Also each new version of Houdini reminds me old good days when Softimage was not killed by Autodesk.

@@LaikaBossGames ICE

Maya is better when its owned by autodesk

Auto who?... oh that program you need credits to use and expire within a year.

@@LintonNkambule and as reminder.. autodesk killed mentalray the free renderer and implemented Arnold which you need to buy license to be able to use it otherwise you will not get your work out :D

Aay the underrated 3d artist

It is good timing to learn houdi, but it become big and multiple system inside each other, but they talk to each other

I think Houdini is really hard to use for no reason... they should just make those features as addons for blender instead

It's always the right time to jump to Houdini.

@@wdkpwr6586 seems easy dunno for now

Hi Derek 👋 What are you doing here 😂

I see u sensei

Creep

@hjf4a2 😂

@hjf4a2 so many ppl in this comment section, but I cant find who asked?

Yeah, best addition in my opinion :D

In five years, you can write this tool yourself, if you need it so much.

True.

Yes vellum is smart and future proof

hmm not yet. Try to load the geo of a whole city in Houdini FX and you will see that there are dimensions. But there is no rivalry between the two packages anyway. Clarris is imho the best software on his place in the pipeline, so is Houdini. No one would compare for instance zbrush with houdini. Total different purpose.

@@janvollgod7221 houdini is becoming more like an operating system that a software. 😊

@@FaddyVFX Always been that way it seems, reminds me of the Amiga OS somehow! 🤣

@@FaddyVFX the concept was always like this. I personally like it, because it forces me to have some system and keep things organized while the scene gets bigger.

@@janvollgod7221 yes it is highly organized and easy to jump around. It is more like an OS

What are you using this for?

@@Cazaq I guess for web and mobile AR and VR

get used to it, this happens with every new version for 10+ years! :)

@@villain42 biggest thing that has me excited is the apparent improved UV algorithms. The UV workflow in Houdini is imo the weakest part when non-procedurally modelling.

What did you use maya for mostly?

@@aldo_3d Bit of everything really. Modelling, lighting, rendering, lookdev. Both professionally and personally. Did a bit of dabbling in rigging/anim aswell but not my area of focus.

This program has a free student version. So start now.

@@Toxic_Trashbag Yes. It will take a lifetime of non-stop learning.

@@Toxic_Trashbag Where's the best place to start?

@@Toxic_Trashbag I'm dead serious, I can't afford the time right now

I use Apprentice since 2017. Except for Houdini Engine for UE4 and 3rd party renderers I can learn everything. Watermarks and resolution limit for renders does not prevent from learning. The other stuff, SOP, DOP, terrains etc all work 100% same as in paid version.

What i like in Blender and Houdini, you don't need to switch, they work both together. You can easy use Blender for poly and sculpting and then throw eveything at houdini, then get back for rendering. Blender is free anyway, so not much to lose.

@@janvollgod7221 why render in CyclesX, a biased render engine, when XPU is coming to Houdini, and you can model the exact same way in Houdini as you can in Blender, plus its 100% non destructive, while blender is almost entirerly destructive, make no sense to me, I only use Blender for 2D animation now, not 3D, not anymore at least!

I switched to Houdini couple of months back, not the easiest to learn, but limitless, unlike blender with which I was condstently hitting a wall!

@@gcharb2d My biggest problem in Blender is the ..lets name it, the pathetic memory managment and caching mechanism. But as far i know, the development recognized the problem and adresses it in 3.0. Blender will get similar instancing like clarisse, what could be the game changer or many projects. In my opinion blender doesn't run much as concurrency to Houdini. Blender is swiss army knife, and Houdini is more specialist, like zbrush. What i am missing in Houdini is the GPU support. This would make many things easier.

@@gcharb2d A biased rendering engine can sometimes give you results that are closer to your creative intent while being faster. Pick the one that fits the workflow and creative intent the best, there is no need to go away from biased renderers. I personally use multiple different renderers in my commercial work. Also, Cycles is categorized as unbiased, with some somewhat "biased" features to turn on if needed.

What exactly is that karma xpu about

@@doldrmaster rendering by using CPU + GPU at the same time.

Seeng Rokoko logo among other mocap systems was wonderful!

Instead of crying I just switched lol

@@cosmotect Best decision ever made.

none of those cries will come from modelers, riggers and animators

@@useresu301 thats true in some sense. I still prefer maya's manual modeling

I don't know how those two software can be compared?

hopefully kinefx is something that will be easier to animate with. current version is a bit tough to toggle between controls, super frustrating.

let's be honest thought that dino had muscles flapping in the wind. Not as impressive as a Zhiva demo :)

Still waiting for the rigging and animation tools that will take down Autodesk. I think I'm stuck with Maya for at least another year :\

@@AerysBat That is to be expected. I have heard rumours that H20 is the version that will bring the big animation updates and allegedly they are working on them since a while. If these tools are able to make Autodesk cry bitter tears and their users jump from excitement - we'll see.

@@AerysBat yeah, rigging is better in kine fx but animation feels like it's not meant to be done. It really needs love. Would be cool to have a visual animation blend system not having to calculate animations. But I have hope.

Yeah, at last !

Nowadays all dislikes for everything nice comes from Blender users

@@igorgreent All software communites have poeple poeple like that, not just blender. They tend to be only a portion of the community. I'm a blender user and I love what sideFX is doing. Plus those blender users tend to be younger and not as mature. I do apologise if you've got that impression of us, its only a certain type of person who would spam Maya hate in the comments. Where not all like that? :)

Well you assumetion is wrong, Houdini servers a different purpose than any other Autodesk products in general. I would say more from blender fanboys who are trying to compete with every other software on the planet, Houdini, Maya, Zbrush, Substance..etc because professional communities have been using Houdini with Autodesk products since ages.

@@xox8717 yeah

@@xox8717 Nah, your assumption of my assumption is wrong. I was referring to the barrage of updates and new tools that Houdini users are lucky to receive with every x.5 update, let alone the major updates - regardless of what purpose they serve. Blender also regularly receives amazing new tools, and is now taken seriously as a complete package. Autodesk users (including myself as a 3ds Max user for archviz) watch on from our bug-ridden trenches, wishing we could get that level of dedication and professionalism from our software devs. That said, it's pretty common knowledge that SideFX is absolutely targeting Maya users with Houdini, hence all the work on character rigging and animation. So yeah, Maya users actually will be a bit jealous, hence the down votes (which was a joke in the first place, so chill).