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
What's new in Howler 2025
Adjustable Gradient Tool
Howler 2027!
Howler 3D — model, layout, render, animate
Modern Render Stack: Physically based, Ambient Occlusion, Global Illumination, shadows, reflections, refraction...
Howler Nodal for non-destructive editing
Outpainting for generating convincing detail beyond the original image boundaries
GUI - Improved scalablity, usability
Tile Drawing
Curve Editor, Cinemascopic, Starry Night, Tunnel, and dozens of filters updated
New Text Tools
2026
New Nodal Modeler web app included
New PBR Renderer web app included
New Fractal Landscape web app lincluded
New audio recording tool
4 track audio editing tool
Mod tracking editor for game music
New Confetti tool for organic particle effects
AI inpainting, colorizing, and upscaling tool
2025.
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
Text Crawl tool for professional text scrolls. Text Object tool with text on a Bezier curve, text on a spiral, transformations, perspective warp, outline, shadow, halftones, autocorrect, suggestions
Chroma-key tool with sampling of multiple colors on screen
Halftone Gradients, Advanced Bloom, Advanced Lens Blur, Advanced Quantize, Howler Expression expression evaluator
2024.3
Reload stored animations after a crash. Load Gif animations
Howler 3D — model, layout, render, animate
Modern Render Stack: Physically based, Ambient Occlusion, Global Illumination, shadows, reflections, refraction...
Howler Nodal for non-destructive editing
Outpainting for generating convincing detail beyond the original image boundaries
GUI - Improved scalablity, usability
Tile Drawing
Curve Editor, Cinemascopic, Starry Night, Tunnel, and dozens of filters updated
New Text Tools
2026
New Nodal Modeler web app included
New PBR Renderer web app included
New Fractal Landscape web app lincluded
New audio recording tool
4 track audio editing tool
Mod tracking editor for game music
New Confetti tool for organic particle effects
AI inpainting, colorizing, and upscaling tool
2025.
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
Text Crawl tool for professional text scrolls. Text Object tool with text on a Bezier curve, text on a spiral, transformations, perspective warp, outline, shadow, halftones, autocorrect, suggestions
Chroma-key tool with sampling of multiple colors on screen
Halftone Gradients, Advanced Bloom, Advanced Lens Blur, Advanced Quantize, Howler Expression expression evaluator
2024.3
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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