Natural media painting, video, animation, 3D, visual effects
Cinematic visual FX in a familiar painting environment
Breakthrough real-time howling performance
Cinematic visual FX in a familiar painting environment
Breakthrough real-time howling performance
3D API
First look at new croma-key filter in Howler 2025
Adjustable Gradient Tool
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
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
Halftone painting mode
Text tool now has full word processing capability
Mixed formatting, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, super/subscript, alignment, Special Characters
Search, spell check in the text tool with error highlighting
Automatically reload stored animations after a crash
Load Gif animations
Text terminal animation tool creates animated type
Much, much more...
Media browsing improvements in Howler 2020
Polar Designer
Rotoscoping for VFX
Brush shape panel improvements
New brush system introduced in 2022
PBR Rendering in Howler 2024
First look at Advanced Feature Removal in Howler 2025
Exposure Sheet project
Poisson Blending and Feature Removal
Feature Removal project
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