SideFX
About SideFX
Houdini
Houdini Engine
Karma
SideFX Labs
Houdini
Houdini is a powerful procedural 3D software for creating visual effects, animation, simulations, environments and digital assets. Its node based workflow gives artists and technical directors the flexibility to build complex systems, iterate efficiently and develop reusable production workflows for film, television, games and other digital content.
Whats New
Houdini 22 introduces significant improvements across visual effects, modeling, animation and world building. Key highlights include production ready Gaussian Splats, enhanced character rigging and animation, faster modeling workflows, GPU accelerated Pyro in Copernicus, and expanded procedural terrain, ocean and texturing tools.
Enquiry
Looking to integrate procedural workflows into your production pipeline? Connect with our team for expert guidance on Houdini licensing, implementation, consulting and training.
Houdini Engine
Houdini Engine extends Houdini's procedural capabilities across studio pipelines and third party applications. It enables teams to create, package and share Houdini Digital Assets (HDAs), allowing artists to reuse custom tools and generate procedural content in applications such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Unreal Engine and Unity.
Whats New
Houdini 22 continues to advance procedural pipeline integration, with updates to Houdini Engine APIs, plug-ins and connected workflows. Its broader production toolset includes improved support for modern asset workflows, Copernicus textures and procedural content integration, helping studios connect Houdini with their existing creative pipelines.
Enquiry
Discover how Houdini Engine can help your team build reusable tools, streamline repetitive tasks and integrate procedural workflows into your existing production pipeline.
Karma
Karma is Houdini's physically based renderer, deeply integrated with Solaris and USD for high quality rendering and scene management. With Karma CPU and Karma XPU, artists can create production ready imagery using advanced lighting, materials, volumes and complex scenes, with CPU and GPU accelerated rendering options.
Whats New
Houdini 22 enhances Karma with improved rendering performance, reduced memory usage for subdivided geometry, refinements to volumetric lighting and expanded MaterialX capabilities. Gaussian Splats also benefit from improved rendering quality, faster viewport performance and support for more interactive animation and relighting workflows.
Enquiry
Explore rendering solutions designed for demanding production environments. Connect with our team to understand how Karma can support your look development, lighting and rendering workflows.
SideFX Labs
SideFX Labs is a free, open source toolset developed by SideFX to extend Houdini's capabilities. It offers a growing collection of tools, digital assets, integrations and workflow utilities that help artists and technical directors accelerate procedural modeling, simulation, environment creation, asset processing and game engine integration.
Features & Whats New
Recent SideFX Labs updates introduce new tools and enhancements for procedural modeling, UV workflows and real time content creation. Highlights include Cut Hole SOP for hard surface modeling, Impostor Baker SOP for creating texture atlases from multiple viewpoints, and new tools for processing and relighting Gaussian Splats.
Enquiry
Looking to expand your Houdini toolkit? Talk to our team about the tools, integrations and production workflows that can help your artists work more efficiently.
