Side Effects announced two new offerings at Siggraph. A stand alone compositing package called Houdini Halo and a dedicated program for modeling and character work called Houdini Escape…
Side Effects announced two new offerings at Siggraph. A stand alone compositing package called Houdini Halo and a dedicated program for modeling and character work called Houdini Escape…
Houdini Halo
Tony Cristiano (General Manager Side Effects Software) says: “In 2002, the effects software industry experienced significant changes, particularly in the realm of compositing, with Apple’s acquisition of Shake and Rayz. In light of these changes, there has been a rising demand among professional effects artists for solid compositing solutions that fit into their existing NT and Linux-based production pipelines. With our compositing architecture refined over a decade, Side Effects Software is pleased to offer a standalone, Hollywood-level compositing and image editing solution based on the same functionality of Houdini 5.5 to serve this group of artists.”
Halo has full floating point and deep raster support, and offers tight integration with the rest of the Houdini family of products. Floating licenses work across all supported platforms including Windows, Linux, Solaris and IRIX.
List price is $2999 (US). More info on Halo at the Side Effects web site
Houdini Escape
Houdini Escape is a dedicated program for modeling and character work developed around the industry-proven technology of Houdini Master, now in version 5.5. Houdini Escape brings together intuitive modeling and procedurally based character animation tools with highly integrated tools for texturing, shading, materials, and, via native support for Houdini Mantra, rendering.
Houdini Escape runs on Windows 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, Irix 6.5, Linux and Solaris 8+ and will be generally available in Q4 of 2002 at a price point to be announced at a later date.
More info on Escape at the Side Effects web site
