Try them out
Join our community to download and try various Houdini Digital Assets. Houdini Digital Assets have features (sliders, menus, etc.) for quick and specific adjustments. The level of customization is limitless for the author to decide what can be controlled.
Houdini Digital Assets are not restricted to just geometry: you can find effects, tools, shaders, environments and much more.
Embedded Licensing for Studios
Studios can now take the advantage of embedded licensing for Studio versions so that using assets on render farms and other work stations will be much easier.
Copy protected assets can now be manually downloaded and used due to the licenses embedded without hassle.
Studio version can be used for all purposes and allows usage over multiple machines. Copy-protected Studio versions do not need to be logged in when using the asset.
Work Efficiently Smart
At Orbolt, members of the global Houdini community apply their knowledge and expertise to deliver a comprehensive set of completely customizable 3D assets, from fully-rigged props, to render-ready visual effects, animatable characters, game assets and more.
Now you can access high-quality 3D assets from a community you can trust to keep your project on-time and on-budget.
Work Lightning Fast
The Orbolt Smart 3D Asset Store is an asset marketplace that offers a whole new way to create animations and visual effects.
Powered by Houdini, Orbolt assets are fully customizable and ready to animate and render once tweaked to meet your specifications.
Become an Author
Join the Orbolt community and become a smart 3D asset author. Set your own prices and let Orbolt deliver your assets to the world.
Digital artists, like yourself, are being asked to create more and more animation and VFX shots, while achieving realistic results with tighter deadlines and shrinking resources. To handle the workload and keep focused on the creative process, it is time to go procedural with Houdini.
Houdini offers unprecedented levels of flexibility and control which will enhance the way you work creatively and make you and your team much more productive.
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Use in other
3D packages
Various Houdini Digital Assets have been designed to also work in other applications with the Houdini Engine plugin such as Maya, Unity 3D, Unreal Editor and Cinema 4D.
Recent News
FEB
2nd
The Dawning
Check out this amazing SideFX animated short utilizing Houdini 18.5 which introduces KineFX, a character toolset designed to provide a procedural foundation for retargeting, motion editing, and in future releases, rigging and animation. Set in the geometry context, these new workflows make rigging a fast, plug-and-play experience with unlimited flexibility and caching capabilities.
Watch the animated short here.
JAN
19th
Absolute Post
Check out this feature where they discuss with SideFX about their recent work creating electricity effects for a Maserati ad, generating greeble-like transition effects in an Adidas ad that depict a real world environment changing to a virtual environment, and lastly how they created turbulent river rapids for an episode of the Outlander television series.
Watch the feature here.
NOV
20th
Epic Games Invests in SideFX
Exciting news!
Epic Games is now a minority investor in SideFX. In Epic, SideFX gains a strong partner whose passion for the industry closely aligns with them.
Read more about it here.
Forum discussion is here.
NOV
10th
Houdini HIVE - Education Edition
The Houdini HIVE Education Edition brings together students and faculty to showcase a variety of techniques used to create quality CG artwork in schools around the world. The Houdini Education Program is honoured to support these institutions as they educate young artists and congratulates them for their hard work.
Read more about it here.
Artwork courtesy of Sylvain Gaussens
