Upgraded 3D package offers finite elements

Side Effects' comprehensive 3D package Houdini 13 comes with more than just improvements to its already formidable effects toolset, as Mike Griggs finds out.

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Good quality simulation for VFX and CG has always been one of the key differentiators between good work and amazing work, and a decent simulation and effects (for example, smoke, fire and dust) workflow or pipeline allows a level of creativity that you cannot easily achieve with a 'standard' 3D application.

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