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.
Groom | Guide Hairs & Physics Brush
The Guide Groom workflow provides an interactive artist-driven experience for grooming your characters and creatures. Sparsely lay down guide hairs to define the general direction and length of the hair then use the Plant tool to start filling out the hairs based on those guides. Scatter mode can populate the hair much faster in response to the guides. You can then move, delete or cull the hairs to sculpt the results.
HOUDINI IN PRODUCTION
AVATAR: The Last AirBender
Go behind the scenes of Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender with Framestore. Discover how beloved characters like Appa and Momo were brought to life - from crafting Appa's realistic fur and grounding his design in reality to designing Momo's whimsical mix of a flying lemur, bat, and monkey, the process balanced authenticity with the charm of the original series.
Hair & Fur Shader
The Hair shader is designed to work with Karma XPU. This shader creates a more accurate look for your creatures. You can now render more kinds of fur especially to achieve a soft fluffy look. This shader also works well with feathers.
Karma XPU Fur
Realistic Groom
HAIR PROCEDURALS
For hair and fur, there are some new interactive grooming tools and a lot of focus on rendering. Karma XPU can now render fur and there are hair procedurals for generating hair from guide curves at render time. There is also a HUSK procedural that works with other render delegates in Solaris.
Hair & Fur Nodes
Here some of the nodes to look out for when working with Hair & Fur in KineFX. These nodes let you add fur then use grooming tools to refine the look.
LEARNING RESOURCES
Check out a growing collection of lessons focused on Hair & Fur in Houdini.
Hair & Fur Learning PathHAIR & FUR FEATURES AVAILABLE IN:
Houdini CORE | Houdini FX | Houdini Indie | Houdini Education | Houdini Apprentice