Houdini
Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:
- Modeling - All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier Curves/Patch...
What is Houdini?
Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:
- Modeling - All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier Curves/Patches & Trims, Metaballs
- Animation - Keyframed animation and raw channel manipulation (CHOPs), motion capture support
- Particles
- Dynamics - Rigid Body Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Wire (Curve) Dynamics, Cloth Simulation
- Lighting - node-based shader authoring, lighting and re-lighting in an IPR viewer
- Rendering - supporting a variety of renderers; besides Mantra: Renderman, mental ray... and many more features.
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Supported Languages
- English
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Tags
- VFX
- 3D Modeler
- Animation
- Simulation
- 3D Graphics
It takes time to learn as it is a very comprehensive software. The Apprentice version is free if you are going to use it for learning purposes. Most of the time you need basic visual processing algorithms, math, basic physics and some programming knowledge to be able to use it. But you can also use basic nodes without going too deep. Remember, you are dealing with a complex calculator :D
Nothing better exists, that piece of programming art can create more than even creative smart person imagination.
I agree, the nodes and programming might be a steep curve for newcommers but when you pass that curve its a hard to beat tool.
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(germ.)Houdini ist definitiv das beste 3D Gesamtpaket. Sehr interessant für VFX-Künstler.
Houdini is definitely the best 3D package. Very interesting for VFX artists.