A Gallery of Blender & Houdini artwork, Software Comparison

A video containing 100 images, 50 created with Blender and 50 created with Houdini.
Blender is a totally free software. Houdini is paid, but it has a free version.
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[@jcstream1]

Both are wickedly insane once you manage to have the skill or tool to create your desired idea(s)

[@importsounds780]

Thank you for your feedback.

[@ArsenicShooter]

Only the skills will make a visual difference as you can make a same project in both looking exactly the same. Biggest difference is that Houdini is a mainstream software used in the industry pipelines because it has a huge customer support as opposed to Blender. If you make a Marvel movie and suddenly there’s a problem with the software, Sidefx is paid to resolve that issue asap to respect the SLA agreement. On the other hand, nobody is paid to resolve a problem asap with Blender. It’s more like « just wait for the next update », which a company who has a deadline can’t afford to do when there are hundreds of thousands or more invested in a movie.

[@bloodshoot1115]

That statement might be true for Blender and Maya Comparison. Houdini with its proceduralism is just a different world and is used for parts that are hard to achieve with regular tools, other way around stuff that’s easy in Blender is sometimes hard to achieve with Houdini

[@goldenalecrim]

You can always pay a dev (a fraction of the cost of couple of licenses btw) and fork blender to fix your specific issue, then make a pull request after it's fixed, contributing to everyone that uses blender. There's a lot more devs in the world than SideFX employees. Yeah, unlikely situation, but hey, everything's possible with industry budgets.

[@ArsenicShooter]

@@goldenalecrim Yeah true! I heard one say that they are slowly starting to move over to blender (at least the newer producers). The big ones like hollywood and "older" ones just have their pipelines for such a long time that they are certainly too lazy to make the change right away. It remembers me a big company I worked for, when Windows 7 was out for about 3-4 years, they were still using xp. I think that there's also the human feeling of "change feels unconfortable" to take in consideration. Other than that, yep, they should/could change! Like you say, everything is possible with their budgets!

[@goldenalecrim]

And you know what? It's alright, blender doesn't have to be the industry standard, it's giving a bunch of normal people the ability to do all of this stuff for free, without having to rely on buggy pirated software. I also love blender's UX, f other softwares XD, I wish After Effects had such a good competitor.

[@ArsenicShooter]

@@goldenalecrim totally agree, at the end, the most important is what we, as normal people, can use as you said. I also use "Natron" as fx sofware. It's free, opensource and quite good! You should give it a shot! ;)

[@covid-20_pro_max88]

Blender is good

[@jessekim509]

until you need to simulate

[@hakersl1488]

I Think Houdini is the best for making vfx.like a game vfx.But blender can use to make 3d Models and design Environment .like a Game Character and level design.it's difficult to make vfx use blender.so this is my comparison❤🔥😊

[@AmandaJane229]

#35, #39, #85, #86, #96, #100.

[@felipev5409]

If I wanna meka ABSTRACT stuff, what program is better? C4D? or Blender. Someone said that Unreal engine is good for that

[@dash3dot]

Abstract as in procedural? Geometry nodes in Blender are quite powerful and you can do tons of stuff with it. On the other hand C4D is great with it's mograph tools for abstract stuff. The thing is Blender costs you nothing and if you are just starting with 3D go with Blender and in the mean time try C4D to see if it has anything beneficial for you.

[@felipev5409]

@@dash3dot Bro, what are the differences between procedural and mograph?

[@kaustubhbagri7780]

Blender