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...

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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 capture support* particles* dynamics rigid body dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, wire (curve) dynamics, cloth simulation* lighting nodebased shader authoring, lighting and relighting in an ipr viewer* rendering supporting a variety of renderers; besides mantra: renderman, mental ray...and many more features.

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The Best 42 Houdini Alternatives

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