Houdini 20.5 Sneak Peek

[@MitzuTa]

SideFX is doing what other software companies can't: -Constant innovation -Actively listening to user feedback -A community-driven approach ❤ -Exceptional licensing options: Indie license with NO restrictions! An amazing Apprentice version, and even Perpetual licenses (who offers that nowadays?!) A huge thank you to the entire SideFX team, you are the best!!

[@halfMTstudios]

what are you talking about Maya just fixed their bevel tool after 20 years. And they changed the splash screen. Dont hate. 😭😭

[@MitzuTa]

@@halfMTstudios 😂👌

[@pingu3261]

True and real.

[@haasekopp1614]

What they can't do: software, that can be understand by the average Joe.

[@yasunakaikumi]

@@haasekopp1614 this 💀💀, it's still alien to me most of the nodes

[@whocares6302]

you guys make stuff quicker, than I manage to learn them.

[@the_shizon3322]

Ain't that the truth!!

[@SuperMyckie]

😂😂😂 like yoh

[@xl000]

There are stuff in H19 that I haven't had the time to even look at

[@SyrDoN]

I think that is the case for most of us

[@SintakaParser]

damn true

[@SalvatoSC]

I lived to the day to see new COPs! Love to see it!

[@beepboopmachines]

Was just about to say the same!

[@asr59]

Yaaaaaaas

[@qaisarkhan7740]

COPs got update that no one expected. 🎉

[@Bolaway]

And I was complaining about this a few weeks ago. Such a mouth I have 😂😂

[@pdjinne65]

I was wondering about it too not long ago. I'm worried about the bloat though. That was what killed Maya for me. But you gotta trust the guys at Sidefx, they know what they're doing!

[@pixelspring]

Simply THE most innovative and creative software company on planet earth.

[@marayeavo3367]

UE crying seeing this comment

[@Blemonade1]

Blender Foundation!!

[@Suduaya]

So cool to have our music featured with your awesome work ! 🎉

[@sqworkshop]

NEW COPs!!! Houdini substance designer killer! WOW! Love SideFX!!!

[@yarugatyger1603]

Sent this specifically to a substance designer friend of mine to see their reaction.

[@rezo856]

​@@yarugatyger1603And what was their reaction? xd

[@yarugatyger1603]

@@rezo856 Not surprised, but also curious at what the future brings. Said Houdini already was the "master tool" , and that substance designer focused on material creation for a long while and has all the efficiency increasing tools that houdini might not yet have, but hes not surprised if houdini manages to fight it's way to the top in that field too.

[@pizola3285]

20.5 makes 20 feel like a toy. Super excited about every single feeaure. Truly jawdropping.

[@oxvcontent1040]

everything from the past year that i've been trying to learn or seen multi hundred dollar tutorials for was just made easy with this!

[@neilblanch1685]

Amazing. Just jaw droppingly amazing. I am only a beginner in this stuff but even I can see what a huge leap this is. Everyone on the project take a bow.

[@ripvangu]

.5 version with more features than most apps get in 3 versions

[@wndr0]

This seems a legit diss against Maya

[@heweiping123]

Maybe 5 versions

[@andrewashraf1863]

yes :D

[@OOLOIBESOOSSO]

*in their lifetime

[@wallacesousuke1433]

​@@wndr0so people wanna diss Maya just because it's so far ahead that it doesnt need to play catchup like Blender and less so, Houdini (different purposes and not even competitors with Maya)? Lmao right

[@monocore]

Switched to Hou two years ago. I'm never looking back LOL love you guys!!!

[@timsep1]

Just going to say, thank you for constantly innovating and pushing the limit each update.

[@3D_GO]

Call the COPs you guys are murdering the competition. So excited for copernicus. Textures are fast and fun to use. Opens up lots of possibilities.

[@OX_Tools]

The new COPs... a dream come true.

[@InsideTheMindSpace]

There is so much included in this update that is game changing for a variety of workflows. Truly incredible that this is being shown and it hasn't even been a year since H20.

[@malikgarcia699]

Yeah i wonder if at this pace we get H21 by end of December 😊

[@qaisarkhan7740]

We will wait for your Tutorial on MPM solver and XPU New features. Thank You for Your Tutorial ❤. Edit : and off course the Texturing workflow as well.

[@noc2_art]

These guys can do no wrong it seems. What an innovative company Sidefx is. An entire a-la substance procedural texture creation environment is definitely one of my favorites! Great job, once again!

[@musashidanmcgrath]

I'm not a Houdini user, but this really puts the updates from Maxon and Adesk into perspective.

[@vfxwithjordan]

Best dev team on the planet! Seriously you guys are incredible 😍

[@bogdanlazar2913]

Sometimes i have nightmares that Houdini grows so good that will become a National Treasure and will not be available for public anymore. And then I wake up , all sweaty, and fortunately H. is still here...

[@tetsuooshima832]

Get back to sleep you need it lol

[@xingarthur]

Autodesk: Hey!!! Look over here... We got new Icons and re arrange the menus (again)!!!!!

[@eyadarabi4262]

😂😂😂😂

[@i20010]

...they add 1 tiny feature while sideFx add 15...

[@sreevfxartist]

Real SideFX users dont see Icons at all... Its all in TAB Search..😂😝

[@amigarulez]

Also, check how bad Blender development is compared to this. Blender truly is worst 3d program.

[@AlanFregtman]

@@amigarulez spoken like someone who hasn't used Maya without addons. lol

[@JafarDashti]

Only that fast sculpting was enough for .5 release. You guys are amazing!

[@andrewcebotari5559]

I was put off for a couple of years to pick up Houdini because i thought it's too complicated. Man oh man I'm glad i've done it and it's not that complicated and i didn't realise how powerful it is. Granted it has a bit of a learning curve but that's nothing compared to what it can do. Thank you Side FX for providing not only pros but hobbyists and indie artists such an amazing software to work with.

[@meroshango9603]

Seen finally some improvement in COPs is soo good, COPs has all The potential to be as good and even better as Substance Design, totally realistic procedural textures

[@PeloConcha-j2y]

Goodbye Substance Designer, Hello Houdini 20.5

[@sqworkshop]

i hope!!!! i believe in Houdini. Substance Designer degrades very much and does not develop after Adobe was bought out.

[@pdjinne65]

unlike Substance, or Maya or Max, SideFX built their software from the start with modularity in mind. It's more like an OS than a single software really... So, adding new network types like Solaris or Copernicus feels natural.

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

It might not be as good as SD, but avoiding the hassle of round trips, purchasing and learning other software, and dealing with compatibility issues makes it worth.

[@DeanRockne]

​@@pdjinne65that's a really good point. I'm sure this also effects how their dev teams can be structured. I'd imagine they can have much smaller more autonomous teams because they don't have the same interdependency concerns.

[@BananaLegalFun]

Good luck with making any compatible resource for Substance Painter like generator, dynamic brush or procedural pattern in Houdini lol

[@remedyrenders5746]

The music always goes so well with these presentations! Luv it! looking forward to more Houdini

[@duncanbuckley7020]

Always hyped for Houdini. Let’s go!!

[@Ginger_Prince]

SideFX proves again and again that they are the true pioneers of the game. Simply put, no other 3d software on the planet can even come close to the amount of control, power, and precision it gives it's users. You have control over every point of data in Houdini.

[@JohnDaker35p]

i have no idea why youtube recommended me this but i love the groovy music

[@sakibkhondaker]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKi3dmt6gMeipJo

[@AerysBat]

You might like the Houdini 17 Banshee vid too

[@Suduaya]

Glad you enjoy our music

[@JohnDaker35p]

@@AerysBat thank you, watched it, is pre groovy

[@Denry089]

Anticipate every sneak peak you guys put out and this one has to be one of the greatest yet. Always thought COPs had the potential to be a real comp/2d alternative - can´t wait to see how far it goes and am glad every day to have switched to Houdini around 16.5!

[@qyoinqyuri]

"Vulkan viewport enabled by default, supports some Karma Material Builder shaders" this is the most exciting part for me.

[@kopfgestaltung]

Incredible. Awesome work - so much to explore. 👏 Bravo!

[@sreevfxartist]

Nothing Can Beat Houdini..... Amazing....

[@JacKsCave]

Awesome , you sideFX guys … you are gods!! Best software ever

[@poly_xp]

COP reworked is the most hyped I've been for any new Houdini update. Can't wait. A thank you to the wonderful folks at sidefx!

[@syno3608]

OMG ! The list of new features at the end blew my mind ....🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ChiakaChima3D]

Wow!. Sidefx you guys are God sent. Thanks for this ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉. Houdini is now the greatest VFX Software on earth.👍🏽👍🏽keep it up guys. I can't wait.

[@SuperMyckie]

Is now??????... hahah, u probably just started cgi

[@ripvangu]

even before this h was the greatest

[@gcharb2d]

It has been for many years, what is interesting now is that they are developing fascinating CFX tools, I have no doubt that AD is getting nervous about Maya eventually being replaced by Houdini for CFX work!

[@kevinstern2490]

Mindblowing as usual. SideFX you are the best.

[@shotgunpapi]

damn!! the mpm and copernicus tools are so amazing!

[@Sp00kq]

I'm not even anywhere close to being anything of a vfx artist, but the soft body simulation capability of houdini is astounding. Water, sand, metal, you name it there's a way to make houdini do it with relative ease it appears. And it's destructive simulation that really interests me because of the sheer number of applications for it in the world.

[@malikgarcia699]

I love the slow but sure decent into Psytrance with the music 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 keep it up 🌀

[@sakibkhondaker]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKi3dmt6gMeipJo

[@andrew-v]

Super excited for copernicus ! Looks awesome.

[@jeremiehannoah9550]

I was excited like a 9 years old child, Thanks you Side FX !

[@dirtcreature3d]

HUGEEEEE everything looks so insanely sick so many quality of life things. so incredibly happy you guys improved the car rig I had my fingers crossed for that one! Karma improvements look amazing as well! you guys rock

[@vincentthomas8492]

While i was a little disapointed with H20, this one is massive and confirm my faith in the team and push my client to believe in the product and buy more license. Dawm, It's massive! most of the things i have been waiting are present and more. Just reading the keynote press release make feel warm and explosively exitited, cutting edge constant innovation, and in not one platform but also for window, linux, mac metal and os... What a masterclass of dev ... Just a little retreat, hey more than half of game studio still use Unity even if heavily customized... Please don't give up this part!

[@AerysBat]

Houdini is setting out to replace Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Bifrost, Redshift, Pencil+, Katana, Golaem, ComfyUI... simply insane!

[@qaisarkhan7740]

I think someone should check on Houdini Headquarter if humans or Aliens are working on the Software.😅😂. They release things that no one expects from Houdini ❤.

[@mnymanVFX]

I love that they are expanding more out towards being an allrounder tool. Like Blender on steroids.

[@electroheadfx]

they are crazy ;)

[@ExacoMvm]

Houdini, Blender and Unreal is the future. Blender might still be a joke but it's also making rapid progress.

[@marcinkepski4977]

​@@ExacoMvm It's funny when most people call Blender a toy when they've never used it or even Houdini 😂 Blender soon or later will be part of industry. And true. Houdini is great.

[@gorantrpkov446]

wooow, just wow!!! Amazing beyond belief! Can't wait to play with this! Also I'll be in Paris for the HIVE event, looking forward to all those juicy presentations! You guys are crushing it and delivering every single time

[@jahormaksimau1597]

Omg. Genius of side fx

[@momononomo]

I recently started learning Houdini, it's hard and unknowable and difficult, but just a little bit of fun is very precious. But it's hard and I feel like I'm losing my mind all the time, so I'm watching videos like this to inspire myself, I'm going to do my best!

[@AsirisC]

This is great! New COPS opens up so much more possibilities!

[@jlukas5539]

I was expecting a lot, but this totally exceeded my expectations. Thank you sidefx - you are the absolute best 🥳

[@ruben-dion]

Thank you SideFx!!!

[@JDOMotion]

Today! Today I’ll start my learning path with you for real. Stoping this toxic relationship of 1 week studying and 6 months out 😅

[@qaisarkhan7740]

Car Rig with MPM solver. A Combo Pack 😍.

[@ahmedaborady7883]

I had tears in my eyes watching this 😂 every single feature here is something i needed its like they are listening to what I would have said 🤪

[@VideoGameKillCounts]

Suduaya is my favorite music artist… I thought my KZbin music player was on for a minute then! Nice to see you are giving them some more exposure as their music is incredible! 💪☺️

[@Inkkid-ee3os]

Great update! I wish we got updates on the HAIR and Fur grooming department, especially BRAIDS, DREADLOCKS, and more.

[@sOBEnd]

Love to see what can be done with houdini and this update looks amazing 👍

[@philippwelsing9108]

Absolutely blown away. THANK YOU, can't wait for this.

[@kwesikwaa]

this dot 5 release feels like a major release. what !! this is insane. great job guys !!! great job. i see that new quick material node in solaris has some uv and projection features. low key been trying to create that. glad this is here. we feast !!

[@fxguruofficial]

Amazing update, now I want to learn the grains 😅. Thanks sidefx

[@TheGato3d]

Wow, that’s a nice update. Got it love Houdini. Great job team.

[@studionotwar]

what a tease! looking very much forward to this release

[@tomfreitag6504]

absolut mad! hole universe of several software packages are combined in houdini!

[@chillsoft]

Great music choice as well! Amazing updates guys and gals!!! ❤

[@CarlosDordelly]

This looks so amazing!!

[@AIGameMonster]

I love Houdini, I love all the features related to games, and I hope to support more animation and VFX development in games.

[@rezo856]

This is the best 3D program ever in the world and it just got even better 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Amazing sneak peek as always with amazing music ❤

[@gcharb2d]

I still miss Softimage, but yeah, Houdini rocks!

[@arsen_wasted]

Insane progress in every flipping sub-version!

[@MCJamZam]

I'm incredibly curious about this "MPM solver", but more than anything the new COPs stuff is something I've been waiting for and will for sure use in my everyday work to produce even better things! Thanks yet again SideFX ❤

[@AerysBat]

MPM is sort of like FLIP but for solids instead of fluids. It lets you simulate things like clay and bendable metal sheets that are really hard to do with any existing Houdini solver.

[@STigran_]

Love you side fx

[@LabourMan]

Ok now its Zbrush, Substance Painter and Substance Designer inside Houdini! Right out of the box! Cool! 😁😁

[@Blemonade1]

(Blender since 3 years)

[@waveWhirlVfx]

Damn, Sidefx seems one step ahead of AI.

[@houdini3d]

Only in the hands of real artists!

[@SuperMyckie]

​@@houdini3d this right here is exactly why i have refused to quite sidefx... you guys really care about human capital development.. u dont give us a click-a-button solution, but u present us with real power to achieve anything we can think of.. i appreciate you guys for that! Thank you

[@syno3608]

totally

[@bogdanlazar2913]

Best🎉 comment

[@MitzuTa]

@@houdini3d love that!:D

[@Perry-wy2fc]

Always a huge a step ahead from other softwares ... so excellent and so fascinating

[@pragmaticvfx]

SESI did it again 😇 This release packs a lot of firepower just like the others that come before.

[@HoudiniGameArtist]

BTW, I am in the middle of your pragmatic vex vol1 course. I just wanted to say thanks, and great work!

[@pragmaticvfx]

@@HoudiniGameArtist Thanks so much! It means a lot 🙏

[@benjaminyde]

The whole team of SideFX always delivers amazing work! Keep it up!

[@keyframed6558]

This update is colossal, can't wait for the full reveal!

[@SintakaParser]

Finally , projected tiled texture without any software trans damage.

[@LetMeCookVFX]

Those new features looks really gooooood! Excited to start to work with all of this haha

[@yonlaycabrera4431]

Oh men, I have one leg in Blender with the new update, but every time I try to fully give the step Houdini pulls me back again. This new release is just awesome.

[@julians_jam]

I feel like I need years to catch up on what we already have, but I take it - looks absolutely amazing, best programm out there for me!

[@peshangfx]

mpm solver and procedural texture creation is my fav beside of all the other great features!

[@kasali2739]

Fantastic new things that are beyond my wishlist of innovations. I think the next couple of years will be the time of "inverse rendering." Please don't miss this trend

[@KO28JOJO]

So far so good. I will keep silent till the release! But promising more than 20 release. It's been a while since I used Houdini! I will be happy go back to it.

[@voxyde]

Haven't yet explored half of the the new features of 20.0 and now 20.5 looks to have even more. SIDEFX PLEASE

[@dalelinney8437]

Houdini just levelled up all their usual toolsets, knocked Substance Designer off the stack, and became one of the top ML tools

[@bharat5194]

Even their release soundtracks are a cut above the rest!

[@gcharb2d]

SideFX has done what no one else could do, they literally rendered the Blender cult speechless, and I love it!!! That update looks absolutely insane, can't wait to get my hands on 20.5, these updates also leave me speechless, great work SideFX!!!

[@edh615]

Why is this little man so insecure always trying to trash blender? Both houdini and Blender have things to learn from each other and the truth is that you don't even come close to Blender's limit, don't be like this.

[@parsa475]

@@edh615 ... what?

[@gcharb2d]

​@@edh615 You're insulting me, calling me a little man, just because I criticize Blender, and I am the one who's insecure, really!!! I am curious, tell us what Blender could teach SideFX and Houdini, I dare ya, Houdini 20.5 has seen way more development in 8 months, than Blender in the last 5 years, and that includes Blender 2.8, so try to be serious here!

[@solomonraj4455]

So quick.... You guys are great

[@mohanpugaz]

Mind blowing once again 😮

[@ahahlex]

Amazing ! the new cop system woa !!! save node preset so easy !!

[@mokranecg2564]

This is the best sneak peak ever!

[@N3.1Kryuk]

Great!!! Looking forward for a new update!

[@테드옹]

It just keeps getting bigger and better XD

[@utubeparpankaj]

Insane. Speachless, mind blowing, incredible, amazing.......etc. loooks words have gotten to be shorten infront of updates.

[@Reidvault]

this next level cops, copernicus context with a bunch of opencl/realtime nodes seems sweeet

[@CarlMahnke]

2:00 I want those crash physics in GTA 6!

[@firehot006]

Absolutely phenomenal stuff as usual! Can't wait to get my hands on it.

[@MrSunamo]

Amazing new features!

[@benlemoine75]

Big !!! can't wait to learn all the new node !

[@ShrikeGFX]

Can we please get progress bars / loading circles next to nodes when they calculate? that would be really great to visualize whats going on

[@erichocean8746]

INSANE RELEASE!!!!

[@nisgia]

Another awesome feature packed release! congratulations!!! You put other companies to shame.So far ahead!!!hope sculpting has a screenspace move brush like Z cause it was only normal based.Cops update came out of nowhere and i am glad you made it.subscription for life! So happy to support you!