s new COP Pyro solver, a GPU-accelerated method for simulating smoke. This session covers how Pyro Blocks operate inside Copernicus, whether...

Learn how to translate papers into working tools in Houdini. Get and overview of the general ML workflow and dive into the specifics with an implementation c...

Cairos.ai: motion from conversation service with HoudiniExplore Cairos.ai, a web service that produces 3D humanoid motion from conversation with an AI. We'll...

Learn how to incorporate machine‑learning enhancements into your Pyro FX workflows. Make your simulations look 3x better by using Houdini 21's procedural mac...

Learn how to build supervised ML pipelines in Houdini 21. Explore the ML nodes and features that have been added with Houdini 21. These ML nodes are designed...

In this feature, Alexandre Breton — Technical Artist at Sandfall Interactive — shares how a small team of just 33 developers took on the ambitious challenge ...

When building the destructible exo-fungus colonies that fill the world of Ambrosia Sky, we found ourselves solving several difficult problems at once. Level ...

As visual artists working across art, science, and technology, we use Houdini to simulate the complexity of natural systems, from cellular structures to shif...

Join me as we prepare a tasty hot drink made up of cookies, milk, sugar, coffee and caramel. This will showcase multiple simulation setups, different approac...

The presentation will show the Alps' Moose project, a production-level full CGI shot covering the best features of Houdini. It includes different FX elements...

Learn how to build, customize, and package a reusable character rig in Houdini 21 using Rig Builder and APEX. This course walks you through importing and preparing a character, assembling and styling animator-friendly controls (including advanced eye-look systems), working with fused APEX graphs and custom components, and finally saving the complete rig as a clean, portable HDA with embedded materials and textures.

Congratulations to all of our Houdini Certified Schools for another year of high-quality student submissions! If you see your work, leave a comment and let u...

Poly Haven is developing it's first-ever video game, Project Lighthouse, and we need your help to bring its world to life! Work alongside us to create a library of free and open themed props that will be integrated directly into the game

In this talk Simon Holmedal and Andreas Catucci from the London-based design studio Panoply celebrate ten years of creative innovation, sharing insights into...

Discover how to build your own CG-AI workflows using the Houdini ComfyUI plugin, enabling seamless data exchange between Houdini and ComfyUI. In this talk, R...

Learn all about Project Outback as a vehicle to explore Houdini's KineFX rigging and animation tools. Start by learning about KineFX and APEX and what was ac...

In this course, we’ll explore Houdini’s new SOP-based crowd tools and build a complete crowd scene from start to finish. You’ll learn how to bring in characters, set up motion paths, add animation layers, work with cloth, and finally render everything in Solaris using Karma. By the end, you’ll be able to create believable, dynamic crowds for your own projects.