I can't comment on Houdini since I don't know it well enough yet.
Katana seems to be very popular for asset
management/lighting/shading/rendering.
Clarisse iFX is becoming an interesting option as well.
I don't know how much I'm allowed to divulge, but both Maya and Fabric
Engine have strong desires and ambitions to address this facet of
production as well, but it'll take some time before they become viable
solutions, if they even work out at all. Only time will tell, but I'd
keep my eyes open.
We still have Softimage available for the next couple years, so we have
time to study other alternatives.
Here at Hybride, we've already started working on our own custom
in-house Fabric Engine based solution, but it's very tightly linked to
Softimage. There is a big base of our tools that should be easily
portable to another software, but we have time and we will keep a close
eye on what happens in this area before we make a decision on the right
direction to take.
The point is that we all still have a couple years to figure this stuff
out. I personally recommend you take your time and study all your
options before you jump ship. There might be a few surprises along the
way. Something might even come out of left field and completely
revolutionize the way we work. But that's just my opinion. For all I
know, Houdini might be the next big thing in lighting/shading/rendering.
-Mathieu
On 14/03/2014 3:29 PM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote:
Hi everyone.
Just out of curiosity i wanted to post this,
How many people are planning to take their lighting/shading/rendering
pipelines to houdini? In my opinion Maya is not a possibility and well
modo, while it isn't that bad just seems to be missing some stuff? So
what are your opinions..
Cheers,
Ogi.
