Natural media painting, video, animation, 3D, visual effects

Cinematic visual FX in a familiar painting environment

Breakthrough real-time howling performance

HOWLER
2027
3D API
What's new in Howler 2025
Adjustable Gradient Tool

Howler 2027!


New Text Tools
Outpainting for generating convincing detail beyond the original image boundaries
All‑new GUI - Improved scalablity, usability
Dark theme throughout
Introducing Howler 3D — model, layout, render, animate
Property Sheets with 1‑view or 4‑view layouts
Modern Render Stack: PBR, AO, GI, shadows, reflections, refraction

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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