Join us for Houdini HIVE + Ignite Workshops at Gnomon in LA on Saturday, March 28! Choose one of six hands-on morning workshops, then stay for lunch and afternoon presentations from industry experts, a discussion panel, and an evening social mixer.
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We’re so excited about this year’s Mardini — only 3 days to go!
Mardini is a daily contest, but even a single entry could win the grand prize.
Head over to the SideFX website to claim 2 free months of Houdini Indie to use during the contest.
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Discover how Megalis created the climactic water sequences for Alice in Borderland. Learn how they recreated destroyed Tokyo on a limited budget using procedural assets, massive water sims & USD/Solaris pipeline. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T08n...
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Check out the Houdini Learning Portal! Your new hub for tutorials, collections, content, and talks. Filters and category links give you quick access to educational materials. Create Collections to organize your learning into playlists — try it!
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Discover how Found Studio integrated Houdini and AI to amplify their design workflow. For London Craft Week's 10th anniversary, they used Houdini's wedging process to generate 1,000 unique programme covers on HP12000 press. youtu.be/ykXxwMbcexo
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Learn to build a custom Houdini tool for automatic procedural edge damage—lightweight, scalable, and production-ready. Nicolas Garilhe shares his SILKROAD Project workflow for adding believable surface detail while maintaining artistic control.
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See Max Rose’s complete animation pipeline in Houdini, including procedural asset modeling and texturing with COPs, character rigging and animation in APEX, scene layout in Solaris, and lighting and rendering with Karma. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjv9...
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Learn how to add interactive viewport controls to your HDAs using Python States with Mohamad Salame. Read and write parameters using keyboard and mouse input, work with multiparms and handles, and build right-click menus, selections, drawables, and more. www.sidefx.com/tutorials/pyt...
Watch TAT Studio break down the technical building blocks used to create the AutoBake system, which automates optimized, high-quality groom animation without dynamics, inside of Houdini using many of its technical features and pipeline-building tools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk2o...
Bring your creatures to life using new Houdini 21 CFX features with Juliette Le Hir. Discover how tools like Shot Sculpt, Armature Deform, and the Otis Solver can help you shape and enhance both the form and motion of your characters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tplb...
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Go behind the scenes of Goodbye Kansas’ Game of Thrones: War for Westeros trailer, showcasing the studio’s first use of lighting assembly in Solaris and Houdini’s crowd and CFX tools, with Filip Orrby and Guillaume Ritt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX2D...
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Join Netflix Animation Studio (formerly Animal Logic) as they share lessons learned from adopting Houdini to rebuild their asset pipeline, from migrating established workflows to designing entirely new systems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=goWy...
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Discover the new COP Pyro solver with Alexandre Tamisier. Learn how buoyancy and shaping operators can be layered, use live simulation for real-time feedback, and see how COPs Pyro with SOP workflows can open new creative possibilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjn1...
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Find out how to translate papers into working tools in Houdini. Get an overview of the general ML workflow and dive into specifics with an implementation case study. Presented by Jakob Ringler. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQWc...
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Explore Cairos.ai, a web service that produces 3D humanoid motion from conversations with an AI. This talk covers the inner workings of Cairos.ai and the vision behind it with Hristo Velev. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Fr...
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Explore how to incorporate machine‑learning enhancements into your Pyro FX workflows. Make your sims look 3x better using Houdini 21's procedural ML tools with Jeff Guttin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=btg7...
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Learn how to build supervised ML pipelines in Houdini 21 with Michiel Hagedoorn. Explore new ML nodes, including data generation, training, inference, and more. These applications include a volume up-resser and an improved character deformer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHbT...
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The How To Houdini Tutorial Contest deadline has been extended to January 31, 2026! Lessons must be at least 10 minutes, and there are four categories: Beginner, Node Reference, Gamedev & Realtime, or Production Workflow. A new grand prize has also been added: a Dell laptop.
Huge congratulations to Sandfall Interactive on an extraordinary night at The Game Awards! Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 received nine awards, including Game of the Year.
Watch our Houdini Connect interview with Technical Artist Alexandre Breton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNa...
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Explore the unique art pipeline and novel real-time techniques behind the immersive sci-fi game Ambrosia Sky. Jules Glegg from Soft Rains shows how Houdini was used for volumetric gameplay with a stylized, hand-made look, even on handheld hardware.
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Discover how Tin & Ed, Australian artists based in NYC, use Houdini to explore natural systems, emergence, and interconnectedness in their creative process, bringing these ideas to life through large-scale physical sculptures and digital installations.
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Find out how Peter Sanitra created this delicious simulation with multiple material type interactions in the MPM solver, combining solids and liquids and applying surface tension, plasticity, emission expansion, and more.
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Have a look at this presentation by Filippo Robino and Marco Provitina showcasing the Alps' Moose project: a production-level full-CGI shot featuring FX, environment work, rigging in APEX, animation, muscle simulation, shading, and lighting.
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Learn to build, customize, and package a reusable character rig in Houdini 21 using the Rig Builder and APEX. This course covers importing characters, creating animator-friendly controls, exporting a portable HDA—and much more.
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Congratulations to all of our Houdini Certified Schools for another year of outstanding student submissions!
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Join the Project Lighthouse Asset Challenge to help create 3D assets for Poly Haven’s first video game, all released free under CC0. Collaborate, contribute lasting content, and earn rewards including prizes from SideFX!
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Find out how Simon Holmedal and Andreas Catucci of Panoply celebrate 10 years of creative innovation, showcasing work for the NBA and ESPN while revealing their evolving approach to motion design, branding, and storytelling.
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Build CG-AI workflows using the Houdini ComfyUI plugin with Rafael Drelich. Explore workflows from motion capture to AI-powered image & video generation, evolving VFX pipelines with generative AI.
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Dive into Houdini’s KineFX & APEX rigging tools with Carlos Valcárcel through Project Outback, starting with phase one achievements and moving into facial rigging for realistic vs. stylized characters in KineFX.
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Explore Houdini's new SOP-based crowd tools and build a complete crowd scene from scratch with Ayush Yadav, Lead Crowd TD at DNEG. Learn to bring in characters, set up motion paths, add animation layers, work with cloth & render in Solaris with Karma.
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