Elevate your character animation workflow with KineFX, Houdini’s powerful procedural toolset for flexible rigging and seamless motion editing. Add lifelike detail with advanced Character FX tools for muscles, cloth, hair, fur and feathers to bring your characters to life with stunning realism.
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Animation
Keyframes & Motion Editing
Work with multiple characters in the same scene while you set keyframes, work with motion control handles, control dynamic motion, add constraints and layer animation. Add in the ability to work with rag doll dynamics to add simulated motion to your characters and props.
Rigging
Procedural Workflows
KineFX brings a truly procedural approach to rigging. By simply tagging joints, you can assign rig components that are ready to animate. This creates a high level workflow that is quick and easy to set up while more advanced riggers can create custom tools using APEX scripting.
CFX
Built on Houdini’s legendary procedural foundation, these Character FX tools empower artists to simulate, groom, and animate with full creative control, whether you're crafting a creature for a blockbuster film or a stylized hero for a AAA game.
Hair & Fur
Transform your characters and creatures with Houdini’s cutting-edge Hair & Fur tools—a complete grooming solution built for production, performance, and pure artistry.
Feathers
From the delicate layering of downy fluff to the bold sweep of flight feathers, Houdini gives you the power to groom, simulate, and animate with realism and control.
Muscles
Unleash your character's strength with Houdini’s advanced muscle simulation system — the ultimate toolset for animators, creature TDs, and VFX professionals who demand anatomical precision and dynamic realism.
Cloth
Whether you're crafting realistic garments, wind-swept flags, or epic destruction sequences with tattered materials, Houdini’s cloth system gives you control, speed, and fidelity.
Crowds
Agents, States & Triggers
From chaotic battlefields and bustling cities to stylized dance scenes or swarming creatures, Houdini’s Crowd Tools give you the power to bring massive simulations to life. This provides artists with speed, agent intelligence, and total creative control.
Built for VFX, animation, and game cinematics, Houdini’s crowd system is a complete solution for instancing, simulation, and behavior. This can all be found inside a procedural, artist-friendly workflow.