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.



Houdini is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Solaris.
Houdini is the most popular commercial alternative to Solaris.
- Houdini is Paid and Proprietary


