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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Alice in Borderland | Megalis | Houdini Connect In this Houdini Connect feature, learn how the team at the Tokyo-based Megalis created the climactic water sequences for the hit series Alice in Borderland, ...

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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London Craft Week | Found Studio | Houdini Connect Found Studio is a creative studio based in London, UK. In this feature, learn how they integrated Houdini and AI to amplify their design workflow. To celebra...

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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The Making of Rocket Boys - Creating a Full Animated Scene in Houdini 21 | Max Rose | Equinox 2025 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...

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...

AutoBake: Automated Groom Animation Pipeline for Feature Film | TAT Studio | Equinox 2025 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...

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...

How to Get Your Monster Shredded (or not) | Juliette Le Hir | Equinox 2025 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...

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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GoT: War for Westeros | Goodbye Kansas | Equinox 2025 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...

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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A Look Under The Hood(ini) at NAS's Assets Pipeline | Netflix | Equinox 2025 Over the past few years, Houdini's adoption in Netflix Animation Studio's (formerly Animal Logic) Assets pipeline has steadily increased. From migrating esta...

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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COP Pyro: Rethinking Smoke Simulations | Alexandre Tamisier | Equinox 2025 Discover Houdini’s new COP Pyro solver, a GPU-accelerated method for simulating smoke. This session covers how Pyro Blocks operate inside Copernicus, whether...

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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From Research Papers to Houdini Tools | Jakob Ringler | Houdini HIVE AI 2025 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...

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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Cairos.ai: Motion from Conversation Service with Houdini | Hristo Velev | Houdini HIVE AI 2025 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...

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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How To Train Your Flame | Houdini 21 | Jeff Guttin 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...

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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Building Machine Learning Pipelines | Houdini 21 | Michiel Hagedoorn 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...

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.

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

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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Volumetric destruction with Hand-Made Charm in Ambrosia Sky | Soft Rains | Equinox 2025 When building the destructible exo-fungus colonies that fill the world of Ambrosia Sky, we found ourselves solving several difficult problems at once. Level ...

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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Flow States: Art, Nature, and Procedural Play | Tin and Ed | Equinox 2025 As visual artists working across art, science, and technology, we use Houdini to simulate the complexity of natural systems, from cellular structures to shif...

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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Cookies and Cream - An Exploration of the MPM Solver | Peter Sanitra | 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...

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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Around The Moose | Alps Studios | Equinox 2025 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...

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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2025 Houdini Student Reel 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...

Congratulations to all of our Houdini Certified Schools for another year of outstanding student submissions!

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Project Lighthouse: A Community Challenge 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

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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Panoply | Forward Festival Vienna 2025 In this talk Simon Holmedal and Andreas Catucci from the London-based design studio Panoply celebrate ten years of creative innovation, sharing insights into...

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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Houdini ComfyUI Bridge: a CG-AI Toolkit | Rafael Drelich | Houdini HIVE AI 2025 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...

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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Exploring Facial Rigging Techniques in KineFX/APEX | Houdini 21 | Carlos Valcárcel 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...

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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