What is Houdini?

“Houdini combines superior performance and dramatic, ease-of-use to deliver a powerful and accessible 3D animation experience to CG artists creating feature films, commercials or video games. With its procedural node-based workflow, Houdini lets you create more content faster to reduce timelines and enjoy enhanced flexibility in all your creative tasks.Houdini is ideal for modellers, lighters, character riggers and animators to use on its own or as a layout and lighting tool for visual effects created in Houdini FX.”

How does it help in data visualisation?

A number of the Data Arena visualisation pipelines rely on functionality provided by Houdini.

How can I use it?

Houdini is a commercial software package that can be purchased from sidefx.com. A range of professional and student licenses are available at varying price points depending on the functionality required.

Learning Houdini

SideFX provides free online training material on the Houdini website, take a look at the tutorials and available learning paths for more information. Additional training material is also available on lynda.com, including tutorials and a guide to getting Up and Running with Houdini.

Exporting from Houdini?

Take a look at our Houdini tutorial to learn more about how to export geometry from Houdini for use in Omegalib.