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Houdini 9.5 3D software coming to OS X
Side Effects is bringing Houdini, their professional 3D software, to OS X for the first time with the release of the Houdini 9.5 beta for OS X, Windows, and Linux. According to the company, Houdini "brings the 3D industry's first node-based workflow to the Mac ensuring that 3D artists can collaborate seamlessly in a multi-platform environment." This modeling and rendering platform has been used on a number of high profile projects like Spiderman 3 and Resident Evil: Extinction.Houdini will come in four editions:
- a free Apprentice edition for learning that includes watermarks
- a non-watermarked Apprentice HD for $99
- Houdini Escape "with modeling, animation, characters, lighting, rendering and compositing" for $1995
- Houdini Master "with all of Escape's features plus particles and integrated dynamics such as rigid bodies, wire, cloth and fluids" for $7995.
Thanks eze!
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eerie quark doll said 6:08PM on 6-16-2008
blender!
http://www.blender.org/
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eze said 6:25AM on 6-17-2008
how houdini compares to blender...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmIfCh1zOQ
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mognrol said 6:41AM on 6-17-2008
www.blender.org indeed. $8k for everything blender gives you for free. And guess what? Blender was used in the workflow for Spiderman2! With a nodes as well!
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DagMX said 10:21AM on 6-17-2008
blender is nice and all, but lets be honest. It eschews the standards of 3d UIs. Granted each app has its own system of working, but generally it's similiar enough to get up to speed quickly. Blender is bad at that.
Also, this is aimed at studios. That means they get support. They get higher scale solutions as well. Blender is nice and all, but houdini is better. Much better.
Feature parity doesn't equal product parity.
blatz said 12:45PM on 6-17-2008
Blender was ONLY used for previz and animatics in Spiderman 2. Not a single frame from Blender appeared in the actual movie itself.
eze said 3:19PM on 6-17-2008
and it was used only for a small limited amount of time until the guy switched to lightwave...so sad.
i like blender but houdini was around before you were born probably.
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Khalil Amar said 3:59PM on 6-17-2008
Maya Unlimited from Autodesk
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eze said 6:22AM on 6-18-2008
funny:
I want those 7 years of my life back you bloated piece of shit. This took 10 minutes in Houdini and is impossible to do in Maya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZHkCqgZmv4
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