Houdini 22 Sneak Peek

Posted June 08, 2026
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Welcome to the Houdini 22 Sneak Peek which introduces you to exciting new tools for 
Character Animation & Rigging, Retargeting & Grooming, USD World Building and Rendering, Texture Synthesis and VFX in Copernicus, and new technologies such as Gaussian Splats.


Watch the Keynote online on June 22, 2026 at 09:00 PDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST / 18:00 CEST 

COMMENTS

  • paolo_cactus 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    thx sidefx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • lakshmanvamsi008 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    What About MacOs Support ??? - GPU Rendering - M5 Max Optimization 👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍

    • chf 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

      THIS!!!

    • Veltrynox 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

      +!

    • maitlandvt 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

      Well, i hope that your answer isn't found at 2:09 :D

    • gogrego 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

      Long time Mac user. Houdini has fantastic Mac support (IMO). GPU rendering would be great, but I feel like everything else is on par with all other operating systems.

    • bennybenny 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

      +++! Silicon Karma GPU

    • TheNotepadShow 1 month ago  | 

      Where is the incentive to put develop dollars into a platform that isn't that popular in the VFX industry. You might use a Mac, but that doesn't mean the world use them for VFX. Since you young folks love using AI so much, I typed into Google Gemini the following: "Are Macs popular in VFX?"

      Gemini responded with, "Macs are generally not the primary workstations used for heavy 3D rendering and compositing in large, studio-based VFX pipelines. Instead, major studios rely on Windows PCs or Linux workstations because of superior NVIDIA GPU support, extensive software compatibility, and deeper pipeline integration."

      If SideFX thought that they could get more sales and more revenue by supporting the Mac more extensively, then they would, but where is the incentive based on user count?

      • debeso77 2 weeks, 3 days ago  | 

        someone can't adopt to changing times.

  • nichimen-75 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    I hope for a full support of Wayland on Linux

    • fsimerey 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

      I hope so too

    • Luxor95 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

      +1

  • Jackatack 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    Awesome !!!

  • LukeP 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    Feels like a .5 release just based on this…. but I really like the UI refresh!

    • LukeP 3 weeks, 5 days ago  | 

      Just watched the keynote. Wow. I take everything I said back. This should have been called Houdini 26!
      Amazing release!

  • Pavel Dostal 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    Excellent

  • thcrow 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    biiiig SideFX

  • Shura76 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    That's great and everything, but please can we get a stable viewport ??

  • ifree 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    I wish Karma render is improved.

  • Masoud 1 month ago  | 

    Good, but I believe the SideFX team could benefit from being more proactive in adapting to the rapid changes brought by the "AI" era.

    • Nivle 1 month ago  | 

      please, please, stop.

  • hellorand 1 month ago  | 

    hi

  • hellorand 1 month ago  | 

    how are you sidefx

  • JSTD 1 month ago  | 

    Love this 22❤️‍🔥

  • WillBellJr 3 weeks, 3 days ago  | 

    ABSOLUTE PROPS to everyone involved with this new version!

    I'm def excited and looking forward to the newly update UI features! 💥💯💖

    Seeing all the char anim updates were absolutely jaw dropping as well!

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