Howler 2025 is here!

What's New

We are currently recovering our build system from data loss in 2024. We are releasing 2025 as a plugin update to 2024.3 until those changes are complete.

WatercolorFX. Paint with watercolors that flow and advect realistically.

LiquidFX. Pinch, punch, push and pull pixels with fluid precision.

Advanced Feature Removal tool with Poisson blending. Remove features seamlessly and replace details with transformation for improved versatility and precision

New Text Crawl tool for professional text scrolls

New Text Object tool with text on a Bezier curve, text on a spiral, transformations, perspective warp, outline, shadow, halftones, autocorrect, suggestions, and more.

New Chroma-key tool with sampling of multiple colors on screen

Halftone Gradient tool

Improved performance of realtime spelling in the internal text tool

New Advanced Bloom tool

New Advanced Lens Blur tool

New Advanced Quantize tool

What was new in 2024.3

PBR 3D render engine up to 9 times faster.

Physically based shading, 16x antialiasing

material parameters, gamma correction, tone mapping

Brush double-loading options

Text tool now has full word processing capability, mixed formatting, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, super/subscript, alignment, Special Characters. Animated text terminal for animated type.

Search, spell check in the text tool with error highlighting

Automatically reload stored animations after a crash

Load Gif animations

Media browsing improvements in Howler 2020

Material properties

Rotoscoping for VFX

Brush shape panel improvements

New 2024

Watercolor painting in Howler 2025

3D in Howler

Exposure Sheet project

Poisson Blending and Feature Removal

Feature Removal project

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