The Arnold architecture was designed to easily adapt to existing pipelines. It was developed as a photo-realistic, physically-based ray tracing alternative to traditional scanline based rendering software for CG animation. (Source: Solid Angle)Īrnold is an advanced cross-platform rendering library, or API, developed by Solid Angle and used by a number of prominent organizations in film, television and animation, including Sony Pictures Imageworks. Arnold for Houdini brings the same physically based non-biased photorealistic rendering power popular with Maya and Softimage users to the Houdini 3D animation platform.

Lighting workflows can be shared between Houdini and other DCC applications, since Arnold rendering setups can be exported and shared. Solid Angle says new Arnold for Houdini provides tight integration that will be familiar to both Houdini users and Arnold users in Maya or Softimage. New Arnold for Houdini from Solid Angle brings the powerful non-biased photorealistic rendering solution used by many Maya and Softimage users to the Houdini platform. Users of the cross-platform renderer Arnold now have a new choice of animation engines. Setups can be shared with the Maya and Softimage editions of Arnold. The popular cross-platform ray-tracing engine can now work with the Houdini 3D animation engine.

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