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Houdini

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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 captur.
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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac  apprentice learning edition demo available
  • Windows  apprentice learning edition demo available
  • Linux  apprentice learning edition demo available
5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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  1.  Procedural Modeling
  2.  Node Based
  3.  Motion Capture
  4.  3D Sculpting
  5.  3D Renderer
  6.  3D Animation

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Houdini information

  • Developed by

    US flagSide Effects Software Inc.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    50 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Houdini, and it has gotten 37 likes

Houdini was added to AlternativeTo by Aaron on May 15, 2009 and this page was last updated Mar 12, 2019.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Qubit
Oct 24, 2022
1

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

ablixcorner
Jan 15, 2019
0

Nothing better exists, that piece of programming art can create more than even creative smart person imagination.

erik sathero
Oct 7, 2019

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.

wenzx
Apr 20, 2010
0

(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.

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.