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.
Procedural Feather Generation
Automatically generate complex feather geometry with customizable attributes like vane structure, barb shape, and curvature—allowing for stunning visual variety and accuracy, from sparrow to phoenix.
Feathers Intro
Create Feathers
Integrated Grooming Tools
Houdini’s grooming system gives you intuitive brushes and guide controls to place, style, and orient feathers seamlessly across a surface, with full support for layering, patterning, and collision-aware placement.
Paint Mask
Deintersect
Vulkan Viewport
Karma XPU
FEATHERS IN PRODUCTION
FEATHER FX | Alt.VFX
Even before the new Feather tools were in place, Alt.VFX from Brisbane, Australia hired a SideFX intern who had developed a custom feather tool. They then worked with him to adapt it to their requirements for their clients Toyota and Bank of Melbourne, to add plumage to both a robin and a penguin.
KineFX | Feather Rigs
Rig Feathers
Rig controls for feathers can have their animation saved to a unique layer.
Rig Feathers
Feathers can now be animated along with your rig. This provides more control for the animator as these character FX become internal to the animation workflow.
Feather Nodes
Here some of the nodes to look out for when working with feathers. These nodes let you add and groom feathers on your creatures. They let you create large amounts of realistic and highly detailed feathers. .
LEARNING RESOURCES
Check out a growing collection of lessons focused on Feathers in Houdini.
Feathers
Feather Nodes
Birds of a Feather
FEATHERS ARE AVAILABLE IN:
Houdini CORE | Houdini FX | Houdini Indie | Houdini Education | Houdini Apprentice